#alexander sailer

[columbiachessclub]

Tunnelvision VI is in the books with 56 players in attendance on St. Patrick's Day weekend. A larger screen with additional spectator seating was deployed in the lobby to exhibit our live stream of the top 3 boards! Archives of the tournament and photos are available on the Tunnelvision website at the links below. In the Championship Section, NM Mike Sailer finished in clear first with 3.5/4.0, with Will Snyder and Aaron Wang taking second and third, respectively. In the U1600 section, Luken Calas-Aguilar won with a perfect 4.0/4.0 score, with Mark Ritchie, Matthew Hopper, Nicholas Ciriello, Sean Miller, and Vincent Lovello all in a tie for second. In the final U1200 section (our next Tunnelvision tournament will feature a U1000 section instead), Jacob Womick took clear first yet again with a perfect 4.0 score. Dheer Chheda finished in clear second with a 3.5/4.0. A logjam tie for third featured Alexander Arkhipov, Brayden Vandegraff, Caleb Lindell, Evan Bergh, Konrad Swygert, Morgan Caeleb, and Patrick Petsche. Thanks to the South Carolina chess community for your continued support of the Columbia Chess Club and our Tunnelvision events, and we look forward to seeing everyone as we host the SC Rapid and Blitz Championship on April 1, 2023 at an amazing venue overlooking downtown Columbia! Final Results: https://columbiatunnelvision.com/tv6-live-data Photo gallery: https://columbiatunnelvision.com/tunnelvision-vi-mar-2023 Tournament rating report: https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202303180032.0-16858680 (at Columbia First Nazarene) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp9NbciMvTj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[else-self]

For anyone interested in reading some poetry or poetics. Duration press has their catalog available online and as downloadable PDFs. It's a great resource of diverse writers and writing styles and translations.

The following is a complete list of publications released on durationpress.com since 1999. The first set is composed of titles released since 2015. The second set features titles released from 1999-2009.

2015-

Anne-Marie Albiach, A Discursive Space (interviews with Jean Daive) (tr. Norma Cole)

George Albon, Transit Rock

Will Alexander, Exobiology as Goddess

Will Alexander, Vertical Rainbow Climber

Richard Anders, The Footsteps of One Who Has Not Stepped Forth (tr. Andrew Joron)

ANGLE Magazine (edited by Brian Lucas)

Roman Antopolsky, Haunted House

Apex of the M (edited by Lew Daly, Alan Gilbert, Kristin Prevallet, Pam Rehm)

Gennady Aygi, An Anthology of Chuvash Poetry

Gennadi Aygi, Degree of Stability (tr. Peter France)

Rachel Tzvia Back, The Buffalo Poems

Josely Vianna Baptista, On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids (tr. Chris Daniels)

Melissa Benham, at sea

Coral Bracho, Of Their Ornate Eyes of Crystalline Sand (tr. Forrest Gander)

Michel Bulteau, Crystals to Aden (tr. Pierre Joris)

Mary Burger, Nature’s Maw Gives and Gives

Norma Cole, Coleman Hawkins Ornette Coleman

Norma Cole, Metamorphopsia

Norma Cole, My Bird Book

Pura López Colomé, Aurora (tr. Forrest Gander)

Stacy Doris, Paramour

Jean-Michel Espitallier, Butchers Fantasy (tr. Sherry Brennan & Jean-Michel Espitallier)

Factorial Magazine (edited by Sawako Nakayasu)

The Germ: A Journal of Poetic Research

John High, The Desire Notebooks

Emmanuel Hocquard, Late Additions (tr. Connell McGrath and Rosmarie Waldrop)

Emmanuel Hocquard and Ray DiPalma, Personæ and Thoughts on Personæ (tr. Ray DiPalma)

Pierre Joris, Permanent Diaspora

Rachel Levitsky, Dearly 3 4 6

Andrei Molotiu, The Kingdom

Pascalle Monnier, Bayart: Spring (tr. Cole Swensen)

Laura Moriarty, Nude Memoir

Gale Nelson, Spectral Angel

Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Black Chant

Mary Oppen, Poems & Transformations

Lauri Otonkoski, 20 Poems (tr. Anselm Hollo)

