Eric Linus Kaplan
@ericlinuskaplan.bsky.social
Podcast "Terrifying Questions and How not to be Terrified by Them" -- book"Does Santa Exist?" -- tv shows-- Flight of the Conchords, Futurama, Big Bang Theory, Malcom in the Middle, Krapopolis &c.! blog ericlinuskaplan.wordpress.com He/Him
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Autumnal Read: @zacharyherz.bsky.social *The God and the Bureaucrat.*
Written with great verve and infused with far more humor than one expects or deserves to find in a tome about Roman law.
Written with great verve and infused with far more humor than one expects or deserves to find in a tome about Roman law.
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"I said you will be like G-d knowing good and evil. Not like G-d living forever or powerful or stuff. I mean everything is like everything if you think about it. Jeez." -- The Nachash
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"I said you will be like G-d knowing good and evil. Not like G-d living forever or powerful or stuff. I mean everything is like everything if you think about it. Jeez." -- The Nachash
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A legacy of equality: Revisiting the Highlander Folk School and its role in the American civil rights movement | Mark I. Pinsky
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November 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
A legacy of equality: Revisiting the Highlander Folk School and its role in the American civil rights movement | Mark I. Pinsky
thehill.com/opinion/civi... | @thehill.com
thehill.com/opinion/civi... | @thehill.com
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So for the final post in my blog series on indigenous voices from whom I've thankful, one crucial way Ned Blackhawk's vital book revises our collective stories, & one small but beautiful way! @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social
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November 28, 2025: Indigenous Voices: Ned Blackhawk – Black and White and Read All Over
[Thanksgiving is a hugely fraught holiday for us AmericanStudiers, but I also have a ton I’m thankful for. So this year I wanted to combine those two perspectives by highlighting indigenous voices, pa...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
So for the final post in my blog series on indigenous voices from whom I've thankful, one crucial way Ned Blackhawk's vital book revises our collective stories, & one small but beautiful way! @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social
blackwhiteandread.com/november-28-...
blackwhiteandread.com/november-28-...
I would like the human washing machines to be installed at a laundromat so I can wash myself and my clothes in a single trip
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I would like the human washing machines to be installed at a laundromat so I can wash myself and my clothes in a single trip
Bravo Mr. Strauss by George Pal = pretty great
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Bravo Mr. Strauss by George Pal = pretty great
have any of you tried honey from other, non-bee insects?
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
have any of you tried honey from other, non-bee insects?
when we say a dog does a trick, by, for example sitting, or lying down and rolling over, or giving a paw -- who is being tricked?
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
when we say a dog does a trick, by, for example sitting, or lying down and rolling over, or giving a paw -- who is being tricked?
I'm a big wizard of oz fan, and a former member of IWOC -- the International Wizard of Oz Club. I have not kept up with the Wicked franchise -- , but I was intrigued to learn that it posits that the wicked witch of the west and scarecrow were lovers! Did he have genitals? I think his body is a sack.
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I'm a big wizard of oz fan, and a former member of IWOC -- the International Wizard of Oz Club. I have not kept up with the Wicked franchise -- , but I was intrigued to learn that it posits that the wicked witch of the west and scarecrow were lovers! Did he have genitals? I think his body is a sack.
Mister Labacque -- Maybe you should go to RUSSIA!!!
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Mister Labacque -- Maybe you should go to RUSSIA!!!
Happy Thanks Day from the Roanoke School of Industrial Bed Wetters
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Happy Thanks Day from the Roanoke School of Industrial Bed Wetters
what is the best vegetarian Cook-Book?
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
what is the best vegetarian Cook-Book?
where are you all on the Moosewood Cook-Book?
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
where are you all on the Moosewood Cook-Book?
FOMO Fondness Of Meddlesome Otters
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
FOMO Fondness Of Meddlesome Otters
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there are two kinds of Great Books lists:
(1) "you need to read 28 books by Aristotle including 'On the Gait of Animals' and maybe 7 books published after 1700"
(2) "start with the classics: the Divine Comedy, Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code"
(1) "you need to read 28 books by Aristotle including 'On the Gait of Animals' and maybe 7 books published after 1700"
(2) "start with the classics: the Divine Comedy, Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code"
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
there are two kinds of Great Books lists:
(1) "you need to read 28 books by Aristotle including 'On the Gait of Animals' and maybe 7 books published after 1700"
(2) "start with the classics: the Divine Comedy, Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code"
(1) "you need to read 28 books by Aristotle including 'On the Gait of Animals' and maybe 7 books published after 1700"
(2) "start with the classics: the Divine Comedy, Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code"
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
mutatis mutonsils
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
mutatis mutonsils
who said "there are normal people, strange people, strange people trying to be normal, and normal people trying to be strange"?
I attribute it to my brother Flippy's friend.
I attribute it to my brother Flippy's friend.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
who said "there are normal people, strange people, strange people trying to be normal, and normal people trying to be strange"?
I attribute it to my brother Flippy's friend.
I attribute it to my brother Flippy's friend.
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I love finding random and unexpected vinyls. At the back it says “The music heard here, recorded in Anzahar, Olukman, and Tülünk villages in the province of Sivas in south-eastern Turkey...” 1972 USA release
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I love finding random and unexpected vinyls. At the back it says “The music heard here, recorded in Anzahar, Olukman, and Tülünk villages in the province of Sivas in south-eastern Turkey...” 1972 USA release
are any of you fans of Barnaby Jones?
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
are any of you fans of Barnaby Jones?
who is better: David Brin or Vernor Vinge?
November 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
who is better: David Brin or Vernor Vinge?
@amendlocke.bsky.social I loved the Stone Canal
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
@amendlocke.bsky.social I loved the Stone Canal
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People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
every time Gavrilo Princip fired his gun he started world war 1
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
every time Gavrilo Princip fired his gun he started world war 1