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Lots of research things for Today, Explained. A little bit for everyone else. This account largely (exclusively?) dedicated to Merf the pitbull. Not tweeting @lumbeelaura.

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Merf has had complicated feelings about current events for as long as she can remember.

27.10.2025 02:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I see that you’ve caught lightning in a bottle, but have you ever considered it might look better in a nice vase?

21.10.2025 21:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Merf said she’s glad you enjoyed it!!

08.10.2025 22:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is actually one of the main focuses of Palaver's later scholarship. Here's a paper he wrote on Gandhi and nonviolence:

www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12...

And here's a book he coedited on mimetic theory in world religions:

msupress.org/978160917544...

02.10.2025 13:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

GREAT question. For the sake of people's attention spans, this didn't make it into the final piece, but I wish I'd had enough space for it. A lot of mimetic theorists have applied Girard's ideas to other world religions (+ shifts that are comparable to the crucifixion narrative in Christianity).

02.10.2025 13:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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01.10.2025 13:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Additional MASSIVE thanks to @samspengler.bsky.social and @hudsongiles.bsky.social for keeping me safe and honest. I know it was a lift, and I am so thankful for your careful work.

30.09.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Feeling ENDLESSLY grateful to @johngravois.bsky.social for taking a chance on a truly strange idea and joining me SO far out in the weeds. Without your generous help, I might have been stuck out there forever.

30.09.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

Taking a brief break from sporadically posting photos of my pitbull to shout this into the void:

I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com.

www.wired.com/story/the-re...

30.09.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 12

ingest 2 manifest

01.01.2025 19:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think a good 2025 resolution for all of us is to eat WAY more photos of the things that we want.

01.01.2025 19:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just swinging through to make sure all 36 of my followers are aware that there is a woman on tiktok EATING photos of Jamie Lee Curtis to get her attention.

01.01.2025 19:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Precious Rubbish by Kayla E In this fierce and fabulous debut, book designer and indie cartoonist Kayla E. reconfigures the impersonal visual language of 20...

Wife just nabbed a Publisher’s Weekly starred review for her forthcoming memoir, so I would like to formally announce: β€œI CALLED IT.”

www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-68396-...

24.12.2024 17:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are you accepting only this specific genre of screeds? Tempted to treat this as an open invitation, and I have so many screeds inside of me.

05.12.2024 17:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThat can’t be right… Nelly Furtado is a world famous musician.”

-my wife on her Spotify wrapped

05.12.2024 15:51 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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close runner up: the day I realized Blake Masters was once a Quora power user.

16.11.2024 00:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Well past time to formally move over here. Bringing along the only tweet that truly mattered to me:

the time I started a Peggy Hill β€œspace” while vaping in a public restroom the day that Roe fell.

16.11.2024 00:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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pit bull in repose

14.02.2024 03:41 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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perfect merfect.

05.02.2024 01:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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u ever seen a pit bull lol?

01.02.2024 01:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Inaugural merf introduction. This is merf the pitbull. She loves her big dinosaur and HATES getting her nails trimmed.

31.01.2024 02:35 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0