The Same Photo of the Vienna Circle Every Day (Only Noumenally)

Imagine you pour your heart out to your therapist and you find out he wojaked you

the whale’s vast plaited forehead forms innumerable strange devices for the emblematical adornment of his wondrous tun

Best part of her review.

Bojack at 44 is criminal

What a fun way to start the day!

Genghis Khan famously had strong opinions regarding gamete size as the telos of gender.

It is sorta a funny thing about philosophy that the questions are inherently fascinating and exciting—there’s a reason people wind up talking about this stuff in dorm rooms—and the best methods we have for investigating them involve being as tedious and pedantic and boring as possible

I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet

this mighty monster is actually a diademed king of the sea

I find these to hold great sophistication

Johnny Rocco:

My only thought regarding non-LOTR characters handling the One Ring is that the Road Runner would carry it without issue; whereas the minute Wile E. Coyote picked it up, all nine Nazgûl would descend upon him.

Burrhus is now up there with like zebulon and thaddeus on my short list of archaic names we should bring back

Lying is so awesome. Crafting reality is usually the provenance of gods and kings, but with one word, I can be the most interesting person at a party, the highest ranking person at a meeting or the least qualified person currently operating heavy machinery.

Also crazy bluesky doesnt own the domain name bsky.com

(Company in question is meta)

Facebook severely restricted the ability of Palestinian news outlets to reach an audience during the Israel-Gaza war, and Instagram increased its moderation of Palestinian user comments after October 2023.

the good feelings in the era of good feelings were just perpetual tipsiness

Don't forget the micro-asymmetrics, who are very much the invisible heroes of the Bluesky ecosystem. I may only have 100 followers, but I follow even fewer, tending towards that apotheosis of social media engagement: the poster with a single follower, who follows no-one at all. The Singularity.

Perhaps overly cynical but it really seems like the prevalence of close readings of great literature to understand society as a method in a lot of theory seems less due to it being a plausible method and more due to scholars liking to read great literature

incredible that bluesky does not own the domain name bluesky.com