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PhD Candidate, CUNY GC. Medievalist. Agency of Things. Medieval Esotericism. Old Books. Mostly here to give myself psychic damage.
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I'm not good at anything. I dont do anything. I dont know anything. But I know this: Certain forces are out of control

Current round of medieval discourse on here sucks for many reasons, but particularly annoying because its 1) coming from an obvious shitpost and 2) the big brains taking it seriously are dramatically less sophisticated as thinkers than the medieval people they think they’re tilting against

Waking up to wildfire smoke from a drought induced brush fire in Prospect Park is giving me The Dread

Guess I should find those notes for that paper on Yarvin’s idiot fascist medievalism I was hoping wouldn’t be relevant…

Lmao. I went to undergrad with this twerp, where at a party he once very earnestly introduced himself as a monarchist. I lost track of him until 2015 when he resurfaced as an alt-right guy running an org called “Twinks for Trump.” I guess he’s in his third rebrand, now as a paleo-con

Seeing Gladwell get (deservedly) smoked by the Times would be a little sweeter if they didn’t run a bizarrely positive review for Harari’s new book two weeks ago

Megalopolis is like if a post-new hollywood cocaine epic got made in 2024

Interesting how loudly pro-police pols frequently get accused of engaging in obviously illegal behavior… anyways, I’m sure this illustrates absolutely nothing about what people have in mind when they talk about law and order…

Thank you Eric Adams for making this the first funny news day in nearly a decade