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@schleiermocker.bsky.social
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carpe the diem, people

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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I won’t let Big Stupid convince me not to read a book on the train wtf. Also, if you read Gadamer nobody will be interested enough in you to call it performative
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
look at how they heteronomized my maxim 😞
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
fascism arrived against an “imminent” threat of revolution from the left. The symbolism here says clearly what others spend too much time debating
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Vance tells Angie Nixon to leave America and “you don’t belong here.” Such rhetoric is so common from this admin it makes the news for half a day
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hegelian don corleone: “look how they negated my negation”
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
mf reads the Phaedrus once and…
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cubs-White Sox World Series and Pope Leo throws out the first pitch
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
nice
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Deneen’s focus on nostos and restlessness in the Odyssey is flat but easily allows him to smuggle in right wing views. His reading cannot structurally connect the Phaeacians with Polyphemus and ultimately with Odysseus arriving in Ithaca as a stranger, the way, say, xenia does
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
with all due disrespect, you have to be functionally illiterate (in English and Greek) to read the gospels and get anything resembling muscular Christianity
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ll pay for it. Me, I will.
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
me: “your crypto-erotic hangups are not our issue.” them: “watch us make it your issue”
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Transparent cash grab by these losers. They included the pastor who famously malfunctioned for hours after he had a waitress who wore yoga pants. Basically disturbed individuals with podcast equipment religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
simply making fun of meta glasses, calling them “pervert glasses,” is why Zuck is sheepishly retreating for the moment. Nice to see
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
blahvinck
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“you should engage Kuyper and neo-Calvinism”
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
STOP ASKING YOUR SON "HOW WAS SCHOOL." HE'LL SAY "FINE" EVERY SINGLE TIME. A CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST TOLD ME TO REPLACE IT WITH THESE 3 QUESTIONS INSTEAD: “What can I know?” “What should I do?” “What may I hope?”
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I mean he was trained by theological liberal personalists during undergrad, so another perfectly valid vulgar rawlsian 🤝
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
also, certain aspects of Rawls can be almost spiritual practices if you take them seriously. Liberalism as a way of life
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
years ago I shed the veil’s more technical implications and view it as basic political empathy. Too many arguments boil down to “if I look like X, have history Y, and/or believe Z, I should occupy a different level in society”
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
they don’t know optimization culture is deeply inhumane
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
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How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Can Democrats Reclaim the Christian Moral High Ground? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/m...
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Can Democrats Reclaim the Christian Moral High Ground?
A surprising number of pastors are running as Democrats this year, challenging Americans’ assumptions about politics and faith.
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AI is causing “cognitive surrender”? As a Platonist I reached that point years ago
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I can’t believe somebody yelled “give us a thumbs up!” And an aid defensively responded “he already did”
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Schmitz is our least talented and most tendentious cultural commentator. Another masterpiece where he exactly misdiagnoses the events he’s observing Ella Langley. ‘Landman.’ The Rural Vibe Shift Is Real. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...
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Opinion | Ella Langley. ‘Landman.’ The Rural Vibe Shift Is Real.
Social marginalization means something different today.
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Net negative” for sure
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
re the Sydney Sweeney ad: have any American celebrities or sports stars decried the scourge of betting like Mbappé has?
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“AI will kill us all” is just another secularized eschatology. Just as likely you’ll live 500 years absorbing AI slop 24/7 and there will be advertisements in your dreams
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
*pretends to be shocked face*
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
LMAO
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Barron’s dishonest eristics often work like this. Notice the subtle merger of empathy as “feeling with others” with “never hurting feelings.” Empathy is the former, not the latter. He combines them so he can pretend empathy is not a supreme gospel value, which it obviously is
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You could say Kant was “sleepmaxxing” before he read Hume
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
the corporate mindfulness retreat got too real, now the colleagues are escaping suffering through renunciation of all craving
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m tired of all the winning
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“net negative” is anything that would challenge me to be a better person
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
what is the public square?
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
it’s just something people value or enjoy doing — not everything is an “ersatz religion”
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I’ve been saying: the Mamdani effect combines 1) active government WITH 2) accountable government and a *gasp* 3) forward-looking communitarian vision of family and community flourishing. The contemporary rightwing can cry and moan about point 1 but have lost all moral authority or vision on 2 and 3
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Inside the Left’s Playbook for Winning Elections www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...
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The Campaign Tactics Helping Progressives Win Primaries Ahead of the 2026 Midterms
Progressives are being outspent and are receiving little support from the Democratic Party. Their tactics show a different way to succeed.
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
that would be 23 million working Americans. 23 million people who could be freer, more innovative, and less dependent on jobs/bosses they hate
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Democrats Prepare for Possible Election Clashes With Federal Government www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...
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Democrats Prepare for Possible Election Clashes With Federal Government
Top officials overseeing state elections and law enforcement are stepping up plans to prepare for what they worry could be interference in the midterms.
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
DSA is not a “gift” to MAGA. It is a gift, possibly, of MAGA. And since I don’t care about the DSA at all, but about a socialist presence within the Democratic Party, it could be a gift to Dems as well if they’re smart about it
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
can a rogue GPT model hack into my student loans and delete them
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
democratic socialism is the only hope for the Democratic Party
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
they’re charging for the free encyclical
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
do the real thing: head over to Perseus, read it in Greek, make up the meaning of 70% of the words you encounter, and enjoy your life
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Homer bros arguing over Odyssey translations, but not embarrassed they’re reading it in translation smh
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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I don’t get envious easily but today a guy got on the train with his golf clubs and a fishing pole. Can’t do that to me on a Monday morning 😣
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