NET FREEDOM PIONEERS is on the forefront of struggles against Iranian state-violence. Their "Toosheh" initiative connects reporters, academics, scientists, and they need your funds. https://t.co/tir4qb2FOA NFP won a 2023 National Endowment for Democracy Trailblazer Award.

Spock has been behaving strangely.

Hey Hollywood. Stop cutting away to the dog’s implausibly concerned face when humans are about to do ill-advised things. Stop it. Bad director. Bad.

A lot is happening in the world but I find myself asking if millions will line the streets for Catherine O’Hara’s funeral procession. One more test of a just society.

If you cover up the author's name, it's impossible tell whether this tweet is from a conservative with a narcissistic persecution complex, or from an anti-ICE grandma smiling ear to ear.

I have reckoned upon a medium that a child just born will weigh 12 pounds, and in a solar year, if tolerably nursed, increase to 28 pounds. —Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal (1729)

A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.

That the remaining hundred thousand may, at a year old, be offered in sale to persons of quality and fortune, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat for a good table.

and my reason is that these children are seldom the fruits of marriage, a circumstance not much regarded by our savages, therefore, one male will be sufficient to serve four females.

I therefore humbly offer it to public consideration that of the (aforementioned) hundred and twenty thousand children, already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed, whereof only one fifth part be males; which is more than we allow to sheep, black cattle, or swine,

I am assured by a knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and … that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragout.

which cannot turn to account either to the parents or (aggrieved) nation, or the charge of nutriments and rags having been at least four times that value. / I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.

… a boy or girl [of beggar parents] before twelve years old, is no sale-able commodity, and even when they come to this age, they will not yield above three pounds, or three pounds and a half a crown at most, on the exchange;

“Emelyan…seemed to have an inkling of the rage I was in. When a man is guilty…he scents trouble far off, like birds of the air before a storm” Astafy in Dostoyevsky’s “An Honest Theif” whose kindness Emelyan exploits—or so Astafy tells the narrator, exploiting his kindness.

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” -James Baldwin (interview with Jane Howard in 1963)

To say David Cope (d. 4 May 2025) was ahead of his time doesn’t capture how elegantly he understood, far ahead of the world around him, the vital potential in links between computation and the arts. Peace Profound to Dave and his family. < https://t.co/HdK5HHRbXE>

C’mon neolibs & neocons. Ya said “shut up left, with your your crazy worries about fascism”. You’re at bat. Swing you cowards.

My true love gave me Eleven pipers piping And a lot of birds #ChristmasHaiku

I want you alone Underneath the Christmas tree Make my wish come true #ChristmasHaiku

Shepherds reported “Angels we have heard on high. Singing.” Good gracious. #ChristmasHaiku