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Fanfic at AO3. Because why not? Throw me a bone - check it out. NEVER VOTE GOP, IT'S IMMORAL TAX THE BASTARDS REFORM THE SUPREME COURT ABOLISH ICE

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OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· 22d

Lede du jour, Gary Legum at Wonkette FTW😺 www.wonkette.com/p/tom-homan-...

Poor, poor border czar idiot Tom Homan. The doltish Neanderthal just wants to drive his car to Wegmans, lumber in like a slow-witted elephant, buy himself a quart of milk, and lumber back out again, content in the knowledge that he is a normal suburban oaf. But he can’t do that without a security detail, because some communist antifa operative or radicalized wine mom might recognize him and call him names or lob a grapefruit at his giant Easter-Island-head-like head.

No, really, this was Homan’s complaint at the end of a brief Q-and-A with reporters in the White House driveway on Monday. Here we all are, angry at how ICE is rounding up people (when they aren’t shooting them), imprisoning them in inhumane conditions, shackling them to airplane seats for 17 hours to fly them to far-off countries and dump them there, often traumatizing them and their families in the process, but Tom Homan is mad because as a public face of that effort, the public loathes him on sight --Gary Legum

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· 22d

💰Money Quote

It is hard to know where to begin with this, but these people are not OK. They’re really, really not OK, and not in the way they think they’re not OK. As you might imagine, they all believe they’ve been horribly oppressed by feminism, and are angry that the world thinks they are sexist just because they do not believe women are their equals. Which is true, we’re not. We’re much better than those particular men.
--Robyn Pennacchia

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· Jul 3

Best thing I've ever read on our Constitution [plus bonus points for the rake in the hair❤️] Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· Jul 2

Phiilp Tetlock's book-long study of hedgehogs vs foxes was pretty illuminating on that score. Foxes FTW. "Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?" Yeah, I know. A whole book. Written over 20 years ago, to boot. Maybe there's a YouTube now?😼

Book cover featuring title and pix of a fox and a hedgehod

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· Jul 1

Enjoyable quote:

We are talking of course about the hysterical meltdown these people are having right now, showing us exactly who they are, in ways that should leave no doubt that we should never view these people as countrymen of good faith ever again.
(Got it, dickhole moderate Democrats like Josh Gottheimer? These are not your friends. We are never forgiving the MAGA Nazi Republican Party, not as long as we live. Are you with decent Americans or are you with them? Decide.)--Evan Hurst

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· Jun 27

But requesting recognition & social acceptance of LGBTQ via rainbow memes is "shoving it down our throats."

Teeth bared, angry man in red shirt stencilled "GOD LOVES ME NOT YOU" grabs a smaller man by the collar and shoves a bible down the startled man's throat

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· Jun 27

You, too, have read "The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution"? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exe...

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· Jun 27

Money Quote

I think it really says something that Christian fascist scumbags are mad at LGBTQ+ people for “stealing” their rainbow, because another one of the prime lessons of the Noah’s Ark story, if you actually read it, is that Daddy is allowed to fly off the handle and start beating, abusing and murdering everybody, but as long as Daddy says sorry and pinky swears he’ll never do it again, then you have to forgive Daddy and keep obeying him, because Daddy is boss.

What does that sound like? Not only does it sound like every patriarchal domestic abuser/spouse-beater/kid-molester who ever lived, but it starts to make more sense why so many conservative Christian men are patriarchal domestic abusers/spouse-beaters/kid-molesters, and how that behavior has been modeled for them by every father figure throughout their entire lives, all the way up to and including The Big One.—Evan Hurst

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· Jun 25

Here's an antidote:

Cover of Zach Weinersmith's new bestseller young adult book, "Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home"

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· Jun 12

Bingo!

Cover of Eric Hoffer's book "The True Beliver: Thoughs on the nature of mass movements"

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· Jun 5

Peptides - the new fentanyl?💀 www.chainalysis.com/blog/gray-ma...

