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Twitter Bookmarks for August 2025
I will always point to the X Files as the most important *modern* text for RW writers. It's about the American Empire trying to contain spiritual realities--which is a far stranger, more dangerous world than anyone wants to admit. It's a story set right before the collapse. 1/
— HariSel57511397 (@HariSel57511397) August 30, 2025
programmers don't realize that this is exactly their PM's relationship to them.
— JeromeTheHero1 (@JeromeTheHero1) August 25, 2025
I'm dead
— LibOrNormal (@LibOrNormal) August 24, 2025
TRUMP: Bet I can get the left to oppose making their own streets safer. JD VANCE: That’s easy. They’ll just say there’s no crime. TRUMP: Okay then… Bet I can get them to admit there is violent crime and still come out against safer streets. JD VANCE: Too easy. These
— NolteNC (@NolteNC) August 24, 2025
Meticulously removing all traces of microplastics from my diet and then blowing it all one night by devouring a PlayStation 5 in a moment of weakness
— growing_daniel (@growing_daniel) August 23, 2025
I have spent the past several years working alongside Chris Rufo, and I have come to the conclusion that nobody either on the right or the left really understands what it is that we are doing or why the tactics Chris developed are effective. So I will explain to everyone what we
— wokal_distance (@wokal_distance) August 20, 2025
Like honestly, I think this is really stupid. The political establishment fears him because of the damage he’ll do to the Democratic brand. The financial establishment (justifiably) fears him a little because of the stupid stuff he’ll do. But most of the crowd worries he’ll ruin
— JonahDispatch (@JonahDispatch) August 20, 2025
The BEST meta joke in Invincible
— InternetH0F (@InternetH0F) August 19, 2025
What is America’s worst downstream policy decision of the last century? I’m talking health insurance being tied to employment, housing financialization, car seats. Give me your best worst policy
— AlmostMedia (@AlmostMedia) August 15, 2025
Moscow is one of the weirdest capitals: • Biggest European city • Extremely cold • Little farmland • To Russia's extreme west • Not on a coast or main river How did it create the biggest country on Earth? It involves horse archers, human harvesting & tiny animals
— tomaspueyo (@tomaspueyo) August 14, 2025
I wonder what's the smallest amount of today's knowledge you'd need to give to the Romans back in 27 B.C. in order to spark industrialization/modernity roughly equivalent to our own but two millennia earlier
— jrysana (@jrysana) August 10, 2025
[replying to my sister's text] ...and is there a mister carriage?
— Tanya_Sabrinaaa (@Tanya_Sabrinaaa) August 7, 2025
I'm less fussy about what's in the canon than about the fact that we need a canon. When I visit even elite colleges now, it strikes me that the kids have fewer and fewer common references. They don't recognize bible quotes, don't recognize Shakespeare, don't recognize Dickens ... https:// x.com/OsitaNwanevu/s /OsitaNwanevu/status/1952346720899318195 …
— asymmetricinfo (@asymmetricinfo) August 4, 2025
my favorite type of parent is the ones who are like “screen time? yeah unlimited screen time … on our own server + the Linux machine, and they can just access anki, PowerPoint, and anything else they can figure out how to access by the CLI.”
— nwilliams030 (@nwilliams030) August 2, 2025