Apophatically
@apophatically.bsky.social
Orthodox Christian ☦️ Anti-Fascist, TTRPG Nerd, Leftist
During the end of Lent last year I kinda gave up and was just eating roasted sweet potatoes, not a good idea.
oh I had a friend who lived off potatoes for six months *while pregnant* which was not a great idea, but she was very poor. she married the man who bought her a large fish*
*there is so much more to this story
*there is so much more to this story
I had a prof who once explained his college era food budget to be a large bag of potatoes. He would just eat (at least) one whole microwaved potato daily. Until he got a decent paying job.
We all laughed our asses off but that is 1000% more sensible than whatever the fresh hell this is
We all laughed our asses off but that is 1000% more sensible than whatever the fresh hell this is
January 31, 2026 at 1:29 AM
During the end of Lent last year I kinda gave up and was just eating roasted sweet potatoes, not a good idea.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
Critical Race Theory (I actually studied CRT and wrote a published paper about it and Afrofuturism)
African American and African Diaspora
Art History (In Florence)
European Politics (Also in Florence)
CIS 311 (Learned SQL)
Critical Race Theory (I actually studied CRT and wrote a published paper about it and Afrofuturism)
African American and African Diaspora
Art History (In Florence)
European Politics (Also in Florence)
CIS 311 (Learned SQL)
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Calc II
Irish drama
Bertolt Brecht auf deutsch
Poetry writing
Race in America
Calc II
Irish drama
Bertolt Brecht auf deutsch
Poetry writing
Race in America
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
Political philosophy
Women’s studies
Sociology of education
Psychoanalysis
Water polo
Political philosophy
Women’s studies
Sociology of education
Psychoanalysis
Water polo
January 30, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
Critical Race Theory (I actually studied CRT and wrote a published paper about it and Afrofuturism)
African American and African Diaspora
Art History (In Florence)
European Politics (Also in Florence)
CIS 311 (Learned SQL)
Critical Race Theory (I actually studied CRT and wrote a published paper about it and Afrofuturism)
African American and African Diaspora
Art History (In Florence)
European Politics (Also in Florence)
CIS 311 (Learned SQL)
Everyone thinks they're in The Battle of Algiers but they're actually Bob from One Battle After Another laying on his couch watching The Battle of Algiers.
Yep. Our PTA chat is a WhatsApp group so that's where the organizing is happening. The entire point is that we are organizing openly by the thousands, not that we're building secret resistance cells by the 5s and 10s
Multiple people have told me "They should use Signal instead"
Folks.
No one is posting home addresses here.
And "Fed agents infiltrated/subpoena'd the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School PTA discord" is the kind of headline that generates exactly the response in voters that you want
Folks.
No one is posting home addresses here.
And "Fed agents infiltrated/subpoena'd the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School PTA discord" is the kind of headline that generates exactly the response in voters that you want
January 30, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Everyone thinks they're in The Battle of Algiers but they're actually Bob from One Battle After Another laying on his couch watching The Battle of Algiers.
When I was working at 911 I would get at least one call like this a shift. I once had an individual call in because they thought a restaurant wasn't busy enough so it must be a front for selling drugs.
Please remember that everyone you see online or meet on the bus etc. who is telling you about how Tom Hanks has tapped their phone because they've figured out the truth about how he drinks adrenochrome is also sending this to the police, the government, the local news, etc. all the time.
January 30, 2026 at 8:13 PM
When I was working at 911 I would get at least one call like this a shift. I once had an individual call in because they thought a restaurant wasn't busy enough so it must be a front for selling drugs.
I just finished reading a book on the American founding and lots of people talk about anti-Irish & anti-Italian racism but there were people pre-Revolution who talked about how Anglo-Saxons were inferior to the Normans. It is all about hierarchy with these people, which is made up!
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I just finished reading a book on the American founding and lots of people talk about anti-Irish & anti-Italian racism but there were people pre-Revolution who talked about how Anglo-Saxons were inferior to the Normans. It is all about hierarchy with these people, which is made up!
I will say one of the things I miss about D&D is the tactical combat. I'm starting a Daggerheart campaign soon and am sitting here calculating damage tables to get the combat balance just right. I'm really hoping that Daggerheart is just the right balance between narrative & mechanics.
January 30, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I will say one of the things I miss about D&D is the tactical combat. I'm starting a Daggerheart campaign soon and am sitting here calculating damage tables to get the combat balance just right. I'm really hoping that Daggerheart is just the right balance between narrative & mechanics.
Rod expecting a random nurse to know who he is is almost as funny as him expecting the Pope to know who he is
lol Rod Dreher is ascared of nurses because of Minneapolis. Maybe this will begin his transformation to a full anti-vaxxer!
January 30, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Rod expecting a random nurse to know who he is is almost as funny as him expecting the Pope to know who he is
Leftist who talk about opsec & burner phones are our equivalent of Reactionaries wearing tacticool gear. Be safe & watch out for each other. Don’t be the French 75 from One Battle After Another. Be Sensei Sergio.
Everyone stop saying opsec right now
January 30, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Leftist who talk about opsec & burner phones are our equivalent of Reactionaries wearing tacticool gear. Be safe & watch out for each other. Don’t be the French 75 from One Battle After Another. Be Sensei Sergio.
