when that mermaid said “i wanna be where the people are” she was real for that

Ivory Coast becomes the FIRST team in this World Cup to win whilst having LESS Bird species than their opposition! 😲

the antifa supersoldiers have put woke algae back in the reflecting pool

There are people on this website who will argue in all sincerity that a, perhaps the, major problem with university humanities departments is that this perspective is underrepresented.

“essences are there to pre-empt the future by limiting possibilities. When omniscience is needed we invent essences.” -Adam Phillips

Remember blind Rohingya refugee Nurul Amin Shah Alam? It's a pattern, not an accident. ICE is strategically killing refugees.

It’s taken 7 months from start to finish but please enjoy this in 30 seconds. Nobody deserves it more than Sienna ❤️

The European mind understands it perfectly. This is what imperial decadence looks like: public institutions converted into branded spectacle, civic memory replaced by adrenaline theater, and the People’s House turned into a content backdrop for regime propaganda. The joke is not that Europe cannot comprehend it. The joke is that America no longer recognizes what it is becoming.

For Pride Month, here is Freud’s famous kind, thoughtful, generous, brilliant, and beautiful letter, which he wrote in English, to an American woman and mother inquiring about her homosexual son, and asking: could Freud help him? The reason we have this letter is because the mother was so moved and grateful that years later, she shared it with Alfred Kinsey, famous American sexologist. She shared this with Kinsey with a brief note enclosed in which she described Freud as a “Great and Good man.” I know that others may disagree, but I must insist that psychoanalysis does not and should not tolerate homophobia or transphobia. To work psychoanalytically requires us to accept that sexuality and gender expression comes in all forms. Freud thought of himself as a scientist, and he was not ideologically driven. He came to these conclusions near the end of his life and career honestly because he understood what the mind is, and he was, at all times, a clinician and doctor who wanted people to learn to live comfortably and happily enough in their lives, without shame. If he could get there in 1935, then all of us should be able to arrive to this understanding in 2026. Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💝 (PS I mildly edited the line breaks simply for readability on the internet. The link to this letter in the original is in the next post in this thread. 💌📝👇) April 9th 1935 WIEN IX., BERGGASSE 19 Dear Mrs. [Erased] I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual. I am most impressed by the fact, that you do not mention this term yourself in your information about him. May I question you why you avoid it? Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.) It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime and cruelty too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis. By asking me if I can help, you mean, I suppose, if I can abolish homosexuality and make normal heterosexuality take its place. The answer is, in a general way, we cannot promise to achieve this. In a certain number of cases we succeed in developing the blighted germs of heterosexual tendencies, which are present in every homosexual; in the majority of cases it is no more possible. It is a question of the quality and the age of the individual. The result of treatment cannot be predicted.  What analysis can do for your son runs in a different line. If he is unhappy, neurotic, torn by conflicts, inhibited in his social life, analysis may bring him harmony, peace of mind, full efficiency, whether he remains a homosexual or gets changed. If you make up your mind he should have analysis with me—I don’t expect you will—, he has to come over to Vienna. I have no intention of leaving here. However, don’t neglect to give me your answer. Sincerely yours with best wishes, Freud P.S. I did not find it difficult to read your handwriting. Hope you will not find my writing and my English a harder task. Dear DR. KINSEY: HEREWITH I enclose a letter from a Great and Good man which you may retain. From a Grateful Mother

The Boston Slide judges the rider’s soul. The bagpiper was pure of heart and got a peaceful ride, the cop was a cop and was spit out accordingly

nyrb.com/products/the-contin… A novel for the age of AI. Hat tip to Anne Boyer for the citation.

7 hours of non-stop reading. Just names of kids. Read that again.

The 3 counties that own the Ghanaian gold mines are the UK, Canada and the USA.

Thank goodness for Birthright citizenship 4-1

Proposed funding for Homeless Assistance Grants next year: $4.2 billion Pentagon contracts awarded to SpaceX last month: $6.5 billion

Not to be a petty little bitch but @rooseveltinst pushed me out over this tweet.

Respect 🙌🏼 thank you so much for the welcome

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

This is Orson Welles talking about his friendship with Ernest Hemingway. Imagine if people were still this articulate.