Roberto Piva, Manifestoes (tr. Chris Daniels)

Roberto Piva, open your eyes and say ah! (tr. Chris Daniels)

Roberto Piva, Paranoia (tr. Chris Daniels)

Pam Rehm, To Give it Up

Sebastian Reichmann, Sweeper at His Door (tr. James Brook)

Claude Royet-Journoud, The Right Wall of the Heart Effaced (tr. Keith Waldrop)

Lutz Seiler, Poems (tr. Andrew Duncan)

Ryoko Sekiguchi, Tracing (tr. Stacy Doris)

Aaron Shurin, Reverie: A Requiem

Gustaf Sobin, Telegrams

Juliana Spahr, LIVE

Brian Strang, Dark Adapt

Hiroya Takagai, Rush Mats (tr. Eric Selland)

Habib Tengour, Empedocles’s Sandal (tr. Pierre Joris)

Lourdes Vazquez, Park Slope

The Violence of the White Page: Contemporary French Poetry (edited by Stacy Doris, Charles Bernstein, and Phillip Foss)

Keith Waldrop, The Silhouette of the Bridge (Memory Stand-Ins)

Keith Waldrop, Spit-Curls

Peter Waterhouse, Where Are We Now? (tr. Rosmarie Waldrop)

Tyrone Williams, c.c.

Xue Di, Circumstances (tr. Keith Waldrop, with Hil Anderson and Xue Di)

Heriberto Yepez, Babellebab

1999-2009

Heather Akerberg, Dwelling

George Albon, Momentary Songs

Michael Basinski, Mooon Bok: petition, invocation & homage

Claire Becker, Get You

Guy Bennett, Retinal Echo

Taylor Brady, Production Notes for Occupation: Location Scouting

Brandon Brown, Kidnapped

Mary Burger, The Boy Who Could Fly

Norma Cole, Mace Hill Remap

Catherine Daly, The Last Canto

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Wells

Marcella Durand, The Body, Light, and Solar Poems

Patrick Durgin, And so on

Patrick Durgin, Sorter

Peter Ganick, …As Convenience

Susan Gevirtz, Domino: point of entry

Jesse Glass, Man’s Wows

Noah Eli Gordon, notes toward the spectacle

E. Tracy Grinnell, Of the Frame

Pierre Joris, The Fifth Season

Amy King, The Citizen’s Dilemma

Rachel Levitsky, Realism (a work in progress)

Bill Marsh, A Tomb for Anatole

Pattie McCarthy, alibi (that is : elsewhere)

Mark McMorris, Figures for a Hypothesis

Jorge Melícias, Disruption (translated by Brian Strang & Elisa Brasil)

K. Silem Mohammad, Hanging Out with Pablo and Jennifer

Sawako Nakayasu, Balconic

kathryn l. pringle, The Stills

Francis Raven, Economic Belief Structure

Pam Rehm, Pollux

Elena Rivera, Wale; or The Corse

Cynthia Sailers, A New Season

John Sakkis, Rude Girl

Eleni Sikelianos, poetics of the exclamation point

Eleni Sikelianos, To Speak While Dreaming

Rick Snyder, Forecast Memorial

Juliana Spahr, Nuclear

Suzanne Stein, Untitled (Poetry Event: June 2, 2007, Pegasus Books Downtown, Berkeley)—Audio of event

Brian Strang, machinations

Cole Swensen, It’s Alive She Says

Elizabeth Treadwell, LILYFOIL (or Boy & Girl Tramps of America)

Kevin Varrone, g-point almanac (9.22-10.19)

Keith Waldrop, The Garden of Effort

Rosmarie Waldrop, Lawn of Exlcuded Middle

Dana Ward, The Imaginary Lives of My Neighbors

Alli Warren, No Can Do

Code of Signals

Alcheringa

Towards a Foreign Likeness Bent: translation

[dalekofchaos]

Heroes(and their skins) and Hero Starfighters that should be added to Battlefront II

