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Arin Arcady

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Using this space to list books that were influential on me: Theiss-Morse & Hibbing STEALTH DEMOCRACY Holland DOMINION Fukuyama ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ORDER Scott SEEING LIKE A STATE Abu-Lughod BEFORE EUROPEAN HEGEMONY πŸ“Chicago All Saints Hospital

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why don't they make the entire Strait of Hormuz out of the same stuff as the black box is made out of

12.03.2026 12:46 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh sorry I didn't mean to sound like it was making fun of you at all! It's just v frustrating for me at least that this is exactly where a legislature should be stepping up to deal with a completely new kind of thing with new pros and cons

12.03.2026 03:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah so many of these debates should be solved not by tortured analogy to past technology, but by legislation from a functional Congress sob

12.03.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Elizabeth Kolbert is very good (OBVIOUSLY) but they should have let my celebrity crush--who also works for the New Yorker as I have surely mentioned--write this one!

12.03.2026 02:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Or maybe he's a habitual criminal in the mouse world and is just repeatedly getting arrested by mouse police and sentenced by a mouse judge to two months in mouse prison downstate! Two months may not seem long but it's pretty long for a mouse. Well great now I feel bad for him.

12.03.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes there is a mouse in my kitchen. But then I set out some traps and he gets the hint and goes away for a few months. I guess we have a sort of an understanding.

12.03.2026 02:38 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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12.03.2026 02:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh like qui tam cases?

I'll, uh, think about the cookies idea

12.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've dealt a bit with the lawfirm for that transgender Chili's employee and, well, I wasn't impressed sorry to say. I support trans people being employed and take no pleasure in reporting this :(

11.03.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Aw man! We've lost a lot of vegan places this year

11.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

when was the War of 1812, again? can someone reminbd me

11.03.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

26-cv-2216 Hudson Webber vs Brinker International

I got the complaint if you want it

11.03.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

insulin is the example they use in Econ 101 for something with a vertical demand curve, but fertilizer is probably pretty close to vertical

11.03.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yeah that's a v good point!

11.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

federal gas tax is 18.4c/gal. if you want to think about how much a tax holiday is actually going to be noticed

11.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

But then the lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec got me thinking: what if *I* could roll up into a spiky ball to defend myself from foes?

11.03.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

so then I suppose the idea is to get a lot of out-of-district contributions and then use the money to buy stuff for herself

11.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Some more good evidence that many people seek elected office because they are unqualified for regular employment

11.03.2026 12:49 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Well, 1992 wasn't that long ago" said Arin while consciously not doing the math

11.03.2026 01:51 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Obviously this is Netanyahu's goal, just to get as much of this done as he can get, at Washington's expense

11.03.2026 01:50 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

STOP DON'T
NOW HAVE YOUR WIFE EMAIL ME

11.03.2026 00:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think a lot of stuff he says makes sense if you assume it's what the last person he talked to said. I wonder if he's consciously manipulating the markets, or if others around him have figured out how to get him to say things that will.

11.03.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

okay so with the caveat that I have intentionally been not paying attention to this race who the f is "Phil Andrew"

11.03.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

& I think it was Nicole Cliffe who talked about how horse training is really different, horses are either content to be in the safe place or want to get to the safe place. there's no curiosity when there's no need to search for food, so you have to think differently about how to relate

10.03.2026 23:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think if it's justifiable at all it's because it's so hard to imagine that someone so stupid could become president twice despite the opposition of the only two political parties both times (to varying degrees but definitely at least some). I personally struggle to explain it!

10.03.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

there's this certain level of psychology and behavior that we have that's just so recognizably also present in other mammal predators and omnivores

10.03.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I think about when Xi went to Mar-a-Lago and his spies were like "figure out what's so amazing about this guy that he upended the American political system" and Xi came back with "dunno what to tell you, he's just a big idiot"

10.03.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it's free ice though

10.03.2026 23:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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check out C briefly appearing here, looking confused and like she wasn't expecting to be in a music video, because that is in fact what she was feeling in the moment
www.instagram.com/p/DVZfYCYkSto/

10.03.2026 23:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yeah it was only about 5% blocked but you never know, there are a lot of leaves on my block

10.03.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0