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A reminder that my new novella The Silk Thread Contract: A Novella of Controlled Mastery went on sale late last month. Please read and, if you enjoy it, review: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY3MZVZ6
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Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
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Americans, talking about the Palaeolithic: imagine a burger
Apparently, Paleolithic garden burgers (patties of legume and grains) may have been a thing! And they flavored food with mustard, and used medicinal plants like yarrow and chamomile!
Coming together to eat the food we share has been part of humanity from the very beginning. I wrote this post after a Thanksgiving week lecture on evidence for Neanderthals and other ancient people making prepared mixtures of grains, lentils, and other foods.
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Americans, talking about the Palaeolithic: imagine a burger
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traditional color theory posits that red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors from which all other colors are derived. in global culinary theory, however, sauces tend to align around red, yellow, or green. this suggests that blue sauces, or the absence thereof, are the last creative frontier
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
traditional color theory posits that red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors from which all other colors are derived. in global culinary theory, however, sauces tend to align around red, yellow, or green. this suggests that blue sauces, or the absence thereof, are the last creative frontier
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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GOODS: international freedom of movement
CAPITAL: international freedom of movement
LABOR: not so fast pal
CAPITAL: international freedom of movement
LABOR: not so fast pal
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
GOODS: international freedom of movement
CAPITAL: international freedom of movement
LABOR: not so fast pal
CAPITAL: international freedom of movement
LABOR: not so fast pal
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CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
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“Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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Incredibly funny how much political discussion is driven by the four things at the bottom while everyone else is getting cooked on Facebook looking at pictures of AI Eminem opening nursing homes for crying veterans
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Incredibly funny how much political discussion is driven by the four things at the bottom while everyone else is getting cooked on Facebook looking at pictures of AI Eminem opening nursing homes for crying veterans
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW2G... like clockwork this song pops into the forefront of my brain every few months
Asteroid City (2023) - Dear Alien (Who Art in Heaven) Scene | Movieclips
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November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW2G... like clockwork this song pops into the forefront of my brain every few months
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if you enjoy supernatural horror you have to suspend your disbelief about a lot of stuff for vampires, werewolves, etc to make sense, but i draw the line at accepting any of that going down in vancouver. grand conspiracies, secret cabals, magic, sure. but vampires living in vancouver? i'm out
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
if you enjoy supernatural horror you have to suspend your disbelief about a lot of stuff for vampires, werewolves, etc to make sense, but i draw the line at accepting any of that going down in vancouver. grand conspiracies, secret cabals, magic, sure. but vampires living in vancouver? i'm out
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i drew masuke eating a pear on the back of a package while i was on the telephone the other day. im sorry i made him frightening
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
i drew masuke eating a pear on the back of a package while i was on the telephone the other day. im sorry i made him frightening
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There Aren’t Deals
– The Black Friday Truther
– The Black Friday Truther
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There Aren’t Deals
– The Black Friday Truther
– The Black Friday Truther
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pluribus is the only show brave enough to ask if one mean lesbian could save the world
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
pluribus is the only show brave enough to ask if one mean lesbian could save the world
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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it's more of a materialist vision: you work m-f in the ufc sports gambling factory. drive your monster truck back to the exurbs where your trad wife and kids that you hate are waiting & tell them shut up about the pokemon. sunday you go to a weird church where they say the pope is woke
i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
it's more of a materialist vision: you work m-f in the ufc sports gambling factory. drive your monster truck back to the exurbs where your trad wife and kids that you hate are waiting & tell them shut up about the pokemon. sunday you go to a weird church where they say the pope is woke
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when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:
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I'm in LA now so it pleases me greatly to imagine Neighmos in traffic. "I hope he doesn't try to take the 405 this time of day, it's a parking lot"
Ad: we don't use machine learning or AI. Only animal learning and natural horse intelligence
"He's turning onto Centinela! Good boy!"
*happy snort*
Ad: we don't use machine learning or AI. Only animal learning and natural horse intelligence
"He's turning onto Centinela! Good boy!"
*happy snort*
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I'm in LA now so it pleases me greatly to imagine Neighmos in traffic. "I hope he doesn't try to take the 405 this time of day, it's a parking lot"
Ad: we don't use machine learning or AI. Only animal learning and natural horse intelligence
"He's turning onto Centinela! Good boy!"
*happy snort*
Ad: we don't use machine learning or AI. Only animal learning and natural horse intelligence
"He's turning onto Centinela! Good boy!"
*happy snort*
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Neighmo
a thing that really stuck with me from a historical novel I read years ago was a guy leaving a tavern v drunk and getting in his carriage confident that his horse knows the way home
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Neighmo
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the most unsettling part of the presidential Turkey Pardon is not the cheeky reminder that we, the state, have temporarily given one person power over life and death – but rather the implication that this preening, Beautiful Turkey has committed Federal Crimes
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
the most unsettling part of the presidential Turkey Pardon is not the cheeky reminder that we, the state, have temporarily given one person power over life and death – but rather the implication that this preening, Beautiful Turkey has committed Federal Crimes
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just a reminder that the current best explanation for why this was necessarily or desirable is that the President wanted to see some video of it
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
just a reminder that the current best explanation for why this was necessarily or desirable is that the President wanted to see some video of it
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It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...