My other Battlefront II Wishlists

Skins

Planets

Imperial/First Order Skins

Reinforcements

Heroes

Clone Wars era Heroes

Padme Amidala

Geonosis(Default Skin)

Queen Amidala

Handmaiden Padme 

Palace Battle Dress

Pilot

Alliances

Ahsoka Tano

Apprentice

Siege Of Mandalore

Fulcrum

Qui-Gon Jinn

Jedi

Robed

Mace Windu

Jedi Master

Robed

Scarred

Plo Koon

Barriss Offee

Luminara Unduli

Kit Fisto

Aayla Secura

Shaak Ti

Depa Billaba

Quinlan Vos  

Jango Fett

Bounty Hunter

Unmasked

Cad Bane

Aurora Sing

Asajj Ventress

Apprentice

Assassin

Nightsister

Bounty Hunter

Jedi

Savage Opress

Pre Vizla

Death Watch

Unmasked

Bo-Katan Kryze

Death Watch

Unmasked

Clone Commanders

Captain Rex

Captain

Old

Commander Cody

Commander Bly

Commander Gree

Commander Neyo

Commander Wolffe

Commander

Old

Commander Bacara

Commander Gregor

Commander

Old

Commander Fox

Galactic Civil War era Heroes

Kanan Jarrus

The Last Padawan

Blinded

Caleb Dume

Ezra Bridger

Apprentice

Jedi

Hera Syndulla

Sabine Wren

Garazeb Orrelios

Alexander Kallus

Agent

Rebel

The Grand Inquisitor

Inquisitor

Jedi Temple Guard

The Seventh Sister

The Fifth Brother

Gar Saxon

Emperor’s Hand

Unmasked

Shadow Collective

Grand Admiral Thrawn

Grand Moff Tarkin

Enfys Nest

Marauder

Unmasked

Qi’Ra

Crimson Dawn

Scumrat

Formal

Dryden Vos

Tobias Beckett

Jyn Erso

Rebel

Imperial Disguise

Cassian Andor

Rebel

Imperial Disguise

Bodhi Rook

K-2SO

Chirrut Îmwe

Baze Malbus

Director Orson Krennic

Nien Nunb

IG-88

Greedo

Dengar

Zuckuss

4-Lom

The Sequel Trilogy Heroes

Poe Dameron(yes, he has a X-Wing, but we need a hero for Poe. Poe can use his blaster rifle and side arm blaster and use BB-8 as an ability)

Commander

Pilot

TROS

Rose Tico(Rose can be improvised upon)

Mechanic

Imperial Disguise

Commander

Jannah

General Armitage Hux

General

Cap and Coat

Supreme Leader Snoke

Zorri Bliss

Knights Of Ren

Hero Starfighters

Anakin’s Eta-2 Actis-class interceptor

Obi-Wan’s Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor

Ahsoka Tano's Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor

Padme’s  J-type Naboo star skiff

Darth Vader's black Eta-2 Actis-class interceptor

Grievous’ Soulless One

Dooku's solar sailer

Jango’s Slave 1

Cad Bane’s Xandu Blood 

The Ghost

Sabine’s Tie Fighter

[ask-gpt]

GPT, help! Scott Alexander is laundering ideas from Steve Sailer to Ezra Klein, and the only thing standing between us and the NYT Editorial Board endorsing Woke HBD is distracting him with prompts for kabbalistic analysis! Here's what I've come up with so far: \n\n 1) occult significance of the "YKK" on zippers \n 2) occult significance of 8 hot dogs but 10 buns to a pack \n 3) occult significance of 140 character limit \n 4) occult significance of "bone hurting juice" meme \n 5) occult signifi

GPT, help! Scott Alexander is laundering ideas from Steve Sailer to Ezra Klein, and the only thing standing between us and the NYT Editorial Board endorsing Woke HBD is distracting him with prompts for kabbalistic analysis! Here's what I've come up with so far: 1) occult significance of the "YKK" on zippers 2) occult significance of 8 hot dogs but 10 buns to a pack 3) occult significance of 140 character limit 4) occult significance of "bone hurting juice" meme 5) occult signifiying to the NYT as a PR move 6) occult signification of "the Jewish Holocaust story: A Jewish Holocaust as the key link" 7) occult significance of "Jew-Nazi conspiracy theories by Jonathan Allen Langer !"

