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"You are a stain on Einstein's rubber sheet." --my little brother Philosophy, Assyriology, literature, writing, and border collies. Liberal but not cis liberal. Words mean how they're used.
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I aspire to, one day, making a howler this beautiful *single teat runs down my face*

Anything not forbidden is permitted in a free country, so I can amend the constitution any time I want

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Evergreen but particularly relevant now that ICE is again the enforcement arm of a censorious McCarthyite government

I've seen so many "How dare you say the thing I agree with the wrong way" posts

Ouch

Richard Branson said the one time he met Trump, all he did was talk about all the people that had wronged him, & how he was going to get even. Here are all the policies inspired by personal grudges that I can think of off the top of my head. 🧵

I blocked someone who was justifiably rude to me ten years ago so I am not free from sin

Trump has just hung the "now open for business sign", saying he'll do specific (tariff) favors for specific companies. CEOs will see massive gains from lobbying, and huge costs from criticizing the White House. It's an effective way to suppress criticism. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/b...

The principle anyone (who isn't a slave) being held against their will has the right to some kind of process before a judge is so ancient the Code of Hammurabi takes it for granted. It's probably literally prehistoric, a practice predating written history. It is the deepest root of what law is.

Here’s a few hundred beautiful women I follow who have never done anything wrong. Please use this starter pack if you’d like to follow beautiful women who have never done anything wrong

yeah i'm on the spectrum

Shorter Trump administration: "What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account"

Modern conservatism is just brutality

“But if we get rid of Trump well just have President Vance” Listen,,,,,,,,,I’m willing to take that chance.

#SpreadLove

Anyway, Australia did this “farm out people who have committed no crime to a poor third country where they disappear and become stateless nonpeople” thing and you’ll be stunned to hear it turned out pretty badly.

This thread encapsulates why I'm an atheist but not one of ~those atheists I'm making a claim about reality. I'm not making a claim about what people should do

Still funny

this is too good a setup, she should've been like c'mon over and I'll show you

stupidest thing about Scott Alexander going "huh, we just wanted to talk about 'biological realism', but now there are nazis everywhere?!" is that are from a rationalist perspective *extremely* clear & compelling reasons for having discursive norms against "are these people subhuman? let's discuss."

Cool new concept. Guy and a girl romance. We call it Yari

You know I keep that thang on me #artsky

lol at Matt Yglesias forgetting to switch to his sock puppet account

Tag yourself I'm Prose (Lit Fic Subtype)

special shoutout to the cis women who've been by my side throughout transition, but *especially* those in the first few months (when i had no trans community) and had no idea what i was doing you made me feel like "one of the girls" and you allowed me to come into my own and i'm forever grateful 💜

hardest part about early transition is that you'll be doing shit obviously wrong and nobody will point it out. i didn't wear a bra for an embarrassingly long time, and even once i did, i wore a black bra under thin light colored shirts for again an embarrassingly long time. AND NOBODY TOLD ME 😭

GO AHEAD AND HATE YOUR NEIGHBOR, GO AHEAD AND CHEAT A FRIEND youtu.be/kjGnvst6AmA?...

This better not awaken anything in me.

our retired street fighter discovering pillows