The Conquest of Churu
@spicycatnoodle.bsky.social
sewer anarchism with liberal characteristics
can only afford semi-pro nouns
she/her
can only afford semi-pro nouns
she/her
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A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
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A big advance, folks, for off-the-shelf, universal, engineered (base-edited) T cells achieving complete response vs incurable leukemia in several patients
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A big advance, folks, for off-the-shelf, universal, engineered (base-edited) T cells achieving complete response vs incurable leukemia in several patients
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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just a total abdication of the notion that being in position of power should carry with it any responsibility at all. all that matters is your personal #brand and #journey
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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prospects do not appear favorable, it’s true. but I like to think about how much of actually existing America was built in a frenzy of work between 1933-45
"Rebuild." Pssh. Look around you at the absolute wretched state of the US elite. Look at the sad, corporate-captured, power-worshiping media. Look at the distracted, deluded, increasingly spectacle-addicted US public. Look at the denuded, decrepit set of ideas allowed in our discourse. Look.
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
prospects do not appear favorable, it’s true. but I like to think about how much of actually existing America was built in a frenzy of work between 1933-45
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Josh Marshall is absolutely right about this as a matter of constitutional restoration BUT ALSO
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
“Supreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United States”
-- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
-- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything
I’ve become something of a broken record on this. But repetition sometimes...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Josh Marshall is absolutely right about this as a matter of constitutional restoration BUT ALSO
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
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"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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Watching all the defense wonks on my TL tear this NYT piece apart has been interesting. So many parallels to “Gadgetbahn” discourse in transportation policy. Editorial boards, pundits, and electeds are in love with the idea that “innovation” could relieve them of political problems and tradeoffs.
I see the gizmo cult has made its way into the NYT
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Watching all the defense wonks on my TL tear this NYT piece apart has been interesting. So many parallels to “Gadgetbahn” discourse in transportation policy. Editorial boards, pundits, and electeds are in love with the idea that “innovation” could relieve them of political problems and tradeoffs.
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one of the other funny things that i get reminded of by @nonbinary.computer's essay is that the culture prioritizes bullet biting, but somehow very few people who consider themselves part of the culture have publicly bitten any bullets that really alienate their peers
December 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
one of the other funny things that i get reminded of by @nonbinary.computer's essay is that the culture prioritizes bullet biting, but somehow very few people who consider themselves part of the culture have publicly bitten any bullets that really alienate their peers
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Something notable about Richard Hanania is that he's the *only* IQ supremacist hereditarian to actually admit that liberals have higher IQs and that the highest IQ groups are the most liberal ones, and that's also why he's ingratiated himself to everyone making seven figures on Substack
one of the other funny things that i get reminded of by @nonbinary.computer's essay is that the culture prioritizes bullet biting, but somehow very few people who consider themselves part of the culture have publicly bitten any bullets that really alienate their peers
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Something notable about Richard Hanania is that he's the *only* IQ supremacist hereditarian to actually admit that liberals have higher IQs and that the highest IQ groups are the most liberal ones, and that's also why he's ingratiated himself to everyone making seven figures on Substack
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it's cool how the elites in the media are like "we need to make the army bigger in case of future threats"
my brother in christ, the threat begins at home with illiberalism
my brother in christ, the threat begins at home with illiberalism
“A more secure world will almost certainly require more military commitment from allies like Canada, Japan and Europe”: yes, well this administration has told Canada and Europe to piss off and left Japan out to dangle re: Taiwan, so … okay.
This is a wild framing.
The US can dominate everywhere in the world except 7000 miles away at an island 100 miles off another superpower’s coast.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The US can dominate everywhere in the world except 7000 miles away at an island 100 miles off another superpower’s coast.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
it's cool how the elites in the media are like "we need to make the army bigger in case of future threats"
my brother in christ, the threat begins at home with illiberalism
my brother in christ, the threat begins at home with illiberalism
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Conservatives: Democrats bribe lazy minorities with goodies
Also conservatives: bsky.app/profile/carl...
Also conservatives: bsky.app/profile/carl...
December 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Conservatives: Democrats bribe lazy minorities with goodies
Also conservatives: bsky.app/profile/carl...
Also conservatives: bsky.app/profile/carl...
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too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent
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and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
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The most common sentiment you'll see from triple-digit IQ conservatives over the next 5 years is going to be the Schmitt/Spengler/Junger thing of "who the fuck did I give absolute power to man"
"but i was a based heterodox thinker" seems to be the rallying cry of the reactionary centre when encountering actual Schmittian politics
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The most common sentiment you'll see from triple-digit IQ conservatives over the next 5 years is going to be the Schmitt/Spengler/Junger thing of "who the fuck did I give absolute power to man"
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"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."
Nature research paper: Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery
go.nature.com/3YcD2ZS
go.nature.com/3YcD2ZS
Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery - Nature
Higher-income neighbourhoods rebuild and improve after disasters while lower-income areas do not return to pre-disaster conditions.
go.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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"My child was perfect and has been replaced by a changeling baby," but in the year 2025.
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"My child was perfect and has been replaced by a changeling baby," but in the year 2025.
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"but i was a based heterodox thinker" seems to be the rallying cry of the reactionary centre when encountering actual Schmittian politics
December 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"but i was a based heterodox thinker" seems to be the rallying cry of the reactionary centre when encountering actual Schmittian politics
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so many of these people thought they could ride the counter-woke tide without acknowledging the reality of the new era of politics we find ourselves in
"but i was a based heterodox thinker" seems to be the rallying cry of the reactionary centre when encountering actual Schmittian politics
December 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
so many of these people thought they could ride the counter-woke tide without acknowledging the reality of the new era of politics we find ourselves in
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i'm sorry: you chose to ride this tiger - my sympathy is limited
December 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
i'm sorry: you chose to ride this tiger - my sympathy is limited
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I mentioned a fear of Hanania Democrats in the post Trump era, and got some pushback for being ridiculous, but, at least in elite circles, it is a thing.
Being able to accurately see Hanania is a great litmus test.
Being able to accurately see Hanania is a great litmus test.
it’s been pretty funny to see Polis’ addiction to posting completely end any discussion of him as a potential 2028 candidate
December 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I mentioned a fear of Hanania Democrats in the post Trump era, and got some pushback for being ridiculous, but, at least in elite circles, it is a thing.
Being able to accurately see Hanania is a great litmus test.
Being able to accurately see Hanania is a great litmus test.
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If you went back in time and told Gordon Brown's government that "In 2025, Bill Kristol will be to the social left of the Labour Party currently in government", they'd think you'd gone mad
uncritical support to Comrade Kristol
December 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If you went back in time and told Gordon Brown's government that "In 2025, Bill Kristol will be to the social left of the Labour Party currently in government", they'd think you'd gone mad
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They’ve nullified the 14th amendment once already, they don’t care what the constitution says, only what their political allies want it to say
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
They’ve nullified the 14th amendment once already, they don’t care what the constitution says, only what their political allies want it to say
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Chicagoans will pay $76 per person this year for police misconduct settlements.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Chicagoans will pay $76 per person this year for police misconduct settlements.