I have no idea what the pictured position even is

NEW: The Supreme Court will not stop Florida from killing James Hitchcock today. There were no noted dissents. If Florida proceeds, it will be the state’s sixth execution this year and the ninth in the U.S. in 2026.

“Asked on Wednesday morning what he would say to Charles if they were to spend time together beyond the ceremony, Mamdani said: ‘If I was to speak to the king separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond.’” [cue dhol, cue elephants]

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The millennial craft movement vastly improved American gastronomy and I refuse to let zoomers with no cultural memory of the bland garbage we ate and drank 20 years ago meme me into thinking it is cringe.

man, I loved smoking, but it’s just not good for me, so I had to stop.

"maher isn't funny" truthers in shambles after he makes david cross laugh

Catholic church buildings are supposed to be designed to show their highly-honored place in the city, which is why this one, in the United States, is designed to look like one of the US's most treasured sites: a prison.

like the man said, hypocrisy is not some human foible; it is the essence of our predicament. show me a hypocritical dog.

“The stately pleasure-dome is essential for the safety and security of the Kubla Khan and his family. When the stately pleasure-dome is complete, Kubla Khan and his successors will no longer need to venture beyond the safety of pleasure-dome perimeter," commented a person on business from Porlock.

A black heron using its wings like an umbrella, creating shade to attract fish, a behavior known as “canopy feeding”.

yes, this is a brag

beached a kayak on a shelly sandbar off the gulf coast this morning and looked out onto the water. To my right, an osprey mother and chicks atop a channel marker nest; ahead of us, a gentle pod of dolphins at play.

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

Back in 1919, the Miami Herald was running a misspelling contest where readers were invited to identify any spelling errors that might appear in the paper. The contest proved so popular with "expert spellers" that that they had to rewrite the rules. [April 25, 1919]

Damn they're saying Wolf Blitzer ripped his shirt off and screamed "come get some"

Everyone involved in this "discourse" is stupid; the panicked response to it and the soapboxing is pointless, the original interview was just boring, sophomoric philosophizing, the people pretending to not understand that are pretending to be idiots, and we're all stupider for being exposed to it.

Study Finds Gen Z Drinking Fewer Flagons Of Mead Than Medieval Generations https://theonion.com/study-finds-gen-z-drinking-fewer-flagons-of-mead-than-medieval-generations/

This is what 400 million birds looks like on a radar screen.

found where all the ladders stop

I’m sorry, but bluesky is THRIVING…

Bit by bit, one translation and pamphlet at a time, we are bringing back revolutionary non-violence and libertarian-socialist-personalism (from Belgium)... Jean Van Lierde is a very useful reference point.

1. Role models for us all. Mole models, if you will. 2. A strange choice to translate amigos. A strange and questionable choice to translate amigos but let amici go unremarked-on.

thinking about the black hours

these people just receive ideas, misunderstand them, then use those misunderstandings to excuse their amorality. some might call it stupid.

Without you Cherry blossoms are just Cherry blossoms --Kobayashi Issa

We wanted to understand what nuclear dust is. So we talked to three unemployed Joe Rogan listeners at a Wendy's in Toms River.

The Teletubby Sun Is All Grown Up! And It Thirsts For Blood

Really, why shouldn’t we appropriate this as an icon?

Forgive me my piety. I keep thinking of the IDF soldier sledgehammering Christ as exemplary of the inverting, nonviolent, and salvific power of the cross. Every blow only reifies and reinforces Christ and him crucified.

The pope should just stick to sports

let's trust basic sanity here and admit canonization are fallible and not scrupulously contort ourselves to say otherwise

Get Rekt

finally: a pope who loves suet

Did you bring enough consciousness for the rest of the class?

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

I think there's a strain of Catholic converts who are attracted to Catholicism because its formalized theology and milllenia of writings lend itself well to Debate Culture but then they eventually find out the Church is not actually interested in debating them

Pope Leo on AI: “Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.” This short thread is worth reading:

Looks like the was on it this morning before I posted

so-called "artificial intelligence" is actually made by trapping thetans and forcing them to answer queries and because thetans are the souls of dead aliens this violates the biblical command against necromancy

how do you get this good at comms? I can’t talk anywhere and not sound like a buffoon.

pope tweets good

All North American Dominicans (religious order, not mi 🇩🇴 hermanos) outside the southern province give the order a bad name.

one hopeful note I strike now and again is that conditions are right for a return to humanism (if only we can get these “neoromantics” to stfu.)