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WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
This is what I understood my ancestry to look like: My father’s family name is extremely English and my mother’s maiden name is a sort of...
Aug 221 min read
MARINOVKA VIOLATIONS
NON-FICTION Today, August 22, 2024, a fellow recorded a video on his phone as he witnessed the Marinovka air base, on the Don river in...
Jul 269 min read
AN ANTIDOTE TO GOLDFISHING or OCCASIONING OCCULTATIONS
Deborahlis : Yeah, I’m calling it ‘goldfishing.’ Cephorrhoea : Goldfish? Deborahlis : Gold-fishing. Not the cracker. Cephorrhoea : ...
Jun 2233 min read
DIAMOND'S IN THE ROUGH
Some folks really hate Jared Diamond. And those folks love hating Jared Diamond. As a good polymath, Diamond (with backgrounds in...
Jun 1913 min read
HELL LET LOOSE
MI-CHAEL: I dunno. It’s like how I play this game. It’s a kind of World War II simulation. The creators have attempted to faithfully...
Dec 15, 202339 min read
ISRAEL-PALESTINE QUIZ
A FEW BASIC FACTS AND THINGS I NEVER HEAR Choose the answer that best fits your understanding of the situation If you don't know the...
Nov 2, 20238 min read
BY THESE TERMS
“Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf necessarily read it … But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it...
Oct 11, 202316 min read
THE SEA WE SWIM IN
I've heard and seen some wild shit this week. (Though I probably shouldn't, I'll leave out the most insane anti-Semitic noise and...
Sep 19, 20233 min read
IT'S NOTHING LIKE THE RED SCARE
During the Red Scare and adjacent insanity , that terrible decade of right-wing propaganda, paranoia, and political persecution born of...
Aug 12, 20233 min read
(THE COMPLETELY FICTIONAL) CONTEXT FOR A STORY
The hawi derived all their power and influence from inherited privileges. Those privileges largely took the form of ownership of key...
