The axe existed for 1 million years before anyone thought to put a handle on it, lol.

— Kanyi Maqubela (@km) February 15, 2022

I think about that almost every day. “Obvious” ideas aren’t. We’ve not nearly discovered everything yet, despite what you’ve been told, nor have we made use of the things we have discovered well or correctly.

In many, many ways we’re still those paleolithic hominins bashing things with a rock for a near-eternity, not even considering that we could tie a stick to that rock and have a far superior tool.

Is fascism the wave of the future? How climate change benefits the extreme right.

Only because the left became obsessed with identity bullshittery and believing there are 900 genders, instead of engaging with the actual world in a substantive way.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

I’m enjoying watching the Covid panickers bawling like little babies about people returning to normal lives. Most of them don’t really give a crap about hospital capacity or anything else; they just want to take things away from you.

Me, I’m gonna watch Aden kill it singing “What I Am” again. And then I’m gonna travel where I want to and do what I wanna do.

Those kids are all really good, but that singer is fantastic. She’s really got something there.

Only cover of this song I’ve ever seen that I’ve liked. They don’t take the sex out of the song. I mean, the song is about sex so it’s absurd to do that. But they aren’t Americans so aren’t as constrained by prudishness.

Daria’s voice is great for this song.