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Your regular reminder to put your RPG character in a hat. No. A BIGGER hat.
January 14, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Your regular reminder to put your RPG character in a hat. No. A BIGGER hat.
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i can't explain it but this is what i feel like lately
January 8, 2026 at 4:17 PM
i can't explain it but this is what i feel like lately
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THUCYDIDES: In my book I invented the Melian Dialogue as a cautionary tale
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
The Melian Dialogue has a similar role to the Clausewitz quote about “politics by other means” - it exists to give a bit of frisson and even sexual pleasure to morons who have never read those quotes in context but who are still desperate to sound smart.
People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
January 7, 2026 at 4:12 AM
THUCYDIDES: In my book I invented the Melian Dialogue as a cautionary tale
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
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Avoiding my geopolitical anxiety by reading the Harvard Magazine obits, and damn this issue starts off with a banger
January 5, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Avoiding my geopolitical anxiety by reading the Harvard Magazine obits, and damn this issue starts off with a banger
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Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes
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It’s been selling for many decades unchanged, so it must have felt odd over the years for the priests in the pics, working through their long careers likely in Rome and seeing it for sale, frozen in time forever.
This is a three year old post about the priest calendar.
From the rome community on Reddit: "Calendar Romano"/hot priest calendar conspiracy theory; anyone have info on the crazy text at the end?
Explore this post and more from the rome community
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December 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It’s been selling for many decades unchanged, so it must have felt odd over the years for the priests in the pics, working through their long careers likely in Rome and seeing it for sale, frozen in time forever.
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how to dress for the trump kennedy center now that the armrests are made from cold hard marble
December 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
how to dress for the trump kennedy center now that the armrests are made from cold hard marble
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any sufficiently advanced catholicism is indistinguishable from witchcraft
December 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
any sufficiently advanced catholicism is indistinguishable from witchcraft
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
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And we need to revive 1930s beach pajamas. I would live in them all summer.
December 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM
And we need to revive 1930s beach pajamas. I would live in them all summer.
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Reverse hallmark movie where a small town guy goes to the city to spend Christmas with his family, and hits it off with a hard working business woman, realizes that public transit and ethnic food is amazing, and chooses to move there by New Year’s Eve.
December 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Reverse hallmark movie where a small town guy goes to the city to spend Christmas with his family, and hits it off with a hard working business woman, realizes that public transit and ethnic food is amazing, and chooses to move there by New Year’s Eve.
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For this relief much thanks. ’Tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.
And I am sick at heart.
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
For this relief much thanks. ’Tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.
And I am sick at heart.
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POV it’s 1958 and you set aside 3 hours for the Pyrex showroom
December 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
POV it’s 1958 and you set aside 3 hours for the Pyrex showroom
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you ever think about how buck wild it must have been to be the first European colonizer to see a hummingbird?
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
December 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
you ever think about how buck wild it must have been to be the first European colonizer to see a hummingbird?
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
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"if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course" is a fuckin all-timer.
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course" is a fuckin all-timer.
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but man, to have lived a life so that when you die and people look to your work to remember you, the thing they get to turn to is Arcadia? what a legacy.
November 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
but man, to have lived a life so that when you die and people look to your work to remember you, the thing they get to turn to is Arcadia? what a legacy.
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good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
Arizona pair celebrates decade of friendship that started with wrong text
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
www.azfamily.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
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I hate it when my family argues about politics at Thanksgiving. My Independent Dad is yelling at my Covenanter cousin for allying with the king while my Fifth Monarchist uncle keeps making cryptic pronouncements about the Book of Daniel, and here I am, a Leveller.
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I hate it when my family argues about politics at Thanksgiving. My Independent Dad is yelling at my Covenanter cousin for allying with the king while my Fifth Monarchist uncle keeps making cryptic pronouncements about the Book of Daniel, and here I am, a Leveller.
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You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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I do not want to create an account for a one-time purchase. Yes, I want a bag. Yes, I want a receipt, printed out, not emailed or texted. No, I will not download your app for future weak discounts.
Please just let me be a customer like it’s 1987
Please just let me be a customer like it’s 1987
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I do not want to create an account for a one-time purchase. Yes, I want a bag. Yes, I want a receipt, printed out, not emailed or texted. No, I will not download your app for future weak discounts.
Please just let me be a customer like it’s 1987
Please just let me be a customer like it’s 1987
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imagine finding a dead borrower
February 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
imagine finding a dead borrower