Chainalysis Research and Analysis

The massive demand for GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy has birthed a sprawling "gray market" of overseas suppliers. Shut out by traditional banks and credit card processors, this industry has adopted cryptocurrency as its financial backbone and it’s now experiencing a massive breakout fueled by a viral internet subculture. But blockchain data reveals a dark evolution in the supply chain. Key insights include:

The on-chain gray-market peptide industry has surged past a $100 million annual run rate in recent months.
What began as a niche biohacker community is now saturated by a TikTok-driven subculture obsessed with physical enhancement, drawing in a massive wave of teenage retail buyers.
As retail consumers flood the space, independent chemical safety testing has collapsed. Buyers are now injecting unverified compounds based on vendor-supplied purity reports that ignore critical sterility risks.
On-chain data reveals that some popular gray-market peptide vendors are actually Chinese chemical manufacturers who recently pivoted away from supplying fentanyl and amphetamine precursors to transnational drug cartels to capitalize on this lower-risk, high-reward hype.

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· May 24

Just finished reading Patrick Wyman's survey of 10,000 to 1,000 BC (Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World), so found this especially tasty.😸

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· May 23

New blog post on a quaint 1920 Scientific American article on Chinese cloisonne manufacture, right next to an account of the Dutch Postal Service's floating safe to counter the perils faced by valuable ocean-going mail. www.beadiste.com/2026/05/arti...

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· May 22

❤️Quote

It should be obvious to anyone living in the world that people want all kinds of different things for their lives and that what makes one person happy isn’t going to do it for another. There may very well be men out there who only want to marry homeschooled Republican virgins, but I sure as hell don’t want to spend my life with one. Why would I? That sounds like an actual nightmare.

May I just point out, by the way, that absolutely no one has more regressive ideas about women’s sexuality than incels — who, by definition, are not doing too well in the romance department. And let’s not forget about all of the MAGA Republicans who are always complaining that no one will date them because of how much they love Donald Trump.

Quite frankly, if conservatives are going to worry about anyone being “alone and miserable,” they should worry about their own damn selves. We’re doing just fine, please and thank you.—Robyn Pennacchia

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· May 21

💰Money Quote

Weirdly enough, however, the Constitution does not actually have any kind of clauses specifying that the First Amendment can be thrown out the window in cases involving the hurting of Republican feelings, so now the officials involved with his arrest have to pay.
—Robyn Pennacchia

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· May 18

A Shorter, for us TL,DR doomscrollers

The American Dream: the belief that hard work and talent, and maybe a bit of luck, can take a person into the ranks of the elite. But far more of the gentry class are born into it. They inherit assets, whether those are car dealerships, apple orchards, or construction companies, and manage to avoid screwing things up. Managers run their companies, lawyers look over their contracts, accountants manage their finances, but they’re the owners, whether or not they’ve done a single thing of their own volition to accumulate those assets.
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Equating wealth, especially generational wealth, with virtue and ability is a deeply American pathology. This country loves to believe that people get what they deserve, despite the abundant evidence to the contrary. Nowhere is this more obviously untrue than with our gentry class. They stand at the apex of the social order throughout huge swathes of the country, and shape our economic and political world thanks to their resources and comparatively large numbers, yet they’re practically invisible in our popular understanding of these things.

Power resides in group photos of half-soused overweight men in ill-fitting polo shirts, in gated communities and local philanthropic boards. You’ll rarely, if ever, see these things on CNN or in the New York Times, but they’re no less essential to understanding how and why our society works the way it does.
—Patrick Wyman

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· May 15

Conflicted looks in action - big suit + showgirl glam

OneThousandBooksLater@1000bookslater· May 15

The more they get into their 30s, the greater the input from high fashion European & Asian designers. The average airport outfit likely costs several grand. And I suspect Korean conservatism about nakedness has a lot to do with the tent-collapsed-around-me look, whatever the designer.