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SING EAT CHECK IT OUT! · DUNNO READY ROUGH OUT THERE…? · WHATEVER HOOKUPS
I was repeating a post about CS Lewis, who I still may get around to reading some day. It was about unkind comments that Ayn Rand … who I am much less likely to read … wrote in the margins of a CSL book. The original post was lost to digital antiquity, so I googled the phrase “Ayn Rand Really, Really Hated C.S. Lewis.” One result was from “THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC Politics & Culture from a Catholic Perspective.” On top of the page was a youtube intermission, “C.S. Lewis vs The New Atheists” by Peter S. Williams (Book Promo 1)”
REPUBLIC TRICKY! · RIGHT! ANTI-DEMOCRACY · NEED TO KEEP SOMETHING!
I foolishly clicked on a facebook post by Transcendental Meditation®. TM® had been “liked” by a fbf, triggering fb’s algorithm . When I copied the url … I keep a list of sites that I visit … a popup screen appeared. “What’s the main reason you’re leaving this page?” My options included “I need more details before deciding, The content was unclear or confusing, I’m interested but not ready to book yet” When I finished pasting the url onto my document, there was a second popup ad. “Mariam A Real Live Person” opened a chat window on my page. “Can I help you?
Animal scribe rant · strategy Nazi nation · exterminate fest
I was trying to focus on a task, but Yahweh got in the way. I was going to say God, but “Yahweh” rhymes with “got in the way”. The conflation of God with Yahweh is one of our problems. People make a big deal about whether you do, or do not, believe in dog spelled backwards. When you phrase it as “do you believe in Yahweh,” it becomes less imposing. The truth is, Yahweh was a minor deity that looked over metallurgy. Through a miracle of BCE marketing, Yahweh became THE LORD. She was now the only game in town.
strong ass feminine · evolution kind of trans · beyond anything?
The original goal of this format was to use haiku reductions as writing prompts. The first three colors of this rainbow were random drabbles, inserted under an unrelated reduction. A strong ass feminine would not do that. Using ass as an all purpose extra syllable is a part of american english that I find bizarre. One time, I saw a letter signed by some someone called “University of Michigan student with nappy ass hair.” If her posterior is covered by nappy hair, keeping her clothes on is a good idea. Maybe this is devolution, not evolution, slouching towards trans identity.
RENT UNIVERSITY · JOKE SCHOOL WHERE LOW DANCING COULD · INTERPRET WIPE OUT
There is an old joke. You don’t buy beer, you rent it. I used to drink pitchers at a place in the control tower at PDK, and the men’s room was 45 steps down the hall. This may be why the airport management told them to ditch the hippie beer joint and have a civilized place where they sell sandwiches. That was 1977. In 1982, I went in one night, after arriving at the gas station a minute after the quit selling beer. As soon as I walked in the room, everyone looked around, and shouted STRANGER. I drank my beer and …
you don’t know bro simp · tit fluctuates lesbian · aligned with fluid
@IonaItalia An important statement of our principles at @Quillette, by my boss, editor-in-chief @clairlemon … “Heterodox” does not mean a fucking thing. @Quillette is a self proclaimed “Heterodox” defender of what they call liberal values. @Quillette is also an unapologetic defender of Israel’s campaign of mass annihilation against her neighbors. At the same time, @Quillette supports the military industrial complex in a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. I left this comment in the thread … OTOH, Israel is destroying her neighbors, with American support. The crimes against Palestinian/Lebanese/Syrian humanity are staggering. @Quillette defends this. Liberal shmiberal
THE ORCHESTRAL TWIST · AMERICA ULTIMATE · ERADICATION
This is going to be the featured picture today. It is a reduction of a reduction. A haiku reduction is where we take some unspecified block of text, and eliminate enough characters to create a 5-7-5 enviornment. A featured picture … the image that will appear on facebook, twitter, and bsky … is (measured in pixels) starts with an image 720×720. This a square, like many of the people we know. You take a chunk out of the middle, measuring 720×405. This is a 9/16 format, which is favored by many electronic devices. Is this an ORCHESTRAL TWIST, or ULTIMATE ERADICATION?