gilroy0
@gilroy0.bsky.social
Teacher, American, human(ish). Learning the past, observing in the present, living in the future.
You can probe language once you've established that you can handle language. Before you get the New Wave of the 60s, much less today's literary sci-fi, you need to establish some workmanlike cred.
October 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
You can probe language once you've established that you can handle language. Before you get the New Wave of the 60s, much less today's literary sci-fi, you need to establish some workmanlike cred.
I think Asimov's value was precisely his workmanlike prose. In a time when the genre was stuffed full of grandiloquent scribes who would never use a simple word when ten invented ones would do, he made science fiction readable. (Heinlein did that, too.)
October 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I think Asimov's value was precisely his workmanlike prose. In a time when the genre was stuffed full of grandiloquent scribes who would never use a simple word when ten invented ones would do, he made science fiction readable. (Heinlein did that, too.)
I think Asimov's value was precisely his workmanlike prose. In a time when the genre was stuffed full of grandiloquent scribes who would never use a simple word when ten invented ones would do, he made science fiction readable.
October 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I think Asimov's value was precisely his workmanlike prose. In a time when the genre was stuffed full of grandiloquent scribes who would never use a simple word when ten invented ones would do, he made science fiction readable.
Also, there is no such thing as the Department of War.
September 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Also, there is no such thing as the Department of War.
Yeah, it looks bad if you think the purpose of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is to teach mutants to control their powers. It makes more sense when you realize that its actual purpose is to raise an army of child soldiers.
September 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Yeah, it looks bad if you think the purpose of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is to teach mutants to control their powers. It makes more sense when you realize that its actual purpose is to raise an army of child soldiers.
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Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
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No, this is the attempt to begin dictatorship in America. Nothing is settled yet.
Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
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No, this is the attempt to begin dictatorship in America. Nothing is settled yet.
September 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
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No, this is the attempt to begin dictatorship in America. Nothing is settled yet.
Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
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No, this is the attempt to begin dictatorship in America. Nothing is settled yet.
What always struck me about that speech is: Clinton explicitly says HALF Trump people are deplorable but half are not. And every MAGA person immediately assumed they were in the half that she was calling "deplorable". Sort of telling on themselves, weren't they?
September 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
What always struck me about that speech is: Clinton explicitly says HALF Trump people are deplorable but half are not. And every MAGA person immediately assumed they were in the half that she was calling "deplorable". Sort of telling on themselves, weren't they?
If all you have is the horse race, everything is just a game.
September 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
If all you have is the horse race, everything is just a game.
Will they? Or will they just swoop in with their VC friends and buy the land cheap?
September 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Will they? Or will they just swoop in with their VC friends and buy the land cheap?
It is amazing to see MAGA call something ELSE a death cult, as that is their core identity. Projection much?
September 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
It is amazing to see MAGA call something ELSE a death cult, as that is their core identity. Projection much?
The United States is no longer an advanced democracy.
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The United States is no longer an advanced democracy.
I think we have a winner.
September 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I think we have a winner.
Isolation from the larger world is a core requirement of a cult.
September 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Isolation from the larger world is a core requirement of a cult.
Also, it's a poor choice to accept the frame that criticizing Vance comes from having "sympathy" for cartels. Some of us object to the extrajudicial execution of people on the ALLEGATION (unvetted by anyone else) that they were part of a cartel.
September 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Also, it's a poor choice to accept the frame that criticizing Vance comes from having "sympathy" for cartels. Some of us object to the extrajudicial execution of people on the ALLEGATION (unvetted by anyone else) that they were part of a cartel.
And spending any more at all on the rebrand is very likely also illegal, as it has not been allocated by Congress and is, as stated, contrary to the intent of the law.
September 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
And spending any more at all on the rebrand is very likely also illegal, as it has not been allocated by Congress and is, as stated, contrary to the intent of the law.
Just a reminder: There is no United States Department of War. The Department of Defense is established by law, and no President -- not even a toddler-king one -- can simply change it. Trump's executive order is essentially a command to the executive branch to give the DoD a nickname.
September 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Just a reminder: There is no United States Department of War. The Department of Defense is established by law, and no President -- not even a toddler-king one -- can simply change it. Trump's executive order is essentially a command to the executive branch to give the DoD a nickname.
No, Trump signed an executive PURPORTING to rename DoD to Department of War. An executive order is a memo from the President to his underlings; it has no force of law and certainly cannot overturn or invalidate an actual law.
September 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
No, Trump signed an executive PURPORTING to rename DoD to Department of War. An executive order is a memo from the President to his underlings; it has no force of law and certainly cannot overturn or invalidate an actual law.
There does not exist enough negative consequence in the Universe for them to understand. Not understanding is their superpower, and that pit is infinitely deep. You will not ever fill it.
September 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
There does not exist enough negative consequence in the Universe for them to understand. Not understanding is their superpower, and that pit is infinitely deep. You will not ever fill it.
I don't think McConnell chickened out. I think he calmly and coolly calculated that Donald Trump out and free and unpunished was useful to the Republican Party.
September 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I don't think McConnell chickened out. I think he calmly and coolly calculated that Donald Trump out and free and unpunished was useful to the Republican Party.
Well, this president really can't afford for us to look too closely into child trafficking, can he?
September 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Well, this president really can't afford for us to look too closely into child trafficking, can he?