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"No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don't know what I don't see—what I don't fear!"
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Hey just a reminder that it only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove and replace Chuck Schumer as minority leader. They don't do it because the majority of Senate Democrats approve of the way he does politics.
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hey just a reminder that it only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove and replace Chuck Schumer as minority leader. They don't do it because the majority of Senate Democrats approve of the way he does politics.
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La vie derrière soi
Valeri Nistratov
Valeri Nistratov
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
La vie derrière soi
Valeri Nistratov
Valeri Nistratov
Just have to hope that with each enormously discrediting Buttigieg video clip that drops the constituency who thinks this orotund technocratic gobbledygook and abject courtliness with billionaire ghouls are what we need in our ghastly necropolitical moment will dwindle--but not holding my breath.
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Just have to hope that with each enormously discrediting Buttigieg video clip that drops the constituency who thinks this orotund technocratic gobbledygook and abject courtliness with billionaire ghouls are what we need in our ghastly necropolitical moment will dwindle--but not holding my breath.
Hypnotic version of Ali Ekber Çiçek's "Derdim Çoktur" by Gülcan Opel (certainly known to many Turkish folks living abroad in Germany in the 1970s) with a rad solo electric saz (I think?) intro.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDA1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDA1...
Gülcan Opel / Derdim Çoktur
YouTube video by TÜRKÜ PINARI
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Hypnotic version of Ali Ekber Çiçek's "Derdim Çoktur" by Gülcan Opel (certainly known to many Turkish folks living abroad in Germany in the 1970s) with a rad solo electric saz (I think?) intro.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDA1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDA1...
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Watermelon popsicle production.
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Watermelon popsicle production.
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yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.
The Better Things Aren't Possible Wing has declared Spanberger is The Future Of The Democratic Party with this transparently stupid line fed to one of their press familiars
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.
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Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.
November 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.
I work in a building where if I go upstairs they let me take away books for free and here are some of them.
November 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I work in a building where if I go upstairs they let me take away books for free and here are some of them.
As someone who believes that each day's bloom is off the rose by 10:00 a.m. at the latest, its promise gone, the best hours over, the thrill faded, with nothing but stale afternoon time and then darkness ahead of us, I'm quite pleased with the switch: light early, darkness later. DST is for ~nerds~.
November 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
As someone who believes that each day's bloom is off the rose by 10:00 a.m. at the latest, its promise gone, the best hours over, the thrill faded, with nothing but stale afternoon time and then darkness ahead of us, I'm quite pleased with the switch: light early, darkness later. DST is for ~nerds~.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v17M...
RIP David Gamble
RIP David Gamble
Method Actors - Halloween
YouTube video by disquette•s TV
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October 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v17M...
RIP David Gamble
RIP David Gamble
A Halloween-appropriate moment from a favorite opera, basically an hour and a half of non-stop screaming, though with tenderly lyrical (recognition scene) and mordantly mischievous passages (waltz motif as Elektra beckons Aegisth inside the palace to his death) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jED...
Scariest Klytaemnestra Death on Record
YouTube video by Hilarion
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:17 AM
A Halloween-appropriate moment from a favorite opera, basically an hour and a half of non-stop screaming, though with tenderly lyrical (recognition scene) and mordantly mischievous passages (waltz motif as Elektra beckons Aegisth inside the palace to his death) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jED...
[Halloween decorations report from pre-dawn walk]
Sleepy: any kind of plastic skeleton, splayed in odalisque poses or seated jauntily in lawn chairs in ski gear, & above all the 10-foot Skeletor variety
Creepy: wee illuminated Hello Kitty skeleton inflatable figurines twitching slightly in the wind
Sleepy: any kind of plastic skeleton, splayed in odalisque poses or seated jauntily in lawn chairs in ski gear, & above all the 10-foot Skeletor variety
Creepy: wee illuminated Hello Kitty skeleton inflatable figurines twitching slightly in the wind
October 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
[Halloween decorations report from pre-dawn walk]
Sleepy: any kind of plastic skeleton, splayed in odalisque poses or seated jauntily in lawn chairs in ski gear, & above all the 10-foot Skeletor variety
Creepy: wee illuminated Hello Kitty skeleton inflatable figurines twitching slightly in the wind
Sleepy: any kind of plastic skeleton, splayed in odalisque poses or seated jauntily in lawn chairs in ski gear, & above all the 10-foot Skeletor variety
Creepy: wee illuminated Hello Kitty skeleton inflatable figurines twitching slightly in the wind
If you attribute this novel's reductive heteronormativity, rigid sexual polarities, & preoccupation with male penetration as the central experience of life to the unreliable narrator--
October 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If you attribute this novel's reductive heteronormativity, rigid sexual polarities, & preoccupation with male penetration as the central experience of life to the unreliable narrator--
Bought this book online from a Pennsylvania bookstore for $8.16 plus shipping; it arrived this week. The bookstore's website noted that the book was signed by the author but did not mention that it was inscribed to Susan Sontag, most--but evidently not all--of whose personal library is at UCLA?
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Bought this book online from a Pennsylvania bookstore for $8.16 plus shipping; it arrived this week. The bookstore's website noted that the book was signed by the author but did not mention that it was inscribed to Susan Sontag, most--but evidently not all--of whose personal library is at UCLA?
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admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records
October 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records
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A lot of people your age, some you thought were friends, who put all their chips on their youth lasting forever will now start the long process of curdling into the bitter nasty false-nostalgia-poisoned reactionary assholes they always were somewhere deep inside. Ignore them & take up a hobby.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A lot of people your age, some you thought were friends, who put all their chips on their youth lasting forever will now start the long process of curdling into the bitter nasty false-nostalgia-poisoned reactionary assholes they always were somewhere deep inside. Ignore them & take up a hobby.
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If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the US were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Turkey, Canada, and Spain — and just below Israel.
The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago
As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.
inthesetimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the US were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Turkey, Canada, and Spain — and just below Israel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXDs...
Listening to Crespin & Chauvet's performance of this duet w/Prêtre and thinking, yes, of course, perfect, idiomatically French, with buoyant tempi, immaculate diction (although with an Énée who seems quite a tenore di grazia, more a Nemorino than an Énée)--
Listening to Crespin & Chauvet's performance of this duet w/Prêtre and thinking, yes, of course, perfect, idiomatically French, with buoyant tempi, immaculate diction (although with an Énée who seems quite a tenore di grazia, more a Nemorino than an Énée)--
Régine Crespin & Guy Chauvet, Nuit d'ivresse - Les Troyens
YouTube video by Alma Winemiller
www.youtube.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXDs...
Listening to Crespin & Chauvet's performance of this duet w/Prêtre and thinking, yes, of course, perfect, idiomatically French, with buoyant tempi, immaculate diction (although with an Énée who seems quite a tenore di grazia, more a Nemorino than an Énée)--
Listening to Crespin & Chauvet's performance of this duet w/Prêtre and thinking, yes, of course, perfect, idiomatically French, with buoyant tempi, immaculate diction (although with an Énée who seems quite a tenore di grazia, more a Nemorino than an Énée)--
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MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule.
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October 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...