Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

I feel like instead of trying to be countercultural and screaming that it's reformation day (btw: no, Luther nailing his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg most likely never happened) a) we should use it to practice hospitality and b) we could do with a ritual. (➡️Kasualienentwicklung)

Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” - Howard Zinn

Es sind grade eben doch überall dasselbe... Sagt es jemand der CDU?

The plural of anecdote is misinformation.

I think about this a lot.

Bobcat (Lynx rufus) age chart: 0-3 months: Babycat. 3-6 months: Bobkit 1-2 years (tween-age): "Please call me 'Robert/a Cat', mom." 1yr-lifetime: Boopcat. (images from Nat'l Park Service)

As always, listening to @hannareichel.bsky.social is a pleasure. For me: the word Overton window which describes what is socially acceptable to talk about. Lots about fascism as well, obvsly. Mostly I learned I had to get their book though. www.homebrewedchristianty.com/2025/10/08/h...

There was no Pope Joan. That's not supposed to spoil the episode at all and shouldn't keep you from enjoying an hour listening in to Emma explaining to Janina where the legend came from and why it's just that: a legend. soundcloud.com/historyissex...

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Gestern auf der Armutskonferenz in Waiblingen gewesen und Rolf Frankenberger zugehört. Sehr interessanter Vortrag. Zwei Notizen: gefühlte Deprivation mehr als objektive Deprivation drückt das Wahlverhalten nach rechts. Und wir brauchen mehr Vermögensgerechtigkeit. ➡️📖Thomas Meyer: Soziale Demokratie

Passend zur Jahreslosung: Prüfet alles, das Gute behaltet! Mehr bei @nicosemsrott.de

The church stands with migrants!

That's a UMC Church in Dallas, Texas spreading God's love when lgbtq+ affirming crosswalks are supposed to be removed: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

There's the thing with causality and correlation, it's still interesting.

3/ The first person says “I care.” The third person reports “They care.” The second person is me looking you in the eye and saying “You matter.” That shift rewires cognition. The second person is not about command. It’s about recognition.

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

Passend zur Diskussion zum Stadtbild.

Have to relisten! The topic of gender in Moses' origin story and how Sodom and Gomorrha is short hand for taking care of the immigrant stand out right now, but there was so much more! centerforhebraicthought.podbean.com/e/unlocking-...

Narcissus anno 2025.

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So, the lex talionis *is* a boundary to vengeance. Mostly it's an invitation to show mercy though. Differences to the codex hammurabi show that it's mostly about protecting the vulnerable. And people probably didn't knock out teeth in revenge. centerforhebraicthought.podbean.com/e/is-eye-for...

The last verse of ps 150 breaks the parallelism and that's a way to underline the meaning: it's not just humans who are supposed to praise, it's everything that breathes. 6 כֹּ֣ל הַ֭נְּשָׁמָה תְּהַלֵּ֥ל יָ֗הּ הַֽלְלוּ־יָֽהּ׃ exegeticallyspeaking.libsyn.com/praising-the...

They add sound scapes of healthy coral reefs to struggling ones to accelerate their healing! From what I understand the best "fake it till you make it" I've heard. And stories about reciprocal chimpanzees, their habits of social reprimand, and, well, culture. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Ologies with Alie Ward: Discard Anthropology (GARBAGE) with Robin Nagle "Do not accidentally hord archaeological artifacts. Ever." Recycling doesn't work as it should. Produce less garbage in all senses of that word! As a society we really need to do better (and most problems are structural).

More "don't use ai as much" but more of a focus on environmental and psychological impact. More arguments against the body-mind-soul dichotomy (trichotomy?) when talking about digitally conserving people's consciousness. centerforhebraicthought.podbean.com/e/the-illusi...

John probably knew the synoptics, there's always been people convinced of that and John just put his own spin on things. Also: Luke invoking chekovs gun while Mark didn't care if things suddenly popped up. Need to read the book and make proper notes. podacre.blogspot.com/2025/09/nt-p...

Ologies with Alie Ward: Artificial Intelligence Ethicology (WILL A.I. CRASH OUT?) with Abeba Birhane It's from May but from what I can tell has aged well. Nothing really surprising, but: use signal, learn research skills, don't rely on ai, because it sucks. Copyright, creativity, energy use.

Religion Before Language: Why We Danced Before We Believed Trip Fuller www.homebrewedchristianty.com/2025/09/09/r... There was what it says on the tin, but there also was talk about subjective and objective immortality among lots of banter about bad religion etc.

pope leo

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.