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Pretty in pink (it also has a wonderful smell).
A cut pink rose in a jar of water in front of a window.
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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A town 40 minutes away by car which we'd been to several times over the years, but whose old quarter we'd never visited. I'm often surprised by the standing history that surrounds me here, cultural wealth I'd somehow managed to ignore for so long.
November 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Hi people. Hope you're doing well. Here it's warm, and the leaves have turned.
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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To me this implies the defeat of the US state by a foreign power in a military conflict, yet I'm convinced that that is not what he meant.
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Some people don't remember toothing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Pick them olives!
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Finally something we can all get behind.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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According to this study, avoidable deaths are way up all over the US, and not just with infections as a cause. All of them are up. You're right that it's surprising this isn't bigger news:

www.brown.edu/news/2025-03...
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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I've no idea who this guy DeLong is, but he seems kind of confused if these two snippets are anything to go by.
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Difficult to believe that 49% of twitter users don't endorse violence, even if their endorsement is by omission. Do they not endorse Ukraine's fight against Russia, for example?
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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sluggish (adj.)
mid-15c., of persons, the mind, etc., "habitually or temporarily lazy, indolent, negligent through sloth," from Middle English slugge "lazy person" (see sluggard) + -ish. Of things, "having or giving evidence of little motion," from 1630s. Earlier adjective was now-obsolete sluggy (early 13c.). Related: Sluggishly; sluggishness. Sluggish schizophrenia (1977) translates the Russian term for the alleged mental illness of political and religious dissidents confined and medicated in state mental hospitals, a diagnosis that existed nowhere outside Kremlin control.
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Looks like I'm subpar even by this [low] standard.
October 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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woe (n.)
late 12c., from the interjection, Old English wa!, a common exclamation of lament in many languages (compare Latin væ, Greek oa, German weh, Lettish wai, Old Irish fe, Welsh gwae, Armenian vay).
October 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Death threats from anti-AI leftists.

Fortunately this one caught me in the mood for dystopian fiction.
October 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Cute, so Stancil's trying to cludge a wedge between the production of commodities and the production of ideologies, as if the latter had no material basis. And yet at the end of the day he recognises that the production of ideologies does indeed have one.
October 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Troy Vettese is a vegan, and it seems as though he's so pissed with nonvegan ecosocialism he's prepared to come up with nonscience (nonsense) such as this.
These misconceptions seem to have endured and proliferated even after Marxism’s decline in the 1990s, becoming common sense within the broader communities of academic science (e.g., the “expensive tissue hypothesis”) and popular culture (e.g., the manospheric “lion diet”). This Marxist view of human nature has even influenced the conception of the Anthropocene. In a prominent article belonging to that oeuvre, bourgeois environmental historians and Earth-system scientists claim that “the shift from a primarily vegetarian diet to an omnivorous diet triggered a fundamental shift in the physical and mental capabilities of early humans.” Anthropoid egotism likely undergirds contemporary ecosocialists' focus overwhelmingly on climate change because this crisis imperils humans, while factory farming and biodiversity loss matter only for animals. There are, of course, self-interested reasons to worry about such matters—zoonotic pandemics such as SARS-CoV-2 or avian flu spring from razed rainforests, poaching, and the breadth of animal husbandry from the pastoral to hyper-industrial. A more profound reason to care about animal liberation is for the soul of socialism. When socialists argue for omnivory, they unconsciously adopt a conservative rhetoric that appeals to tradition, status quo, pseudo-science, and vae victis. One wonders if ecosocialists today fear the ridicule of their comrades for being sentimental cranks, for wanting to sit amongst the daisies.
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Interesting take by Hegel on the void and the ancients. I would disagree with him, and claim that some of them did.
October 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Anscombe vs. Hegel on self-consciousness.
Abstract According to G. E. M. Anscombe, self-consciousness is not consciousness of oneself. Self-consciousness is what is manifested by the use of ‘I’. This would be consciousness of oneself if ‘I’ referred to its speaker in the manner of a name, a demonstrative, or a definite description. But a central burden of Anscombe’s ‘The First Person’ is to show that ‘I’ is not such a term. She accepts ‘the rule “If X asserts something with “I” as subject, his assertion will be true if and only if what he asserts is true of X.” ’ But she distinguishes acceptance of this rule from acceptance of the idea that ‘I’ is a term whose use manifests consciousness of oneself. We can note an important feature of this gloss on the central idealist thesis that consciousness presupposes self-​consciousness—​namely, Hegel’s contention that the actuality of knowing and knowledge must be grasped as an ongoing process in continual motion, a process of development that is dynamic, full of life, and even beset with contradiction. Hegel writes: “Inasmuch as the new true object arises from it, this dialectical movement which consciousness exercises on itself and which affects both its knowledge and its object, is precisely what is called experience [Erfahrung]” (PhG ¶86/​3:78). The new object is the object taken in the second sense just discussed—​namely, the object as grasped and known by self-​consciousness. Hegel emphasizes that the movement and transformation at stake concern not only the object but also the consciousness who knows, that what is called experience in the context of the “science of the experience of consciousness” is the process through which self-​consciousness, in distinction from and in relation to its objects, is continually enriched and transformed.
October 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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No mention of brain rot posted by POTUS on his internet account. Should citizens be worried?
October 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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October 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Shocking display of colour by one of our neighbours.
October 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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polemic (n.), polemic (adj.)
polemic(n.) 1630s, "controversial argument or discussion, a controversy," from French polémique (16c./17c.), noun use of adjective meaning "disputatious, controversial" (see polemic (adj.)). From 1670s as "a disputant, one who writes or argues in opposition to another." also from 1630s polemic(adj.) "of or pertaining to controversy," 1640s, from French polémique "disputatious, controversial," or directly from Greek polemikos "of war, warlike, belligerent; skilled in war, fit for service; like an enemy, stirring up hostility," from polemos "war," a word of unknown origin. Related: Polemical (1630s); polemically. also from 1640s
October 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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I think it's true that philosophy, like history, can define itself by what it ignores (first quote), and one of those aspects is, in fact, politics (second quote).

www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
Of course, Schuringa himself dislikes this way of thinking, but that’s another matter. The point is that he does clearly identify these central themes, and he explains which philosophical influences give rise to them. Looked at this way, his book is a serious attempt to understand why analytic philosophy confronts certain problems and questions and ignores others—where these questions come from and which contingent intellectual circumstances led to those becoming the dominant questions. Schuringa’s approach blinds him to this interpretation, perhaps because he seems to find it impossible to take seriously the idea that parts of philosophy might actually be nonpolitical or neutral. In addition, nowhere does he defend his view that empiricism and liberalism are so deeply mistaken that merely identifying the origins of analytic philosophy in empiricism and liberalism is enough to damn
October 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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A deflationary view of a deflationary tradition.
On this way of thinking analytic philosophy emerges, not as the house philosophy of neoliberalism, nor as the favored intellectual exercise of a certain obnoxious personality type, but rather as a contingent, historically constructed sequence of texts, together with a way of reading them. This is a somewhat deflationary view of the tradition, lacking the totalizing vision of Schuringa’s Marxian approach. But it seems to me that only this way of thinking can account for the lack of unity among the themes and doctrines of analytic philosophy while simultaneously explaining how it hangs together as a tradition.
October 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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No purpose, no freedom.
October 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM