The Democratic Louis Gohmert

My nemesis, former SDA General Conference assistant comms director Pastor Neves, apparently intended to be a diplomat at some point in his life, and he's the only way I can think of to make America's Iran negotiating team worse at its job.

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

Prose so clear you can almost see the cartoon yeetline

Ok, but what's a book or movie or whatever that's a red flag about you that other people deserve to know about? I'm trying to think of mine, but I think I have too good of taste

Hashtag BayesIsTooMuchDamnedWork

Somebody framed a poor barber to make it look like he claimed to have just invented the Afro 😭

The nepo babies that run the New York Times are suspicious that some other children of the elite have not used their connections to line their own pockets and they think we should all be suspicious too.

I saw someone on here arguing the other day that you don’t own a book, you only own a license to the book and the book itself is a token of the license. I assure you, I own my books. I can lend them out. I can read them aloud to my child. I can sell them to other people. I can hit you with them

there’s a place in my neighborhood that makes Syrian pita sandwiches except they’re wrapped in a Korean scallion pancake and it is important that I tell you all this. I’d show you my sandwich but it‘s gone sorry

(3) While choosing to never traumatize anyone else CAN be a trauma response, another VERY common response is to do whatever one can to make sure that YOU are never victimized by anyone ever again. Hurt people tend to hurt OTHER people. (More)

I have eaten the plums, oh LORD, that Thou hadst set aside and which Thou wert probably saving for the righteous Forgive me they led me into temptation, so sinful and so cold

Just found this website searching for source documents for scoring Brief COPE. It's so easy take things like this for granted. elcentro.sonhs.miami.edu/research/mea...

I feel a little guilty that all the coolest people I know are converting to Judaism while the RCC and Eastern Orthodoxy are just getting white supremacists

#OnThisDay Apr 17 1947: "Boys get help dressing for the amateur talent show" University of Minnesota School of Agriculture, St Paul Campus.

Hot take: statistics is already difficult enough for researchers to use well and appropriately without adding the necessity for them to consider whether exchangeability is an appropriate assumption for their data.

Re new atheists, if people expect you to spout off bigotry the same way they would a white evangelical, you might have a problem.

There's a webcam at an artificial watering hole in the Namib Desert that I often keep open in my external monitor as I work. Today, the desert has greened. I'm just filled wonder and can't stop grinning every time I look at it.

I love this fact.

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

that antisemitism is a bellwether & accelerant of fascist politics. These people are dropping Zionism to become better & more consistent fascists. Any sustained ‘bottom-up’ ‘popular front’ coalition with them is incoherent & a political dead end for the Left

This is meant to be a thread tackling cases where someone uses Pharisees and Sadducees together in a Christian dialect manner, as a kind of ancient "Abbott and Costello" duo who only appear together. I'm going to try to not just make this something for the Choir There are countless of threads 1/11

Here’s a starter pack on Romani rights & equality Let me know if you want to be added or removed go.bsky.app/RJXzeyU

H/t to @bogiperson.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention

A Christian Samuel: someone so important that he has to be accounted for, but everyone using him has a different read on his nature and role

Jesus then flipped over all the tables in the temple. All the Pharisees were impressed at how he stuck every landing.

"adult demand for infants" is a phrase that should make you stop and say "wait, what the fuck" whenever anything you're pushing requires you to consider satisfying it

Proof text for anything like "Pharisees were hypocrites who applied harsh laws to others but not to themselves." Berakhot 5

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A Babodega-Yaga?

Near the end of "The Iranian Talmud" was a discussion of a sugya that details a presumably apocryphal debate between a magus and a rabbi about bodily dualism, and the Zoroastrian perspective (as presented by a Jewish text) reminded me of what I've read about how Roma culture has treated body purity

If there aren't already, there should be joint Jewish/Romani academic departments researching diaspora

We're about to find out that the bodegas are sentient, and they vote.

lol

Ok, which one of you is this?

What do we want? FEDERATED REPUBLIC OF THE BALKANS AND CAUCASUS! When do we want it?

I believe in him

the day Magnum PI gets accused of "asking for it" is the day when it becomes ok to both sides this.

One detainee "reportedly remained in ‘the box’ directly exposed to the sun and heat for hours, with no water.” One immigration activist says it gets even worse than *that.* The latest edition of Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/we-forget-...

Just for the record and to see what happens to test Boof Troupe's imagination: as man with a male gaze, I think women look better in shorter shorts than longer shorts. This is my genuine opinion, I'm not just being ironic.

We threw away enough glass to stock the set of Breaking Bad cleaning out a lab yesterday. I could sense Bryan Cranston sobbing

*sexyism

Oh yes let’s imagine that.

Is it doctrine now

Do not ask US, man. When it comes to Adventists, even the rest of the Christian-adjacent world is like "yeah we don't know what's up with those guys, just let them cook."

Well.

Snoot

“Yueh! Yueh! Yueh!” goes the refrain. “A million deaths were not enough for Yueh!” — from “A Child’s History of Muad’Dib” by the Princess Irulan