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Carlos Yu

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Carlos Yu's avatar Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social
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man I only remember the bitchin' pneumatic tubes I know they're impractical for full-size humans but in my dreams I imagine being propelled place to place in them while simultaneously receiving a foot massage from the air currents they always hurt even as a little kid hey there's an omnibus?!

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clean Filipino living.

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same

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K. A. “Kick Åss” Pillë's avatar K. A. “Kick Åss” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social
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Your move, Hemingway

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it's been a long time since Clooney was on ROSEANNE.

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Mike Wiser's avatar Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social
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Me: I should do this work thing. My brain: Spiderman can't lift Mjolnir because he's not willing to kill. That puts that viral cartoon about Mr. Rogers (Fred, not Steve) easily being able to lift it in a very different light. Who is Mr. Rogers willing to kill?

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I don't think everyone who was bragging about the money they got from RT has completely scrubbed those brags.

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my heuristic is that NYT editorial thinks Park Slope yuppie opinion is representative of the middle class. I'm not sure Park Slope yuppie opinion is even representative of Acela yuppie opinion.

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Lux Alptraum לקס אלפטראום's avatar Lux Alptraum לקס אלפטראום @luxalptraum.com
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Misanthropy has its perks

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Carlos Yu's avatar Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social
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the liberal Republicans were deliberately purged from the party by movement conservative freaks, e.g., Bob Dornan (R-CA) outing Steve Gunderson (R-WI) on the floor of Congress. super ugly. it's a shame we don't have a Drury or Vidal to write a novel about it; the labels don't even make sense today.

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oh wait I noticed the other day there's a writer on here learning Arabic online and I'm gonna guess it's her.

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I like the idea that in our timeline, without the Eugenics Wars and the Bell Riots, the US happily lurches into its Star Trek future where Borg Americans are the important swing vote and everyone is fine with it and they're repulsed by the hints they have of the Federation timeline

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it's the middle of the Second World War and after church you read the Sunday paper with a cold cut sandwich and a glass of lemonade from the pitcher in the icebox. what's happening on the funny pages?

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I'll be the guy in the food section adapting recipes from the Emissary's family cookbook.

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mm. tweak it a little: as though post-revolutionary Iran controlled the East Bloc.

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Carlos Yu's avatar Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social
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but imagine writing a book that appeals to juggalos, drag performers, preppers, and the last model railroad hobbyists. I make an occasional chunk of change writing, and I wouldn't even know where to begin. Heinlein did the equivalent *multiple* times. midcentury wildness.

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there was a saying about Bear Bryant: "He can take his'n and beat your'n and take your'n and beat his'n."

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odd to think that the main type of subculture that existed in the twentieth century, one that expressed a different set of values than the conformist mainstream, is mostly gone. now we have fandoms, subcultures based on shared tastes in consumer entertainment, and they are terrible.

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the excellent short novelist Algis Budrys pointed out that Heinlein had the knack of appealing to (white male) audiences who came of age from the Depression through the Sixties. Stephen King has that chronological range. the science fiction writer Bruce Sterling once had the subcultural range.

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Jared Pechaček's avatar Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social
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thinking up an elaborate sequel to the three little pigs where they keep the wolf’s skull as an object of veneration and propitiate its spirit with offerings and begin to have ritual wolf hunts and soon the wolf cult is spread throughout the land also the bears do the same thing with blonds

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"there's a name I haven't heard in years" I used to think Heinlein had lost his creepy finger on the pulse of the white American id with those late incest novels. no, he just skipped a generation (much like his incest novels).

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I should mention John Updike's second wife, Martha Ruggles Bernhard Updike, one of Nabokov's best students.

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isn't that what the whole reanalysis the symbolic meaning of the poppy was all about?

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Nabokov at Cornell, too. his lecture notes were edited for publication, and they are also worth reading. but when your students are Joanna Russ and Thomas Pynchon and Richard Fariña...

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I guess? I've read the Red Books. the thing about teaching at a place like Caltech is, you're teaching at a place like Caltech. your students could probably learn the same content from a bad classroom teacher. your students are pre-selected to do well in your "domain expertise".

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"if I consume art produced by a bad person, I will become a bad person!" don't worry, you were probably a bad person anyway

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what tradition? foreign leaders have been favoring particular sides in the US's election cycle since at least the Philippine-American war. (I won't even mention the weird sympathies in Europe for the rebellion of the human traffickers, including the manufacture of state of the art warships.)

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I don't want to diss the Girl Scouts of America but why do they always drop my favorite flavors

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gonna throw out this question to Bluesky: who are the great classroom teachers of history?

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e.g., the US divorce rate in 1946. didn't reach those heights again until 1973, a year you could watch films of people having sex in a regular movie theater advertised in a regular newspaper. I do not understand the neo-puritanism among young people. it isn't a RETVRN, it's a new and creepy thing.

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like, you just know there have to be people testing exactly what that means in increasingly odd ways

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they're not discounting it as liberal propaganda, though. this is sticking, because they know that a lot of the Orangeman's supporters would love to implement this crap, even if (they believe) he himself doesn't.

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it's parochialism more than anything else, I think. comparativism is hard.

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I don't think most people throwing around the Weimar comparison think much about the actual despotic one-party rule of much of the country for a century.

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when you're losing the equivalent of EMTs who are worried big government is going to ban small change, you might have a messaging problem.

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knowledge of Project 2025 is spreading among my normie Midwestern relatives on FB. they don't like it, and unexpected parts of it too.

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I gotta see the Cellino and Barnes legal comedy since I missed the Laurie Bembenek Wisconsin true crime rock musical, RUN BAMBI RUN.

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you mean you were too interested in scoring points against a complete stranger to notice that you had made a grossly racist comment that colored the discussion forward, even though it was immediately brought to your attention. do I have that right? my earlier posts weren't even a little bit ironic.

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