don’t mistake disillusionment with the status quo center for embrace of the particularities of ugly radicalisms. people are choosing from whom to disaffiliate more decisively than they are choosing with whom to affiliate.
@light from my perspective, the best way to learn is conversation first, research things people are talking and arguing about, become to study up to participate without looking like an idiot.
but the old-school blogosphere was much better for that than the current environment.
it is good to wish. it is good to wash. but it is bad to be wishy washy.
"Recalling the decades-old Lorax Rebellion to save trees at New College as more large oaks are razed" by #KerrySheridan https://www.wusf.org/environment/2026-01-29/decades-old-lorax-rebellion-save-new-college-trees-more-large-oaks-razed
@Phil could be worse!
it’s remarkable how many strangers want to give me a grand piano.
@light no. it’s for the birds!
they hate us for our freedoms.
a photo of spikes and netting intended to discourage pigeons.
does anyone else think it’s irresponsible how they dox all the actors in the credits?
we've developed a tool that supersedes and renders obsolete the guillotine.
it's called taxation. we've never quite had the courage to deploy it as indicated.
very few administrations have resolved as many serious crises they created in such a short period of time.
perhaps it's too early to say, but i am heartened by the prospect of peace between the United States and NATO.
@ouguoc north or south, we can form an exiles club.
i like to sign up for expensive classes so i can have the pleasure of skipping school again.
[new draft post] Where am I? https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2026/01/18/where-am-i/index.html
you can abolish ICE and still enforce immigration law. it’s called e-verify + fines to employers of the unverifiable.
(i would like our immigration laws to be more hospitable than they are. but effective enforcement of our current laws does not require detention or violence.)
morons learn lessons.
@StryderNotavi So you burn down the forest and then are shocked to see the trees don’t thrive.
the fundamental mistake the contemporary right makes is to confuse the product of successful institutions with personal characteristics of the people that perform them. since they think good outcomes are about good people, they happily dismantle the institutions under which people become good.
the credo of the contemporary US, articulated pretty directly by its political leader, is that to be smart is to cheat, if and as much as you can get away with it.
most of the country’s preeminent tech industry has this as the basis of its business model.