Feebly Inhibited

Jeff Bezos and I are very different people. For one thing, he is a sociopathic billionaire who built his fortune by monopolizing bookselling while I am a penniless author of books. He was born in 1964 and is 62; I was born in 1971 and am 55.

This strategy is incoherent. Should Talarico supporters celebrate him for lying? Vote Talarico, he's a liar but one of the good ones! Transitioning minors is no longer popular. It's going to stay unpopular because most people now realise that it's morally indefensible

Meanwhile, in the Free State of Florida...

..I cannot help but note that while this is not my definition of fascism, this definition - fascism is when the tools used to subdue the periphery get used on the imperial core" would absolutely qualify the USSR as fascist. Empire, after all, isn't "just when boat" - you can do imperialism on land.

This position - that fascism is somehow super-liberalism rather than anti-liberalism - has always struck me as silly to the point of childishness. Which liberal principle do fascists take to an extreme? Do they believe in private property? No, they're aggressively statist and corporatist.

Fascism (which sucks) strikes us as aberrant *because* we are so modern. But wanting a strong leader to suppress minorities and lead your tribe in a brutal war in which you enslave or massacre your neighbors and take their resources - that was the DEFAULT mode of most polities before modernity.

But most importantly: it has not been necessary for decades now for anyone to cape for the most brutal leader of a failed communist dictatorship. You can have new ideas! Maybe even ones that work!

they put a streetlight where i was once stabbed which i know should reassure me since it means people cant hide there anymore, but now whenever i drive past its like a spotlight was put there by a director going 'remember the past trauma that happened here'

It's my thesis that the Habsburg/Hapsburg lip/jaw was noticed as a family trait only in the mid-C19 (so sez ngram viewer), but I can't find any decent historiography of the issue, despite it being so notorious. There's loads of medical speculation, but that's not what I'm after. Any ideas? Pls RT

I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

Chris Hayes: Sen. Bernie Moreno spent his morning raging at Anthony Fauci. But if you ask him about the Republican colleague who’s accused of holding a gun to his own daughter's head, he has no comment.

the fuck is wrong with this guy

I'm... not even sure where she would be hearing this sort of thing from? My reflex response is FB brain but wot

This is less about being anti data analysis and more about the way that the flippant attitudes of the people who deliver their analyses can be broadly alienating to people with qualitative experiences that don't match their findings. Their desire is to scold and feel superior, not to educate.

More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.

Losing to the baby you bathed sounds like a Greek myth

The World Cup might be over, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't still take short breaks throughout the day to make sure you stay hydrated.

Wow did you guys know the same guy who invented the Jeef Beef also invented the twohorse dumpwagon?

I’m a card carrying socialist & union member & all that and/but this book fucking torpedoed for me the myth that Democrats & Republicans are “the same.” The massive, fundamental differences btwn D & R administrations in regard to disabled ppl’s lives is INSANE.👩🏻‍🦼‍➡️❤️ judithheumann.com/being-heumann/

Sometimes you think about him or just want to connect with other fans after a tough day & you go to pull up the app but then you remember it’s no more. #Jeremy #Renner #App

YESSSS!!

Oppenheimer and The Odyssey are movies about men feeling guilt and shame over their life's crowning achievement bringing untold suffering into the world clearly this is an expression of Christopher Nolan's guilt for popularizing superhero movies with The Dark Knight

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Trump’s media company is launching a new product that will allow banks and financial traders to access Truth Social’s data at the “fastest” speed for a fee, giving them exclusive real-time access to posts that may affect the markets, as Trump’s posts frequently do.

This is Ulyana, she was only 13. Russia killed her On July 11, during aerial bombs attack on Sumy. 💔🕯 ​Ulyana practiced track and field at the Volodymyr Golubnychy Specialized Children and Youth Sports School. She was at a bus stop when her city was hit.

Pretty classy message by the Norwegian Embassy. #WorldCup

*MEDIA REQUEST* Looking for examples of broadcasters talking about SA or rape allegations against players during the tournament. Please reply with name of broadcaster, which network, and which language. Reply here or shireen.ahmed@torontomu.ca Thank you!

SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.

Farage just called a referendum on the concept of objective reality iandunt.substack.com/p/farage-jus...