Escapee

Starting a “Books I’ve read in 2026” thread. 🧵 Aiming for 26.

My hot water heater might be broken.

The only books that anyone on X has read is Blood Meridian, Starship Troopers, Dune and Lord of the Rings. And the latter three, people just watched the movies.

You should read more George MacDonald.

@wrowclif One wonders why this particular post was "For Me."

One wonders why I am seeing posts from people I do not follow in my "Following" feed.

@PeatyDarkcel No Bojangles here. Only Popeyes only.

@daniellellecco Rocky Mountains (west coast ig?) Reason: I am in the Rocky Mountains.

by whichever approach you prefer, pick the horniest region of the United States:

@MemoryMedieval How did you get ahead of this so well??

See? This is what I mean about Genghis being overrated.

@col_a_buendia Apt. Thomas Paine also turned on Washington.

We should think of Tucker Carlson the way we think of Thomas Paine, as a pamphleteer shaping the public mind for revolution.

@SmalltimeJones You can have this when you're ready. Jesus gave the ocean animals to us for this purpose. @Romans8Shaman speaks on this.

i want this for me. i want to be this large romanian man with a big friend of the sea. they love each other so much

@excesstential It's my favorite way to laugh.

i think “decontextualized idiom in plain speak” has the highest batting average of tweet type for me. i mean this tweet is gospel at this point

@LandsknechtPike Pewdiepie spoke on this.

Look how many wars were fought between Sweden 🇸🇪 and Denmark 🇩🇰 in the Middle Ages.

@col_a_buendia Who knew the Lord had you poast for such a time as this?

Can't believe I get to use this.

In the Hamilton song, "One Last Time," Lin-Manuel Miranda cuts this line from Washington's Farewell Address. What do you notice he is intentionally leaving out of an otherwise verbatim section of George Washington's speech? "Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations ..."

Yeah, I'm Washington-maxxing today. What of it?

All my moots love this photo.

@jameszimmermann Easy Monet (it rhymes)

Choose your Claude

Also I read this because of @CooperJaap, so thank you Coop.

The subject matter is so intriguing and important that it isn't hard to overlook that the author works for CNN and is a huge Hamilton the Broadway musical fan. Even if you never read this book or any book about the Farewell Address, just read the address itself. It's free online, and never leaves America relevancy through any age or trial. 9/10, without much qualm willing to round up to 5/5 stars.