Derek T. Frasure
@derektfrasure.bsky.social
He/him. Harm reduction, public policy, literature, philosophy, and critical theory.
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It's good that kids are forced to read things they don't fully understand. There's value in failure. You realize there are many different forms of subjective experience that are alien to you, and you can appropriate those modalities by expanding yourself. Reader, grow thyself.
I love this little Steinbeck tidbit and am baffled that all editions of his books do not include this.
August 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I love this little Steinbeck tidbit and am baffled that all editions of his books do not include this.
I always wondered why one glove is an exam glove and another is not. Now I see the pictures clearly indicate which ones are for fisting and which ones are not.
August 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I always wondered why one glove is an exam glove and another is not. Now I see the pictures clearly indicate which ones are for fisting and which ones are not.
It's 12 AM do you know where your children are and what they are doing?
July 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's 12 AM do you know where your children are and what they are doing?
"There are no new thoughts. They're just old thoughts born into new moments[.]"
March 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"There are no new thoughts. They're just old thoughts born into new moments[.]"
Let's hear the ancient city of Thebes out is all I'm saying
January 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Let's hear the ancient city of Thebes out is all I'm saying
Here's one for all you flow-chart freaks out there: the agrarian crisis in Roman Italy.
January 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Here's one for all you flow-chart freaks out there: the agrarian crisis in Roman Italy.
Why does Cambridge only credit well-known translators on the covers of their Texts in the History of Philosophy? Don't lesser known folks deserve just as much credit for their hard work?
January 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Why does Cambridge only credit well-known translators on the covers of their Texts in the History of Philosophy? Don't lesser known folks deserve just as much credit for their hard work?
It's good that kids are forced to read things they don't fully understand. There's value in failure. You realize there are many different forms of subjective experience that are alien to you, and you can appropriate those modalities by expanding yourself. Reader, grow thyself.
January 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
It's good that kids are forced to read things they don't fully understand. There's value in failure. You realize there are many different forms of subjective experience that are alien to you, and you can appropriate those modalities by expanding yourself. Reader, grow thyself.
This was Rush Limbaugh's secret sauce, effectively carried forward by Frank Luntz, reaching its apex in Trump. The left could do well to learn that people love a funny diss in the form of mispronouncing a noun on purpose over and over as a bit.
One very underrated pick-me-up is deliberately mispronouncing things. Commit to saying "arples" or "bananners" and you'll see results in days. Only ever pronouncing Moby as "mobby" has been an absolute game changer for my mental health and I'd recommend it to anyone.
January 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This was Rush Limbaugh's secret sauce, effectively carried forward by Frank Luntz, reaching its apex in Trump. The left could do well to learn that people love a funny diss in the form of mispronouncing a noun on purpose over and over as a bit.
The button on the left that takes you to the top is the number 1 thing that keeps me from using this app more often. I scroll with my left hand and accidentally hit it every 5 minutes. It's too much of a pain to scroll back through dozens of skeets to get back to where I was, only to do it again.
January 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The button on the left that takes you to the top is the number 1 thing that keeps me from using this app more often. I scroll with my left hand and accidentally hit it every 5 minutes. It's too much of a pain to scroll back through dozens of skeets to get back to where I was, only to do it again.
The people of Ypsilanti have spoken
December 13, 2024 at 9:29 PM
The people of Ypsilanti have spoken
"Whoever looks into the golden eyes of
Prometheus set in the cremated
sockets sees the early hope of the
world and knows its late despair."
Prometheus set in the cremated
sockets sees the early hope of the
world and knows its late despair."
December 12, 2024 at 5:03 AM
"Whoever looks into the golden eyes of
Prometheus set in the cremated
sockets sees the early hope of the
world and knows its late despair."
Prometheus set in the cremated
sockets sees the early hope of the
world and knows its late despair."
After being told to visit for over a decade, I finally took a long overdue trip to John King Books earlier this week for my birthday. I'll definitely be back, as I could spend days combing the shelves there, and I had a great conversation with an employee for about an hour about art under capitalism
December 7, 2024 at 3:20 AM
After being told to visit for over a decade, I finally took a long overdue trip to John King Books earlier this week for my birthday. I'll definitely be back, as I could spend days combing the shelves there, and I had a great conversation with an employee for about an hour about art under capitalism
Today's a good day to revisit the idea of slow violence. When people die through public policy or bureaucracy those deaths are still violence, even though we don't usually see them that way. Responding to that violence with violence is self-defence. southwarknotes.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/slow...
