Banger chapter as always - esp. with the return of our long-lost beloved Dials in Vegapunk form. Loved seeing the crew in collaborative problem solving mode again. Fluffy question: if you had to cook one dish for Luffy to get him to save your community from Fascism, what's your go-to? #BlueSkypeia
I cannot imagine the punishment necessary to properly answer this crime against humanity, but we've got to try
even if the Hague still functioned, even if Nuremberg had gone down how people believe it did, we'll still need some new kind of system to properly perform the level of reckoning that will be necessary once this has been stopped
What to Expect When You're Expecting, addendum: by the time your child is six or seven, many parents find themselves in the role of "Necromancer's Apprentice", primarily concerned with caring for the phylacteries, relics, and arcane instruments of somebody conducting research beyond your ken
Parent horror story:
Remembered it was world book day as we arrived in the playground.
Post DOGE I think of redistributive taxation far less in terms of redistribution itself than in terms of taking away social-political nuclear launch codes from people who can’t be trusted with them.
the german word for this is lebensraum
this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible
There are good kings and bad kings, the difference between the two matters, and you’d much rather live under a good king than a bad king. But ultimately the risk of the bad kings far outweighs the potential upside of a good one. Exact same principle applies here. Too much tail risk.
Well deserved! You're all cooking over there
I've been jamming on the demo the past couple of days, and I think it's a must-play, must-support for anyone who cares about narrative in games. As you'd expect, the writing is passionate, joyful and thoroughly humane - but there's also real delight here in how well story and gameplay fit together.
Video games often have floating platforms, but they don’t explain why the platforms are floating. That’s where game writers come in, to say that platforms are kept aloft by “ghostium” an invisible fog created by the souls of every dead person
i want the jerry horne sandwich
so much cultural and political effort gone towards making a project of pacifism and an end to war seem like a soft, prosaic concern of comfortable people rather than an essential part of the project of justice and human flourishing
Literally so many of the problems in the Middle East stem from over a century of European and US intervention, including the setting the stage for the current Iranian regime, and so many are tied to their decision to seize land to create Israel and the apartheid system it subsequently created.
And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12."
Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.
There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things
Almost certainly true, and another opportunity to remember that Netanyahu would willingly trade away the safety of every Jew on earth to save his own political career and avoid going to prison for his crimes.
Two cities in Israel, bomb shelter comparison
By the way when you see reports about how Israelis are going to bomb shelters, you should keep in mind that the vast majority of Palestinian *citizens* of Israel (in the 1948 territories, not the oPT) do not have a single bomb shelter nearby due to the apartheid system Israel has implemented.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Fitting that in America’s final form, the epicenter of evil will be a private golf resort for wealthy pedophiles.
Rich alludes here to the wisdom of the judges at the Nuremburg trial: “To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
It’s simply not possible to overstate how depraved this is.
The actual reason for the illegal assault on Iran by the US and Israel is the simple fact that they feel entitled to engage in genocide, imperialism, and apartheid with impunity.
They cannot countenance any authentic threat to that project, which is what Iran—not international law—represents.
"Entire Bibliography" - Samuel Beckett, 1938-1983
The whole “false allegations ruin lives” narrative has always upset me so much because it is sexual violence that ruins far more lives, but people care far more about the 2 to 5 percent of false accusations than we do about the 1 in 4 women and the 1 in 6 children who experience sexual violence.
most creators have these BIG DREAMS and goals, like winning an oscar or traditionally publishing a book: my dream is to live in a world where the average person has a relationship with joy and sincerity and sexuality and fantasy that makes my books seem not outrageous at all. which is how i see them
