Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

I wish one didn't have to be a spectator in the FO phase if one didn't participate in the FA phase.

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

Small/weak bladder take

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

After traveling for awhile, you realize that the aisle seat is actually better than a window seat.

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

@JonahDispatch That’s not a defense, and yes, it’s a nihilistic grift

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

Giving Tucker Carlson any degree of credulity isn’t much better than granting the same to Hitler. The guy is obviously a nihilist

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

🚨🚨 Tucker Carlson insists three times that Hitler "did not want to go to war with the UK," and twice demands that Jacob Rees-Mogg "acknowledge" it.

Hitler "didn't want war" with Britain the way a mugger doesn't want a fight with his victim. He wanted Britain to stand aside while he took Europe.

Britain publicly guaranteed Poland's independence in March 1939. Hitler invaded Poland anyway.

Rees-Mogg: "I'm very surprised you're verging on defending Hitler."

Carlson sarcastically remarks that he is a secret Nazi, then clarifies that he is neither a secret Nazi nor a public Nazi.

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

Indeed. I can feel myself breaking.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

There were a lot of things that only worked because there's a limit to the rate at which humans can operate. We're about to find out what all of them are, as they break.

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

Man… I had missed this little nugget. Another plot element that, all by itself, captures the stupidity of the era

[FishStickOnAStick @FSoaS_]

Remember when the heroes freed all the space horses but never freed the enslaved children, that was cool of them

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

@perrymetzger @moultano Yeah, and that has nothing to do with whether you're right or not. Right?

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

@moultano New atheism was needed again almost as soon as people (somewhat justifiably) soured on it. Lessons must always be learned anew

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

In short, the facts now emerging about the fatalities in Gaza are exactly as we predicted back in 2024.

A lot of people should lose their careers over their ridiculous statistical modelling predicting hundreds of thousands of deaths in outlets like the Lancet and joke NGOs like AOAV. They won’t. They’ll get a free pass. Their blood libel work is done.

Famine allegations, destruction of healthcare, targeting civilians; all debunked by Hamas’s own numbers. That’s before we get to the 5,000 combatants we’ve found on the lists so far (from obituaries released mainly by the militant groups themselves).

The world’s media should hang their heads in shame.

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

@NYTimesPR Your headlines and coverage have been in steady decline for the better part of two decades

[Pessimists Archive @PessimistsArc]

1501: Pope Alexander VI criticizes Gutenberg’s printing press safety

“The art of printing can be of great service in so far as it furthers the circulation of useful & tested books; but it can bring about serious evils l..it will, therefore, be necessary to maintain full control”

[BENZO-KAZOOIE @BENZOTOOIE]

“What if we just-“

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

Sometimes I wonder why I tweet into the void… But as a personal record of consistency, it’s at least a small comfort

[Kolchak the Dude (He/Him) 😇 🐊 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦🍌 @ArthurKolchak]

Dear lord, this is absolute gold.

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

This scene was peak pander. Utterly hollow, like most of the decade plus of nonstop pandering in media of all kinds.

[MatchCut @diegetic0]

No debate. Still, nothing in cinema comes close to this yet

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

@BecomingCritter We understand and it’s not subtle. Men engage in a lot of the same behavior, in fact.

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

@digitlartifacts It’s not subtle.

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

I feel like a lot of social media hubbub can be explained by the fact that there’s zero stakes attached. The actual Klan, for example, engaged in traitorous activity including conspiracy, terrorism, and good old organized crime

[Cucker Tarlson @sloppy_steaks]

He’s saying this because of the Klan-level racism that is completely normal for SEC fandom btw

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

The AI-generated music discussion has now moved from Muzak to pop to some pretty top-end material, and I think this is a good statement on the state of things. It will be interesting to see where we are in a year:

[Alan Lockett @hypernicon]

As a composer, I would say that this fugue is technically correct but lifeless. It has what we might describe as "flat affect". It doesn't grow or change. It doesn't draw you in. It's fairly repetitive and doesn't take advantage of opportunities to grab and exploit your emotions, despite actually creating a few opportunities to do so.

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

The popularization of the notion that sex is about power absolutely poisoned people’s minds. Sex is about sex.

[ABC News @ABC]

An advertising campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney for a sports betting platform, in which she covers herself with footballs, tennis rackets, and hockey pads, has sparked widespread backlash from female athletes, who say it sexualizes women in sports.

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

It's truly, like, every post: https://t.co/eQlVRzmH7T

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Probably nothing

[Balthasar Sohanstag 🕷🦉🐘 @Sohanstag]

Who pays all these pro-nuclear, anti-renewable bots and why? Few other subjects provide such a predictable response, and there the motivation is much easier to guess

[Jesse Peltan @JessePeltan]

Solar passed nuclear in Texas 2 years ago.

Now it's double.