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December 5, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Today's a good day to revisit the idea of slow violence. When people die through public policy or bureaucracy those deaths are still violence, even though we don't usually see them that way. Responding to that violence with violence is self-defence. southwarknotes.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/slow...
The Harris campaign was spending $100,000,000 per week. Imagine a campaign that spends that much money weekly on services for constituents. Such a campaign could never lose.
November 28, 2024 at 6:04 AM
The Harris campaign was spending $100,000,000 per week. Imagine a campaign that spends that much money weekly on services for constituents. Such a campaign could never lose.
I am surprised that listening to the Joe Rogan Experience wasn't even featured in this list of top ways to pill your dog– is this big tech censorship?
November 25, 2024 at 4:54 AM
I am surprised that listening to the Joe Rogan Experience wasn't even featured in this list of top ways to pill your dog– is this big tech censorship?
I've had a hell of a day. My dog was unwell this morning, so we started driving back from my parent's house in KY to MI and had to stop to take her to a vet ER in Dayton because her lungs are full of fluid and she's in congestive heart failure. Then I get rear ended by an F-150.
November 22, 2024 at 12:52 AM
I've had a hell of a day. My dog was unwell this morning, so we started driving back from my parent's house in KY to MI and had to stop to take her to a vet ER in Dayton because her lungs are full of fluid and she's in congestive heart failure. Then I get rear ended by an F-150.
Does somebody wanna tell all the RETVRN TERF types how taking a shit was not gender segregated in the ancient world?
November 20, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Does somebody wanna tell all the RETVRN TERF types how taking a shit was not gender segregated in the ancient world?
"You do not yet suffer enough for me! For you suffer from yourselves, and have not yet suffered from 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯." -Nietzsche, TSZ, "On the Superior Human"
November 19, 2024 at 5:44 PM
"You do not yet suffer enough for me! For you suffer from yourselves, and have not yet suffered from 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯." -Nietzsche, TSZ, "On the Superior Human"
The first sentence of this film review for Taza, Son of Cochise is such a chef's kiss of a sentence. And then Tim just keeps serving.
November 19, 2024 at 2:21 PM
The first sentence of this film review for Taza, Son of Cochise is such a chef's kiss of a sentence. And then Tim just keeps serving.
You can't forget to pack the cat
November 18, 2024 at 5:57 AM
You can't forget to pack the cat
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November 16, 2024 at 3:31 PM
💌 💌 💌 💌 Hey new followers! I have an interview show on YouTube.com/theletterhack and I'm always LOOKING FOR GUESTS. I'm currently looking to host more ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS and both! Email me here or at theletterhack@gmail.com Thanks! 💌 💌 💌 💌
This country is utterly cooked. Just visited the formerly apolitical side of my wife's family. Today it was hours of sharing Daily Wire+ login links, obscure conservative YouTuber channels, bitching about how the lib tree-huggers wanna prevent them from releasing methane, and their wallet über alles
November 16, 2024 at 9:30 PM
This country is utterly cooked. Just visited the formerly apolitical side of my wife's family. Today it was hours of sharing Daily Wire+ login links, obscure conservative YouTuber channels, bitching about how the lib tree-huggers wanna prevent them from releasing methane, and their wallet über alles
"Sacrifice what! I squander what's given to me, I squander with a thousand hands: how could I call that–sacrificing!"
Has anyone written on Bataille's Accursed Share in connection to this line from Thus Spoke Zarathustra's "The Honey Offering"?
Has anyone written on Bataille's Accursed Share in connection to this line from Thus Spoke Zarathustra's "The Honey Offering"?
November 14, 2024 at 4:35 PM
"Sacrifice what! I squander what's given to me, I squander with a thousand hands: how could I call that–sacrificing!"
Has anyone written on Bataille's Accursed Share in connection to this line from Thus Spoke Zarathustra's "The Honey Offering"?
Has anyone written on Bataille's Accursed Share in connection to this line from Thus Spoke Zarathustra's "The Honey Offering"?
@helendecruz.net glad I was able to bring your attention to the publication of your short story. Also, I'm trying to reconnect with people from X. We're mutuals on there, so I'm saying "hello!" again here.
November 14, 2024 at 4:02 PM
@helendecruz.net glad I was able to bring your attention to the publication of your short story. Also, I'm trying to reconnect with people from X. We're mutuals on there, so I'm saying "hello!" again here.