Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Dude I just read your transcript with Douthat and you completely mischaracterized the criticism you got. What is going on? 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Not all thinking is good. Thoughts can be bad. This is very silly. 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 24/08/2025"...I brought the back of my hand down across the side of her cheek in one swift motion that would land her in the nurse's office. The sound reverberated off the trees with a sickening thwack. It sounded like an isolated high-hat from one of Puffy's drum machines." 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Too squeamish for self-mutilation so instead I just get terrible haircuts. 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Rappers are just as funny with mixtapes. Young Thug dropped his first "album" a decade into his career. 010 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Name a random NYC rapper from 1998 and chances are they'll be cooler than Puffy 110 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025My ratio of over-preparedness for puberty / actual androgenic hairs grown is pretty dismal. Why did they think I'd freak out so bad? I had met adult humans. I knew where they stored their bodily hair. 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Manscaped isn't a real for-profit company. It was originally conceived as a convoluted way to humiliate podcasters. 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025One comment is from a lesbian who thins the queer community wouldn't accept her marriage to a trans man... 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025I was not prepared for the comments to the Andrew Sullivan piece. Yeesh. 100 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025"He wanted equal rights for himself but his open bigotry and fealty to a repressive church meant that his writing was nakedly self-contradictory. Which made him a fun read." 010 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025My niece already understands foreshortening, which puts her way ahead of the ancient Phoenicians. Eat it Phoenicia. 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025In short, no one was doing what you're doing here. If you don't get art that isn't meant for you, sometimes its best to accept that and move on. 010 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025The retaliatory violence was immediately licensed through the inciting event and not just through an abstract oppression. So memes were celebratory and unapologetic. No one was concern trolling about optics. That's why this art is so insouciant. 120 2
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025What do you call a barrier meant to prevent the black market sale of racist swordfighters? An offensive fencer fencing fence. 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Step 1: Get into niche hobby Step 2: Immediately start worrying about niche hobby's imminent decline 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Maybe I watch too much True Crime but it seems like the default 911 operator's tone is "incredulous": Caller: I got shot! Operator: You got SHOT?!?! 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025padwp.malibulist.com/wp-content/u...padwp.malibulist.com 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Also, David deserves his GLAAD award for these reads alone. 100 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Reading the transcript of the 1993 Peter David vs Todd MacFarlane debate and holy shit MacFarlane is Michael Scott: [𝘔𝘤𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘰𝘹, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺. 𝘏𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥.] 110 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Yup, and that friend is still rationalizing it by saying he "changed" 0100 10
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Of course, the vagueness is the point, so an audience can project whatever they want "Abundance" to mean. 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Watching Sam Seder desperately try to coax some sort of unifying policy out of Ezra Klein while the latter just leaps from one hyperlocal anecdote to the next. 100 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025DNC: "We need a Joe Rogan of the left." Ezra Klein: "Say no more. I'll start cussing." 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025He kept dropping f-bombs talking with Sam Seder and it sounded like a fifth grader trying them out for the first time. 020 2
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025The article never stops getting weirder. These people have no idea of who wields material power. 0900 90
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Art is like sex: if you want it to be any good, you have to be prepared to bring shame upon your parents. 010 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Retrospectives on early YouTubers are all like: "They were universally beloved for their hilarious creations, and their falloff was a true tragedy mourned site-wide." Then they show footage of the person's content and it's just a nonstop stream of the f-slur. 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025RIP Peter David, a real one. He somehow kept the Hulk fun and interesting for a decade plus. 010 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025The idea that these two are arguing over football of all things is so funny 010 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Earlier he complains about "splitting", but the entire "Africans sold slaves" argument means he doesn't see injustice as disproportionate power. He just sees good and bad actors. 050 5
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025It's wild because earlier he bemoans "splitting", a Manichaean worldview where things are all good or all evil. But the only reason "Africans sold slaves" would be relevant is if you don't see injustice as proportional power. It only makes sense if you need perfect victims for a good/evil binary. 0220 22
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Exactly, and these clusters don't even map to the popular conception of distinct "races" 0100 10
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Look, I am categorically not going to hear anything said after the phrase, "you can all go home now." 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025It's really great, I can't stop recommending it on here lol. 010 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025It starts with Buckley and continues through Reagan. Adrain Daub's book The Cancel Culture Panic does a wonderful job of tracking the reactionary anti-campus movement through the decades. 0100 10
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025btw I wouldn't quote Steven Pinker if I were you. 100 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025"Legal penalties are... the least of the obstacles to freedom of thought. The two great obstacles are economic penalties and distortion of evidence. It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living." - Bertrand Russell, 1922 100 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Harvard Derangement Syndrome 000 0
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025These idiots legitimately don't understand that justice is about proportional power. They believe in perfect victims and then blame us for having a Manichaean worldview. 100 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Earlier, he gripes about "splitting", a psychological symptom where patients can only see certain people as all good or all evil. So why the fuck is it so important to him that Africans sold slaves? 100 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025In today's NYT column, noted ally to sex pests everywhere Steven Pinker mounts an ostensible defense of Harvard that includes this unhinged paragraph: 110 1
Botany Boy @botany-boy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Have you heard the way this guy talks on his show about women he doesn't like? The casual vituperative barbs are so unsettling. 140 4
![As if you don't know who they are, I'll introduce our two debaters. [Throughout the introduction, McFarlane is visibly undressing behind his podium and donning yellow boxer shorts and a bathrobe, slinging a towel so that it completely covers his head and shoulders.]
I'll do it alphabetically. He is the writer of The Incredible Hulk and Sachs & Violens and, more germane to this particular debate, the writer of the regular weekly column in Comics Buyer's Guide, But I Digress, Mr. Peter David.
[Audience ovation]
And [Pérez eyes McFarlane's new state of dress, including covered face] - This isn't a rebuttal yet! This wasn't the three minutes you were talking about, are they, Mr. McFarlane? (McFarlane doesn't respond.] And, if words don't fail me now, I guess visuals will have to. OK, the creator of Spawn and co-founder of Image Comics, and easily one of the more influential people in this business, Mr. Todd McFarlane. [McFarlane turns on a boom box, which fails to play. He sits back down, without a word.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ciw4dgzol2mwmwrgjjrnaz7e/bafkreid2fklwv4luu3gwa6yiqf6b5jfo52exdsb7n3akyisbsswujm6bea)
