you are fifteen thousand generations removed from stone tools

to be clear you are fifteen thousand generations removed from the invention of stone tools. not from the end of stone tools. modern humans are still using stone tools.

I thought you meant we were descendents -of- stone tools

your father was a handaxe and your mother smelt of microliths

Let’s all actually do this

posted in 2015 and then every single world event for the next 11 years has just felt like this exactly

whoever wrote this paper has the funniest phrasing possible

happy turtle bit off a cop’s toe in the hudson river day for those who celebrate

A CENTURY AGO

the way that the entire internet is getting devoured by cloudflare is probably really bad, in a way I have no ability to articulate on a technical or structural level, but which I can sense like an old fisher subconsciously detects a bad mussel.

"leftist" is a meaningless word. In my day people had coherent political philosophies and fought over them. I think that Marxist-Leninists are cops, but I respect that they at least believe in something. You ask a "leftist" what their philosophy is and they'll tell you that communism is about "sharing" and "being nice". Okay, my philosophy is about killing capitalists. Disaffected Democrats, the lot of you.