Alex

@mchugh-alex.bsky.social

Can someone do a mashup of Mulan and Fiddler featuring the song "I'll Make A Mensch Out of You"? One of many random thoughts my brain is supplying this afternoon. You are invited to suggest lyrics for this.

My eyes hurt, my throat hurts, my head hurts, my stomach hurts :// Everything smells and tastes like smoke. Day started w the cat clawing my face because he thought I was sleeping thru a house fire XD

I’ve seen like 6 (different) bugs at my new house so far (1 week) that I do not recognize and can’t identify 👀 I’m so pumped to be living in the woods but I also kinda feel like I should find out who all these bugs are 🐛

How do people still not understand evolution? Like today I heard some podcasters I like and respect trying to defend evolution against ignorance and still somehow getting it so wrong. I guess we really can’t resist assigning a narrative? Wild.

An administration of posters and livestreamers naturally view power through that literal lens: who controls the cameras supposedly controls everything. But the legal foundations of this shit go back to the SHAC-7, where filming animal abusers was ruled "terrorism." reason.com/2025/12/26/j...

Justice Department says filming immigration raids is 'domestic terrorism'

A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations.

reason.com

yes some of it the social dynamics of social media, but also there is a long history of leftists, going all the way back to Adorno at least, making the argument that qualitative reasoning is actually capitalist or even fascist here's robin mackay complaining about this tendency in the 2010s

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ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 8mo ago

i don't think "why is the left against ___" is as much of a fruitful question as "why are so many seemingly irrational left wing positions explained by online bullying?"

I read a lot of (probably fake) “AITA” stories when I’m unable to sleep but too brain dead to actually focus on anything. Idk how it happened, Facebook just started showing me a bunch and the light, fake gossip is perfect for my half asleep brain. Anyway, no one seems to get the assignment.