Urban Transectual
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Country boy cosplaying as urbanist cosplaying as rural gentrifier
I feel pretty confident that present day Italian Americans who celebrate Columbus Day are blissfully unaware of Columbus' historical signficance to their heritage.
The vast majority of Italian Americans in the U.S. are descended from southern Italy (Sicily, Naples, etc)
The vast majority of Italian Americans in the U.S. are descended from southern Italy (Sicily, Naples, etc)
October 12, 2026 at 10:39 PM
I feel pretty confident that present day Italian Americans who celebrate Columbus Day are blissfully unaware of Columbus' historical signficance to their heritage.
The vast majority of Italian Americans in the U.S. are descended from southern Italy (Sicily, Naples, etc)
The vast majority of Italian Americans in the U.S. are descended from southern Italy (Sicily, Naples, etc)
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Good to see those two hotties in the back get some work outside of a Descovy ad
New America PAC mailer just dropped and I regret to report that I want the tshirt version
October 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Good to see those two hotties in the back get some work outside of a Descovy ad
Perhaps our elected representatives would take the need to regulate agentic AI more seriously if we started calling them digital immigrants
October 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Perhaps our elected representatives would take the need to regulate agentic AI more seriously if we started calling them digital immigrants
Last week it was "clanker is a slur" and this week they're hauling out Thich Nhat Hanh to defend the terms and conditions of software. I guess we should have known when Steve Jobs used the Dalai Lama to sell iMacs that we would end up here
I don’t know if you’re more likely to be a murderer if you tell the chatbot you’re going to kill it. But if you don’t respect the life of an insect, I’d say you are almost definitely more likely to be disrespectful towards other life forms.
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The Five Mindfulness Trainings — to not kill, steal, commit adultery, lie, or take intoxicants — are the basic statement of ethics and morality in Buddhism. In a world marked by moral and spiritual…
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October 9, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Last week it was "clanker is a slur" and this week they're hauling out Thich Nhat Hanh to defend the terms and conditions of software. I guess we should have known when Steve Jobs used the Dalai Lama to sell iMacs that we would end up here
Socialism is when all the nonbinary hotties won't let me sit with them in the cafeteria and talk about me behind my back and have mindblowing gay sex probably
Q: How do you define socialism personally?
JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
October 8, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Socialism is when all the nonbinary hotties won't let me sit with them in the cafeteria and talk about me behind my back and have mindblowing gay sex probably
[guy who has never mentioned anything about universal human rights]: what if my chatbot has intrinsic moral value?
October 8, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I was going to say he sounds more Canadian than Maine! His accent isn't any kind of Maine accent I know of.
If you're wondering why Troy Jackson has a thick accent, it's because his hometown is that red dot on the map
October 7, 2026 at 5:57 AM
I was going to say he sounds more Canadian than Maine! His accent isn't any kind of Maine accent I know of.
Having lived in Texas for a few years, I saw so many contexts in which it is in many ways a model pluralistic society.
All around the suburbs of Dallas, Austin, and Houston are Indian kids, Vietnamese kids, black kids, white kids, and, most of all, kids with Spanish last names
All around the suburbs of Dallas, Austin, and Houston are Indian kids, Vietnamese kids, black kids, white kids, and, most of all, kids with Spanish last names
you have a maniac who sees nonwhite kids at a Texas game and loses his mind, and you have the entire architecture of the American Right (notably, excluding numerous members of the GOP who might have to get votes someday) giving it full voice because they firmly believe that these views are *good*.
October 6, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Having lived in Texas for a few years, I saw so many contexts in which it is in many ways a model pluralistic society.
All around the suburbs of Dallas, Austin, and Houston are Indian kids, Vietnamese kids, black kids, white kids, and, most of all, kids with Spanish last names
All around the suburbs of Dallas, Austin, and Houston are Indian kids, Vietnamese kids, black kids, white kids, and, most of all, kids with Spanish last names
News like this is a helpful reminder that we've always been a fairly unserious country
October 6, 2026 at 3:29 PM
News like this is a helpful reminder that we've always been a fairly unserious country
A lot of people can't or just don't want to understand this simple truth. I'd add the related point that, despite what you hear, we understand Middle America so much better than Middle America understands us. We came from you!
