John Holbo
@jholbo.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy, Illustrator of Philosophers
https://www.onbeyondzarathustra.com
https://www.onbeyondzarathustra.com
I know everything is terrible but, even so, it's really very funny when - having broken Bill Hader with 'a combination of chicken piccata and silver dollars', at the 2:07 mark - Jiminy Glick breaks Martin Short, too, inside himself, at the 2:08 mark. Really well done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoUA...
Jiminy Glick Interviews Bill Hader
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I know everything is terrible but, even so, it's really very funny when - having broken Bill Hader with 'a combination of chicken piccata and silver dollars', at the 2:07 mark - Jiminy Glick breaks Martin Short, too, inside himself, at the 2:08 mark. Really well done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoUA...
I owned this one. I remember trying to copy-draw the two figures. Learn to draw anatomy the wrong-anatomy way!
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I owned this one. I remember trying to copy-draw the two figures. Learn to draw anatomy the wrong-anatomy way!
Turns out she has ties to Neo-Nuzzis.
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Turns out she has ties to Neo-Nuzzis.
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Of all the weird nonsense Trump has said recently, the most revealing is when he got angry and called a reporter “insubordinate” this week for asking MBS about Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Just a real Holy Shit moment.
Just a real Holy Shit moment.
November 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Of all the weird nonsense Trump has said recently, the most revealing is when he got angry and called a reporter “insubordinate” this week for asking MBS about Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Just a real Holy Shit moment.
Just a real Holy Shit moment.
I'll take this opportunity to note possibly the silliest bit of Yoram Hazony's interview with Douthat about right-wing antisemitism. Hazony, having committed to the bit, has to maintain with a straight face liberalism is this serious, standing antisemitism threat.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
Opinion | It’s Deeper Than Nick Fuentes
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I'll take this opportunity to note possibly the silliest bit of Yoram Hazony's interview with Douthat about right-wing antisemitism. Hazony, having committed to the bit, has to maintain with a straight face liberalism is this serious, standing antisemitism threat.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
Trump charmed by nice guy the right-wing falsely framed as an antisemite, in a fake right-wing war against antisemitism, in the midst of a right-wing civil war over whether to embrace antisemitism? Probably bad for the Jews - but good for Jewish-style comedy? (I don't blame Mamdani - nice guy!)
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Trump charmed by nice guy the right-wing falsely framed as an antisemite, in a fake right-wing war against antisemitism, in the midst of a right-wing civil war over whether to embrace antisemitism? Probably bad for the Jews - but good for Jewish-style comedy? (I don't blame Mamdani - nice guy!)
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Mamdani is the character who breaks your D&D campaign by having a +45 Diplomacy modifier.
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Mamdani is the character who breaks your D&D campaign by having a +45 Diplomacy modifier.
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Harry Beckhoff (1901-1979)
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Harry Beckhoff (1901-1979)
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The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.
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It remains a national shanda that we have totally moved on from the attempted and actual assassinations of elected Democrats, as if they never even happened. It's why we're here, dealing with this should-immediately-end-a-presidency stuff today.
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It remains a national shanda that we have totally moved on from the attempted and actual assassinations of elected Democrats, as if they never even happened. It's why we're here, dealing with this should-immediately-end-a-presidency stuff today.
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The meta point worth making here is that obviously none of these officials feared any sort of consequence for shamelessly lying their asses off in a federal court, which ought at very minimum end your career in law enforcement.
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The meta point worth making here is that obviously none of these officials feared any sort of consequence for shamelessly lying their asses off in a federal court, which ought at very minimum end your career in law enforcement.
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Trump administration “logic.”
- Decrying Israeli violence against civilians?
❌ Antisemitism. Deport!
- Honoring black WW2 soldiers?
❌ Racism. Must be removed!
- Swastikas and Nooses?
👍 “Potentially divisive.”
- Decrying Israeli violence against civilians?
❌ Antisemitism. Deport!
- Honoring black WW2 soldiers?
❌ Racism. Must be removed!
- Swastikas and Nooses?
👍 “Potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Trump administration “logic.”
- Decrying Israeli violence against civilians?
❌ Antisemitism. Deport!
- Honoring black WW2 soldiers?