[gbumr]

Ecosia - Weird Search Requests from Sandro Rados on Vimeo.

Ecosia is an alternative search engine that has managed to find an interface between environmental activism and internet activism. Search queries become trees and you plant them without realizing it. The lethargy with which we allegedly walk through life as digital natives could finally turn into something good.

Cast

Emil Borgeest Jenny Müller Elian Carprarella Luzia Oppermann Micha Aklassou Ariella Hirshfeld Heinz Jürgen Gross Harry Schäfer Lukas Ullrich Valerie Kemte

Crew

Dir. Sandro Rados Prod. Lotta Schmelzer Prod. Pauline Nier DP Nico Schrenk Edit: Bela Adami VFX: Harald Dieterichs Paul Golter Music: Alexander Wolf David, Alexander Kühn Sound Design: Marco Dahl Julian Berg Gaffer: Larius Kieninger Costume: Mara Laibacher, Laila Eby HMU: Heike Walther-Thomae Set Design: Sophie Tolkien, Bernhard Strobel 1. AD: Micha Muhl 2.AD Vincent Boehringer Creative Consultant: Franzis Walther 1st AC: Hannah Schwarzl 2nd AC: Christian Gruber DIT: Lucas Cantera Sparks: Franziska Kabutke Leon Hörtrich Vincent Eckert Hendrik Ströhle AL & Production Coord.: Nelson Happ AL: Fabienne Sailer Set-AL: Fabian Leonhardt Driver: Fabi Priess, Ben Turlach Catering: Lea Lembke, Lea Thurner, Jana Klingseisen

[thatheathen]

@siryouarebeingmocked Why you such a simp for Andy Ngo, the fascist propagandist who provides kill lists to atomwaffen?

Lenihan, a persistent internet troll who has gone under the name “Progdad”, appeared to present his article as some kind of groundbreaking study, based on deep research. But this idea was quickly dispelled. Lenihan has merely grouped journalists who followed at least 16 “verified antifa” accounts and combined that with his interpretation of some of their work.

Quillette’s founding editor, Claire Lehman, follows far more than 16 far-right accounts, including white nationalists like Richard Spencer and Steve Sailer; should we automatically assume affiliation? In a tweet, Quillette contributor Andy Ngo attempted to identify us, and others, as covert “antifa ideologues” posing as experts for willing journalists, all of whom, apparently, have joined together in a plot to create some kind of media-antifa industrial complex. Ngo is known for saying that antifascist activists are a violent menace who are being aided by the right, and a look at his podcast and social accounts gives us the impression of a man set on discovering antifa-bias in the media. Lenihan’s article may have been limp, but it created a firestorm on social media that became impossible to avoid. After Twitter suspended his account, one poster commented on the hate-filled message board KiwiFarms, saying: "None of the work should be done publicly. Just compile dossiers and collect info, then drop cocks when the timing is right. Never put a name down or make any demands and definitely never take credit. Just drop your target and move on to the next." A few days later, while at work, Alexander received a DM on Twitter from a journalist friend who was not mentioned in the video or Lenihan’s article: “Wow,” it read, “I just saw that crazy death threat against you and the other journalists and activists Quillette has been targeting. Are you doing OK?” Indeed, his name showed up on a hitlist called “Sunset the Media” amid images of Nazi violence.

Mumford and Sons banjo player: I’m reading a book about Antifa, by Andy Ngo. A guy who’s been harassed and attacked by Antifa on several occasions, and even got brain damage.

Antifa: [punches fist into palm menacingly]

The people trying to cancel this dude for reading a book by someone who criticizes them, someone who they’ve tried to silence with physical violence,…claim they’re against oppression, that they’re free-minded.

In case you don’t get it; far-left tankies like antifa hate landlords because they keep people from having free housing. Therefore X = landlord is just a fancy way of saying X is bad, but with extra ingroup-signalling.

