Faith is paradoxical. It is at once the source of inexhaustible Love and Hope, in Him who really _is_ those things; it is participatory in a sublime, transfiguring Good. But it is also fickle: God is often hidden, sometimes painfully so. Faith's irresistible force arises from frequent absconding

Is there any actual policy difference between Labour and Reform anymore?

I don't think Starmer is a good person and I don't think he wants good things. But I still boggle that you can be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and believe responding to ethnonationalist fascism with appeasement is going to serve you well. We've done this one!

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

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For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence. I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organizations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.

Avery Rice, seven, was diagnosed as autistic after her parents noticed she wasn’t achieving regular milestones – such as looking them in the eye, wearing wanky little outfits they bought her, and saying “I love you” on command.

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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

If gods are shaped by human belief ala Discworld, does that include the influence of pop culture? Like Dagon definitively wasn't a fish god in ancient Canaan but maybe he is now?

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As a complete rejecter of the notion that culture is genetic, I must recognise the possibility of assimilating into a dead culture

it's funny but every regime that has ever ruled what is now tunisia thinks carthage is so cool and carries such panache that they claim succession to it even if it's sort of vaguely far-fetched. the vandals used to mint coins saying "felix carthago" and "in year x of the redemption of Carthage"

Its wild how Marvel has two completely different versions of Set, one for the spooky snake god from Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, and one ostensibly more "accurate" to actual Egyptian Mythology. Except they went and gave Myth!Set a snake motif? 😕 1/2

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I sort of wish y'all took this more seriously, because this attitude is a reinforcement of heterosexuality as a hierarchy. It's an acknowledgement and understanding that it's not enough to "be with" a woman, or even to father children. They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.

Remember that beat scene in "The Handmaid's Tale" where the Commanders have a brothel on the outskirts of the city for them to have all the sex they want outside if their wives and breeding program? Stuff like this makes me think of that.

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If the straights aren't breeding fast enough, forcing the gays into Lavender Marriages ain't gonna solve the problem.

if you were to make a gender-swapped version of James Bond, and needed to come up with a bawdy euphemism name for a glamorous and sexy Bond Boy, ironically you could do a lot worse than Roger Moore.

bazelon's assumptions are clearly those of an simpleton, sure, but even if you grant them: if only one extremely specific kind of candidate is capable of definitely beating white nationalism (which is currently in office) isn't it too late to demonstrate it's electoral unviability?

Dems won in VA by adopting pro working class policy, being loud about fighting white worker supremacy and dictator ship, and VERY importantly not throwing queer rights under the bus. Nick Fuentes is a fucking weirdo and it's a winning campaign to say so

I'd be more sympathetic to the Dem strategy of running wishy-washy center-right moderates against the Far Right if it actually worked.

This was always the saddest part of Scrooge's character to me. Man's not even spending his wealth on hedonistic excess. A lifetime of alienating his loved ones and working himself to the bone just so he could spend his nights sitting alone in the dark nibbling bits of brown bread.

Let's talk Christmas Carol. So you may think you fully understand why it's a timeless story, but it's not about greed. It's about what you demand of others.

Did you know: if you buy tickets to my tour show as a Christmas present, it's like a double present because I, Alasdair Beckett-King, also get some money? Wow! Incredible Xmas fact!

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HOW MANY TIMES? Investor: puts pressure on company Company: makes AI slop Customers: deliver massive backlash AI slop: fails and gets removed Read the room, guys. Read the fucking room. And no, protesting that your nasty AI garbage was made with time and love will only fetch further scorn.

on star wars day this year, please don't forget the truth of the sequels that disney tried to retcon with cloning and sith magic: palpatine fucks. palpatine has fucked. palpatine will continue to fuck.

Please help Mohammad Nashwan protect his five children from the rain and cold of a Gaza winter. chuffed.org/project/1574...

Time for another exciting round of "Is He Consciously Lying or Just That Deluded?"

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

Beware the Nil pipeline, lest you end up like me✨

So, Stranger Things is basically X-Men now? Like, it's about these kids born with psychic powers who are oppressed by the government and the central conflict is between the psychic who wants to use his powers to take revenge on humanity and the idealistic youngsters who want to peacefully co-exist?

It's fucked up that Conan the Barbarian isn't public domain. It's not like the rights are even owned by Robert E. Howard's heirs of literary estate or whatever, they're all owned by some rando marketing company in Sweden.