165 years ago TODAY, Charles Darwin had a normal one. "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything…" I think about this letter a lot.

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except for the many NYT articles abt the ridiculous & spoiled students protesting mass murder in gaza, i can't remember an essay so purpose-built to be whizzed around provostial groupchats and the signal chains of trustees and donors —it's like this was cooked in a lab to feed to adminstrators

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Am very very much enjoying The Rouse and have just stopped reading for a second to yell about how much the word “qualiaphagic” pleases me

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One of the less remarked-upon aspects of atheism is how it changes the way you see sunsets. If you believe in an omnipresent God, then sunsets are one of God's intentional creations, which means that the beautiful colors refracting through the darkling sky were *chosen* to produce that effect.

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⁨7am at the Amtrak station in Baltimore. The glamour!⁩ Our new book comes out tomorrow -- get a copy and come see us on the road. naomiklein.org/end-times-fa...

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