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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I love this little Steinbeck tidbit and am baffled that all editions of his books do not include this.

Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I always wondered why one glove is an exam glove and another is not. Now I see the pictures clearly indicate which ones are for fisting and which ones are not.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

It's 12 AM do you know where your children are and what they are doing?

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

"There are no new thoughts. They're just old thoughts born into new moments[.]"

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Let's hear the ancient city of Thebes out is all I'm saying

"Citizenship of any sort was denied to traders and craftsmen, since such people were deemed to have soiled their souls as well as their hands by engaging in economic production and exchange other than agriculture."

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Here's one for all you flow-chart freaks out there: the agrarian crisis in Roman Italy.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Why does Cambridge only credit well-known translators on the covers of their Texts in the History of Philosophy? Don't lesser known folks deserve just as much credit for their hard work?

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It's good that kids are forced to read things they don't fully understand. There's value in failure. You realize there are many different forms of subjective experience that are alien to you, and you can appropriate those modalities by expanding yourself. Reader, grow thyself.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

This was Rush Limbaugh's secret sauce, effectively carried forward by Frank Luntz, reaching its apex in Trump. The left could do well to learn that people love a funny diss in the form of mispronouncing a noun on purpose over and over as a bit.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The button on the left that takes you to the top is the number 1 thing that keeps me from using this app more often. I scroll with my left hand and accidentally hit it every 5 minutes. It's too much of a pain to scroll back through dozens of skeets to get back to where I was, only to do it again.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

"Whoever looks into the golden eyes of Prometheus set in the cremated sockets sees the early hope of the world and knows its late despair."

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I thought of your many pics outside the store as I took mine

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

After being told to visit for over a decade, I finally took a long overdue trip to John King Books earlier this week for my birthday. I'll definitely be back, as I could spend days combing the shelves there, and I had a great conversation with an employee for about an hour about art under capitalism

Digest of the Public Record of Communism in the United States

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today's a good day to revisit the idea of slow violence. When people die through public policy or bureaucracy those deaths are still violence, even though we don't usually see them that way. Responding to that violence with violence is self-defence. southwarknotes.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/slow...

southwarknotes.files.wordpress.com

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The Harris campaign was spending $100,000,000 per week. Imagine a campaign that spends that much money weekly on services for constituents. Such a campaign could never lose.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I am surprised that listening to the Joe Rogan Experience wasn't even featured in this list of top ways to pill your dog– is this big tech censorship?

A screenshot for a veterinary video on YouTube titled "How to pill your dog"

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I'm fine with this being an echo chamber, if that echo is that the Holocaust actually happened and was that bad. I logged on to X this morning to read a Holocaust denial post and read over 100 comments in a row either denying or denial curious. If that's debate, I don't want it.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I prefer to not let a metric become a mandate. I had a reading goal I will completely miss this year, but I'm ok with that because other things came up this year: a month long road trip, work, caring for aging family members, etc. You can't let the metric rule you, nor use it as a cudgel on others.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

GoodReads books read this year count is being treated as a yardstick of one's intellectual growth, over which folks are competing as more books read = more capacities gained = better person morally. Too many books (audiobooks) is cheating b/c no time for adequate reflection. This is the thinking.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Because they're trying to make him feel guilty and stupidly return home so they can arrest and charge him for wasting state resources. They don't genuinely want him home for the holidays.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

But the SUV still drives. I have footage of the accident, and he admitted fault. Most importantly we should at least some more time with Mya, as she's responding well to the furosemide and oxygen chamber and likely can be released in the morning. I'm grateful things aren't worse.

Mya, a white teacup Maltese with an IV in one arm on a black blanket recovering from pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I've had a hell of a day. My dog was unwell this morning, so we started driving back from my parent's house in KY to MI and had to stop to take her to a vet ER in Dayton because her lungs are full of fluid and she's in congestive heart failure. Then I get rear ended by an F-150.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Does somebody wanna tell all the RETVRN TERF types how taking a shit was not gender segregated in the ancient world?

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"You do not yet suffer enough for me! For you suffer from yourselves, and have not yet suffered from 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯." -Nietzsche, TSZ, "On the Superior Human"

A fluffy gray and white long hair cat with a sour, angry expression

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The first sentence of this film review for Taza, Son of Cochise is such a chef's kiss of a sentence. And then Tim just keeps serving.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This country is utterly cooked. Just visited the formerly apolitical side of my wife's family. Today it was hours of sharing Daily Wire+ login links, obscure conservative YouTuber channels, bitching about how the lib tree-huggers wanna prevent them from releasing methane, and their wallet über alles

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hey dude! I haven't seen your posts in ages on X. Are you still on the UAP beat? I didn't get it during your days on TMBS, but my business partner is obsessed, so I get it more now. I've told him to look you up a bunch of times.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

"Sacrifice what! I squander what's given to me, I squander with a thousand hands: how could I call that–sacrificing!" Has anyone written on Bataille's Accursed Share in connection to this line from Thus Spoke Zarathustra's "The Honey Offering"?

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

For sure, thanks to you too. Great to see you here, and I look forward to reading your story this evening.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Ironically, this is the healthiest looking I've seen him on video in ages. He's not some strange shade of red or purple and he's not slobbering drunk. Seems like the loss of Infowars is good for him!

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

@helendecruz.net glad I was able to bring your attention to the publication of your short story. Also, I'm trying to reconnect with people from X. We're mutuals on there, so I'm saying "hello!" again here.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Totally understandable. Whomst among us hasn't made some questionable choices leading to a months long manic episode followed by a crash?

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Seeing spiders/bugs is a common side effect of large doses of anticholinergic drugs, like when people OD on benadryl. Wellbutrin has minor anticholinergic action. You're probably highly sensitive to that mechanism of action, so take care with other drugs that share a similar mechanism going forward.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

As a nation, we reduced childhood poverty by 50% during those years. Then we said, "Who cares?" Let the policy expire before promptly forgeting that material improvements are possible. Really thinking Nietzsche was wrong when he said the forgetful get the best of even their blunders.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I went to the southwest for the first time this year. People kept telling me I'd hate it, but I found it beautiful too.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Don't feel bad about cross-posting. I'll like your same post on two platforms.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Has anyone written a review/retrospective on Colum McCann's Apeirogon in the past year? Seems like a good time to revisit it.

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

What's your favorite danger/caution sign? I'm personally a big fan of "Danger keep fingers clear of pinch point." It's visually clear even to a child, no Anglo-specific terms or cultural knowledge needed to get it. And the visual is so visceral it makes my fingers hurt. A+ symbol

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Derek T. Frasure @derektfrasure.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

"And much that is within the human is like an oyster: namely, disgusting and slippery and hard to grasp–[...] But again much about the human is deceptive [...] platry and pathetic and too much shell. Much hidden goodness and strength is never divined; the most exquisite morsels often go untasted!"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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