Miniver Cheevy

Putting a little internet classic here for my convenience: personsonable me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of g...

I have been tinkering with a rules summary sheet for the Fate tabletop roleplaying game for a long time. A sharp-eyed forum commentato...

A capture (and slight refinement) of a bushy Bluesky discussion starting from Starfish saying: I think [older Democratic electeds] do...

I’m just an interested amateur, but I said this in an exchange with some people with rather different politics who found it clarifying, s...

It is well-known that in the original conception of the TV series Supernatural , road-tripping monster-hunting brothers Sam & D...

I wrote this in a fit of insomnia. As a kid, I inherited hatred for Richard Nixon from my parents. In the years since, I have go...

A wise friend reminded me of this speech , and it is profound enough that I figured it was wise to keep a copy in full here. My friend al...

DHS agents broke into the home of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil and detained him without charges. Khalil holds a Green Card...

This post lines up the forks in a Bluesky discussion — Reflecting on California governor Gavin Newsom taking a turn against trans...

There’s a little memoir I read on the internet ages ago. I have tried in vain to find it again. I find myself thinking about it more and ...

I have seen a resurgence of a false account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, so I have assembled a debunking here. I expect I may add r...

Capturing nested threads from Bluesky. These are quotes, not me. But for what it’s worth, I agree with Hilzoy. Ian Leslie The Figh...

Capturing a 2023 Twitter thread by Katie Sponslor: I have been taught to yell “stop resisting” and “drop your weapon” after firing a ...

A start on an index of useful articles: Wait But Why — The Artificial Intelligence Revolution 1 & 2 A lively and accessible...

To support my index of resources about neoreaction and adjacent far right movements which overlap with “tech” culture, I have taken the ...