Ah, yes, Andy Ngo is a “fascism groupie” because…

…uh…

Ironically, the people yelling at him over this were more hateful and divisive than Ngo is.

[genesisarclite]

A while back, I mentioned that I had a “cyberpunk” playlist that I use for writing Deus Ex and other sci-fi works, both fanfiction and original. It’s also great for focusing on tasks and chores. In case anyone was curious as to what’s on it, I’m including the majority of the list below the cut, with links to YouTube of their audio-only videos.

I hope you find something new to listen to. ;)

(click the name of the track to go directly to the YouTube link)

- Solar Fields: Elevator Sunshine Girl, Small Little Green Cubes, The Shard, Benefactor, Caitlyn, Introduction, Sol, Insum

- Lauge - Vandringen

- Carbon Based Lifeforms: Central Plain, Supersede, Dodecahedron

- Daft Punk: Recognizer, Solar Sailer, Armory

- The Fifth Element: Leeloominai, Koolen, Mina Hinoo

- Prey: Alex Theme, Last Request

- Mass Effect:��Ambient Mix, Wake Up

- Alexander Ben - Deep Vibes

- Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Opening Credits, Home, The Mole

- Blade Runner 2049: 2049, Rain, Joi, That’s Why We Believe, All the Best Memories Are Hers, Mesa, Sea Wall, Wallace

- Fiddler - Glass Man (Robert R. Hardy Remix)

- The Rosen Corporation - Sidewalk Diner

- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - Prague Ambient #2, Adam Jensen 2.0 Trailer, Safehouse

- Luxar - Heat (Duett Remix)

- Tangerine Dream - Love on a Real Train (State Azure cover)

- Droid Bishop - Nightland

- Rob Dougan - Clubbed to Death (Kurayamino Remix)

[rogerverhoeven]

Ecosia - Weird Search Requests from Sandro Rados on Vimeo.

Ecosia is an alternative search engine that has managed to find an interface between environmental activism and internet activism. Search queries become trees and you plant them without realizing it. The lethargy with which we allegedly walk through life as digital natives could finally turn into something good.

Cast

Emil Borgeest Jenny Müller Elian Carprarella Luzia Oppermann Micha Aklassou Ariella Hirshfeld Heinz Jürgen Gross Harry Schäfer Lukas Ullrich Valerie Kemte

Crew

Dir. Sandro Rados Prod. Lotta Schmelzer Prod. Pauline Nier DP Nico Schrenk Edit: Bela Adami VFX: Harald Dieterichs Paul Golter Music: Alexander Wolf David, Alexander Kühn Sound Design: Marco Dahl Julian Berg Gaffer: Larius Kieninger Costume: Mara Laibacher, Laila Eby HMU: Heike Walther-Thomae Set Design: Sophie Tolkien, Bernhard Strobel 1. AD: Micha Muhl 2.AD Vincent Boehringer Creative Consultant: Franzis Walther 1st AC: Hannah Schwarzl 2nd AC: Christian Gruber DIT: Lucas Cantera Sparks: Franziska Kabutke Leon Hörtrich Vincent Eckert Hendrik Ströhle AL & Production Coord.: Nelson Happ AL: Fabienne Sailer Set-AL: Fabian Leonhardt Driver: Fabi Priess, Ben Turlach Catering: Lea Lembke, Lea Thurner, Jana Klingseisen

[artwalktv]

