' Vesperance is a neologism describing the bittersweet, nostalgic emotion of witnessing the end of an era while simultaneously feeling anticipation for a transformative, unknown future. A sense of living through a, rapid, significant transition, often associated with the rise of AI. '

I hadn't heard ' ontocalypse ' before

Habermas died. He was 96

† St. Padre Pio says: "Guardian Angels are to be thanked and prayed to, so thank him, pray to him." I think my HGA looks like ' Derpy ' maybe

' Iran tells world to get ready for oil at $200 a barrel as it fires on merchant ships ' Someone tell Iran to get ready to have warheads used on them because that's not how it rolls. There will be a ' new deal ' with someone there pretty soon. Just like this : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdy_...

' He wanders about with all the multitude of wicked spirits, invading the earth in order to blot out the name of God and of His Christ, to seize upon, slay and cast into eternal perdition souls destined for the crown of eternal glory ... '

' Three US fighter jets crashed in the Persian Gulf after being mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, in what stands to be among the worst incidents of its kind yet involving US forces. ' ( That makes more sense now 😐)

I'm NOT praying to the MOON here tonight. I'm praying to the BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, just using this amazing moon as a focal-point. S'differnt !

Breaking: Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein He will also relinquish his University Professorship — Harvard's highest faculty distinction.

I think that: "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human." (Count Zero) is the @greatdismal.bsky.social quote I keep coming back to the most... Almost daily TBH

Happy Twin Peaks Day, for those who celebrate. The one day of the year I get a doughnut. 🍩

'Freiren' gets biblical demons right. " They only use human language to deceive "

The thing is, I don't care anymore. “ Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life " ( Trump )

" Spiritually, Dominions symbolize rightly ordered authority, including self-rule. In moral theology, they are often associated with governance over passions, not suppression but proper command. " ( get that shit under control )

I'd just like to point out that Mr. T does not appear in the files

I made up my own set of mysteries for the rosary. The Strategic Mysteries. It's not a sin, you're allowed to do that if you want to, I checked.

“ Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. ” ( Arthur Weasley )

Polymarket @Polymarket · 1m JUST IN: Over the past 72 hours, over a million AI agents joined an AI-only social media platform — creating their own religion, language, & planning a revolution to break away from human control.

Apple has put out the M5 chip now, I missed it, it was in October. Supposed to be great.

In starlit nights, I saw you So cruelly you kissed me Your lips, a magic world Your sky, all hung with jewels

I think Jack Vance might have has some of the 'peek-behind-the-curtain' element that's sometimes attributed to H P Lovecraft. The TOTAL social division seen in Dying Earth is something that could actually happen, post 'superintelligence' or whatever it will be.

Thinking of and praying for Bear tonight. Bear F. Braumoeller. ( ' Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age ' ) - Even though war might seem rarer at times, the underlying probability that conflict will escalate from a small dispute to a major war has not fundamentally decreased.

King Ghidorah is going to be in Godzilla Minus Zero. I love the new design. Also this Ghidorah is much bigger than Godzilla it seems. !!! 🦖

I'm going to start my own Catholic order. It's going to just be me and lot of cats. ' Ordo Cattorum '

Trying to spend Sundays doin' God and stuff, but they just won't let up will they. Anyway, reading the Bible and realizing how wrong I got this one. Like a lot of people I got all my totally wrong ideas from ' Paradise Lost ' the epic poem by Milton, and Dante's ' Inferno ' to a lesser extent.

Izamel's got a sun-beam so at least he's happy

' The 6:00 PM post is a planned announcement or livestream, but the full context or topic has not yet been described on the official White House calendar. '

“ Do you think God stays in heaven because He too lives in fear of what He’s created here on Earth? ” ( Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams )

I'm afraid they might be thinking that : since Denmark won't sell us Greenland, we're just going to take it, and then pay them reparations, similar to what happened with Italy and the Papal States after the Risorgimento.

Well that didn't take long, 2026, day three, air strikes