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i’ve been thinking about this and desperately searching for it for months

WOULDST THOU SHIPPETH TO SPAIN?

Which is the safer and less ambitious option. But a third of the way into Death of the Author I do somewhat feel it would have been better served by leaning more towards it. Because my dominant emotional response reading all the chapter-length excerpts from Rusted Robots at this point is just wondering when there's going to be a reveal about a genie's wish or deal with the devil or internet-wide algorithmic manipulation or something that could possibly explain the in-universe reception of a, like, B/B- sci fi story.

after that we drove in total relieved hysterics, the kinda laughter that only happens when you narrowly avoided catastrophe. and i have NO idea if the driver that hit him even said a word because my entire consciousness in that moment was farquaad, there was only farquaad. I hope that he reads this one day and knows that he is STILL talked about and regarded as some sort of festival cryptid. we are blessed indeed

Yes we did. they just weren't in the news and people who know nothing about computers and network infrastructure weren't discoursing about them.

A monitoring group repeatedly warned the Police Service of Northern Ireland over the past eight months that anti-immigration activists were circulating the addresses of properties that were targeted in this week’s Belfast riots. The Accountability Project Northern Ireland, a volunteer group formed last summer to monitor anti-immigration activity online, sent dozens of reports to the PSNI between November 2025 and June 2026. They warned of a growing focus on houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) by anti-immigration and far-right figures, something they first observed in August 2025. The Guardian understands a so-called hitlist of addresses has been circulating among far-right groups since August 2025 and was sent to the PSNI in January 2026. The addresses were among the locations targeted during this week’s anti-immigration disorder. The Guardian has seen a screenshot of an email sent to a PSNI inspector in January attaching one such list. Campaigners say a similar list has been circulated on social media and messaging apps in recent days. The PSNI warned earlier this week against the sharing of home addresses, adding that doing so had left families and residents “extremely distressed”.

We should bring back forest green.

The Sea of Ice via Caspar David Friedrich

Because there’s a lot of economic behavior seems to be based on the assumption that eg. A particularly productive and healthy dairy cow is more likely to have daughters who are themselves partially productive and healthy dairy cows.

Also there’s stuff that has “scientific consensus” but not social consensus, like cancer treatments, vaccines, the utility of apple cider vinegar, and the historical ranges of various peoples, animals, and diseases.