Iona Italia, PhD 🇦🇺
@IonaItalia
Multinational Parsi 🔥 Managing Editor @Quillette Loves chess, tango, gymnosophism, dogs, sci fi, nuclear power, free speech, Mars. For 🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼 & a free 🌏
My main wish for 2025 is to meet a man of around my age who is kind, intelligent, physically affectionate and single and build a relationship with him. I send this wish out into the ether just in case that man might be among my mutuals or their friends.
All right, I will begrudgingly forgive her for taking part in that horrific group rendition of "Imagine."
Gal Gadot hugs hostage survivor Naama Levy who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th and held in Gaza for 477 days.
Another one saved from prison by the statute of limitations.
I prefer the ones with Shatner as I find it easier to imagine Kirk delivering bad puns.
The only reason this man is not in prison is because this joke is so old the statute of limitations forbids me to prosecute.
@IonaItalia
NEW from @Quillette Narrated 🎧: @aziz0nomics reads his piece "Glamourising Violence at Glastonbury." quillette.com/2025/07/04/gla…
All these Effective Altruist posts about shrimp are making me hungry. Don't come the raw prawn with me, altruists. Let's throw those prawns on the barbie.
The communication stones are proving to be a real problem for the suspension of disbelief with Stargate Universe. They don't have a doctor on board, so TJ is struggling to treat people—when they could let the Beckett clone or some other competent doctor take over her body. cc…
In a pot full of Kneecaps, try being a Chris Martin
"We welcome all people, thank you my brothers and sisters." Chris Martin, frontman of Coldplay, welcomes Israeli fans to his show.
An interview with Francis Fukuyama. By @mattjj89. quillette.com/2025/07/22/soc…
"There’s a powerful human desire to rise above egalitarian mediocrity and assert some powerful political position or demand greater authority, but the whole reason we have liberalism is that we don’t agree on who that authority ought to be." @Quillette quillette.com/2025/07/22/soc…
A sneak preview of my upcoming interview with @andrewdoyle_com for @Quillette. 🎧 riverside.fm/shared/exporte… #RiversideFM
I think this is related to the idea (can't remember whose) that the left is full of straight people pretending to be gay while the right is full of gay people pretending to be straight.
I’m trying to figure out why it’s so funny to me when right wing people look weird as opposed to leftists and at first I thought it was my bias but I’m starting to think it’s because looking weird is something the left does on purpose but you know this guy thought he ate
Why don't the crew of Destiny use the communication stones to call up Samantha Carter back at Stargate Command and Rodney (who is presumably now in San Francisco) and get them to help find a solution to their technical issues? @BaronDestructo
I would settle for a man reading at all. Any book and under any circumstances. It's so rare!
It’s been widely agreed with in a bunch of my circles that a man reading to you just really -does- something.
I'm loving Stargate Universe so far. It's got old school Battlestar Galactica vibes. I'm really enjoying being gazillions of light years from Earth in a battered old battler of a ship. @BaronDestructo
A sneak peak of my forthcoming talk with @aytchellesse for @Quillette. riverside.fm/shared/exporte… #RiversideFM
I feel bad for this woman. But I also think that this may be the saving of her.
Ohio teacher starts panicking and crying in court after being sentenced to a week in jail for stalking her ex-boyfriend. 27-year-old Hannah Freeman was accused of following her ex-boyfriend to work at least 33 times in a single month. She was also accused of breaking into…
I'm against adultery, but more strongly opposed to the ideas that your employer or the government should have any say in your sex life and that we should single out individuals as scapegoats to bear the brunt of the world's disapproval for something of which many are guilty.
"The Scopes trial wasn’t really about evolution. It was about about the rights of the individual versus the rights of the community and about epistemology—who determines what is valid information." Graham Daseler for @Quillette quillette.com/2025/07/21/too…