A friend sent this to me and I nearly died laughing
January 29, 2026 at 11:24 PM
A friend sent this to me and I nearly died laughing
My current board game obsession is The Old King's Crown by Eerie Idol Games. A lane battling, bidding game, with tactical elements. It is gorgeous and the same person did the art and game design. Check it out www.eerieidolgames.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:14 PM
My current board game obsession is The Old King's Crown by Eerie Idol Games. A lane battling, bidding game, with tactical elements. It is gorgeous and the same person did the art and game design. Check it out www.eerieidolgames.com
His guest claimed that it is impossible to determine if systemic racism exists because you can’t have a control group of individuals who aren’t experiencing systemic racism. This is the brilliant mind in charge of deciding which scientist get funding.
Extremely on brand for Douthat to bring on the guy who is demolishing American science research to whine about public trust in science.
January 29, 2026 at 3:07 PM
His guest claimed that it is impossible to determine if systemic racism exists because you can’t have a control group of individuals who aren’t experiencing systemic racism. This is the brilliant mind in charge of deciding which scientist get funding.
I've been listening to this English version of Bella Ciao on repeat all day while shoveling snow and it is a total banger.
"Someday the people who pick the flowers and they will remember my name."
Renee Good and Alex Pretti
"Someday the people who pick the flowers and they will remember my name."
Renee Good and Alex Pretti
January 29, 2026 at 1:02 AM
I've been listening to this English version of Bella Ciao on repeat all day while shoveling snow and it is a total banger.
"Someday the people who pick the flowers and they will remember my name."
Renee Good and Alex Pretti
"Someday the people who pick the flowers and they will remember my name."
Renee Good and Alex Pretti
Reactionaries like PEG's only true belief is hierarchy, there must be out groups and an in group. Every reactionary thinks if they were back in feudal times they would be a lord or at least a knight and not a serf. They cannot comprehend those of us who actually want equality with others.
January 29, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Reactionaries like PEG's only true belief is hierarchy, there must be out groups and an in group. Every reactionary thinks if they were back in feudal times they would be a lord or at least a knight and not a serf. They cannot comprehend those of us who actually want equality with others.
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“What if your neighbor is Muslim”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Somali”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor speaks Spanish”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Hmong”
They’re my neighbors
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Somali”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor speaks Spanish”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Hmong”
They’re my neighbors
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 AM
“What if your neighbor is Muslim”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Somali”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor speaks Spanish”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Hmong”
They’re my neighbors
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Somali”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor speaks Spanish”
They’re my neighbor
“What if your neighbor is Hmong”
They’re my neighbors
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We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
This reminds me of a post in the same genre where the person was like "The Confederate Army was better but the Union had more manufacturing, more railways, more manpower, and better logistics." These guys think a military is measured by how many pull-ups they can do and not logistics.
January 28, 2026 at 9:51 PM
This reminds me of a post in the same genre where the person was like "The Confederate Army was better but the Union had more manufacturing, more railways, more manpower, and better logistics." These guys think a military is measured by how many pull-ups they can do and not logistics.
I'm in the middle of America, América by Greg Grandin. A timely book about the influence Latin America has had on the United States. An excellent companion to American Nations by Colin Woodard that explores the distinct cultures that shaped North America. The past affects the present.
what are we reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaading?
January 27, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I'm in the middle of America, América by Greg Grandin. A timely book about the influence Latin America has had on the United States. An excellent companion to American Nations by Colin Woodard that explores the distinct cultures that shaped North America. The past affects the present.
There is absolutely no reason for these guys to be wearing camo in an urban environment beyond LARPing as military personnel. This is the Right’s version of gender affirming care, wearing clothes that make you feel more masculine as you abuse others.
January 26, 2026 at 2:37 AM
There is absolutely no reason for these guys to be wearing camo in an urban environment beyond LARPing as military personnel. This is the Right’s version of gender affirming care, wearing clothes that make you feel more masculine as you abuse others.
My family are life long Broncos fans, I was 12 they won back to back Super Bowls and they were highlights of my childhood. I haven’t been watching as much sports lately but I’m watching the Patriots & Broncos game today.
January 25, 2026 at 8:40 PM
My family are life long Broncos fans, I was 12 they won back to back Super Bowls and they were highlights of my childhood. I haven’t been watching as much sports lately but I’m watching the Patriots & Broncos game today.
This is the first thing she's said that I believe. As we learned from Udvale law enforcement fear everything and everyone & will refuse to take on actual armed individuals with less than 1000 to 1 numbers.
DOOCY: If he was disarmed, is it protocol to use deadly force?
KRISTI NOEM: That's all part of this investigation. They clearly feared for their lives.
KRISTI NOEM: That's all part of this investigation. They clearly feared for their lives.
January 25, 2026 at 4:25 PM
This is the first thing she's said that I believe. As we learned from Udvale law enforcement fear everything and everyone & will refuse to take on actual armed individuals with less than 1000 to 1 numbers.
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look, you've got the Romneyist Pokemon account Bella Ciao posting
January 25, 2026 at 4:03 PM
look, you've got the Romneyist Pokemon account Bella Ciao posting
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Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
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ICE is executing protesters the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
January 24, 2026 at 7:08 PM
ICE is executing protesters the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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I would treat any statement from a US government source at this point as about as trustworthy as the Russian government or any other modern authoritarian regime.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
I would treat any statement from a US government source at this point as about as trustworthy as the Russian government or any other modern authoritarian regime.
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JD Vance is about to get on camera and worship Satan with an offering of lies.
January 24, 2026 at 4:13 PM
JD Vance is about to get on camera and worship Satan with an offering of lies.