Port of Constanța.

the ultimate manosphere videos. ht @bmceuen.bsky.social

“It’s not exactly precise to say that Estonians love absurd humor. In Estonia, the key of life is absurd, and even a foreigner will learn to read life in this key in a day or two.” riowang.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

is he going to bring back the Washington Bullets?

prejudice very often masquerades as savvy.

This is a good piece by @ezraklein.bsky.social.

Black Sea dolphins.

it’s not a dark enlightenment, what we are undergoing is a dark reenchantment. people’s understanding of the world is increasingly formed by sources seeking to intrigue or awe, rather than inform with anything like procedurally vetted approximations of mundane truth.

if you configure a bell to chime every time you get a like, that’s an engagement ring.

to be fair, the humans don’t seem to do much better with their tiktok than the llms do with all the crap and slop in their training data.

beer amphora.

lots of conversation inspired by this, arguments about interest rates and square feet etc, but i think people fail to appreciate how profoundly just *the last five years* of this graph have contributed to a profound sense of hopelessness for many of us. (with interest rates way up, not down!)

via www.technologyasnature.com/2025/07/19/h...

i'm sure i've missed some text or tweet or mail or call and offended you.

after sunlight is reflected across so many funhouse mirrors, does it still serve as a disinfectant?

yesterday i was a bit shocked by the degree to which “flat earth tiktok” had otherwise perfectly normal people just asking questions.

excellent but dark. all i can say is, optimism of the will, motherfuckers. ht @olepetter.bsky.social

from “What determines rent?” @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/07/what...

they used to mock us with “Green Lantern theory” when we tried to make this point.