we are one game away from Arcsys announcing Marvel Tokon Mango Sentinel Knicks edition on launch day. the prophecy must be fulfilled https://t.co/8dNcNu26Ur
what? "academics" are not "people"?
really naive to expect that "people"--generally--would be interested in abstruse points of linguistics, details of translations from foreign languages, explications of metaphysical poetry, footnotes to Plato, meticulous reviews of a new Odyssey translation by a Greek scholar, new ideas in philosophy of language....
in effect you would be decapitating university research in the (futile) hope of capturing fickle audiences scrolling through the N Y Times for a three-minute read.
Steven Pinker is academic enough when it suits him, as well as "popular." not everyone is Pinker, or Carl Sagan. what you really mean is that writing for a general audience is writing for a non-critical audience since few in that audience will see your mistakes let alone call you out on them; you can shine as a "popular writer" while not having to be vetted by your peers.
able-bodied persons had better wake up to the (inevitable) fact that if they/we live long enough, we will be disabled; & if we live longer, we will be severely disabled. this MAGA/GOP war against "disabled" persons is actually terrifying.
you may think that you are 100% healthy but, face it, you are one bloodwork or CAT-scan away from un-healthy. one hour in your life can alter it forever.
have some sympathy for the disabled & what this administration is threatening before it is too late.
I have this theory that facefucking requires a super sensitive person who can read your body language cues so they can push you to your limit without causing any permanent damage. throat training with a real person + having them get excited for you when you go extra hard is my favorite thing ever. the only dude I ever fell hard for used to do cOUNTDOWNS and during the countdowns he’d say stuff like “good girl” and “just a little longer you’re doing so good” and it would always make me so happy. that shit makes me shiver to even think about
Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3
This version of the internet bankrolled by corporations is unusable. The only defense for you is to invest in having well developed, excellent taste.
Corporations are trying to trick you into accepting this Internet of Trash as part of you, but your good taste will protect you.
Become culturally literate. Learn about and enjoy art. Read. Cook with friends. Explore the past. Decide how you feel about things before exploring the opinions of others, who are often infected with the corporate brain worms of this newly emerging Internet of Trash.
Explore art that makes you feel and double down on those feelings. Read books that make you feel and make the lessons from those feelings part of who you are. Listen to music and chase those feelings in other places — in bars, in beds, in museums, in nature.
Above all else, do not let anyone tell you how you feel.
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1/ Online age verification is the hill to die on.
Not a fight you can sit out. Not a battle you can skip. Not a policy you can afford to ignore while you focus on something else.
This is it. This is the line. This is the infrastructure that enables every other piece of the digital control grid.
If we lose this fight, we lose everything.