Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat
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Leave it to Naomi Novik to take what starts off feeling a lot like a cliched "OP Mary Sue tsundere dark Harry Potter fanfiction” and suddenly wrench it into a commentary on privilege, class struggle, isolationism, and how societies evolve structural incentives that perpetuate horrible inequality.
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Leave it to Naomi Novik to take what starts off feeling a lot like a cliched "OP Mary Sue tsundere dark Harry Potter fanfiction” and suddenly wrench it into a commentary on privilege, class struggle, isolationism, and how societies evolve structural incentives that perpetuate horrible inequality.
Important Chicago winter storm pupdate: morale remains high as the first few hours pass and the snow falls. Good smells still abound, and it's not SO cold that toe beans are frozen.
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Important Chicago winter storm pupdate: morale remains high as the first few hours pass and the snow falls. Good smells still abound, and it's not SO cold that toe beans are frozen.
My pup is curled up against my back and started doing sleep woofles and R.I.P. me 😭
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
My pup is curled up against my back and started doing sleep woofles and R.I.P. me 😭
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The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
Not a fucking dollar to them until the entire crew responsible for this is out and the new university administration has apologized and repudiated (and committed to $75m of additional funding to academic programs to repair and redress the damage done)
Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75 million as a part of a deal with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions in federal funding www.justice.gov/opa/pr/unite...
November 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Not a fucking dollar to them until the entire crew responsible for this is out and the new university administration has apologized and repudiated (and committed to $75m of additional funding to academic programs to repair and redress the damage done)
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To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
I’m more convinced than ever that the market is where it is solely because of magical thinking.
This is the “rational” position of people who are so far gone down the fever dream of technoutopia (for them, anyway) that they’ve lost all concept of reality.
This is the “rational” position of people who are so far gone down the fever dream of technoutopia (for them, anyway) that they’ve lost all concept of reality.
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I’m more convinced than ever that the market is where it is solely because of magical thinking.
This is the “rational” position of people who are so far gone down the fever dream of technoutopia (for them, anyway) that they’ve lost all concept of reality.
This is the “rational” position of people who are so far gone down the fever dream of technoutopia (for them, anyway) that they’ve lost all concept of reality.
"Never mind the bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols."
"That's Numberwang!"
November 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"Never mind the bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols."
Nuremberg Part 2 is the moderate option
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Nuremberg Part 2 is the moderate option
"I still don't understand why I had to be tormented with a bath...it wasn't even THAT much poop I got on your bedsheets from my dirty butt..."
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"I still don't understand why I had to be tormented with a bath...it wasn't even THAT much poop I got on your bedsheets from my dirty butt..."
I feel like all I can do anymore is just mutter "those motherfuckers" to everything this disgusting administration and party does.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I feel like all I can do anymore is just mutter "those motherfuckers" to everything this disgusting administration and party does.
I am BEGGING for a necromancer to raise Helen Thomas from the dead so she can dismember all of these disgraces
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I am BEGGING for a necromancer to raise Helen Thomas from the dead so she can dismember all of these disgraces
For a small fee, I will sneak in to your enemy grad student’s dissertation defense for a hard science PhD and do nothing but repeat “Could you go into a little more detail on this?” for a few subjects until they’re deriving entirely new fields of science on the fly.
For a small fee, I will go to your historian enemy’s seminar presentation and say “I guess I’m just wondering what the “so what” of this paper is?”
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
For a small fee, I will sneak in to your enemy grad student’s dissertation defense for a hard science PhD and do nothing but repeat “Could you go into a little more detail on this?” for a few subjects until they’re deriving entirely new fields of science on the fly.
After all this is past, remember: justice is the ideal.
Vengeance is also acceptable, though.
Vengeance is also acceptable, though.
I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
After all this is past, remember: justice is the ideal.
Vengeance is also acceptable, though.
Vengeance is also acceptable, though.
Just came across this, which I feel is a contender for best movie poster of all time.
Just bringing peak “Michael Caine playing it as serious as a heart attack in ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol’” energy.
Just bringing peak “Michael Caine playing it as serious as a heart attack in ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol’” energy.
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Just came across this, which I feel is a contender for best movie poster of all time.
Just bringing peak “Michael Caine playing it as serious as a heart attack in ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol’” energy.
Just bringing peak “Michael Caine playing it as serious as a heart attack in ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol’” energy.
So how often do you think Scott Kelly brings up that he has almost ten times the duration in space than his twin, Mark?
Like, does he try to make Mark go sit at the kids’ table at Thanksgiving? Is it “Most time in space gets shotgun!” when they go somewhere?
Like, does he try to make Mark go sit at the kids’ table at Thanksgiving? Is it “Most time in space gets shotgun!” when they go somewhere?
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
So how often do you think Scott Kelly brings up that he has almost ten times the duration in space than his twin, Mark?