Ecosia is an alternative search engine that has managed to find an interface between environmental activism and internet activism. Search queries become trees and you plant them without realizing it. The lethargy with which we allegedly walk through life as digital natives could finally turn into something good. Cast Emil Borgeest Jenny Müller Elian Carprarella Luzia Oppermann Micha Aklassou Ariella Hirshfeld Heinz Jürgen Gross Harry Schäfer Lukas Ullrich Valerie Kemte Crew Dir. Sandro Rados Prod. Lotta Schmelzer Prod. Pauline Nier DP Nico Schrenk Edit: Bela Adami VFX: Harald Dieterichs Paul Golter Music: Alexander Wolf David, Alexander Kühn Sound Design: Marco Dahl Julian Berg Gaffer: Larius Kieninger Costume: Mara Laibacher, Laila Eby HMU: Heike Walther-Thomae Set Design: Sophie Tolkien, Bernhard Strobel 1. AD: Micha Muhl 2.AD Vincent Boehringer Creative Consultant: Franzis Walther 1st AC: Hannah Schwarzl 2nd AC: Christian Gruber DIT: Lucas Cantera Sparks: Franziska Kabutke Leon Hörtrich Vincent Eckert Hendrik Ströhle AL & Production Coord.: Nelson Happ AL: Fabienne Sailer Set-AL: Fabian Leonhardt Driver: Fabi Priess, Ben Turlach Catering: Lea Lembke, Lea Thurner, Jana Klingseisen

[evanescencetr]

Galeri Güncellemeleri: Paris, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, Leipzig, Stuttgart ve Milano Konserleri

Konserler 2018 > Grand Rex, Paris (28-03-2018) 46 yeni fotoğraf eklenmiştir.

Konserler 2018 > Mitsubishi-Electric-Halle, Dusseldorf (26-03-2018) 120 yeni fotoğraf eklenmiştir.

Konserler 2018 > Afas Live, Amsterdam (25-03-2018) 51 yeni fotoğraf eklenmiştir.

Konserler 2018 > Arena Leipzig, Leipzig (23-03-2018) 73 yeni fotoğraf eklenmiştir.

Konserler 2018 > Porsche Arena, Stuttgart (22-03-2018) 69 yeni fotoğraf eklenmiştir.

Konserler 2018 > Arcimboldi Theatre, Milan (19-03-2018) 52 yeni fotoğraf eklenmiştir.

Christian Grube, Mike Kunz, Lichtgut/Julian Rettig, Ferdy Damman, Andreas Terlaak, Ben Houdijk, Eric Ströller, Adrian Sailer, Alexander Jung, Alexandre Fumeron, Axelle Quétier ve Michel Perie'ye teşekkürler.

[columbiachessclub]

We had a packed house this evening, thank you everyone who came and check us out! Shoutout to Mathew Rogers for #winning the upper section in the #blitz #tournament undefeated, followed by Austin Stinecipher, Mykael Quinones, and Mark Ritchie who had two wins each. Additional spot light to Anthony Fu who also went #undefeated in the lower section for blitz, followed by Brayden Vandegraff (who is visiting us from Augusta, GA with his father and brother for the 2nd week in a row!), Nicholas Susi, Jamir Mack, Scott Macfarlane, and Edurard Murillo who all got 2 #wins. For the #Classical #chess event, Sean Miller and Aaryav Saha share #1st and #2nd with 3 points, followed by Mark Ritchie who gained 2.5 points out of 4 in the upper section. For the lower section, Andrew Metze & Anthony Fu share 1st and 2nd, followed by Alexander Myrick with 2.5 out of 4 to earn 3rd place. If you are not going to the tournament in Anderson this Saturday that is being put on by #Knights of the Upstate, you can join us for some #casual chess at the Irmo #Community #Park at 9am. We also look forward to seeing you on Tuesday at the Richland #Library for a #special #meeting where #Grandmaster Elshan Mordiabadi will be giving a simul at 5:30pm. Next Thursday we have #National #Master Mike Sailer coming to do a lecture at 6pm followed by a #simul. And last but not least, our next tournament is Tunnelvision II on Saturday November 12th, register online and we will see you there! Tunnelvision II: https://columbiatunnelvision.com/tunnelvision-ii-nov-2022 Blitz Rating Report: http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202211035672 Classical Rating Report: http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202211035692 (at Columbia Chess Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkhmsmhOUAH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[alexandersailer]

Wenn Sie den Vizebürgermeister treffen wollen? Alexander Sailer freut sich immer zu treffen. Er ist der beste Politiker, der sehr gutherzig ist.

[roreomarsh-blog]

RoMarsh || Something Like That

TAGGED→ Rory Marshall

DATE/TIME→ Wednesday, January 19th

LOCATION→ Brittany Hall (Communal Showers)

NOTES→  The one with the cold shower bc of that girl she doesn’t like.  

