Derek T. Frasure

I love this little Steinbeck tidbit and am baffled that all editions of his books do not include this.

I always wondered why one glove is an exam glove and another is not. Now I see the pictures clearly indicate which ones are for fisting and which ones are not.

It's 12 AM do you know where your children are and what they are doing?

Samantha Harvey's Orbital

"There are no new thoughts. They're just old thoughts born into new moments[.]"

"Citizenship of any sort was denied to traders and craftsmen, since such people were deemed to have soiled their souls as well as their hands by engaging in economic production and exchange other than agriculture."

Let's hear the ancient city of Thebes out is all I'm saying

Here's one for all you flow-chart freaks out there: the agrarian crisis in Roman Italy.

Why does Cambridge only credit well-known translators on the covers of their Texts in the History of Philosophy? Don't lesser known folks deserve just as much credit for their hard work?

It's good that kids are forced to read things they don't fully understand. There's value in failure. You realize there are many different forms of subjective experience that are alien to you, and you can appropriate those modalities by expanding yourself. Reader, grow thyself.

This was Rush Limbaugh's secret sauce, effectively carried forward by Frank Luntz, reaching its apex in Trump. The left could do well to learn that people love a funny diss in the form of mispronouncing a noun on purpose over and over as a bit.

The button on the left that takes you to the top is the number 1 thing that keeps me from using this app more often. I scroll with my left hand and accidentally hit it every 5 minutes. It's too much of a pain to scroll back through dozens of skeets to get back to where I was, only to do it again.

Graffiti "Sodomy forever!" and a sticker "Spread Trans-genderism"

The people of Ypsilanti have spoken

Tony Harrison's Prometheus (1998)

"Whoever looks into the golden eyes of
Prometheus set in the cremated
sockets sees the early hope of the
world and knows its late despair."

Happy early birthday!

I thought of your many pics outside the store as I took mine

John K. King Used and Rare Books

Store map

Digest of the Public Record of Communism in the United States

My haul of literature and philosophy

After being told to visit for over a decade, I finally took a long overdue trip to John King Books earlier this week for my birthday. I'll definitely be back, as I could spend days combing the shelves there, and I had a great conversation with an employee for about an hour about art under capitalism

Today's a good day to revisit the idea of slow violence. When people die through public policy or bureaucracy those deaths are still violence, even though we don't usually see them that way. Responding to that violence with violence is self-defence. southwarknotes.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/slow...

The Harris campaign was spending $100,000,000 per week. Imagine a campaign that spends that much money weekly on services for constituents. Such a campaign could never lose.

A screenshot for a veterinary video on YouTube titled "How to pill your dog"

I am surprised that listening to the Joe Rogan Experience wasn't even featured in this list of top ways to pill your dog– is this big tech censorship?

I'm fine with this being an echo chamber, if that echo is that the Holocaust actually happened and was that bad. I logged on to X this morning to read a Holocaust denial post and read over 100 comments in a row either denying or denial curious. If that's debate, I don't want it.

I prefer to not let a metric become a mandate. I had a reading goal I will completely miss this year, but I'm ok with that because other things came up this year: a month long road trip, work, caring for aging family members, etc. You can't let the metric rule you, nor use it as a cudgel on others.

GoodReads books read this year count is being treated as a yardstick of one's intellectual growth, over which folks are competing as more books read = more capacities gained = better person morally. Too many books (audiobooks) is cheating b/c no time for adequate reflection. This is the thinking.

Because they're trying to make him feel guilty and stupidly return home so they can arrest and charge him for wasting state resources. They don't genuinely want him home for the holidays.

No longer living.

The classic "Tommy needy drinky" tweet

Or expressed in Twitter lore

Mya, a white teacup Maltese with an IV in one arm on a black blanket recovering from pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure

But the SUV still drives. I have footage of the accident, and he admitted fault. Most importantly we should at least some more time with Mya, as she's responding well to the furosemide and oxygen chamber and likely can be released in the morning. I'm grateful things aren't worse.

I've had a hell of a day. My dog was unwell this morning, so we started driving back from my parent's house in KY to MI and had to stop to take her to a vet ER in Dayton because her lungs are full of fluid and she's in congestive heart failure. Then I get rear ended by an F-150.

Does somebody wanna tell all the RETVRN TERF types how taking a shit was not gender segregated in the ancient world?

A fluffy gray and white long hair cat with a sour, angry expression

"You do not yet suffer enough for me! For you suffer from yourselves, and have not yet suffered from 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯." -Nietzsche, TSZ, "On the Superior Human"

The first sentence of this film review for Taza, Son of Cochise is such a chef's kiss of a sentence. And then Tim just keeps serving.

You can't forget to pack the cat