Like, does he try to make Mark go sit at the kids’ table at Thanksgiving? Is it “Most time in space gets shotgun!” when they go somewhere?
Like, does he try to make Mark go sit at the kids’ table at Thanksgiving? Is it “Most time in space gets shotgun!” when they go somewhere?
I don’t WANT to be kicked in the head, but if I must, I want to be kicked in the head by someone with absolutely impeccable drip
www.instagram.com/p/DQxSUt3CECx/
www.instagram.com/p/DQxSUt3CECx/
Master.FunkySoul aKa Dr.Feelgood on Instagram: "TWIST KICK TUTORIAL !
#taekwondo #ootd #fyp #viral"
410K likes, 5,040 comments - mr.funkys0ul on November 7, 2025: "TWIST KICK TUTORIAL !
#taekwondo #ootd #fyp #viral".
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November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I don’t WANT to be kicked in the head, but if I must, I want to be kicked in the head by someone with absolutely impeccable drip
www.instagram.com/p/DQxSUt3CECx/
www.instagram.com/p/DQxSUt3CECx/
It can't be overstated how illegitimate the current Roberts court is, not just from McConnell's theft of a seat, but the lawless, anti-Constitutional rulings they're publishing, have indelibly stained the court.
The level of capital-R reconstruction needed for government is incomprehensible.
The level of capital-R reconstruction needed for government is incomprehensible.
District court judges are engaged in a bipartisan project of [forgive me] actually calling balls and strikes. Republican circuit judges are largely going full-tilt partisan.
Stats as of last month:
courtaccountability.substack.com/p/where-law-...
Stats as of last month:
courtaccountability.substack.com/p/where-law-...
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It can't be overstated how illegitimate the current Roberts court is, not just from McConnell's theft of a seat, but the lawless, anti-Constitutional rulings they're publishing, have indelibly stained the court.
The level of capital-R reconstruction needed for government is incomprehensible.
The level of capital-R reconstruction needed for government is incomprehensible.
This is EXACTLY like "The Nine Billion Names of God." Set your affairs in order, people.
For one moment, all was right with the world.
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This is EXACTLY like "The Nine Billion Names of God." Set your affairs in order, people.
Some say “Lobster Nativity Scene”
I say “Christaceans”
I say “Christaceans”
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Some say “Lobster Nativity Scene”
I say “Christaceans”
I say “Christaceans”
European colonialism and its legacy.
Not because I think he's going to do the best job of all the possible documentations, but because it (a) would be decent, but (b) more importantly, would bring the subject into the popular domain.
Not because I think he's going to do the best job of all the possible documentations, but because it (a) would be decent, but (b) more importantly, would bring the subject into the popular domain.
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
European colonialism and its legacy.
Not because I think he's going to do the best job of all the possible documentations, but because it (a) would be decent, but (b) more importantly, would bring the subject into the popular domain.
Not because I think he's going to do the best job of all the possible documentations, but because it (a) would be decent, but (b) more importantly, would bring the subject into the popular domain.
Hey, quick question: how the fuck are we already almost through 2025?
This year has been simultaneously eternal and transient.
This year has been simultaneously eternal and transient.
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Hey, quick question: how the fuck are we already almost through 2025?
This year has been simultaneously eternal and transient.
This year has been simultaneously eternal and transient.
@nomads.bsky.social, the Khan has studied war by pondering the messages of the stars, and has achieved wisdom and enlightenment!
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
@nomads.bsky.social, the Khan has studied war by pondering the messages of the stars, and has achieved wisdom and enlightenment!
Fucking DO IT. I dare you. I double dog-dare you.
It would be incredible watching them try to prosecute a sitting Senator for *checks notes* telling soldiers they don’t have to obey illegal orders.
It would be incredible watching them try to prosecute a sitting Senator for *checks notes* telling soldiers they don’t have to obey illegal orders.
Extraordinary step. Pentagon, under pretext of "good order and discipline", threatens to recall to duty and court-martial Senator Mark Kelly, a retired naval officer, after he recorded a video telling troops they could refuse illegal orders. Dangerous & authoritarian.
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/11/...
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/11/...
Sen. Mark Kelly faces Pentagon investigation for making video on refusing 'unlawful orders'
The Defense Department suggested that the investigation of the Arizona Democrat Kelly stems from urging military members to refuse to follow unlawful orders.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Fucking DO IT. I dare you. I double dog-dare you.
It would be incredible watching them try to prosecute a sitting Senator for *checks notes* telling soldiers they don’t have to obey illegal orders.
It would be incredible watching them try to prosecute a sitting Senator for *checks notes* telling soldiers they don’t have to obey illegal orders.
What in the Everloving Fuck is THAT, Charlie Brown?
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain, Charlie Brown.
You're too short for that gesture, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
What in the Everloving Fuck is THAT, Charlie Brown?