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Fellow skeeters, it’s a great week for Chris Hooks esoterica. For the Baffler, I went to Habscon ‘24, a gathering of Habsburg fans, right-wing Catholics, Carlists, and general monarchists in Plano, TX: thebaffler.com/latest/feeli...
At the Habsburg Convention in Plano | Christopher Hooksthebaffler.com Emperor Karl I was the least successful and most tragic Habsburg monarch. A symposium in Texas makes the case for why he should become a saint.
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Wrote about the standoff—and looming constitutional crisis—in Eagle Pass, where Governor Greg Abbott is fighting Biden on behalf of the Trump campaign. Abbott's stock is soaring. (Don't mind the bodies.) www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Human Toll of Greg Abbott’s War at the Borderwww.rollingstone.com A dispatch from Eagle Pass, where the Texas governor has amped up the cruelty toward migrants to boost his political profile.
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Austin, I would pay good money-a buck or two, at least-to read about the design decisionmaking process that culminated in these using the font Papyrus
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This has been one of the most inane aspects of legacy media discourse on polarization and our political divisions. Never before in human history have we been more exposed to the opinions of people we disagree with. They have never been more accessible. It's quite difficult to avoid them, actually.
Before the Internet, an Open-Minded Intellectual might, perhaps, read a single letter to the editor each day that pissed them off. Our minds were not meant to deal with an eternal fire-hose of shrieking horrors from all of the planet's worst people.
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This is Hulu’s “classics” movie selection
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[me to my gf when the Hell Dude joins the new social media app] that’s the hell dude
Went to a concert tonight and saw something remarkable. The show was finished — it was over — but then the audience clapped and cheered so much that the performers came back onstage and played a couple more songs. I was moved to tears
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The old forum is dying, and the new forum struggles to be born: now is the time of Offsites
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Haven’t been on here much in the last few months, but every time I do, it feels like the last episode of Lost. Hey, that guy! And that other guy!
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Hello new bsky users! People who got on here first will assert this place was a hilarious riot when everyone was posting sexed-up Alf memes. Don’t let them fool you. Please take this opportunity to bring your own better material to the table!
This is what bsky Alf posters all sound like to me
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Well, let’s try this again!
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Incredibly challenging concept deployed in the group chat: “the Baltimore poly community”
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Unionion the union onion, mascot for the Japanese Trade Union Confederation
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good twitter alternative, but we need a small population of stupid people to clown on. fenced off, of course. unable to breed. we could sell tickets… keep them off the coast of Costa Rica…
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It’s 2013 here and… I love it
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