It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
I wrote an abstract; it's supposed to be 700 words long; it's 1000 words long; now I am suffering
Serkis' rendition of Legolas singing of Nimrodel made be genuinely so sad. Didn't think that was possible before.
I did not think it possible, but Andy Serkis' audiobook of Lord of the Rings has made me love the books even more, and in all new ways. For once, I think I never have really appreciated all the songs properly before. It's magical!
You're not a moral realist. You just have low self-esteem and a pathological need for validation from external sources.
Kafka's "The Castle"
I feel like the Graeber experience is:
(1) he’s talking generally: well this is interesting and makes sense
(2) he’s talking about something you know about: oh no
The three Spidermen meme. The labels are Council of Europe, European Council, and Council of the European Union
That was always the best bit of teaching European Politics. Happy days.
I feel like David Graeber really captured something about lefty academia because the concept of “bullshit job” is very resonant and has a lot of intuitive appeal but his exploration of it is totally hamstrung by the fact that he’s never left campus and is very vague on the mechanics of actual work
Angela Merkel bei
FREIHEIT DELUXE.
Bauen die da das Batmobil nach?!
It really exemplifies how being convincing can be a virtue of philosophical writing all by itself
I'm probably pretty late to the game, but damn, Charles Mills' "The Racial Contract" is a good book. It's just perfectly written for what it's attempting to do
Irankrieg: Der Postillon beantwortet die wichtigsten Fragen www.der-postillon.com/2026/03/ratg...
Egal, wie stressig euer Morgen ist:
Die S-Bahn fährt nicht.
Eine Kita-Gruppe ist mit mir gestrandet.
Das erste Kind hat gerade gesagt, dass es mal Pipi muss.
"Jetzt ist nicht die Zeit für Belehrungen, sondern für Geschlossenheit und gemeinsames Handeln" ist mehr oder weniger die Botschaft, mit der Wilhelm II. Deutschland in den Ersten Weltkrieg geschickt hat, und es ist wirklich eine Schande, dass ein Bundeskanzler sowas sagt.
Hard to concentrate on academic work when war rages and spreads, and all my thoughts are with the innocent people who die, are wounded, or are made homeless.
Die Bundesrepublik sollte mal der Gegenentwurf sein zum Kaiserreich, zum Scheitern Weimars, und zur Nazi-Diktatur, und unter Merz ist von diesem Anspruch nichts mehr übrig.
Es ist völlig Wahnsinn, auf welchem Level Merz die basalen moralischen Ansprüche der deutschen Bundesrepublik nicht nur aufgibt, sondern aktiv bekämpft. Nach innen wird gespalten und diskriminiert, und nach außen macht er sich mit Völkermödern und Kriegstreibern gemein.
This is something I wrestle with a lot - on the whole, things are awful not just because *stuff happens*, but because people have chosen for them to be this way. I'm not really sure what to do with that.
John Brown didn’t give up on Kansas & I’ll be damned if I ever do.
Can anybody recommend a good comic or graphic novel that features a dytopian bureaucracy of some kind? #GraphicNovels #Comics
Checks out
This is gold. Absolute gold. Spice even.
Chani and Paul talking... CHANI: So, Paul, how's the Muad'Dib job going? PAUL: They pay me in woims. CHANI: {math lady overlay, thinking about woims} PAUL: Woims.
I've been woimpilled
It's time for some woimposting
cant.stop.laughing
I think all of this is true and fascinating, but it's also important to add: Sometimes refraining from commensurating can also constitute a moral failure. So there is really a whole spectrum of cases between morally faulty commensuration and moral failure to do so
