Look, you don't have to agree with what the priest was saying to believe he shouldn't have been shot in the head for no reason.

Even beyond the grave the man is still out here doing good in the world. Blessings to Bob Ross and whatever happy little cloud he's sitting on right now.

God save the Queen

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A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

We are doing HALLOWEEN DISASTERS this time. Send us your stories of Halloween gone comedically wrong here, please: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ob_...

Today is the 109th anniversary of one wild day in football

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Dolly Parton’s sister, Freida Parton, is asking for people to pray for her sister’s health.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

if this really takes off as a mode of expression, i wonder if you may actually see new platforms where prompt-based multimedia is the default thing you post with

social media is about many things, but one of them is breaking the barrier between innermost feelings/imagination and outermost expression. less obtusely, its why you get uncomfortable when you see someone crashing out. its like being next to a vagrant going nuts on the subway

Groucho Marx famously attended one of the premiers of Jesus Christ Superstar. He asked aloud as the lights went down "does it have a happy ending?"

Senior pastor, youth pastor, minister of music

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.” Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Me when I want to get on my horse in Red Dead Redemption but press “SHOOT” instead

Has there ever been a college football hire with this level of hype that went worse faster

Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago. ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social

LOOK AT THE BEAR

Gonna get real dark when people start trying to honest to God res people with AI

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here For more like this: tiktok.com/@drewharwell instagram.com/bydrewharwell

This is a key point: evangelicals in the US are not villains in this piece because their religious commitments tie them into the brutality. They are particularly tragic because they've abandoned their religious commitments to participate in the brutality.

Once again, where is the CNO? SECNAV? After what just happened in Quantico, when will the military top brass speak up? I asked this after the disgrace at Ft. Bragg, too. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Pope Leo XIV today: "Brothers and sisters, those boats which hope to catch sight of a safe port, and those eyes filled with anguish and hope seeking to reach the shore, cannot and must not find the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination!"

if I hadn't included in this citation that the publisher was based in New York you'd be so lost right now

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio #Archaeology

I've lost who shared this earlier today, but this is the best thing I've read in a long time clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Very thoughtful of MLB to pay tribute during these playoffs to the 200th birthday of Austrian operetta composer Johann Baptist Strauss II, which occurs on the same day as Game 2 of this year’s World Series.

We allow the ACC to expand coast to coast and now the entire country is crab bucket, should’ve seen this coming

he got tagged for a 15 yarder for this but honestly it was worth it

Now ain’t that a metaphor

tell me about it

"...and towards algorithms designed to promote cognitive excitement, overreaction, and the volume of what we like or dislike, again favouring extremes, because at the heart of these models is the monetisation of your presence in order to sell it to advertisers."

"This is a complete bias towards our democracies going to extremes, towards noise and fury prevailing over reasoned argument, towards harmony quickly disappearing to make way for shouting..."

"We have allowed public spaces to develop where everything is done to prevent reason, since, ultimately, the order of merit is that emotion is superior to argument and that negative emotion is superior to positive emotion."

According to Hindu tradition, the presence of a deity outside a mandir’s walls means the devotees inside “have elected a god to protect the temple itself.” religionnews.com/2025/09/25/w...

“.. leadership asked for ‘large, beefy’ agents to conduct an arrest of Comey ‘in full kit,’ including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.” @macfarlanenews.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-arr...

“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Per @washingtonpost.com: New polling shows most U.S. Jews say Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza — and 39% say genocide. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Hamas said on Friday that it had agreed to release all of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza as well as the bodies of those who had died, in response to the peace proposal introduced by President Trump earlier this week. nyti.ms/4o6SuSA

Well, that's not good

This would've been so beautiful

they appointed a female archbishop of caterbury 3 hours ago and we already have redditors doing ANGLO-SEDEVACANTISM