Simone & Malcolm Collins

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Actually, SO MANY facets of Harry Potter lore hit different today, especially with Snape being trans-black. Also crazy: Malcolm fed this song plus a prompt into Claude Code with the API and it made this with one click. No edits from Malcolm. Not bad!

Well it's great that federal, state, and local intelligence materials have begun treating “anti-tech violent extremism” as a threat category but WHY WEREN'T THEY ALREADY DOING THAT? Better late than never, though! High five, guys!

Dating was seen as trashier than honest sex work even up to the 1940s. Perhaps it's not that dating markets are broken; maybe we never should have been dating in the first place. Thank goodness we're bringing back semi-arranged marriage (144 families on the list already!).

Also, wizard-muggle racism hits differently in today's social/political environment which we find hilarious Malcolm ended up creating a song called "The Spell Curve" because he just couldn't help himself and it's kinda catchy

"YER A RACIST, HARRY" This song kind of slaps. Malfoid might go a little hard on HBD, but HBO-canon Harry is next level.

Malfoid discourse delights us to no end, not just because of the angst on Bluesky but also because Draco simply makes more sense as a girl. It's weird that tsundere tropes are so absent from Western media; tsundere is deeply underrated.

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Imagine what poor Malfoid must think when she discovers the fanfiction about her—and fanfiction in general. She thinks muggles are just bumbling fools. Our gleeful depravity runs deeper than even the most sinister Death Eaters could imagine.

The UN is intentionally hiding just how bad fertility rates are in Central &amp; South America (collectively lower than the US). When pressed, they insist they "don't want to be alarmist." Any normal group that consistently published forecasts this bad would be investigated/fired.

Why are we ONLY NOW learning that Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate—which shapes how Catholics view Jews &amp; other religions—was written by a matrilineal Jew‑turned‑Catholic priest who subsequently left the priesthood and become a gay activist?? Seems like a religious drive-by shooting.

The way Chudettewaru 😈 handled the cancellation and blacklisting that hit her after she dared to say that men can't menstruate is a masterclass in modern witch hunt management: Own your statements, stick to your values, don't recant, don't apologize, make new friends.

Lindsey Clancy isn't the problem; women and culture are the problem. It turns out that it's way more common for women—esp. in the absence of protestant Christian or Jewish culture—to kill their own babies than we would have ever fathomed. This was a really hard episode to do.

We knew that antisemitism was on the rise, but didn't realize how intense it was—that around 25% of people in their twenties are antisemitic. So we decided to dig into WHY this is happening... and it's not about Gaza.

Some animal species' low-status males change their physiology to mimic females in order to infiltrate harems and reproduce covertly. Could a similar adaptive response explain elevated rates of aggression, brutality, and sadism observed in trans respondents to Aella's sex survey?

OK, yikes. We need to be more open, as a society, to public discourse on elements of cultures that are deeply toxic. Somehow it's "OK" to dunk on Western cultures but "racist" to critique elements of non-western cultures. If we want humanity to flourish, that has to end.

After researching whether cancelling/forgiving debt on a societal level works, we basically came away with: (1) In a cohesive, culturally uniform culture with shared values, it works as a means of staving off existential threats (2) In all other cases it's disastrous.

The Bricks &amp; Minifigs story gets crazier and crazier. What's under-discussed here is how much reputational damage this is all doing to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

People living in protestant-majority countries invent more—more culture, more cool tech, just MORE AWESOME STUFF. This is not an ethnic difference; it's a cultural difference.

Enjoyed Crémieux's analysis of this. One place where we'd push back is that the General Social Survey yields a limited picture of change over time because the definition of terms like "racist" have changed profoundly (from "racial supremacist" to "believes genes exist").

It's dawning on us that one probably should not build one's identity and life around a sexual arousal pathway (any more than one should build one's life around a favorite food or sensory experience). Also, the concept of being "gay" is a societal construct, plain 'n simple.

YouTube took this video down—in which we denounce Hitler as a failson, vegetarian, druggy artist who steadfastly blamed his failures on his father for being too strict and marched under a proto-Wiccan symbol. 🤷‍♀️ God forbid people question the narrative that he was right wing.

The UN is intentionally hiding just how bad fertility rates are in Central & South America (collectively lower than the US). When pressed, they insist they "don't want to be alarmist." Any normal group that consistently published forecasts this bad would be investigated/fired.

Why are we ONLY NOW learning that Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate—which shapes how Catholics view Jews & other religions—was written by a matrilineal Jew‑turned‑Catholic priest who subsequently left the priesthood and become a gay activist?? Seems like a religious drive-by shooting.

The Bricks & Minifigs story gets crazier and crazier. What's under-discussed here is how much reputational damage this is all doing to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.