Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 9hIn real fields, like ancient Greek or theology, our theories arise from attempting to solve practical problems. But I understand that business school might be different 030
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 9hSome instructors really like to begin with the theory and then illustrate with the practice/example. I'm sure there are students for whom this is effective, but it's really alien to me 130
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 16hwe need fewer omnisites, not more. i want to go to one place to talk about AD&D, another place to talk about Ars Magica, another to talk about fundraising, another to talk about Latin, another for Greek, another for conlangs, etc etc etc. I want to have a different handle on each one. 160
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 16hI think it's partially this (everybody trying to make a buck off their hobbies - which I don't think is even necessarily blameworthy, given the respective growth rates of costs and wages) and partially its the death of forums 250
Reposted by Yankee PapistLibby @ancientprawns.bsky.social · 19hThat’s not cool. I lost my cousin in a riptide of cheese sauce 4365
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I want to be clear that I am categorically against hustle in all cases 070
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is such an extraordinary collection, yes 020
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026gary gygax, Robert E Howard, star wars and some of the really midrashic 90s star wars novels, cotton Mather, Melville, and wigglesworth 370
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I know you didn't say this but the idea of classifying Dickens and Cervantes as "litfic" is very very funny 170
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Most of them that I know hate Vance, you're thinking of Tufts graduates 100
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026These two really do remind me of every ivy league college republican I've ever met, except for their standards of personal care (I was about to say 'grooming' but on that index they're very much in the mold) 130
Reposted by Yankee Papisthannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026will you people shut the fuck up 2636344613
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026my two year old chastises me to "be careful! watch your fingers!" when I'm closing the trunk of the car; this is not difficult 120
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026(And a lot of those people do, in fact, end up having kids in their later 30s and 40s, once they've had their fun and gotten better salaries, and that's fine too!) 020
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Like the Millennials who can't buy houses because of their avocado toast cravings 230
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'll also say I know a people who want a life of financial stability and some middle class creature comforts and also want children, and can only have one of these, and make a different choice than me. But the people who are addicted to travel too much to have kids are statistically a fiction 240
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026And it's absolutely the case that the kind of person who doesn't want children, prefers an easy life, but could be hectored into it by a childless cleric playing on his sense of religious obligation should not have kids 140
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The childfree militants of reddit are obviously deranged, and the people who don't want kids and prefer their material comforts are, in my view, living a poorer existence. It's good to want kids and to make it easy for everyone to have as many as they want. But priests aren't gonna make the case 130
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026That's not the general proposition that I advanced, though 160
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's fine to not want kids though, and better not to have them if you don't 270
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There will be a restoration. There will come a flowering of dignified, stately, grown-up English prose that will make the Augustan Age look like a joss whedon script. I hope my daughter lives to see it 130
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026when I think about how the rest of my life is going to be like this or worse, I grow quite grim about the mouth 230
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026(i don't actually much care for into the odd) 000
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026this one goes out to the intersection of "haters of the Hyannis bog rat dynasty" and "fans of the Old School Renaissance" 100
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Into the Odd Hole in President Kennedy's Skull 020
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The single biggest tell that an electronic toy for toddlers has been designed by someone without children is if it makes a noise when you turn it off, so you can't do so surreptitiously 090
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It's not worth it, but it would be consolation 0170
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The one, and only, upside of a lame duck jd vance disaster presidency is it would (especially if followed by president aoc or president buttigieg in blue wave reaction) represent a smooth boomer to millennial handff, and the complete exclusion of Gen X from the chief magistracy 3301
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If Donald Trump survives until the end of his term, then in 2029 the United States will have been governed by presidents born in 1946 for fully 10% of its lifespan 47810
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I've been saying this for at least two decades 031
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Less a grift than a clear project of restoring serfdom, but yeah 150
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"E-mail jobs" are just objectively better than manual labor and it's kind of insane that anybody is trying to sell us on the alternative 170
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026if AI is going to give us a world where a) everybody can have an easy slacker sedentary job that still pays the bills and only takes 20-25 hours a week max b) nobody has to read atlantic articles and c) billionaires get eaten then i'm all on board. but it seems to not be what it's about 150
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026i'm so fucking sick of 'go into the trades' articles 3171
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026How many local models runs the Pope? -MechaStalin 170
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Not me though (I'm stuck on the wars of religion instead) 060
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The ease of self-publication is also a concern here. 150
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Something we've yet to plan for as a society: given how badly PhD-production outpaced academic jobs for the last ~20 years, we will see an increasing number of men with doctorates who didn't get academic jobs entering into the 'Middle-Aged Dad Becomes Obsessed with WW2' phase. Monographs are coming 2100
Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What would Wilson or Nabokov make of Princess Mononoke? We can't know, but we can speculate! 110