Simon
@thedenature.bsky.social
Historian. Absolute angst kraken.
Philadelphia/Lenapehoking
Philadelphia/Lenapehoking
When your galactic bounty hunter is worried about his tea order, that's called a Boba Fret.
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
When your galactic bounty hunter is worried about his tea order, that's called a Boba Fret.
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when i talk about returning to traditional gender roles this is what I'm referring to
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
when i talk about returning to traditional gender roles this is what I'm referring to
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
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They say that when Shaggy stood atop the golden Jennie-O turkey, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
They say that when Shaggy stood atop the golden Jennie-O turkey, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.
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I love that every female performer dresses like they’re off to a cocaine fueled apres ski after party when they finish up at the parade.
#macysparade
#macysparade
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I love that every female performer dresses like they’re off to a cocaine fueled apres ski after party when they finish up at the parade.
#macysparade
#macysparade
Pharmaceutical naming conventions have got to change. “Risankizumab-rzaa” sounds like a lesser figure from Fremen prophecy.
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Pharmaceutical naming conventions have got to change. “Risankizumab-rzaa” sounds like a lesser figure from Fremen prophecy.
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a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life
They say that when Shaggy stood atop the golden Jennie-O turkey, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
They say that when Shaggy stood atop the golden Jennie-O turkey, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.
If there’s nothing exceptional in the RFKj/Nuzzi/Lizza scandal, then there’s nothing worth saving in contemporary political journalism.
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
If there’s nothing exceptional in the RFKj/Nuzzi/Lizza scandal, then there’s nothing worth saving in contemporary political journalism.
"You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you."
Predictable, if I’m being honest.
Predictable, if I’m being honest.
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
"You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you."
Predictable, if I’m being honest.
Predictable, if I’m being honest.
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I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
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::Frankenstein’s creature after one (1) therapy session::
FIRE NOT BAD. FIRE JUST DO BAD THING.
FIRE NOT BAD. FIRE JUST DO BAD THING.
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
::Frankenstein’s creature after one (1) therapy session::
FIRE NOT BAD. FIRE JUST DO BAD THING.
FIRE NOT BAD. FIRE JUST DO BAD THING.
Our descent into the eugenic hellscape is accelerating.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Our descent into the eugenic hellscape is accelerating.
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::Frankenstein’s creature after one (1) therapy session::
FIRE NOT BAD. FIRE JUST DO BAD THING.
FIRE NOT BAD. FIRE JUST DO BAD THING.
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
::Frankenstein’s creature after one (1) therapy session::
FIRE NOT BAD. FIRE JUST DO BAD THING.
FIRE NOT BAD. FIRE JUST DO BAD THING.
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It's not just the scrapping of structures that were considered cornerstones of "Western Values" just a few years ago; it's not even that the people scrapping them are the same sort of people who bray about Western Values; it's the casualness, the unseriousness about *their own* Most Serious Beliefs
Jury trials in England and Wales to be scrapped except for most serious cases on.ft.com/3LY1Ceq
Jury trials in England and Wales to be scrapped except for most serious cases
Proposed changes unlikely to apply for trials of serious offences such as rape and murder
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's not just the scrapping of structures that were considered cornerstones of "Western Values" just a few years ago; it's not even that the people scrapping them are the same sort of people who bray about Western Values; it's the casualness, the unseriousness about *their own* Most Serious Beliefs
Example #9784848409 of how "woke" has become a meaningless, empty signifier and a thought-terminating cliche.
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Example #9784848409 of how "woke" has become a meaningless, empty signifier and a thought-terminating cliche.
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
What’s the worst sound fx caption and why is it “squelching?”
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
What’s the worst sound fx caption and why is it “squelching?”
Speaking as a historian, I feel this way every day.
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Speaking as a historian, I feel this way every day.
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My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
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they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms