Never attribute to stupidity that which is also explained by malice (because it will depress you).

When the Spartans lost at Thermopylae, it wasn't for a lack of ... wait a minute ... it _was_ for a lack o' daimonions.

Ruin a book by adding a word: Tenenkaas

laurentfranckx.bsky.social@laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ruin a book by adding a word: Today, tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow

Free Puppies for Everyone: 49.9% Permanent Diarrhea for Everyone: 50.1%

man who invented the word 'meme' trying his darnedest to become one.

Om Sheila Sitalsing te citeren: "we wonen al geruime tijd in een psychiatrische inrichting."

Only a non-European could come up with this and think that this is a good comparison.

Seva@seva.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Krastev called Orban the right-wing Castro, which I think is exactly right: the leader of a small relatively insignificant country, that nevertheless became the ideological lodestar for a global movement after being propped up by russia

Vandaag in De Standaard: "Daartussen gaapt geen gewone sportieve discussie, maar een kloof van herinnering, symboliek en gekrenkte trots." Clanker of niet?

These ducklings have a better sense of what’s tasty and healthy than the U.S. Secretary of Health.

Kameron Hurley@kameronhurley.com · 7mo ago

Here are the girls the first time I gave them peas. THEY WENT WILD FOR THEM. And still do!

I switched from the standard bsky server to eurosky.social . Transition was pretty smooth!

s/Texas/USA/

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 7mo ago

i have no idea what is going on in texas and am mentally filing it into the "everyone has gone insane" drawer

My introduction promises a conversation the results are not entirely prepared to have

My membership of the Lumpenprofessoriat got more bearable after this Luhmann (Zettelkasten guy) quote: “Research plan: theory of modern society. Duration: 30 years. No costs.” If your field allows it (big if, but mine does) you can do ambitious research without (needing to beg for) massive funding.

Hadas Weiss@hadas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

i bet foucault never had to apply for third-party funding

Americans gave us Trump 1 and Trump 2, you can fill in yourselves 'through' what the hell that was.

Ward Carroll@wardcarroll.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Biden gave us Trump II through ineptitude. Hillary gave us Trump 1 through arrogance.

I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans. When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Newsom: "It was remarkably boring. It was remarkably insignificant. He was never going invade Greenland. It was never real."

So: happy... er, yes, well, happy this most holy of days to all who celebrate

the "it's not x, it's y" clanker speech pattern is 3-3 invading our language (most obscure ref you'll read today unless you are a go/baduk/weiqi homie?)

Ages of the “Founding Fathers” on July 4, 1776: James Monroe, 18 Aaron Burr, 20 Alexander Hamilton, 21 James Madison, 25 Thomas Jefferson, 33 John Adams, 40 George Washington, 44 The average founding *father* was less than one year older than the average nazi gop "kid".

Joel Montfort@montfort.me · 12mo ago

The “kids” VP Vance is referring to are 24,27,28, 29,31. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

(me, reading Herscht 07769) Let me just finish this one sentence.

Als de woorden worst en burger al zo verwarrend zijn voor de mensen, waarom maakt de Europese Unie zich dan niet druk over partijen die vrijheid of democratie ten onrechte in hun naam hebben staan?

Also accurate for Flemish people vis à vis the Dutch, especially when either of those things are done by a Dutch person.

Kraut@derparrot.bsky.social · last yr.

There is a joke here that the only thing the Austrian hates more than being called a German, is being told they have absolutely nothing in common with Germans.

s/white/orange/

Wasn't it Vance who tried to lecture us on free speech?🫠

Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · last yr.

It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it

My probability homies will know, this is a perfect illustration of a degenerate distribution.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · last yr.

this doesn't look like a normal distribution

I reject the world he wanted and the world that killed him. They are one and the same.

The "no step on snek" to "yield, man!" pipeline.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Mike Johnson: "I cannot for the life of me understand how the Democrats think this is some kind of winning political message. Yield man! Let the troops come into your city and show how crime can be reduced."

Mild take: The vilification of "virtue signalling" was a political project designed to make even the most subtle reminders of what decency is uncouth and it fucking worked.

Hear me out: een Vlaamse Omtzigt, maar dan 1 die pleit voor * meer administratieve willekeur * slechter bestuur * meer onevenwicht tussen macht en tegenmacht. (allemaal dingen waar het bij het nsc in de praktijk op neerkwam maar goed)

Campfire of the Frivolities

minimaliste13@minimaliste13.cpesr.fr · last yr.

Slightly diminish a book The Name of the Petunia