Based and Superstructured

Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.

Is anyone else experiencing debilitating amounts of dread?

our common life depends upon each other's toil

War is always evil but it is particularly evil when it is so so so stupid.

“this whole thing smacks of a gender” i holler as i overturn the global economy and turn the down jones industrial average into the industrial shit

It’s too easy to go to war

“Nothing seems evil to those who serve it.”
- Simone Weil

megachurch model busted. cool pastor model broken. it is time to rediscover the divine ecstasy of manifesting stigmata while preaching to woodland creatures during a 40 day fast reduces you to a flame-faced feral oneness with God.

C’mon, that’s a London tube station, not a ballplayer.

Found in Chicago.

i wrote a paper in my college class on the french revolution about how so many schools of history portray the revolution as the nearly inevitable outcome of long term trends in france when i think the truth is it was the highly improbable product of a cascade of micro-level fuck ups by Louis XVI

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

Hello—here’s the official trailer for UNDERLAND, based on my book of the same name, dir. by Rob Petit, with a haunting, glittering score by @hannahpeel.bsky.social, & the ‘Storyteller’ voiced by Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest). Hope you like it.

In UK/Irish cinemas 27 March.

chicago textile artist moira quinn made a rug version of this map and it’s the coolest thing ever

Thousands of sandhill cranes fly in and gather on a plain at sunset in front of a misty brown hill.

Thousands of sandhill cranes fly in and gather on a field to forage.

The Monte Vista CO crane festival is spectacular. I took these two shots at sunset last night. Tonight I'm giving my highest elevation keynote so far!

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

If we survive this kakistocracy we really are probably going to have to completely rebuild the entirety of U.S. IT infrastructure

The Book of Acts: The Tabletop RPG

Dinosaurs…….eat man. Women inherit the earth.

Men should admire each other, enjoy each other's company, and die for one another due to their bonds and that relationship should be described as love without embarrassment.

Dudes rock

NEW: Federal judges have spent months ordering ICE to give detainees a chance for release in bond hearings.

Now, they're worried that the bond hearings themselves — conducted by Executive Branch immigration judges — are a farce.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

and also (for those of us who grew up in more popular evangelical circles in the US) it's always worth a little revisit to consider how the "heroic Christians" of WWII (like Corrie Ten Boom) are presented as the only model for the era, instead of the country of Christians running the camps

this is not a dunk on us, though we may deserve them. this is just to say: it's maybe not very wild for a Lutheran pastor to say "oh yeah, those Lutherans are fascist". to be a liberal member of these churches in the modern context is to be permanently aware of what the church did, how it "looked".

something that doesn't come up in the US awareness as much (due to a lot of Presbyterian/Baptist/Methodist/Episcopalian heritage) is historical awareness of what your church would look like if the country went fascist.

this is not a problem that Lutherans or Catholics have, to put it lightly

A photo of Martin Luther, then text reading: 404 Error “I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess” Unfortunately the page you are looking for is one of those things Martin lost.

shoutout to the ELCA, this is an EXCELLENT 404 error page

[Exit Murderer.]