The Once and Future King

Minneapolis-born international man of mystery. Violinist, Linguist & studier of misc. things. Subpar code monkey, future moon resident and builder of brains.

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@zilax002 @hipearlrose Fare enforcement is a good thing

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@Captain_Fubar Arab warfare

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@keithwalls63 @Davidla53364030 @IanCopeland5 Bro I know 3 people who have died from cancer and they all were like 90 and had cancer on and off for decades from smoking 2 packs a day be fr here

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@ForCharlie47 @ModRightPatriot I fear we shall live without “ForCharlie47” lmao

[John Ridge @WeaponScientist]

In a better world, we’d put a Tomahawk through the window of the Kremlin for this

[Mark Zhang @markzhangart]

paitning rockets because they are beautiful

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@MRosenbaun That sorta thing always confused me, like… do people not do the math on how much something will cost year-on-year before they apply? 😭

[Eric Kohn 🥃 @iEricKohn]

Among the great things about the founding of America was the abolition of titles of nobility, divine right of kings nonsense, primogeniture, and the like.

This heritage American stuff is weak, warmed-over lusting for what we rightfully shook off: the idea that your ancestors determine your worth instead of who you are and what you do.

By all means, have pride in where you came from. But that's not what this is about, and everyone knows it.

[Roger Parloff @rparloff]

Trump's claim that he's a great "fundraiser" deserving of recognition needs to be unpacked. When he asks CEOs for money, they give it because they fear that if they don't, he will abuse federal power to wreck their lives or businesses. Let's not honor or commemorate that.

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@CjgbVictoria @DrGeneCallahan @pensandpoison Like any situation where you value old literature is in a teaching context, whether you’re evaluating it or introducing it to someone who might be interested. I don’t think A Tale of Two Cities has any moral lessons to be learned from the way it is written

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@CjgbVictoria @DrGeneCallahan @pensandpoison I mean sure, but there’s also nothing uniquely valuable about older literature. If you value it as a window into a past time and its people (which I do!), then it doesn’t really matter if it’s easily accessible to everyone?

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@DrGeneCallahan @CjgbVictoria @pensandpoison I guess with English in particular you can go back even further and make the language contact point that there even used to be multiple acceptable words for some things (egges/eiren, etc.) have we degenerated since then as we now only use 1 word for eggs? Wouldn’t think so

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@DrGeneCallahan @CjgbVictoria @pensandpoison Yeah it does, I was moreso referring to the huge shift towards standardization in orthography, it’s hard to explain to a non-linguist that before a couple hundred years ago there was just no standard way to spell things lmao

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@kingfisherb90 @Robotbeat Imo, absolutely. Legally someone might not be but I’ve met people all over the world who would fit right in. I don’t remember where I saw it but there was a quote along the lines of “the world is full of Americans, they just haven’t found their way home yet”

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@unethicalaccel @Robotbeat We’re notably not Germany or France though, we don’t have long established ethnic heritage in a location like the French or Germans do (and even then their nations are mostly a modern construct). We’ve always been made of people from all over.

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@CannaCosmonaut @Robotbeat I have befriended tons of immigrants and children of immigrants. Many of them are in the armed forces, and would fight and die for this country and its constitution without a second thought. That is more than can be said for many others.

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@keithwalls63 @Davidla53364030 @IanCopeland5 “most of us” absolutely do not know someone who’s died from magically vaccine induced cancer lmao

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@DontKnowWhat24 @ArmandDoma Dude we’re talking about a streamer here what are you on about

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@GregoryB1729 @JeremiahDJohns Ok there are some decent Macklemore songs and thrift shop is good but I don’t anyone thinks he’s a generational talent lmao, that is a really high bar

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@JeremiahDJohns Also a lot of I/P stuff goes viral on here because it’s an issue that attracts hateful people saying horrific things (which the X algo likes), but this is a controversy that’s very palatable to the ye olde Instagram story repost cuz it’s a pop culture issue

[The Once and Future King @onceforeverking]

@JeremiahDJohns It’s a thing that people who aren’t On Here care about maybe? They’re both pretty high profile artists no?