Dave, Aspiring Peasant
@aspiringpeasant.com
"fundamentally too earnest" Wendell-Berry-Pilled father+husband. Compoasting, gardening, Christopher Alexander and Antoine de Saint-Exupery. SOF veteran.
My wife to my children:
“Your father is not drunk, he’s just weird”
“Your father is not drunk, he’s just weird”
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
My wife to my children:
“Your father is not drunk, he’s just weird”
“Your father is not drunk, he’s just weird”
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i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*
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Fuck, just saw a dude say "if corporate dems found a genie they'd negotiate down to one wish then wish for something they think the Republicans would like"
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Fuck, just saw a dude say "if corporate dems found a genie they'd negotiate down to one wish then wish for something they think the Republicans would like"
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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So here's where we are, Sunday morning:
Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.
So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.
Dystopian.
Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.
So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.
Dystopian.
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
So here's where we are, Sunday morning:
Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.
So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.
Dystopian.
Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.
So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.
Dystopian.
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Toying with the idea of a two-month internet-cleanse.
Creating more spaciousness in mind-heart-soul and instead of scratching my itch to communicate by tweeting, putting myself into some long-delayed writing projects that seem to be blocking whatever comes next.
Creating more spaciousness in mind-heart-soul and instead of scratching my itch to communicate by tweeting, putting myself into some long-delayed writing projects that seem to be blocking whatever comes next.
November 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Toying with the idea of a two-month internet-cleanse.
Creating more spaciousness in mind-heart-soul and instead of scratching my itch to communicate by tweeting, putting myself into some long-delayed writing projects that seem to be blocking whatever comes next.
Creating more spaciousness in mind-heart-soul and instead of scratching my itch to communicate by tweeting, putting myself into some long-delayed writing projects that seem to be blocking whatever comes next.
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Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
My kids will not let this happen
Imagine going to sleep tonight at a decent time.
November 5, 2025 at 5:36 AM
My kids will not let this happen
Good lord it is beautiful here today
November 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Good lord it is beautiful here today
Why is it always "Christians" celebrating the misery of their neighbors?
November 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Why is it always "Christians" celebrating the misery of their neighbors?
America 2025:
Where Free Little Libraries have to do double duty as Free Little Pantries because so many of our neighbors are about to go hungry.
Where Free Little Libraries have to do double duty as Free Little Pantries because so many of our neighbors are about to go hungry.
November 1, 2025 at 5:33 AM
America 2025:
Where Free Little Libraries have to do double duty as Free Little Pantries because so many of our neighbors are about to go hungry.
Where Free Little Libraries have to do double duty as Free Little Pantries because so many of our neighbors are about to go hungry.
Wednesday has been gone for a month now but she boosted me in my dream last night and I miss her a lot today.
October 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Wednesday has been gone for a month now but she boosted me in my dream last night and I miss her a lot today.
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It could have been so much easier, Dave, if you had let nature take it's course. 🤣
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It could have been so much easier, Dave, if you had let nature take it's course. 🤣
This is important
🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
October 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This is important
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The end result is what we’re seeing in the U.S. - a democracy struggling to function because its institutions are trapped in disordered discourse. Governance isn’t about solving problems; it’s about demonstrating loyalty to manufactured narratives.
February 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The end result is what we’re seeing in the U.S. - a democracy struggling to function because its institutions are trapped in disordered discourse. Governance isn’t about solving problems; it’s about demonstrating loyalty to manufactured narratives.
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We’re living through a fundamental shift in how discourse is created. Institutions once shaped a shared reality through discourse - imperfectly, but with structure. Now, that reality has splintered. In its place, engagement-driven ecosystems amplify whatever resonates, truth optional.
February 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
We’re living through a fundamental shift in how discourse is created. Institutions once shaped a shared reality through discourse - imperfectly, but with structure. Now, that reality has splintered. In its place, engagement-driven ecosystems amplify whatever resonates, truth optional.
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America is not unique. Any democracy can fall to state capture by disordered discourse if there’s no systematic response. This isn’t something we can fact-check our way out of - it’s deeper than misinformation. It’s about power, identity, and the narratives that shape reality itself.
February 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
America is not unique. Any democracy can fall to state capture by disordered discourse if there’s no systematic response. This isn’t something we can fact-check our way out of - it’s deeper than misinformation. It’s about power, identity, and the narratives that shape reality itself.
We carved (homegrown) pumpkins last night!
October 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We carved (homegrown) pumpkins last night!
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Are we living through the dumbest collapse of a major world power in history?
The chief of naval research, an admiral, has been replaced by a 33 year old DOGE staffer www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...
SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr
The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.
www.thebulwark.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Are we living through the dumbest collapse of a major world power in history?
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If I were Hispanic or Latino I would simply start wearing combat fatigues and a mask everywhere.
Haha oh god this is terrible.
Haha oh god this is terrible.
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If I were Hispanic or Latino I would simply start wearing combat fatigues and a mask everywhere.
Haha oh god this is terrible.
Haha oh god this is terrible.
TFW your boy *really* knows and loves you.
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
TFW your boy *really* knows and loves you.