Jordan S. Carroll 🌹
@jordanscarroll
Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right Hugo winner Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB Opinions my own, find me at
DSA-affiliated candidate Alex Scheel has my vote for Washington's 10th congressional district.
Wikipedia portraits with swag: Francisco de Quevedo, early modern picaresque author
wikipedia portraits with swag: "Father Impatient," Greek antifascist resistance fighter
You may not like this, but these instructions for my new flashlight are what peak perfection in technical writing looks like.
luck is the only reason we're not in WWIII. somebody check on the archduke.
I found this in an old D&D 2nd edition module. somewhere decades ago there was a DM who hinged his scenario on this one obvious action that ANYBODY would think to do and yet...
"You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means."
the right seems obsessed with eternalizing dating norms that were mostly solidified by apps. obviously being a seven foot tall ripped guy has long been an advantage, but let's not forget that in the 2000s this was THE example of a guy who really hit it off with the ladies.
businesses should offer training for new employees instead of outsourcing it to universities where it's provided at the student's and taxpayer's expense.
When I see these billboards all over town, I feel like I am living in the last act of a 90s comedy where the protagonist has finally made good.
you've become an undead skeleton—your entire face is gone—yet still somehow you have RBF
it's interesting / symptomatic that the original trolley problem by Philippa Foot placed the person choosing the track in particular social roles, whereas later formulations tend to imagine an abstract individual walking onto a scene with no particular duty or connection to what's happening.
how are these assholes going to overthrow the government if they can't even coordinate their khaki colors?
the world if headlines were written correctly and everyone on social media was paying attention to the right things
Little did we know, this was the direction in which the whole world was headed.
She's right — people are going to realize that social democracy isn't enough and we need to start expropriating.
Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller (1594) has one of the kinkiest poems ever. It's right on the surface, but if I spelled it out here I'd need a content warning.
Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future.
I keep looking at the backs of cars thinking “Kia Inch Nails…?”
this is the best transition In The Unfortunate Traveler. Thomas Nashe’s narrator is just like, imagine that war I’ve been fighting is over and I am already somewhere else…