It used to mean someone who liked drinking beer and hanging out with other guys. Now it’s an accusation of political cluelessness — or worse.
Coming from a family of alcoholics (roughly a year later) | willowbl00
Last year in October, Reed and I had a conversation about how I wasn’t getting what I wanted out of my drinking. It had recently become more “European” and less “poorly managed coping mechanism,” but it still wasn’t making the cut. I wrote three blog posts about it, at the 2, 4, and 6 month marks of running an experiment.
s21e02: What Does it Mean to be Friends?
0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, 14 January 2026 in Portland, Oregon where while the conditions in the U.S. may not be argued to be fascist as such (i.e. the...
History, Sugar and Sex: Why Mixed Drinks Were Terrible for 30 Years
Imagine you are overworked, sleep-deprived and keen to begin your weekend with...
#761: Not every brother is a bro
Plus: Oppressive praise, baby names and the American exodus
Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism
It is imperative to ask why and how this obscure Canadian academic, who insists that gender and class hierarchies are ordained by nature and validated by science, has suddenly come to be hailed as the West’s most influential public intellectual. Peterson rails against “softness,” arguing that men have been “pushed too hard to feminize,” like other hyper-masculinist thinkers before him who saw compassion as a vice and urged insecure men to harden their hearts against the weak (women and minorities) on the grounds that the latter were biologically and culturally inferior. Peterson’s ageless insights are, in fact, a typical, if not archetypal, product of our own times: right-wing pieties seductively mythologized for our current lost generations.
What do incels, fascists and terrorists have in common? Violent misogyny | Jason Wilson
Many accounts of incel subculture have treated it as a sharp deviation from the norm. It’s not
npj on Twitter / X
Schumpeter in a nut shell:— Capitalism forces “rationalization” and the rationalist worldview, which just ends in an almost nihilistic skepticism that corrodes everything traditional that it touches: in particular “family life” and the aristocracy.— The traditional… pic.twitter.com/hThnUJ6jNE— npj (@TiltingatM3) May 28, 2026
W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype
An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up.
Remember when a glass of wine a day was good for you? Here’s why that changed.
It seems like opinions on the health benefits of booze are shifting. Suddenly moderate drinking is unhealthy. What happened?
The Researchers Who Want Dads-to-Be to Stop Drinking - The Atlantic
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Babble Buds | The Paper Pilot
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Towards Eldering
by Cash Ahenakew Part of the work of the GTDF collective has been around “growing up”. The term is used with reference to sobering up, to owning up and to showing up differently in the world. Previ…
Moderation | The Paper Pilot
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