“It happened, therefore it can happen again” a message from Primo Levi:

Still profoundly disappointing (to put it lightly) this wasn’t understood/fully appreciated in 2016 😐

you may resurrect one dead artist who would be an amazing shitposter George. Bernard. Shaw.

My son’s (and countless others’) life-sustaining treatments depend upon the ACA not being obliterated. .

I really dislike Gladwell.

ERrauchway.bsky.socialOct 21, 2024 12:56pm

“every Gladwell book falls into this pattern: A weak thesis with obvious flaws treated like the sole way to view the world. But wouldn't he be right at least sometimes? His track record for constant error is a real mystery”

Forget Gladwell

Society should withhold all esteem and attention to a nonfiction author whose entire oeuvre spitballs explanatory social theory under the bad faith idea that he holds his ideas “loosely” and readers s...

17yo: It looks like all iguana species are invasive to Florida. Me: Well, they’re there now, so… 17yo: And you know the best thing to do with an invasive animal is to remove it from the environment, whether by taking it home- Me: We’re not going to take iguanas home, honey. 17yo: Oh. (disappointed)

Yes. This will solve all of the problems.

I feel you, girl. It’s been a week.

What I look like when I hot the block button

Finally informed myself of the Arnold Palmer thing. Good God. How is this real? (rhetorical question, of course, but...you can "get it" – and it still boggles the mind). Additionally now there is a perfectly decent drink he managed to ruin the experience of. Nothing is safe.