There are a lot of reasons why fertility rates are declining in much of the world, but also, no one has ever been more right than Adorno was in that one passage in Minima Moralia that everyone quotes. medium.com/@hrnews1/new-s…
October 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There are a lot of reasons why fertility rates are declining in much of the world, but also, no one has ever been more right than Adorno was in that one passage in Minima Moralia that everyone quotes. medium.com/@hrnews1/new-s…
Every year on this day, my mother posts on Facebook the same photo of me from my early childhood in 16th century Denmark.
October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Every year on this day, my mother posts on Facebook the same photo of me from my early childhood in 16th century Denmark.
People tend to see this debate as one between analytic and continental philosophy, or between clear, precise language and postmodernist obscurity, but it's hard for me to read Derrida's remarks on the whole thing and not think it was a clash between Americanness and Frenchness
October 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
People tend to see this debate as one between analytic and continental philosophy, or between clear, precise language and postmodernist obscurity, but it's hard for me to read Derrida's remarks on the whole thing and not think it was a clash between Americanness and Frenchness
Anyway, that's how we get exchanges like this:
October 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Anyway, that's how we get exchanges like this:
In Texas, jays are fucking with induction.
September 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In Texas, jays are fucking with induction.
Argh, meant to include a picture of the book:
September 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Argh, meant to include a picture of the book:
Why don't all bus stops in Austin look like this?
September 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Why don't all bus stops in Austin look like this?
This morning I was walking downtown when I stumbled upon this truck!
Have you ever randomly run into an ex from long ago? You hug awkwardly, don't really know what to say, and after an uncomfortable few moments, part hastily...
This was nothing like that, and I got breakfast tacos.
Have you ever randomly run into an ex from long ago? You hug awkwardly, don't really know what to say, and after an uncomfortable few moments, part hastily...
This was nothing like that, and I got breakfast tacos.
September 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This morning I was walking downtown when I stumbled upon this truck!
Have you ever randomly run into an ex from long ago? You hug awkwardly, don't really know what to say, and after an uncomfortable few moments, part hastily...
This was nothing like that, and I got breakfast tacos.
Have you ever randomly run into an ex from long ago? You hug awkwardly, don't really know what to say, and after an uncomfortable few moments, part hastily...
This was nothing like that, and I got breakfast tacos.
My favorite review of this song and maybe the whole album comes from the YouTube comments:
August 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
My favorite review of this song and maybe the whole album comes from the YouTube comments:
You can't convince me that this isn't from a parody of contemporary folk.
August 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
You can't convince me that this isn't from a parody of contemporary folk.
Today, in the year 2025 CE, I watched a bunch of people in a subreddit about bees (not quite sure how I got there) realize that that one part of "Work It" is just the previous line played in reverse. The internet is justified for one more day.
June 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Today, in the year 2025 CE, I watched a bunch of people in a subreddit about bees (not quite sure how I got there) realize that that one part of "Work It" is just the previous line played in reverse. The internet is justified for one more day.
Whatever you think of MacIntyre and his intellectual trajectory, refusing to go on Philosophy Bites should tell you he was a real one.
May 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Whatever you think of MacIntyre and his intellectual trajectory, refusing to go on Philosophy Bites should tell you he was a real one.
This entire article is infuriating. History will look back on those of us living through this time -- and things like this were happening before Trump -- as monsters. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
May 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This entire article is infuriating. History will look back on those of us living through this time -- and things like this were happening before Trump -- as monsters. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Good on Nashville. I hope Austin's supporter groups follow their lead.
May 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Good on Nashville. I hope Austin's supporter groups follow their lead.
I understand and respect why y'all left Twitter, but I cannot give this up:
April 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I understand and respect why y'all left Twitter, but I cannot give this up:
You can see the simple but terrifying logic here.
1 Being pro-Palestinian is being pro-Hamas.
2 Hamas is a terrorist group.
3 Therefore pro-Palestinian protests are acts of terrorism.
1 Being pro-Palestinian is being pro-Hamas.
2 Hamas is a terrorist group.
3 Therefore pro-Palestinian protests are acts of terrorism.
March 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
You can see the simple but terrifying logic here.
1 Being pro-Palestinian is being pro-Hamas.
2 Hamas is a terrorist group.
3 Therefore pro-Palestinian protests are acts of terrorism.
1 Being pro-Palestinian is being pro-Hamas.
2 Hamas is a terrorist group.
3 Therefore pro-Palestinian protests are acts of terrorism.
My graduate advisor will apparently answer literally any call from a journalist, lol: www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/h...
March 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My graduate advisor will apparently answer literally any call from a journalist, lol: www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/h...
One of the most disturbing things I've seen is people whom I personally witnessed arguing that the power given to the government to combat "terrorism" in the wake of 9/11 would inevitably be used against Americans for political reasons now defending this arrest.
March 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
One of the most disturbing things I've seen is people whom I personally witnessed arguing that the power given to the government to combat "terrorism" in the wake of 9/11 would inevitably be used against Americans for political reasons now defending this arrest.
It should go without saying, though judging by the way many people are treating this situation, it does need saying, that punishing people for political disagreement may start with people who are not citizens, but if they get away with it, will not stop with them.
March 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
It should go without saying, though judging by the way many people are treating this situation, it does need saying, that punishing people for political disagreement may start with people who are not citizens, but if they get away with it, will not stop with them.
Yggles and Smith, and those who listen to them, are convinced what made Trump 2 happen is a culture war between elites and working class voters, because to admit that it's actually the material conditions that Bernie talks about would undermine their entire political project.
March 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Yggles and Smith, and those who listen to them, are convinced what made Trump 2 happen is a culture war between elites and working class voters, because to admit that it's actually the material conditions that Bernie talks about would undermine their entire political project.
I dunno man, I just think that's too many albums.
March 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I dunno man, I just think that's too many albums.
Based on what I've seen on this site today, this message is more important here than over there.
March 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Based on what I've seen on this site today, this message is more important here than over there.
This is mine (at 4) wearing a tie and beads (from a Juneteenth parade) at a UT basketball game. Also still wants to wear the same few dresses regardless of the weather.
February 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is mine (at 4) wearing a tie and beads (from a Juneteenth parade) at a UT basketball game. Also still wants to wear the same few dresses regardless of the weather.
Liberals increasingly sound like Pat Robertson calling Katrina divine retribution for abortion or the gays.
February 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Liberals increasingly sound like Pat Robertson calling Katrina divine retribution for abortion or the gays.
So much better than Twitter, this site.
February 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
So much better than Twitter, this site.