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James “DELENDA EST GLACIES” Harbeck

@sesquiotic

Louche left-wing nerd. Words, food, music, beverage alcohol. MA linguistics, PhD theatre. jamesharbeck.com, sesquiotic.com

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Problem is, if you like that kind of logic, a lot of countries could say the same thing about the United States.

07.03.2026 05:09 👍 281 🔁 62 💬 8 📌 1

The replies to this are full of films I saw in the theatre on first run

07.03.2026 06:46 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

I guess I'm supposed to say The Graduate, and it was a good movie, but the only one I've watched multiple times is You Only Live Twice

07.03.2026 06:43 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Isn't it Iranic.

07.03.2026 05:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Would I make it again?

Yeah. After all, I have that bottle of cinnamon simple syrup that is sure not getting used too quickly.

07.03.2026 05:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My wife's name for it is "Yuck. YUCK. It tastes like medicine. And not in a good way." But I don't think she likes Islay scotches in general, and that's a very present component.

07.03.2026 05:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This cocktail is kinda crazy
This cocktail is kinda crazy YouTube video by Anders Erickson

This cocktail calls for seven odd ingredients, and I was surprised to realize that I have all of them just sitting around.

If I were to be the one naming it, I would call it a Look of Amazement and Confusion, after my response on first taste. Or maybe a Math Puzzle.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPsv...

07.03.2026 04:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

06.03.2026 20:21 👍 5487 🔁 1352 💬 39 📌 42

is his name sandwich because he's inbred like..... in bread

07.03.2026 03:53 👍 685 🔁 33 💬 9 📌 0

2/ After Trump stormed out of the room, Mattis looked at everyone present and said, 'We're not doing any of that shit.'

And this brings me back to a point I made earlier: People like Mattis were important to have in Trump 1 because they prevented shit like what's happening now from happening.

07.03.2026 01:45 👍 56 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

1/ Anyway, this reminds me of a story I read about James Mattis in Trump's first term.

During a meeting in the Situation Room, Trump angrily ordered the military to assassinate the entire government of Syria.

07.03.2026 01:44 👍 68 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 0

*purses lips*

07.03.2026 02:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil, and buddy, I’m all out of Tony Dokoupil

07.03.2026 00:07 👍 1228 🔁 124 💬 10 📌 3
REE$E (@reesebepuffing) on twitter: "a beautiful chinese woman named Deer Xing is communicating with me through road signs"

REE$E (@reesebepuffing) on twitter: "a beautiful chinese woman named Deer Xing is communicating with me through road signs"

06.03.2026 22:06 👍 98 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0

I would be a fool to try to hoard my offices.

06.03.2026 22:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I always put the location in the ALT, for the curious

06.03.2026 22:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’m at the window counter of Boxcar Social Summerhill looking across Yonge Street at a Silk & Snow store

I’m at the window counter of Boxcar Social Summerhill looking across Yonge Street at a Silk & Snow store

Just a little more office

06.03.2026 21:49 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I am believed to become death, destroyer of worlds

06.03.2026 18:25 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

The policies of the US are currently following Project 2025 and shepherded by Russ Vought, and the US armed forces are gleefully murdering people overseas under the direction of Pete Hegseth, but sure, no Evangelicals in power.

Well, I guess that's just, like, your *opinion*, man

06.03.2026 15:52 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If American institutions were functioning well, that attitude might be justified. But public trust in everything from higher education and large technology companies to science and newspapers has declined in recent years. And this erosion has begun to endanger the status of those institutions, as reflected in Trump’s campaign against universities.
A stronger evangelical presence in elite institutions could strengthen them while addressing polarization and public mistrust. The lack of evangelicals in the halls of power contributes to anti-institutional public sentiment. It also deprives those institutions of an important pool of talent.

If American institutions were functioning well, that attitude might be justified. But public trust in everything from higher education and large technology companies to science and newspapers has declined in recent years. And this erosion has begun to endanger the status of those institutions, as reflected in Trump’s campaign against universities. A stronger evangelical presence in elite institutions could strengthen them while addressing polarization and public mistrust. The lack of evangelicals in the halls of power contributes to anti-institutional public sentiment. It also deprives those institutions of an important pool of talent.

Sure this fox may be butchering all the chickens in the henhouse, but why don’t we put some other foxes in control, that will surely address ‘polarisation and public mistrust’, I mumble to myself

06.03.2026 13:52 👍 557 🔁 37 💬 7 📌 3

"viewpoint diversity" is always a scam. the people who are pushing it only ever want to elevate right wingers, bigots, and fascists.

06.03.2026 15:47 👍 106 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

06.03.2026 13:38 👍 9321 🔁 2108 💬 87 📌 34

If you look at these men and think "that's what a genius looks like, I gotta give this guy all the money that has ever existed in the hopes that they build Roko's Basilisk and it rewards me for my unwavering faith in The Basilisk" then I'm sorry but you have the brain of a baby penguin

06.03.2026 14:47 👍 225 🔁 48 💬 17 📌 17

it's that recurrent moment again where awful people are replaced by different awful people and yet I'm still sort of glad to see the original awful people gone

06.03.2026 13:55 👍 623 🔁 82 💬 15 📌 0

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

06.03.2026 13:53 👍 5691 🔁 1680 💬 29 📌 75

you know who I’m most mad at right now? all the Republicans over the past year who decided to retire or quit or not run again. they know the administration is a lawless gang of dangerous thugs and they don’t want to be part of this but they’re too cowardly to try and save anyone but themselves

06.03.2026 13:41 👍 58 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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How it started / how it's going

05.03.2026 19:42 👍 1660 🔁 318 💬 60 📌 69

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

06.03.2026 04:10 👍 1688 🔁 441 💬 0 📌 11

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

06.03.2026 04:02 👍 1438 🔁 331 💬 22 📌 8

Iran being Dorne is something else.

It’s almost like pulling together the most ignorant group of white people on the planet and putting them in decision maker roles is a bad idea.

06.03.2026 02:58 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0