David Samson

Architectural historian interested in USA modernism and its roots. Author of Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Midcentury Modernism (Ashgate).

[Yasmin Nair (One Tenacious B.) @NairYasmin]

The University of Chicago aesthetic -- Ye Olde Not Quite Merry England -- was specifically designed to imitate Oxbridge. It's aspirational and hollow -- and hides the fact that this is the birthplace of neoliberalism, a profoundly modern phenomenon. See: Milton Friedman.

[bONGO🪻 @wariocolosseum]

ai therapy chatbots should be illegal everywhere man they just sound predatory as fuck

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

about fucking time. they have always shown a disregard for humanity.

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

The reality is that a 40-hour work week is a total nightmare for people with ADHD and autism. It drains you completely. It's an actual disability, but capitalism treats us like we're just making excuses or complaining because our brains aren't wired to maximize profit for someone else.

[michael e. v. knight @michaelevknight]

Someone posted: It's so wild that people don't see that "raising the minimum wage to a true living wage would cause businesses to close" is another way of saying capitalism doesn't work.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In Homer’s Odyssey, Circe lives alone on an island. She is skilled, intelligent, self-sufficient. Men arrive at her door expecting hospitality and dominance. Instead, she gives them wine laced with magic and turns them into pigs.

For centuries, that transformation has been read as punishment. The dangerous woman. The emasculator. The seductress who strips men of power.

But look closer.

Circe does not hunt men. They come to her. They enter her space, consume what she offers, assume control. And suddenly they are revealed as what they already are—greedy, impulsive, ruled by appetite. The spell doesn’t create the pig. It exposes it.

What terrifies patriarchal storytelling is not that Circe is evil. It’s that she is autonomous. She lives without a husband. She commands knowledge traditionally coded as forbidden—herbalism, potions, transformation. She controls who stays human and who does not. She negotiates with Odysseus as an equal once he proves he cannot be easily subdued.

For women, Circe becomes a mirror.

She represents the fear society projects onto women who refuse submission. A woman with boundaries is called cold. A woman with power is called dangerous. A woman who refuses to soothe male ego is branded monstrous. “She turned him into a pig” becomes shorthand for “She took away his dominance.”

But there is another reading.

Circe is not destroying men. She is demanding accountability. She is the embodiment of consequence. Enter her world carelessly, and you will be transformed by it.

© Women In World History

#drthehistories

[Jason Overstreet @JasonOverstreet]

Not a single member of the Trump administration officially acknowledged Juneteenth. Not that I wanted them to. Or expected it. Just pointing out for the record once again how nakedly racist these abominable people are.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

We really need to talk about how the inability to meet our basic needs, and how giving away 80% of our days to jobs that drain and exploit us, leads to serious MENTAL HEALTH issues for so many people.

So much depression, anxiety, and stress is caused by capitalism.

[Jackson Blood @JacksonBlodooh]

Pedophile Leon Black

[Tony Annett @tonyannett]

“Yet the victory of fascism was made practically unavoidable by the liberals’ obstruction of any reform involving planning, regulation, or control.”—Karl Polanyi.

[blue @bluewmist]

Unpopular opinion: I don't think your life has to have a purpose, or you a grand ambition; I think it's okay to just wander through life finding interesting things until you die

[pete wolfendale @deontologistics]

This would be far more comforting if it was still possible to find the financial security in academia required to do this sort of systematic work without having to compete with people optimised for churning out papers on piecemeal topics almost no one will ever read.

[🇬🇷🏛️η απόγονος του προστάτη🏹🏺 @alexxozydu]

do you guys realise that joining a guild was arguably way harder than getting a degree today? master masons, artisans and architects were mostly wealthy burghers. the most you’d be able to do, if you belonged in the 90% of serfs, was haul the rubble out and help carry the stones.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

The moment we start debating the “worth” of others, the fascists win.

We all have value.

You don’t need to produce for capitalism in order to matter.

You don’t need to be healthy, rich or productive.

Every person matters.

The ruling class benefits when we forget that.

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

Sascha Riley’s description of how trump raped him as a young boy, makes your skin crawl in disgust. He says he’s in the Epstien files. The Epstein files make his story certain. Our hero veteran is telling the truth. Trump must be forced to resign today. Release the files.

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

As a newer immigrant to this country, coming from a country of ancient civilization, I immediately recognized, very early on, that bribery in the US is practiced in secret, disguised as capitalism advancement. What trump did was that he blew the lid off, and made bribery legal.

[middleclassparty @middle_class_us]

It's not just your job or your industry.

Employers give workers 29 hours a week on purpose.

At 30 hours they would qualify for health insurance and sick leave.

So they cap it at 29.

Rents are outpacing wages in every city.

In America today a low wage job is homelessness waiting to happen.