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#germanAmericanSurname of the day is BEELER, BEEHLER, BIELER, BIEHLER and BUEHLER, all alterations of BÜHLER

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If you’re Xi Jinping watching Putin and Trump agree about how to divide up the northern hemisphere ya gotta be pissed. If you assume the entire tropics are a dead zone, this does not leave them with much other than the Koreas and Japan, not famously resource-rich. Hence why the US will just let […]

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Family of Palestinian refugees I've been donating to in sadly small amounts over the last few months. They are within reach of the amount they need to evacuate the entire family to Egypt. Please consider a donation. Seems to be on the up and up as far as I have researched. https://gofund.me/0da802e3

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The reason writers and philosophers aspire to the condition of music is because music is nonrepresentational, free of the incessant dialogue and able to simply be a new thing in the world. O to be a sound pattern crafter with muted brain. Better than pottery even. vulgar music, with human […]

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Climate change is a good analogy for technocratic fascism as well as— just as the atmosphere holds so much more energy now that you have to expect turbulence on your flight, so does unending “wealth creation” put more energy into our social system — in ways that are invisible until something […]

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As I’ve recounted before somewhere, one of my earliest memories is of asking my dad why I’d not been born as, e.g., a rabbit (may have even said, “for instance”). I have long thought of this as being mostly a semi-Buddhist inquiry about souls and how their avatars in this world interface, but […]

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At this point Germans can totally shake off any idea that there was something in their national character that made them particularly susceptible to fascism at this point. Clearly it’s something hominids are just prey to. They did however have a technological/industrial edge that the Nazis […]

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key aspect of the national christofascist grift has become clear to me since I now work at an effects co that splits their work between mainstream mostly star-oriented content & weird Christian “Jesus rode a dinosaur” shit. Didn’t know abt the latter going in because they don’t brag about it […]

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My contribution to the discourse

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Now that I have all three major OSes in my daily life, whether I want em or not, I conclude: - OS X is still best for people who want to do cool stuff easily, even if not by as large a margin as in its heyday (which I indicate by referring to it as OS X, and yes it’s fallen) - Linux is best for […]

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It’s really all just a tale of brain tissue decaying unevenly innit

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#germanAmericanSurname of the day is BONECUTTER, translation of KNOCHENHAUER, an occupational name for a butcher

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A common complaint about politicians is that they are liars. But, what this sentiment really gets at is that most politicians are bad liars. Democrats, for example, tend to have a halting, evasive manner when pressed. A hint of guilt. And this is the brilliance of the malignant narcissist — […]

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Howell, Lowell, and Powell are all streets in Cincinnati. No Bowell, Towell, or Vowell.

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Godspeed You! Van Beethoven

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#germanAmericanSurname of the day is ELFMAN, alteration of ELFMANN, from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed of the elements alf ‘ghost’ + man ‘man’.

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My loathing for the phrase “10X” has just increased

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If anything, this white supremacist takeover just makes me even more sympathetic to black radicals. Like, no wonder they were out for blood. They knew what they were up against

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Trump is not the tragedy, he is one man and if not him it could be someone else. The Democrats are the tragedy.

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If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...

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How are the microplastics breaking the blood-brain barrier though?

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#germanAmericanSurname of the day is NELTNER, alteration of NÖLDNER.

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The only use to which gen ai should be put is to create the uncanny. So much effort by technologists to get us to accept as natural something that can only be meaningful if let to become fully alien. We’re living in a Bill Burroughs cut-up novel but are supposed to pretend it’s Henry James

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In 2019, on Twitter, I posted what seems to have been one of my first #germanAmericanSurname entries, sans the hashtag. "I try to keep notes on ways German surnames changed in America, so today I finally looked into Fightmaster (a real name in these parts) & found it’s a translation of […]

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#germanAmericanSurname of the day is YOUNGBLUT, alteration of JUNGBLUTH OR JUNGBLUD, originally a nickname for a young man.

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Every photograph records transience; some photographs embrace this fact while others resist it

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So my new gig is sole IT dude in a medium sized studio with pretty high tech needs. I’m reading the random tech notes from the last guy in the role, which mostly consist of notes about what the guy before him did, with puzzled notes about why and how to move forward. It’s like I’m in some […]

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To have happiness without hopefulness - that’s the hope

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Well, new job is on a PC, which is disorienting to say the least, but since most of my work is in a browser, being able to keep using @Vivaldi is actually making it pretty pain-free. Integrated mail and calendar are actually something I need and can make use of now, for starters.

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Been getting into EarFun lately

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Nice overview of the surrealist quasi-musical works of Nurse With Wound up on Bandcamp. The site’s music journalism is an overlooked part of their inestimable value https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/nurse-with-wound-album-guide?utm_source=notification

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Wondering if when Lawrence sings about reading from “The Book of Naomi” in “Whirlpool Vision of Shame” he is talking about Bill Knott‘s first book. Not implausible — he enters A Season in Hell into the ledger elsewhere

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These crackers have a little “Certified Plant Based” badge on the package, in case you were worried that Soylent was made out of people.

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I consider home to be the Twin Cities, where I went to college. And that’s the only time I lived there, though I manage to get back regularly. Town where I grew up, town where I’ve lived now for 20 years — these are not my home. I must be temperamentally destined to feel like my home is […]

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#germanAmericanSurname of the day is KEEFAUVER , KEEFOVER, or KEFAUVER, all alterations of KIEFHABER, literally "oat chewer," hence a derogatory occupational surname for an impoverished farmer.

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#germanAmericanSurname of the day is LOUDERMAN, also seen as LAUDERMAN, both alterations of LAUTERMANN.

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Infantile orality #semiotics

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Commonality between the New Orleans attacker and the Cybertruck bomber — the infamous Fort Bragg. https://boingboing.net/2025/01/02/new-orleans-and-cybertruck-drivers-from-same-u-s-military-base-and-no-trump-they-did-not-eat-pets.html

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#germanAmericanSurname of the day is MESSERSMITH, alteration of MESSERSCHMIDT, occupational name for a knife maker or CUTLER.

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#germanAmericanSurname of the day is LIVELSBERGER, likely an alteration of LEIBENSPERGER.

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One of the “Facts You Can Feel Good About” on the side of this can of Drano is that it was not tested on animals. Yay!

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The first and ultimately only philosopher’s inquiry: Don’t you wonder sometimes ‘Bout sound and vision?

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#germanAmericanSurname of the day is HYDECKER, alteration of South German/ Swiss German HEIDECKER or German HEIDEGGER.

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#germanAmericanSurname of the day is REDWINE, alteration of RETTWEIN, which does not mean “red wine.”

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#germanAmericanSurname of the day is FINGERHUT, which form is Yiddish but derived from Middle High German VINGERHUOT, “finger hat,” I.e. a thimble, hence, by metonymy, an occupational name for a tailor. BRB changing my user name to TAYLOR FINGERHUT.

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Been trying to perfect my besan chilla, a chickpea pancake dish I have never been seen IRL, and my attempts have been… mixed. But I started including blended moong dal that I soak for a few days & that improved it a lot. It has the crunch and cakiness of falafel. Now I realize that falafel is […]

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Daydream of waiting for the global denouement in a faraway place, paying rent in a new currency, eating unfamiliar food from takeaway containers of a foreign shape but familiarly carcinogenic black plastic.

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