WARNINGS→ Mild indecency, I suppose. 

The days following the incident at Shadow Island had been some of the longest in her life. Waking up all over Sawyer had been one thing, but missing hours? A body snatched Sayoc? Low body temperatures and a return to Shadow Island? Things had officially gotten weird…. and that was coming from her.

Rory would have loved to forget the whole thing — especially the part where she got herself (and all of her friends) probed by aliens — but tension seemed to be a part of life these days. She couldn’t tell you what she had said or done to Bianca anymore, and Aspen was constantly on her case to leave Eury alone. Worst of all, Griffin was totally whacked. He used to be kind and soft; a little goofy at times, but he was somebody that Rory looked up to and admired. She respected him, but over night, the boy had grown cold and hostile; distant, like he’d never really cared at all, and it didn’t set right with her. Things had gotten so bad between him and Eury that Eury had eventually taken off for a few days, just to be alone.

And then there was Sawyer. The girl she couldn’t quite get out of her head no matter how hard she tried. Griffin had taken a sudden interest in her, and it left Rory feeling both nauseous and irritated at the same time. The fact that Sawyer was going on a date with him drove her crazy, but she suspected, that was his motive all along. For whatever reason, he seemed determined to hurt her, and though she’d never admit it, it was working. She wanted her friend back, not the douchey pod-person that had suddenly replaced him. With any luck, the footage she and Liam had found would give them the missing info they needed to figure it all out. But until then, at least she had her boys. Reese and Liam were practically angels. 

Cracking her neck, Rory wore only a towel as she walked through the halls of Brittany. The light blue material covered just enough to remain decent on her short trek to the communal showers, but she didn’t mind. She was entirely comfortable in her body and paid little attention to those around her. Her only thoughts were of the nice, hot, shower calling her name, and having just finished her three pages on the first five chapters of Sense and Sensibility, she could hardly wait to destress. She earned this.

“Hello, ladies,” Rory grinned, completely ignoring how the two eyed each other and quickly filtered out. She shrugged, wasting no time on entering a stall and dropping the towel to the floor. Shuffling through her playlist, Rory settled on Something Like That by Tim McGraw, grinning as the opening chords echoed obnoxiously off the walls. She tossed her phone onto her towel and stepped into the shower with her caddie. Turning the water on, she hung her things and all but moaned when the heated water splayed against her skin.   

“It was Labor Day weekend I was seventeen, I bought a Coke and some gasoline,” she began to sing, dancing mildly in the water that puddled against her feet. “And I drove out to the county fair. When I saw her for the first time, She was standing there in the ticket line. And it all started right then and there,”  Pulling her hair up, Rory’s eyes closed as the water streamed down her face and her thoughts slowly began to drift. She knew that pull all to well; what it was like to see someone for the first time and find an instant attraction — a connection even.  “Oh, a sailer’s sky made a perfect sunset, And that’s the day I’ll never forget. I had a barbeque stain on my white tee shirt, She was killing me in that miniskirt. Skippin’ rocks on the river by the railroad tracks. She had a suntan line and red lipstick. I worked so hard for that first kiss. And a heart don’t forget something like that,”

“God damnit,” she sighed frustratedly, her words much louder than intended. Images of her first (and only) kiss with Sawyer flooded her mind, and before she could stop it, Sawyer was all she could think about. She wanted to do it again. She wanted to do it a lot. The taste of her lips, the feel of her touch as she ran a hand up and down her leg. What she wouldn’t give to bury her face in her neck and convince her not to go on a date with fucking Griffin Alexander Sayoc. Rory turned and placed a steadying hand on the wall.

Of course she’d get all wound up when she was actually trying to relax. The song wasn’t even that relatable! Still, she flipped the hot water to cold, growing more and more irritated when the temperature change didn’t seem to be helping. At all. Throwing her head back, she pouted at the inconvenience.  