October 6, 2026 at 5:38 AM
A lot of people can't or just don't want to understand this simple truth. I'd add the related point that, despite what you hear, we understand Middle America so much better than Middle America understands us. We came from you!
[guy who has never mentioned anything about universal human rights]: what if my chatbot has intrinsic moral value?
October 3, 2026 at 3:26 AM
[guy who has never mentioned anything about universal human rights]: what if my chatbot has intrinsic moral value?
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Trump is just generally queeny and I think he’d enjoy being with a man but I doubt he actually fantasizes about it. Rubio’s straight. JD Vance is not 100% cisgender but isn’t into men regardless. Hegseth wants to suck a dick.
October 2, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Trump is just generally queeny and I think he’d enjoy being with a man but I doubt he actually fantasizes about it. Rubio’s straight. JD Vance is not 100% cisgender but isn’t into men regardless. Hegseth wants to suck a dick.
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I see people putting AI in the same bucket as NFTs (speculative technology that will go away when the bubble pops), but I think the internet is the better comp. Sure there's some early bubble-y activity, but the underlying technology is real it's going to dramatically change things.
September 28, 2026 at 8:59 PM
I see people putting AI in the same bucket as NFTs (speculative technology that will go away when the bubble pops), but I think the internet is the better comp. Sure there's some early bubble-y activity, but the underlying technology is real it's going to dramatically change things.
The fact that the American Pope is cool as shit is like the only thing holding up my pride in my country right now. That and ranch dressing
September 28, 2026 at 3:55 AM
The fact that the American Pope is cool as shit is like the only thing holding up my pride in my country right now. That and ranch dressing
I can't remember, does the migrant caravan thing happen every election year, or only election years when Democrats are in office?
Oh he’s going to do the migrant caravan thing. I hope people ignore him.
President Donald Trump will be addressing the nation tomorrow from the Oval Office at 2 pm ET.
September 28, 2026 at 3:31 AM
I can't remember, does the migrant caravan thing happen every election year, or only election years when Democrats are in office?
Are all the Romance languages calling Artificial Intelligence EE-YAH?
Miss Piggy's Karate Chop on Kermit
ALT: Miss Piggy's Karate Chop on Kermit
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September 28, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Are all the Romance languages calling Artificial Intelligence EE-YAH?
Meta frames its AI project around the idea of satisfying whatever people want, the very thing Buddhists believe is at the root of all suffering
September 27, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Meta frames its AI project around the idea of satisfying whatever people want, the very thing Buddhists believe is at the root of all suffering
DAYS OF THUNDER (1990)
September 27, 2026 at 2:42 AM
DAYS OF THUNDER (1990)
Me showing up to a job interview
September 26, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Me showing up to a job interview
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Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H?
The jury is out.
Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
The jury is out.
Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
September 26, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H?
The jury is out.
Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
The jury is out.
Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
Why does it suddenly feel like the country's most pressing issues involve Mary Peltola's management style, a Mooooooslim running for Senate, and some loony lesbians in a Massachusetts town no one has ever heard of?
Oh right, it's six weeks to election day
Oh right, it's six weeks to election day
September 25, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Why does it suddenly feel like the country's most pressing issues involve Mary Peltola's management style, a Mooooooslim running for Senate, and some loony lesbians in a Massachusetts town no one has ever heard of?
Oh right, it's six weeks to election day
Oh right, it's six weeks to election day
"There's no way I can make the crotch big enough for you"
- direct quote from my tailor
- direct quote from my tailor
September 25, 2026 at 3:33 AM
"There's no way I can make the crotch big enough for you"
- direct quote from my tailor
- direct quote from my tailor
Truly a classic film and this scene makes me cry tears of joy
Such a great time in today’s Media Studies classes with that incredible scene from MAGIC MIKE XXL where Richie does an impromptu dance to the Back Street Boys. 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr6i...
Magic Mike XXL, Richie´s dance in supermarket (HD 1080)
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September 23, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Truly a classic film and this scene makes me cry tears of joy