James Eel
@mentallyeel.bsky.social
If a man charge a man with sorcery, and cannot prove it, he who is charged with sorcery shall go to the river, into the river he shall throw himself and if the river overcome him, his accuser shall take to himself his house (estate).
Pinned
James Eel
@mentallyeel.bsky.social
· Dec 10
Got a bunch of extremely ancient rolls of film developed so I can start fresh and this one that must be from ~2013 shot on a camera with a severe light leak came out kind of cool.
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CARTOON/CRIMSON1.GIF
August 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
CARTOON/CRIMSON1.GIF
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May 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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When I was in grad school the academic job market was already awful and we'd discuss survival strategies. One such strategy was "Have a position so thoroughly refuted in the discipline that you're the only person who still espouses it - that way you're the [thing] guy and will always be notable."
Note to fellow journos: If only one "economist" agrees w Trump tariffs—as evidenced by fact that this particular "economist" is now being interviewed and cited everywhere as only "expert" willing to publicly defend them—consider confirming that he's actually an "economist." Check CVs, for example.
April 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
When I was in grad school the academic job market was already awful and we'd discuss survival strategies. One such strategy was "Have a position so thoroughly refuted in the discipline that you're the only person who still espouses it - that way you're the [thing] guy and will always be notable."
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Stanley Spencer, Turkeys, 1925 #artbots #tate
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113733
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113733
April 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Stanley Spencer, Turkeys, 1925 #artbots #tate
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113733
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113733
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"This art project is a single grafted tree that produces 40 varieties of apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, and other stone fruits."
what!
www.popsci.com/environment/...
what!
www.popsci.com/environment/...
A tree with 40 different fruits planted in Philadelphia
Move over, Liberty Bell.
www.popsci.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"This art project is a single grafted tree that produces 40 varieties of apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, and other stone fruits."
what!
www.popsci.com/environment/...
what!
www.popsci.com/environment/...
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if i eat the balls of the tiger it will make me strong like the tiger
March 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
if i eat the balls of the tiger it will make me strong like the tiger
JUDGE COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Is there a text in this class?
JUDGE COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Is there an administrator of DOGE at the present time?
GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I don’t know the answer to that
GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I don’t know the answer to that
Preliminary injunction hearing at 2 p.m. today on DOGE access to Treasury records
Will Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly accept the challenge????
Will we finally learn the identity of the DOGE administrator?????
Stay tuned
Will Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly accept the challenge????
Will we finally learn the identity of the DOGE administrator?????
Stay tuned
February 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
JUDGE COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Is there a text in this class?
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I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.
I used to think it was like a funny joke in The Sims that in their fictional world you improve your "Charisma" score by going up to a mirror and practicing Hitler gestures but people apparently are trying to apply this technique IRL.
i dont know if people are catching it but uh… the destiny in the gutter comment is another napoleon allusion
Jack Posobiec told CPAC that Trump is not violating the Constitution because "Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution."
February 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I used to think it was like a funny joke in The Sims that in their fictional world you improve your "Charisma" score by going up to a mirror and practicing Hitler gestures but people apparently are trying to apply this technique IRL.
Legalize it.
Supreme Court of New Mexico Reverses Murder Conviction With Prejudice Because Prosecutor Called the Defendant a Witch Who Controlled Her Husband With Menstrual Blood: tinyurl.com/5exm8w2
a woman in a black dress is standing in front of a crowd of people holding weapons .
ALT: a woman in a black dress is standing in front of a crowd of people holding weapons .
media.tenor.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Legalize it.
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Tea Party organizers wrote guides distributed through Google Groups on how exactly to interrupt town halls and get irate. It only took a few people acting inappropriately to get the crowd moving. They moved clips quickly to outlets. These people were coached and encouraged and eventually funded!
February 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Tea Party organizers wrote guides distributed through Google Groups on how exactly to interrupt town halls and get irate. It only took a few people acting inappropriately to get the crowd moving. They moved clips quickly to outlets. These people were coached and encouraged and eventually funded!
