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Sansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 02/08/2025

Let's all solve the Male Lonliness Crisis by blurting out whatever we're on right now. I think the Male Loneliness Crisis can be solved by, the classic work of high fantasy The Lord of the Rings

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 4h

If you told me that Hegseth was too cowardly to do his own murders with his own hands before becoming SecDef, or if you told me that he had gotten away with a long string of murders as a civilian, I would believe you either way.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 11h

Patton, somewhat famously, believed he was the Eternal Champion.

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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 11h

If your kids are in school they’re constantly being prompted to “relate” to some text… listen to Anne

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 12h

This is Nathan Myhrvold, and we got a $600 cookbook out of it.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 23h

You ever put on three different perfect albums in a row and then realize "damn, Steve Albini produced all these.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can't make up my mind whether JKR hates Malfoid because she resents fan fiction, delights in Malfoid because the online right is involved and being trollish, or hates Malfoid because the online right is forcefemming Draco.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

<contrapoints critique power screenshot> I guess

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Huh, are there still major commercial fig crops that rely on the fig wasp? All of the varieties that I'm familiar with out west are cultivars bred to be fruit-bearing without wasp involvement. I want to meet the guy whose job is raising fig wasps for the slaughter.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I do not understand what is happening here. What? What are they doing? Who are these people? Deranged.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dead Philosophers in Heaven (and hell): AAAAGHHH!

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Huh, I wonder how small a mammal can get before its brain can't do normal mammal stuff. Thumbnail Shrew tests the lower bound of my (dunce) intuition.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When you're done, you should read some secondary sources about Melville's extreme thing for Nathaniel Hawthorne. Crushing so hard for a guy that you write the great American novel.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And when you asked the wrong person, whoo boy! I remember multiple professors getting pissed that we were "trying to tear down a great thinker" by observing the plain meaning of the text.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Get outta here, great books conservatives! It's all run through with homoeroticism, AND IT'S OUR MARVELOUS INTELLECTUAL HERITAGE.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"When Whitman talks about men as his lovers, he's talking non-personally, assuming the role of an expansive lover of all, not–"

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"oh no, that's a common misunderstanding. Socrates didn't literally lust after Alcibiades, that's a translation confusion, and if we look at Jowett's..."

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"ah, I see, you've misunderstood, Ishmael and Queequeg are sharing the bed because that was a perfectly common thi–"

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"no no, Shakespeare's sonnets aren't *actually* about his love for a young man, it's—"

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Finally, with the conservatives ditching Great Books (and literacy) we are free to talk openly about how overwhelmingly gay the Western classical tradition is. No more fusty professors interrupting to pretend that Achilles and Patroclus were just good pals.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hope you're ready for all human-performed math to be ~Terryology.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

for a minute @hurricanexyz.bsky.social has been saying that Legend of the Galactic Heroes is his favorite piece of political theory and now that I am 15 hours into the series I get it. i’m totally Yang Wen-li-pilled.

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"revenge isn't worth it" stories aren't hitting like they used to, hm, wonder why

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Perchloroethylene gives a lot of people hideous cancer, but it also helps discount dry cleaners offer $1 shirt service, so who's to say if it's bad or good.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am usually not a "back in my day, X only cost $ Y" guy, but holy shit, what happened to dry cleaning??

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Has the whiff of something Tyler Cowen cherrypicked out of specialist literature and brought into the discourse via vagueposting.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gonna take some drugs and come back to re-read this so I can treat it with the appropriate astonishment.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It makes some potential buyers insane in the lucrative way.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is your achilles busted in a way that prevents you from safely using an erg? 60 sec on / 30 sec off rate pyramid 20-->32-->20 can feel like dying during a beep test, if that's the sort of thing that cures what ails ya.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"is count of monte cristo a xianxia or an isekai?" the greatest thread in... etc

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

RIP Alexander Dumas, you would have loved Royal Road.

Spine of the everyman's library edition of the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas. it's all fucked up and worn.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You already hip to Explosions&Fire, the Australian who is absolutely qualified to be as stupid and exasperated as he is with chemistry?

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026

this is how it feels knowing i'm going to wear the same style of skinny jeans i discovered in 2013 for the rest of my life

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

starring claude as nude tayne

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

straight up i think they write these articles because they're annoyed how expensive their home improvement/repair projects are getting, i think it's that simple

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well in that case, put me in coach. I'm ready to horrifically bully some FedSoc clerks.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wonder how many Apple privacy feature at this point can be pretty directly traced back to PrivacyViolatorGeorg.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think the difference is commercial rents + cost of passionate skilled labor. Portland is the only cool city in America where a lunatic can set up an 8-seat vegan sushi restaurant with a dream and a $10,000 inheritance from grandma.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Portland keeps defending its title of Best Food City in America.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...I have heard legend of this guy at a couple of industry gatherings recently. Linear though. The mythical Jira pervert would be an even more powerful Horny Cultivator.

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finally set up one of those budgeting apps, and the "Books" category is dangerously close to the Dril Candles zone. Gonna have to delete this budgeting app.

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