"social media is the modern public square"

nah fam this is the website I use to find short sci-fi stories and look at pictures of cats

Americans have this incredibly stupid tendency to equate structures as the sum total of history but even within that narrow frame we are incapable of applying any kind of perspective

Every third week there are riots in France over extending the work week to 13 hours and without fail there's some right wing US media lamenting that protestors graffitied a 14th century administrative building as if there aren't dozens of those in every backwater hamlet

I have a recurring dream where Francis Fukuyama is giving a speech and this large curtain hook appears from offstage...

Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION

Alt text: there are currently 25 holds on one copy of 107 Days at the local library

Not necessarily related but here's an insightful essay on occultism from Adorno: cominsitu.wordpress.com/2021/07/13/t...

You might wanna double check that one. I think the diaper guy was some mook from a campus chapter not tiny face no neck

"So basically we need to cut regulations and incentivize capital investments to create more wealth"

"I dunno man that sounds like Reaganomics and didn't go well the first time"

"No no it's Abundance because we're going to put a Sweet Greens on the first floor"

I've got quite a bit more but these were on the bookshelf