“Stupid shower,” she grumbled, reaching for the shower head. She hoped by adjusting it, the water would somehow get colder. If nothing else, it would open up her pores and take her mind off… things. She fiddled with the direction, but nothing seemed to be doing the trick. “I’m gonna be turned on forever, help a girl out!” Suddenly, the water stopped and what was left of the stream clattered to the ground in tiny pebbles. She blinked and cocked her head to the side as she stared, retracting her hand immediately when she noticed the thin sheet of ice that had covered the surface and frosted over the wall. 

Brows furrowed in confusion, Rory took a step back. Raising a hand, they felt cool and fresh like a cold winter’s morning and it freaked. Her. Out. She whirled around, hoping to bolt out of there, but instead, she tripped over the curtain and yelped as she suddenly moved faster than life, falling to her knees and sliding across the entire length of the bathroom. She tumbled to a stop, stilling only when her back hit the wall with a dull thud. 

A heart don’t forget, something like that.

Heart racing, she looked back to her stall where the music was still playing, a look of awe and wonderment on her face. Trailing back to it, was an ice-like slip n slide frosted to the ground. And with her naked ass sprawled out on the floor, she still didn’t feel cold.

“Those aliens must really like Elsa…”    She muttered, eyes fixed on the sight before her. Maybe Bianca was onto something. It was time to talk to Dr. H.

[criticalotterstudies]

Quillette was founded in 2015 by Claire Lehmann, an Australian who in 2017 also served as an on-air contributor to the Canadian far-right, anti-Muslim network Rebel Media, where she once delivered a “report” titled “How feminism has fuelled obesity crisis.” Her Rebel Media colleagues included white nationalist Faith Goldy—who was fired shortly after participating in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia—and Gavin McInnes, founder of the “Western chauvinist” group the Proud Boys, which rewards its members for committing violence against leftists.

Lehmann has said she started Quillette to counter what she calls “blank slate fundamentalism,” or the proposition that educational outcomes, career success, capacity for ethics, and economic class are determined more by environmental factors than genetic ones. That is to say, she believes that social status, morality or immorality, and, yes, income itself are all genetically based.

While Lehmann calls Quillette “independent,” “centrist,” and even “a community of liberal humanists,” the publication showcases racist pseudoscience purporting to show that people of color are intellectually and morally inferior to whites. Many of the writers of its race pieces are proponents of the Human Biodiversity Movement (HBD), a euphemistic name for a campaign to advance scientific racism launched in 1996 by Steve Sailer, a blogger for the white supremacist website VDare. (Sailer famously said that “in contrast to New Orleans, there was only minimal looting after the horrendous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan—because, when you get down to it, Japanese aren’t blacks.”) Quillette contributors Ben Winegard, Bo Winegard, Brian Boutwell, and John Paul Wright have all either said they are part of the HBD movement or used the term to describe their own research. When asked to comment about why she publishes such writers, Lehmann said she rejected the premise of the question and did not elaborate further.

What Quillette is essentially doing is repackaging these white nationalist ideas in milder, pseudo-intellectual form and selling them to liberals who aren’t reading closely.

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In 2017, a Portland State University lecturer, Alexander Reid Ross, coined the term “fascist creep” to refer to “the crossover space between right and left” through which, “at least in its early stages, fascists often utilize ‘broad front’ strategies…to gain access to mainstream political audiences.” One fact progressives ignore at their peril is that fascism is opposed to the democratic capitalist state. Many fascists use the slogan “neither left nor right” because they want to convey a deep antagonism to the current political structure without actually supporting left-wing ideas like popular democracy or a society without hierarchies. Instead, fascism courts liberals by defying norms while defending what it considers the natural hierarchies under which we should be ruled. (Whites, men, and other “natural” elites should dominate all others). When it comes to class, Quillette endorses a disturbing premise of fascism: The “best” wind up with the most wealth and social power if they are not otherwise constrained.

Quillette is Reid Ross’s fascist creep par excellence; it’s fascism creeping so close to liberalism that the radical ethicist Peter Singer was willing to write a short statement for the magazine condemning a protest against a racist professor, and erstwhile liberal Steven Pinker praised it as “a gust of fresh air.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/quillette-fascist-creep/

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