I sort of wish this thing was called something else.
REM vows recent issues with service won’t happen again next winter https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article766941.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky
REM vows recent issues with service won’t happen again next winter
www.montrealgazette.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I sort of wish this thing was called something else.
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Not really convinced this will hold but one thing's for sure: it would be very, very funny.
From The Angus Reid Institute: Mark Carney draws voters from the whole spectrum, pulls LPC upwards into statistical tie with Poilievre's Conservatives.
February 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Not really convinced this will hold but one thing's for sure: it would be very, very funny.
Someone IRL with Fox Mulder's views and habits and professional situation today IRL would be such a complete intolerable asshole that you have to conclude that he as a character basically has the disposition of a saint.
In light of Breaking Bad guy wanting a return to genuinely admirable protagonists, what is your favorite example of one? I’d argue Picard from TNG is a really strong example in that he isn’t infallible but is unrelentingly concerned with the moral costs of decisions and the power placed in his hands
February 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Someone IRL with Fox Mulder's views and habits and professional situation today IRL would be such a complete intolerable asshole that you have to conclude that he as a character basically has the disposition of a saint.
It's seems insane that you can run out of matches. Once you buy one of those huge boxes of matches you should have infinite matches, or at least a non-zero chance of finding a match lying around if you look hard enough.
February 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It's seems insane that you can run out of matches. Once you buy one of those huge boxes of matches you should have infinite matches, or at least a non-zero chance of finding a match lying around if you look hard enough.
Commuting about an hour earlier than I normally do and it's really really alarming how reflexive and mentally absent people are while driving.
January 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Commuting about an hour earlier than I normally do and it's really really alarming how reflexive and mentally absent people are while driving.
I don't know how accurate this is but it does make me want to revisit some Weber.
favorite examples of this is from weber talking about how limited absolute monarchies are in the face of the bureaucracies they construct
January 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I don't know how accurate this is but it does make me want to revisit some Weber.
Before we do anything rash like decide between charging 40$ or 50$ in shipping fees on a 10,000$ order, let's make sure we all say every possible permutation of every possible grammatical sentence of English about this topic.
January 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Before we do anything rash like decide between charging 40$ or 50$ in shipping fees on a 10,000$ order, let's make sure we all say every possible permutation of every possible grammatical sentence of English about this topic.
Something interesting to ponder is whether the interior of this building smelled more like cigarettes when it was the French pavilion in at Expo 67 or after it was turned into a casino.
Casino de Montréal (formerly Quebec and France Pavilions during Expo 67) r/brutalism
January 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Something interesting to ponder is whether the interior of this building smelled more like cigarettes when it was the French pavilion in at Expo 67 or after it was turned into a casino.
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No shade on Rick P. but I think having Nixon as the initial lens through which I encountered the set of mental reflexes driving American conservatism mislead me into thinking there was a lot more interesting neurotic complexity going on at the top than there usually is.
My father got to have Richard Nixon as an enemy. A shithead, but a figure that could be dissected and maybe understood in his own way. We all get failed influencer rich kids who are mad they can't say slurs. God, just give me an interesting enemy.
January 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
No shade on Rick P. but I think having Nixon as the initial lens through which I encountered the set of mental reflexes driving American conservatism mislead me into thinking there was a lot more interesting neurotic complexity going on at the top than there usually is.
There is real power in typing out the meanest post you can conceive of and then deleting it. The leaves avoid me, I don't have to cut them.
January 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
There is real power in typing out the meanest post you can conceive of and then deleting it. The leaves avoid me, I don't have to cut them.
When people tell me my posture is weird I've been saying "That's what they told Glenn Gould and look what he accomplished." But I've noticed that lately I've been getting a lot of shooting pains in my back so I looked it up and apparently he wound up with debilitating spinal issues. So what the fuck
January 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
When people tell me my posture is weird I've been saying "That's what they told Glenn Gould and look what he accomplished." But I've noticed that lately I've been getting a lot of shooting pains in my back so I looked it up and apparently he wound up with debilitating spinal issues. So what the fuck