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Perhaps a bit random, but five years’ gulag to guitarists who let their strings poke and dangle from the headstock. It’s only fair.

The cuntitude of evil

Ibrahim the Mad was the calm one

This was my favourite book in childhood. 'The Hedgehog's House'

5 writers who impacted my writing style: SHORT FICTION: - Borges - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Maupassant - Gogol - Aleksandar Hemon

Israel is an aggressive, genocidal, expansionist power that acts with utter impunity because of the unshakeable backing of the United States.

Before you chastise Israel for starting World War III, remember they are doing it so they can get the like hostages back or something.

The curious thing about the Beach Boys (as with things like Jobim and bossa) is the impression non-musical people tend to think the music is simple, easy listening while being among the most harmonically complex stuff in all of popular music.

Hey did you catch my little streamlet of a story called 'Rivals'—it has some fun in it, some say (I do). See if it's something. 500 words is all you (I) need.

my zillennial nemesis is tweeting annoying dumb shit again, through a, you know, educated lens

This one of the insanest beginnings to a letter in history, so insane, in fact, that it is charming. Sultan Suleiman writing in 1526 to French King Francois I.

The cognitive dissonance here is stunning

29 years ago today.

Watching beastification of ordinary people on here is a trip. The glee with which civilian deaths are anticipated, provided they belong to the other side of course. We are in a moral, philosophical, and cultural cul-de-sac. Chilling.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

this guy should be drawn and quartered

Just occurred to me that, like some early 19th century person (which I really am)—I have no baby pictures. The earliest one is of me at 15 months old or so standing with my mother, father and brother, and you can't even see my face.