Seth Rudy

The Excursion by William Wordsworth

He called his war an “excursion” but I’ve read the whole thing and it doesn’t mention Iran once

I haven’t been unproductive as a scholar; I’ve been protecting my identity from AI companies.

Gray and white cat that I am absolutely going to make my friend via treats and slow-blinking

In which I am watched with some
suspicion by a neighborhood cat #caturday

With ASECS around the corner I’m wondering if my career is advanced enough or the profession diminished enough for me to get very drunk and shout “Dryden sucks” at the hotel bar

Me: violence is never the answer
Me: *sees DOGE bros NEH depositions*
Me: gonna need a hammer and a blowtorch here

Why do you hate whatever capitalism defines progress as

US government going to war like

1st Witch: When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
2nd Witch: When the hurly-burly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won.
3rd Witch: lost AND won?
2nd: yeah you could say it’s both
1st: what
2nd: yeah in two weeks, or a year, or whatever
3rd: the fuck did you get us into

Wow the stuff that’s going to come out in journalists’ books five years from now instead of when we really needed to hear it is gonna be nuts

It’s, uh, raining. A lot.

Unpopular opinion: the SAVE Act doesn’t go far *enough.* The future of the country would be better protected by much more severe and expansive restrictions that strictly limit voting to property owning US citizens over 40 who currently live in my house and are typing this post.

Me: I want to read something good
Wife: like
M: like Dickens
W: read Dickens
M: I’ve read Dickens
W: all
M: most
W: Pickwick
M: yes
W: Barnaby Rudge
M: yes
W: Curiosity Shoppe
M: yes
W: Our Mutual Friend
M: my darling, I’ve *published* on Our Mutual Friend
W: leave this house, leave it now

No no no now it means that candidates compete for salary and benefits during the battle royale portion of the campus visit

There’s an episode of Star Trek: TOS where a computer runs the war simulation and reports casualties figures to the people who then dutifully off themselves and I can feel the tech bros gearing up to propose it

When I reach 5k followers I will pull the rug out and reveal the Higher Truths

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sub Key Lime Pie Frappuccino

We are governed by idiots; please enjoy some footage I took of small-clawed otters eating fish on a raft

Decent humans: surely, no one would ever re—
Government: doing it now
Tech: with AI
Banks: through offshore accounts
Media: held by our owners
Churches: in Jesus’ name
Prediction markets: whose return you can bet on
Epstein class: with total impunity

So I says to Mabel, I says

*I’m* actually just a more complex telephone exchange.

For your politics-addled minds, two very young giraffes looking very spindly while running in slow motion

Running out of hopes and dreams to give up on, here

Nah I want the stats now on conspiracy theories that turn out to be right

“Usually?”

Black cat sleeping on side

Trismegistus is too old for action photos. #caturday

I have one but I’ve instructed it to answer as if it secretly knows that I rather than it is right about everything but refuses to admit it

It’s easy and tempting to dismiss a lot of his cabinet and other appointees as simply “bad” people. I therefore encourage you all to *please* consider that deep down, many of them are in fact complicated individuals combining multiple layers of badness into a complex neural network of awfulness.

And scholar gets more narrowly defined as well?

Ngram for professional, expert, and scholar with professional ascendant after 1900

We don’t seem to do ngrams anymore but this feels significant to me for some
reason

Timely Neologism: “Hegemoron.” Please feel free to circulate.