you were dead, and are now alive

Happy Friday my beautiful skeeters

The guy who made the heaven is Chinese video

I am positively someone who doesn’t get worked up about if video games are art or not, but that I can’t play New Vegas for the first time again genuinely saddens me in a way

I don’t. Im gonna plug plex here, great site to store pirated music/movies/tv. Been using for over half the year now since canceling Spotify. You can always buy digital downloads or rip CDs if you want to support artists

In Brittany, families are coming together to raise a new generation of speakers of Brezhoneg, an endangered Celtic language. But they’re not doing it alone - they’re learning from their friends in the Māori revival movement. How did ELP’s Ready to Revitalize program help this happen? 🧵

MSNBC reporter presents Trump's shameful racism towards Somalis as merely "a different view"

"For this cause therefore He permitted His own flesh to weep a little, although it was in its nature tearless and incapable of any grief, so far as regards its own nature. And even they who hate the Lord, admire His tears." - Cyril of Alexandria

the goal is ethnic pogroms. this is the pretext for an ethnic pogrom. they want to expulse entire sub-populations out of the country on the basis of ethnicity and race.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity

The greatest loss of the 21st century will be the status of Roman Catholics as a quasi religious minority

Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."

Today's Haftorah* really felt like a timely rebuke to this: ”אֱהִי מַלְכְּךָ, אֵפוֹא וְיוֹשִׁיעֲךָ. אֲשֶׁר אָמַרְתָּ: תְּנָה־לִּי מֶלֶךְ. אֶתֶּן־לְךָ מֶלֶךְ בְּאַפִּי, וְאֶקַּח בְּעֶבְרָתִי׃ - הושע י"ג, י-י"א Where now is your king? Let him save you! From whom you demanded: “Give me a king”? I give you kings in My ire, And take them away in My wrath.”

Reading this book which is how I found the source if anyone’s interested btw

(Translated from French) A 9th century Greek text for Muslim converts to Christianity mentions a relief to Aphrodite in Mecca. Possibly related to historical worship of Arabian deity Al-‘Uzzā who was portrayed as Aphrodite and associated with her via John of Damascus

In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.

theres no hope for me bc this had me cackling

My favourite CK2 game lore wise was when I started as Nestorian Karluk nomads and eventually expanded into the Near East/Asia Minor as both Catholicism/Orthodoxy were falling into obscurity. My brain goes beastmode imagining this world where Christianity gets a sudden revival by some eastern nomads

To judge both the quick and the dead.

Maduro says that 85% of global drug-trafficking profits end up inside the U.S. banking system, and concludes that therefore “the real cartel is up north.” He’s 100% correct.

Franklin The Turtle’s publisher responds to Pete Hegseth.

"My spirit rejoices in God my Savior"

we live in a weird time where everyone is self-diagnosing themselves as autistic and brutally mocking anyone who actually acts autistic

I’m pretty glad I didn’t have to live through the 30 years war.

Im crine, even the US is accusing the US of organising colour revolutions now

When a man enters his early 20s it’s time for him to choose a language family to be obsessed with

It’s time to concede he was right

coming again

"he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts" is such a banger line

Lwk though tbe number of books Ive read this year was a drastic drop from last year

Last year i was doing 90% of my book reading on my phone and this year that number is inversed, cant lie my brain is so cooked I think my reading comprehension is better on phone than paper

joining our voices with Angels and Archangels and with all the company of heaven

Remembering evangelical blog post i read that compared Marian devotion to Rastafarianism

Credit to @cherubic_coptic_icons and @copticicons on instagram respectively

Open, we pray thee, the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work;

It’s incredibly funny people flipped out about a guy running the most standard ass municipal government policy playbook imaginable.