❌ Racism. Must be removed!
- Swastikas and Nooses?
👍 “Potentially divisive.”
- Decrying Israeli violence against civilians?
❌ Antisemitism. Deport!
- Honoring black WW2 soldiers?
❌ Racism. Must be removed!
- Swastikas and Nooses?
👍 “Potentially divisive.”
Is he saying that R's need to stick to their Nazi guns (or they will lose the rw young, even though going fascist will cost them support from Zionists); or is he saying R's need to capitulate to the Nazis quick in hopes that by doing so they can placate them (& win concessions from them for Israel?)
Major Republican pollster warns that digging in on anti-Nazism will fracture their coalition
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Is he saying that R's need to stick to their Nazi guns (or they will lose the rw young, even though going fascist will cost them support from Zionists); or is he saying R's need to capitulate to the Nazis quick in hopes that by doing so they can placate them (& win concessions from them for Israel?)
Philosophers inching towards the door ...
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Philosophers inching towards the door ...
There was a young Nuzzi with rizz! A
fresh-faced tootsie, rebounded off Olberman,
Into arms of next j-biz whiz, Lizza
But Liz' fizzles! Quick quiz: Who's an older man!
(Needs work.)
fresh-faced tootsie, rebounded off Olberman,
Into arms of next j-biz whiz, Lizza
But Liz' fizzles! Quick quiz: Who's an older man!
(Needs work.)
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
There was a young Nuzzi with rizz! A
fresh-faced tootsie, rebounded off Olberman,
Into arms of next j-biz whiz, Lizza
But Liz' fizzles! Quick quiz: Who's an older man!
(Needs work.)
fresh-faced tootsie, rebounded off Olberman,
Into arms of next j-biz whiz, Lizza
But Liz' fizzles! Quick quiz: Who's an older man!
(Needs work.)
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Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Thanks, Bill Cassidy!
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Thanks, Bill Cassidy!
The dissent is madness. bsky.app/profile/jims...
This is incredible. All they had to do was not be so absolutely right out in broad daylight about it. I don’t think even John Roberts can Winston Wolf them out of this one.
Breaking: Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms.
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The dissent is madness. bsky.app/profile/jims...
Noticing my reading glasses are bent. Wondering if they are bent in a doing an 'eccentric old fella is so into his passions that he doesn't notice his glasses are bent' thing way.
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Noticing my reading glasses are bent. Wondering if they are bent in a doing an 'eccentric old fella is so into his passions that he doesn't notice his glasses are bent' thing way.
Members of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party call upon party leader to 'rethink and retract' recent comments condoning face-eating.
“We are disappointed in President (Donald) Trump,” said Morton Klein, president of the conservative Zionist Organization of America, adding that he should “rethink and retract” his comments.
Trump Refuses to Disavow White Nationalist Nick Fuentes, Praising Carlson
President Donald Trump lack of criticism of Nick Fuentes echoes his longstanding reluctance to disavow right-wing figures.
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Members of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party call upon party leader to 'rethink and retract' recent comments condoning face-eating.
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The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.
canceledpeople.org
canceledpeople.org
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.
canceledpeople.org
canceledpeople.org
This is incredible. All they had to do was not be so absolutely right out in broad daylight about it. I don’t think even John Roberts can Winston Wolf them out of this one.
Breaking: Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms.
Federal court blocks new Texas congressional map for 2026
The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump.
www.texastribune.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This is incredible. All they had to do was not be so absolutely right out in broad daylight about it. I don’t think even John Roberts can Winston Wolf them out of this one.
Yarvin's poor-poor-pitiful-me-I-have-to-flee-the-country-to-avoid-leftist-vengeance schtick, alternating with lectures he shouldn't be invited to give at should-be civilised institutions that should shun him, in which he simply vice signals, for the nihilistic barbarity of it all. We deserve better.
Excuse me, a what lecture
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Yarvin's poor-poor-pitiful-me-I-have-to-flee-the-country-to-avoid-leftist-vengeance schtick, alternating with lectures he shouldn't be invited to give at should-be civilised institutions that should shun him, in which he simply vice signals, for the nihilistic barbarity of it all. We deserve better.