Lake Eater

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what is annoying about certain verbose, jargony academic writing is not that it is obscure, but that hidden behind the verbosity and jargon are very normal opinions. i feel like you have to earn the right to write obnoxiously by having a slightly insane argument

before hegel it should have spinoza aristotle heraclitus then mao again

stop eating clams with the shams and come eat oysters in the cloisters

Victorian parents of park slope: one of your young napoleons left his twelve pounder at the playground

"I have yet to see anything that could overturn the status of Tufan al-Aqsa – from 7 October to the most recent battle – as the greatest anti-colonial revolt of the twenty-first century." - Andreas Malm, The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth

are novels written by their narrators or by the person who wrote the book? it is impossible to say and no one really knows

sometimes I feel like my grasp of a movie is sort of shallow or limited but then 100 letterboxd users remind me it could be much worse

I subject myself to a lot of bullshit music but nothing on this planet could ever get me to listen to a *Tyler the Creator project in 2025*

An inspiring and beautiful place to write the next great doordash social media campaign

“There is no freedom in fleeing, in exile. The way out is not from, but through: an escape.” -Dylan Saba (@shaabiranks) on Kanafani, Shakur Jackson, and Sinwar

"In 1999, our family filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit. The jury concluded that our father was the victim of a conspiracy involving govt agencies. The verdict confirmed that someone other than James Earl Ray was the shooter, and that Mr. Ray was set up to take the blame."

Wild we live in a world where the Catholic Church is one of the only major organizations to have decidedly liberalized

When I donate, I donate to this project. Do it. You won’t regret it. Every dollar is worth it.

ABC poll of americans after the abu ghraib photos were released

I know that people who haven't been in psychodynamic therapy themselves or done it with patients find it hard to believe but sometimes whatever is driving the symptoms is truly some weird ass shit. Think of how weird your dreams are. Unconscious processes are weird ass.

To be clear, there are US military & legal thinkers who are quite explicitly trying to give themselves more "legal" leeway to carry out crimes in a future US-China war - and they are explicitly playing down Israel's own crimes now to prepare for that. (See next tweet)

There is no statute of limitations for these crimes. As long as they live, well hunt them. We’re going to get all of these criminals, and this is an incredible step in the right direction.