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Turning to this from a story about how there is no room left for masculine dreams of grandeur is surreal. What is grandeur if not this?

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

This is excellent. newrepublic.com/article/1947...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Kurt Vonnegut man

submitted 42 days ago • 262 comments

7th grade Spanish teacher taught us that patatas bravas were called that because the potatoes were brave for going into the spicy sauce and I will cherish that thought for the rest of my life. Honor them. Honor their sacrifice

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." Stephen Jay Gould, 1941 - 2002

submitted 64 days ago • 22 comments

just say our four humors are unbalanced this is taking forever

submitted 12 days ago • 27 comments

Paradox should also announce their new strategy games with the whole chimney routine tbh

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Europa Universalis 5 starts in 1337. Paradox you utter nerds.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

submitted 15 days ago • 599 comments

It's so insane that there's a type of guy who is like "Hell yeah transhumanist libertarian cyberpunk future where there are no limits to how you can hack the human body and transcend the flesh. But also I hate trans people."

submitted 368 days ago • 6 comments

My statement on Trump’s unhinged & terrifying announcement that he wants to turn Alcatraz into a domestic gulag in the middle of San Francisco Bay:

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

In the space of 48 hours, the President of the United States has tweeted an image of himself as the new pope, said he doesn’t know if he has to abide by the Constitution, cited multiple completely false statistics, and announced that he wants to reopen a prison closed in 1963.

submitted 18 days ago • 134 comments

listen up fellas

submitted 18 days ago • 188 comments

I wrote something! Over at @foreignpolicy.com I've written a little bit on how the remarkable success of the Romans was built on pro-trade policies (despite elite disdain for trade) and how the collapse of those policies and trade contributed to later Roman decline. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/02/t...

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

Any human mood can be described accurately by a Mark Rothko painting.

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

The average American has three friends

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Just some phenomenal protest art in Union Market, DC.

submitted 23 days ago • 21 comments

GodDAMN this ruling against Apple in the Epic lawsuit is brutal. This is a judge who is outright furious at a company and it is not going well for them. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 22 days ago • 65 comments

This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.

submitted 22 days ago • 434 comments

I can understand why people are picking favorites to run for president in 2028, but I think they're looking at it wrong. We need a new kind of person in our legislative bodies. That's how we fix this. Then, how do we reform the presidency out of existence?

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I wasn't quite sure how we lost a stealth jet because of woke, but I think I figured it out. It's bisexual awareness week, and so this F-35Bi went out of its way to let everyone know it exists, which is so hard when the plane's defining feature is stealth.

submitted 611 days ago • 2 comments

Cherry jelly beans for me, please.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

submitted 31 days ago • 1243 comments

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

submitted 32 days ago • 1230 comments

Democrats have to accept battle over immigration, because it is the only issue propping him up now.

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

gm

submitted 34 days ago • 70 comments

came back from the brink of death to dunk. poster pope.

submitted 34 days ago • 13 comments

Pomade poisoning. It finally made its way into his brain.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump is going to dismantle the Federal government in less time than it takes San Francisco to review an application for a building permit.

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

the aesthetic of left-liberal politics should be kinda terrifying and imperial imo. every post office should look like a tomb built by a caesarian cult.

submitted 36 days ago • 24 comments

Guys, we’re ALREADY at the “Then they came for me” part. The only thing we can’t be sure of is the order.

submitted 37 days ago • 35 comments

Leviathan, published this day in 1651.

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Even to the extent that she was there on Michigan's behalf, what is it going to take to convince people normal politics is over? If it's not undesirables who haven't done anything being sent to a gulag or people getting arrested for their opinions, what will it take? What would Trump have to do?

submitted 40 days ago • 60 comments

Good morning Sunset Dunes! It’s a beautiful day to open SF’s newest park and the largest pedestrianization project in California history.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

watching a toddler undo childproof locks is a real "velociraptors in Jurrasic Park" moment

submitted 40 days ago • 11 comments

My students look askance at Roman practices like haruspicy (predicting outcomes based on entrails) and augury (the same but with bird flight) but we all pretend that economics is a hard science and not the exact same sort of mystical divination

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments