Patrick Fessenbecker
@pfessenbecker.bsky.social
Teaching writing and ethics to engineers, writing a book on George Eliot.
btw if you’re ticked at AIPAC for whatever reason them spending a maximum amount of money to barely lose is ideal, 10/10, just as a pure matter of don’t-know-ball and forward outcome for them as an organization. this cycle has been catastrophic for them purely in terms of inputs and outputs
The moderates being unable to generate even a modicum of tactical thinking is the through-line for how we got here
I support the winner of the Michigan Democratic primary as the future senator from Michigan.
I get HUGE amounts of satisfaction by going into nursing homes and absolutely crushing all comers at arm wrestling, 10/10 would recommend
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d agoit's interesting how many men get satisfaction out of knowing that other men can beat elite female athletes. like ok, maybe the best high school boys team in the country can beat a WNBA team, but YOU can't
You may have some wild kinks, but keep in mind that a sixty-year-old George Eliot requested something so freaky of her new husband that he jumped out of a Venetian window on their honeymoon and the Victorians still called her a saint, so maybe the world can accept you too.
I'd like to propose that we resolve this by figuring out whether hinges are part of a door, and thus bring the doors vs wheels discourse to an overall synthesis.
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2d agoa question that is bitterly dividing my household: are feet part of the leg?
Next you'll be telling me the city has roads in places I don't even drive to
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
What the Griswold, Lawrence v Texas cases teach is there is a spectrum of human activity in our private lives not conducive to government categorization because actual peoples life is more complex than a statue. This is easily understood with a smidgen of good faith but it’s anathema to prejudice
The restaurant that launched a thousand influencers
CaryJo@caryjo.bsky.social · 2d agothe sleeve that caught a thousand doorknobs
It's more representative of something else. You start with a slur and attack. Democrats are more focused on fighting socialism than fascism. You then are surprised when one of the objects of your attack responds in kind rather than "engage". That's weird. I tried to be charitable in thinking youre..
i started this train of thought as a joke but now i do think there's something to the idea that the way to sell the green revolution to the US public is that we're being denied Good Deals on cheap chinese cars and solar panels and there's nothing more unamerican than saying we can't have a good deal
Today we announce The Psychosocial Foundation’s opening of a therapeutic collective, education space, and bookstore at 1742 Franklin Street in Uptown Oakland.
i think about this on a near weekly basis. have decided it’s one of the best death rituals I’ve ever heard.
Snowden St.@snowden.st · 2y agoI got a friend from North Dakota who's family plays a big game of softball after every funeral in the family. The Upper Midwest is so baroquely weird
Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
I lived through one in Guatemala. The thing about civil war is that it empowers the very WORST dregs of society. They come out of the woodwork once civil rules have broken down. And it means that good people wind up dead in the ditch with their hands zip tied and plastic bags over their heads.
Gwaihir sees “Gandalf Wizard” pop up on the caller ID, stares at it for a few seconds, and sighs deeply before picking up
If you are a giant eagle, though, your experience of the LOTR world is of utter incompetents who insist on doing everything themselves until calling you to rescue them from their own failures, and then insist on telling a story pretending that their own heroism is the real theme.
Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4d agoIf you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …
feels like we missed a lot of manic pixie dream boy possibilities when Jack went down with the Titanic
god, the Stancil reply guys are taking over everywhere
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 5d agoMy horrible little dog, whom I love more than my life, has decided he will only eat the most expensive prescription food on the market. I'm trying to explain the economy to him and he doesn't care
i was just rick rolled by a qr code tattooed on a man’s leg
Well, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:
Vulture@vulture.com · 2mo agoThere are 118 feature films, plus galas, talks, podcast recordings, and more at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Our guide to the movies and events worth lining up for.
Yes the court is the biggest, clearest, most enduring victory by far (though also something of a fluke of timing/luck.)
Alexander Ross@hardpolitics.bsky.social · 5d agoThree nominees to the Supreme Court. That's a political success, and that's the political success that Hillary Clinton voters were warning everybody about.
Three nominees to the Supreme Court. That's a political success, and that's the political success that Hillary Clinton voters were warning everybody about.
The AI doomer advertising strategy does make me think higher ed needs a reboot. OLD AND BUSTED: soft focus images of high skilled professionals, "get the career you want!" NEW HOTNESS: gritty documentary image of uniformed marchers, "don't let them control your mind. Get educated. Fight back."
ceej@ceej.online · 5d agoANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
Only bollards can deliver this much happiness. #WorldBollardAssociation
it is extremely funny to think that lamont was, twenty years ago, the unacceptably left-wing candidate whose primary win over former vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman led to his sour grapes run and, downstream, the death of the public option
Opinion Haver@asinmarx.bsky.social · 7d agoA major issue with the establishment's efforts fending off individual progressives like El-Sayed, Hong, Chevalier, Kiros, Gonzales, Flanagan, etc, is that we're well past the point where it's clear that young voters just Do This now, and who do you think is going to make up the electorate later?
Crabs get a lot of PR, but the porcupine is underrated as the Purest Form towards which all animals are evolving, and the examples here don’t even include Will Stancil.
