Quick reminder that the Antichrist concept is evangelical Protestant fixation, not a Catholic one, most of whom were taught that the writer was talking about Nero persecuting early Christians (contemporary issues, in other words) Carry on

What’s hard about this moment as a Cradle Catholic is that I have a list of where I disagree with the Church — treatment of LGBTQ people, role of women, handling of sex abuse, reproductive rights — but what’s being criticized is The Whole Point. We aren’t supposed to want others to suffer or die.

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Nonsense. We’ve been doing this since Benedict at least.

Has anyone asked the Pope what he thinks about land use? Is the Pope weak on building codes? Does Pope Leo believe you can have a single stair to heaven?

Some of you act like you've never seen a MyPillow ad before

So I wonder what we’ll talk about in the parish banquet hall next Sunday

Not directly related, but an academic like me couldn't post shit like this on LinkedIn This intersection between expertise and shitposting is only possible on Bluesky

Happy Easter to Orthodox and other Eastern Christians

Always love the walking threads of @musicologyduck.bsky.social

that was supposed to say SecDef but I guess he would prefer SecWar? Idk anyway, another wild scene when I’m just trying to get in some pancakes and a walk

You can’t blockade the strait. I’m blockading the strait.

:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute ::

Sounds like the peace talks went Islama-bad

So it sounds like the talks are going well

Oh right

What the hell was that loud booming sound near downtown Miami a few seconds ago

As a Florida voter, the only thing I can remember about Eric Swalwell is that he came in dead last in the Miami New Times June 2020 Democratic Primary Sweat Contest among those who actually ventured outside to the point that they called him “Eric Sweatwell” www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-2...

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

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“More broadly, efforts to shield economies from pressure typically involve spending taxpayer dollars shoring up industries deemed vital to the national interest” www.wsj.com/economy/glob...

“In our survey of American dietary habits, we were alarmed to find that the vast majority of respondents reported eating fewer than two bees in an average day,” said the wheezing health and human services secretary

oh thank goodness found how to get click and drag working on Firefox for a laptop with a touch screen

Iran’s latest strikes point to a growing challenge for U.S. airpower. The warning goes well beyond this war.

🎁🔗 www.wsj.com/economy/what...

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids https://theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmon-can-t-believe-she-ended-up-movi-1825827223/

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The U.S. labor market bounced back last month with healthy job growth and a decline in unemployment. But another trend also came into focus: the continuing fall in labor-force participation. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Running Linux Mint on a 4 yr old Dell Latitude with an i7 and 16gb ram and it just flies. Picked up the used laptop for ~$250 a couple of months ago.

“The Bad News Bears” hit theaters 50 years ago today.

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The last gift that Pope Francis gave us was Pope Leo XIV.

🎁🔗 www.wsj.com/health/healt...

This is very true and a large number of countries will not even let you set foot off the boat when you do come into a foreign port because of visa or other legal reasons. You are 💯 at the mercy of your employer. It also happens for commercial fishing vessels, for example, when they unload in Hawaii.

A good time to recommend a book I read many years ago and still think of often, Deep Sea and Foreign Going (some editions called Ninety Percent of Everything) which outlines how often merchant sea farers get abandoned by their employers in times like these www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

"Some Chinese crew members have filmed themselves collecting condensate from air-conditioning units to shower and wash laundry. Others have taken to fishing over the side of their tankers, catching tuna, squid and largehead hairtail to cook."

Oh yeah

Happy Easter folks

🎁🔗 www.wsj.com/world/middle...

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Somehow this became a v popular tweet so here is the skinny on shrimp economics in <10 posts. I work for NOAA (motto: We’re almost as popular as NASA!) and specialize in fisheries in the US South and Caribbean. 1) we import 95% of the shrimp we consume. Mostly farmed Asian stuff. It’s a commodity.

Live Stations of the Cross followed by a series of Maronite processions through the Church on Great Friday Very intense. Also very smoky with tons of incense and everyone with candles

Somehow this became a v popular tweet so here is the skinny on shrimp economics in <10 posts. I work for NOAA (motto: We’re almost as popular as NASA!) and specialize in fisheries in the US South and Caribbean. 1) we import 95% of the shrimp we consume. Mostly farmed Asian stuff. It’s a commodity.

Bet on yourself www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I know everyone that makes packages for #Rstats think they are very smart and yes you are but you know you don’t have to make your package begin with the letter R Because boy does it make it a pain in the ass to find it in the repositories

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Thinking the Supreme Court scheduled these case arguments for the same reason that top college football programs make sure that they have openers against the West Kansas States of the world