Meantime, in Russia:

The number of 🇷🇺 weirdos quoting this as “Extremely Based” is so telling. Their Ukrainophobia, or whatever they’re up to in those Moscow & St. Pete gay bars, tracks perfectly.

I’m still stunned RF didn’t get into Rainbow NATO back in 2008 — would’ve made perfect damn sense. https://t.co/BgSgh8MJBN pic.twitter.com/7tutFbk1Rd

— New Dante (@TheNewTemple) October 7, 2025

Indian Student With $100,000 Columbia Scholarship Denied US Visa. Here’s Why

Kaushik Raj’s semester at Columbia University was set to start in August, but around that time, he received a letter from the US Embassy in New Delhi telling him his application had been rejected

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ndtv.com/world-news/indian-student-kaushik-raj-with-100-000-columbia-scholarship-denied-us-visa-heres-why-9410482/amp/1

This is such a bizarre situation. Journalism is dying. Yet Columbia is acting like there’s a gigantic shortage of journalists that needs to be plastered over with extraordinary expenditures.

We are playing a very strange game, and nobody is bothering to explain the rules.

Once again, people are discussing fetal development on X like science hasn’t changed in decades. Scientific advances and technology always develop. We saw Klara’s heartbeat on an ultrasound at 5 weeks. People who claim that an ultrasound can’t pick anything up until 8 weeks are behind the times by at least a decade. I saw her heartbeat and I saw her in the summer of 2015 when I was at barely 5 weeks pregnant. Of course, I had a situation with which we are all familiar, and that is why the pregnancy was so closely monitored. But the ability to see the baby and listen to the heartbeat at 5 weeks was already very much there ten years ago.

Of course, after reading Tony Tulathimutte’s new novel Rejection, I had to read his first book Private Citizens. I’m only 1/3 in but I can already say that it’s eminently worth reading. It’s not as narratively adventurous because it was his first novel, and writers grow. But that makes it easier to read.

Private Citizens points to the huge gaping hole in the middle of the neoliberal worldview. It’s the conflict between the productivity-maximizing entrepreneurial self and the indulgent, ego-flattering desiring self. The persona that gets up at 5 am to do gratitude journaling and prepare for a productive day is not the same one that is dedicated to humoring one’s every identitarian whim. How can you be hard enough to impose yourself on life while simultaneously so soft as to constantly flow and mutate?

The characters of Private Citizens are trying to bridge this gap and mostly failing. Tulathimutte is great at diagnosing the problem but he’ll never provide a solution. He’s trapped by his political beliefs and will circle around the issue endlessly without noticing the obvious solution. He’s still a great writer, though. These are excellent novels that I’m enjoying greatly.

Guess what I’m supposed to be doing on October 16th?

Yes, traveling to Spain.

Fuck these stupid bastards and their stupid solidarity with stupid Gaza.

🇩🇪 Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system

A new scientific advisory board under the German Ministry of Economy stated that there is almost no time left for reforms. According to experts, Germany’s economy has been… pic.twitter.com/8XLIKc8SG5

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 6, 2025

Wait, wasn’t the importation of millions of Muslims supposed to solve precisely this problem? What happened?

A new page with the most extensive documentation the October 7th Massacre has been created ahead of the 2nd anniversary of the attack.

Operation orders, maps & documents from Hamas show that years of planning went into their murderous campaignhttps://t.co/395ddbMSse

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 6, 2025

OK, but years of planning leaves us with two possible scenarios. One is that the famed Mossad is the most incompetent organization in human history. Another is that Mossad is not incompetent and the massacre was allowed to proceed for political reasons. There is no third scenario. The level of incompetence needed to miss a large-scale operation that was years in the making is truly stunning. It’s possible that such incompetence exists. But two years later, it’s time to start looking into it and at the very least removing everybody who failed at their job to such an extraordinary degree.

I took a couple of minutes to listen to Bad Bunny to see what the fuss is about. Its funny because his is exactly the kind of music we listened to in our youth in 2001. There was this dance club in Montreal called Salsathèque, and it was very popular, with exactly the stuff that Bad Bunny does. It’s nice, harmless. Definitely better than Taylor Swift because at least there’s rhythm and melody here.

It’s funny that the aesthetic hasn’t changed at all in a quarter century. Pop music is stuck in a long rut. Other than that, I have no idea what there is to discuss here. Students are writing research project on Bad Bunny when he’s one in a trillion completely identical artists in a genre that by definition can’t come up with anything new.

The Trump invasion must have caused it.

Or indigenous mass graves.

It must have been one of these things that are the biggest problems faced by Canada.