Dekkel

🅱️itumen 🅱️ilateral 🅱️ooty 🅱️onkers

[Dekkel @Dekkel_]

@artinventcr I quite liked him in The Devil All the Time

[Dekkel @Dekkel_]

Was watching something about evolution and the narrator said DNA like “D,N…A” every time and I knew it was all over

[Zar but birthday boy 🥳 @realZarlux]

Listening to some video essay just for them to drop the most ai generated phrase I've ever heard

[Dekkel @Dekkel_]

@MarkThorne2000 @prpronto @mondoterremoti @WxNB_ The Himalayas have marine fossils found all over them. Mount Everest is made primarily of limestone, a rock that forms in the ocean. It’s basically ocean mud turned into rocks. Be a little more curious next time, you’ll learn something.

[🐡 @eehhna]

White pedophiles roam all around Asia doing pedo tourism then cry about immigrants in their settler colonies back home.

[Dekkel @Dekkel_]

@Runhob More like Captain Cost

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The reactions to this tweet are telling.

About a year ago, I spoke with someone who has worked in the high-end denim industry for a few decades. He's traveled the world to meet with some of the best indigo dyers, fabric weavers, and cut-and-sew factories. He lives and breathes denim.

We talked about whether the US could ever create a high-end denim industry that could rival Japan's. His answer, delivered to me without any sentimentality, was a straightforward "No."

According to him, the issue isn't just history.

To be sure, Japan has a long history of weaving textiles, which has led to a particularly robust denim industry in and around Okayama Prefecture. It was here, after all, that farmers found that the soil was too saline for rice cultivation sometime in the 17th century, so they switched to cotton. Over the next four hundred years, cotton cultivation here supported the development of yarn spinning, fabric weaving, and eventually a cut-and-sew industry that specialized in producing some of the world's best jeans. Economists call these "industrial clusters," which can be remarkably durable and particularly fruitful for innovation.

But according to my friend, history is not enough to explain why Japan excels at producing high-end denim. He believes culture also plays a role.

It can be uncomfortable to invoke culture as an explanatory variable, especially in today’s political climate. To be sure, sometimes "culture" is just used as a lazy variable to explain things when someone doesn't know enough about history, institutions, or laws. It's not the first variable I turn to when trying to understand social outcomes.

However, my friend feels strongly that differences between Japanese and American culture lead craftspeople in Japan to approach spinning, dyeing, and weaving more as an art than as an industrial processes. They are also more open to experimentation — tinkering with machines to get neppy weaves, using slubby yarns, dyeing hanks in unique ways.

In the US, he claims, people are much more focused on profit and efficiency. There's less appreciation for craft and therefore less incentive to produce the kinds of unusual, labor-intensive fabrics that distinguish high-end Japanese denim.

I still think some structural factors are involved. In a nation of 350 million people, I'm confident that there are tens of thousands of people interested in craft. However, they can't become artisans because few apprenticeship programs exist. Skyrocketing rents and car dependency make it hard to earn a living as an artist or craftsperson, as you have to forgo earning a lot of money for a long time. The US government also provides little support for apprenticeships and craft-based businesses.

Additionally, US fashion media focuses much more on trends and celebrities. In Japan, you can find hundreds of speciality publications that really get into the weeds about bourbon, woodworking, denim, tailoring, and any other hobby you can imagine. This creates an informed consumer base ready to purchase things from artisans.

This came to mind as I scrolled through the replies to this tweet — the incredulity of jeans costing $300 and confident claims that jeans are just jeans. Lots of people insisting that some brand's $100 jeans are the same as these that cost $300.

$300 for jeans is not even expensive in this corner of menswear. This Business Insider episode below gets into why a pair of Momotaro jeans can cost upwards of $2,000. It has much to do with how the material is dyed and the fabric is handwoven.

Is this ridiculous? Yes, on some level. But to my mind, no more ridiculous than a lot of stuff celebrated in the US, such as monster truck rallies, sports memorabilia culture, and the garages full of expensive recreational equipment that gets used once a decade.

Textiles are one of our earliest forms of art, so it's never a surprise to me to hear that some prosaic garment can be made in a more artisanal and thus expensive manner. Of course, whether you're willing to pay the price of these garments is another matter. But appreciating craftsmanship is always free.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[Jingna Zhang @zemotion]

What the hell must I do?

Artists just want a place online where platforms don't feed their work to AI. So I built Cara. But people just won't leave us alone.

The laws don't help us, the governments don't help us. What are artists supposed to do exactly? 1/

[Dekkel @Dekkel_]

People don’t know how to tag spoilers for blockbusters anymore. They just take pictures in theater and say shit like “HOW COULD MAIN CHARACTER SURVIVE THIS LIFE CHANGING EVENT?” Without a care in the world. Fuck you

[Dekkel @Dekkel_]

@fiat_money @AzelfDaGirl No matter how many times I block Kalshi and its alternatives, some other gambling account wheels it out 🤦‍♂️

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@MomentsofBrazi1 He looks like he’s constantly wasted. Wouldn’t surprise me if he is.

[brent is Astoriamaxxing 🌹 @brent858]

Seeing some leftists mad at this and it’s like, do you actually want to build a mass movement that appeals to millions of people or do you want a book club where we jerk each other off

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@realradec Wait your pergola and decorative wall are beautiful, show us more of those

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@_onthewayjay Certified oldhead located. Lord of the Rings originally came out in 2001. People born then are almost 30 years old. Star wars came out in the 70’s and 80’s. Each has a 20-30 year gap.

Recalibrate your mind. It’s not 2008 anymore

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@WhiteHouse >Bollards misaligned and not plumb
>Logo AI generated
Freedumb Fuel!!!!!!!
>Not even cheaper than gas at GIANT with rewards card

Dumpy Trumpy, buddy. Are you even trying?

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@AndMelee @sissythatpatch You get used to the sepia 🥲

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@Sirhoe2 They joined April 2026 from Indonesia, you fell for the bait

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@Sirhoe2 If they’re posting something stupid/low effort and they have a blue check, they’re engagement farming and you’re providing them a payday by replying

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@ScottyWitte @TMZ @carlquintanilla @hicharliecotton AI slop is still slop, even if I support its message