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Stephen @tungol.org · 04/09/2026
I did this dialect quiz and it came back as basically "definitely not the south"
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Stephen @tungol.org · 30/06/2026
Be careful what you wish for
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Stephen @tungol.org · 19/06/2026
Going down to street level has not clarified for me why these people are all here right now
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Stephen @tungol.org · 12/05/2026
Last Sunday, our beautiful girl Reischa passed after a long decline in health. She was 20 years old. She was so sweet-natured and smart and cheerful and resilient. She was nervous by nature, but very brave and wanted everyone to be friends. She taught us so much, and we miss her dearly.
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Stephen @tungol.org · 04/05/2026
A chart of and overly earnest reaction to the dril candles tweet
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Stephen @tungol.org · 29/04/2026
Making fun of Peterson is funny but also the vibes on this blog are rancid
Germany has never shown repentance for its Slav holocaust, unlike its repentance for its much smaller Jewish holocaust.
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Stephen @tungol.org · 16/04/2026
Today is Reischa’s 20th birthday. She’s the sweetest old lady that there ever was.
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Stephen @tungol.org · 21/02/2026
I watched His Dark Materials and these are my thoughts
Meme: His Dark Materials versus His Dark Materials if Mrs Coulter was the Knife Bearer
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Stephen @tungol.org · 12/02/2026
Reminds me of a young Steve Buscemi
young Steve Buscemi
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Stephen @tungol.org · 14/01/2026
anyway
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Stephen @tungol.org · 31/12/2025
animated "That's Bait" meme
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Stephen @tungol.org · 06/12/2025
While I’m graphic design posting here’s the current backdrop used by the mountain goats at their concerts and after staring at it for a while I still kind of want to tighten up the H-E gap on the first line and the I-N gap on the second line
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Stephen @tungol.org · 06/12/2025
Graphic design is my passion
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Stephen @tungol.org · 06/12/2025
Living the dream (taking the train to the train celebration)
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Stephen @tungol.org · 04/06/2025
I once looked up “chuffed” in the OED, it didn’t clarify the sentence for me.
Chuffed:
a. Pleased, satisfied.
b. Displeased, disgruntled.
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Stephen @tungol.org · 25/05/2025
Also seen
A picture of marker grafitti which reads:

The After
LYFE! (VIP)
Your LIVING It!
:) Have A Great DAY!
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Stephen @tungol.org · 21/04/2025
For me, the definitive essay on the role of contingency versus structure in history is @adapalmer.bsky.social's: www.exurbe.com/on-progress-...
So when I tell people about this election, and they ask me “Does it always have the same outcome?” the answer is yes *and no*.  Because the Great Forces always push the same way.  The strong factions are strong.  Money is power.  Blood is thicker than promises.  Virtue is manipulable.  In the end, a bad man will be pope.  And he will do bad things.   The war is coming, and the land — some land somewhere — will burn.  But the details are always different.  A Cardinal needs to gather fourteen votes to get the throne, but it’s never the same fourteen votes, so it’s never the same fourteen people who get papal favor, whose agendas are strengthened, whose homelands prosper while their enemies fall.  And I have never once seen a pope elected in this simulation who did not owe his victory, not only to those who voted, but to one or more of the humble functionaries, who repeated just the right whisper at just the right moment, and genuinely handed the throne to Monster A instead of Monster B.  And from that functionary flow the consequences. There are always several kingmakers in the election, who often do more than the candidate himself to get him on the throne, but what they do, who they help, and which kingmaker ends up most favored, most influential, can change a small war in Genoa into a huge war in Burgundy, a union of thrones between France and England into another century of guns and steel, or determine which decrees the new pope signs.  That sometimes matters more than whether war is in Burgundy or Genoa, since papal signatures resolve questions such as: Who gets the New World? Will there be another crusade?  Will the Inquisition grow more tolerant or less toward new philosophies?  Who gets to be King of Naples?  These things are different every time, though shaped by the same forces.
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Stephen @tungol.org · 21/04/2025
I don't think this can be read as a denial of any influence
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Stephen @tungol.org · 21/04/2025
Your characterization of Will's views seems undercut by what he's actually said (for example here).
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Stephen @tungol.org · 27/12/2024
You could really just do anything in the 1800s.
Screenshot of a wikipedia article
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Stephen @tungol.org · 08/10/2024
Really enticing content here, good work Meta
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Stephen @tungol.org · 27/09/2024
quality wordsmithing here (from www.offmessage.net/p/trump-pand... )
The thing about Trump that appeals to young men isn’t rooted in policy per se, but in his devil-may-care affect. Trump exudes Go Fuck Yourself, and young men constitute the demographic that most wants you to get fucked.
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Stephen @tungol.org · 09/07/2024
Cat meme: I have seen the end / no one was spared, not even the children
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Stephen @tungol.org · 22/05/2024
The intro paragraph is in the RSS feed via a bug but it's very funny to imagine responding to the NYT asking for an op-ed about "authoritarianism and democracy" with a 7,500 word essay about NASA's Artemis program. Why didn't they publish? It's a mystery.
In August 2020, the New York Times asked me to write an op-ed for a special feature on authoritarianism and democracy. They declined to publish my submission, which I am sharing here instead.

distant photo of Artemis rocket on launch pad

A little over 51 years ago, a rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying three astronauts and a space car. After a three day journey to the moon, two of the astronauts climbed into a spindly lander and made the short trip down to the surface, where for another three days they collected rocks and did donuts in the space car. Then they climbed back into the lander, rejoined their colleague in orbit, and departed for Earth.
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Stephen @tungol.org · 27/04/2024
I achieved free hat
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Stephen @tungol.org · 27/04/2024
Trains are big and fast.
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Stephen @tungol.org · 07/03/2024
So nobody thought about how this was going to look or what In the Capitol Hill station of all places
Ad in the Capitol Hill light rail station: Powering progress with more parking
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