Let’s make a new national motto for the US: previously “E Pluribus Unum,”* now it’s “Report Suspicious Activity.”

G. E. Moore, especially “Proof of an External World” and “Principia Ethica.”* Then, Federico Garcia Lorca.

Well, I’m sure this will end well. #AgainstAllMilitaryOffensives #AgainstAllOccupations #USOutOfTheUkraine #EUOutOfTheUkraine #RussiaOutOfTheUkraine #UkraineOutOfTheUkraine #EverybodyStandDown

Of course they did. Mass in-security is the damned *point* of the National Security Agency. If communications weren’t massively insecure, they’d have nothing to tap and no reason to exist.

Colloquial language is full of very carefully observed and significant grammaticalization. Also, our curse-word-taboos are getting better: “The increase in public profanity may seem to speak against such a sunny perspective. But what qualifies as profanity? Today, the ‘four letter’ words traditionally termed profanity in American English are more properly just salty. … No anthropologist observing our society would recognize words used so freely in public language as profanity. “At the same time, consider the words we now consider truly taboo, that we enshroud with a near-religious air of sinfulness. They are, overwhelmingly, epithets aimed at groups. Gone are the days when our main lexical taboos concerned religion — with ‘egad’ as a way to evade saying ‘Ye Gods!’ — or sex and the body, as when Americans started saying white and dark meat to avoid mentioning breasts and limbs. “Instead, today the abusive use of the N-word, the word beginning with F that refers to homosexual men and a four-letter word for a body part that can be used to refer to women are considered beyond the pale even in casual discourse, to an extent that would baffle a time traveler from as recently as 50 years ago. . . .”

OK, so, Winter Soldier: have known all the spoilers for years. Still. Damn.

More confrontation. More direct action. #Not1More #InSwedenOrUS #ShutDownDeportations #ImmigrationFreedom #BordersAreStupid

Seriously man I wonder if police supporters ever realize how incredibly vile their “sheepdog” metaphor is?

Man, all y’all are giving me a wicked craving for French toast.

More confrontation. More protest. #StopDeportations #Not1More