Miniver Cheevy

Imagine this: Ted A few years ago, Ted became a vocal “anti-feminist”.

Posts on this subject are obviously fraught, so first: I keep an index of resources the moral question is simple: Palestinian liberation is right & necessary the history is complicated: I have a survey which addresses many common misunderstandings the pra…

Henry Fudge’s essay Degeneracy Is A Symptom is bleak and clarifying.

I shoulda assembled a linkpile of resources long ago.

I keep needing a short explainer.

As one among many seeing a need (and opportunity) for big ideas to enable American reconstruction after this long, terrible moment, I have been daydreaming about what a new Constitutional order could look like.

This morning, President Trump threatened to commit massive genocide in Iran.

the widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics You’ve Probably Never Heard of “Murc’s Law”, But You’ve Seen It in Action Lots of Times assembles several useful commentaries.

For now this is just a disorganized stub index.

I have an unwholesome interest in scams.

Rescuing a classic from linkrot: Republic Dogs By Nathaniel Daw Copyright 1994 and all that.

I am generally skeptical of breathless “AI” boosterism.

I have lately been seized by a mania to track down interesting re-edits of films, either done by the original creators or by fans.

Capturing a Bluesky thread from Matthew Sheffield. ‪

A long excerpt of the perennial points from a longer post Against Campism by a wise leftist I recommend following, Alley Valkyrie.

Looking at covid, flu, et cetera, my sweetheart & I are trying to live a virus-cautious life, so that compels us to have a protocol for socializing.

I am an esotericist who takes divination seriously as a thinking process, neither more nor less different from electrical engineering than film theory differs from medical diagnosis.

I’m overdue to keep a link to this great telling of one of my favorite stories: the RMS Carpathia rescuing surivors of the wreck of the Titanic.

Social justice is not my primary political project, so I don’t want to claim profound expertise.

We have no choice but to think big.

Iris Meredeth offers “wank” as a useful term of art: Our society clearly has an issue with a whole family of bad-faith speech acts: outright lying is an obvious problem and bullshit, as defined in Harry Frankfurt’s text on the matter is a pressing concern…

After the wrenching fights over social justice from the ’60s through the early ’70s, American society made an implicit bargain I like to call The Social Justice Détente: no big new government policy moves to correct injustices no public expressions of ove…

Over on Bluesky, a bunch of lefties piled on to a post expressing a common sentiment from the right.

I keep bouncing off of my attempts to say something sophisticated about the challenges in constructively criticizing social justice advocacy culture.

Over on Bluesky, Sean Kelly says: Malcolm Reynolds starting off as an abusive prick who all the women love anyway because deep down, he’s a good person is such a case of Joss Whedon telling on himself.