Necromancy peaked with this artwork. Though the description of Merriman in Susan Cooper's THE DARK IS RISING left one hell of an impression on me (not sure it was "cool"), as did Mat Cauthon from Robert Jordan's WHEEL OF TIME (definitely was "cool").

Respectfully, Muppet Christmas Carol is the most real fucking shit there is, so I don't buy this argument.

“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”

EHRC guidance leaked and it's so bad even The Times can't put a positive spin on it www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...

Black trans women are paid dust by cis people and trans people. 21 is too young for a trans girl to die. It's not fucking fair. But per the course, Girlalala will be lost in a sea of stories of trans women of color who aren't as loved or as protected as we should be. May she rest in peace.

do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”

Just finished FANTASTIC FOUR and it felt way more sincere and genuine than SUPERMAN. Hope DOOMSDAY is good, even if I fundamentally do not understand what the fuck they are doing with the casting.

I don't think it's irresponsible to believe in an ideal and work towards it without knowing everything about it. It's okay to learn about things and study and hope and work for a better future. Then again, like 94% of discourses here, I think it's mostly "EW CRINGE" in disguise.

I don't think the only option for prison abolition is "revenge killing" or that revenge killing is a type of noble activity. I think sometimes some people spend too much time on the discourse mines and think it makes them scholars.

HE'S RIGHT AND HE SHOULD SAY IT. (I'm still not sure what counts as "stomp clap hey" music and what counts as folk music and what counts as country music and the more I look into it the more I think nobody else does either) anyway

WTF is this bullshit. My power to baptize, marry, and absolve, is absolute, and cannot be affected by any temporal power. What a weak, cringing, defective sacramental and sacerdotal theology this claim reveals.

mug #dorley

There’s a not a single totalizing answer to “what do we do instead of prisons” but there are lots of different programs and projects and we can talk about how they all fit together in one system based on our values of compassion and accountability and mutuality to move us toward the world we want

In 2024, renewable energy accounted for over 90% of global power capacity expansion. That is because it makes economic sense. IRENA_DAT_RE_Capacity_Highlights_2025-1.pdf

I miss my dad. (He's still improving! Just... gonna be in the rehab hospital for several months. No Christmas at the house. No real Christmas at all, honestly.) Anyway, spend some extra time with your loved ones.

Exciting new discovery in core drilled east of Charlottesville - a rhyolite within the greenstone! This should provide a valuable U/Pb date from its zircons. ⚒️

No worse than someone choosing STUTTGART over HYFRYDOL, tbh

8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"

Carl Sagan was not a deep thinker about human society, history, or culture. The Demon Haunted World is not a good or prescient book. To this particular point, after the Great Disappointment both Miller and his hype man said ‘our bad’ and got out of the eschatological calculus game.

I'd like a refund

It's important to love things, especially old forgotten things which were originally made to be loved.

Anyway I am sad watching people who share most of my politics call for people to be put in prison, and particularly when it comes from fellow Christians I want to remind you that abolition is a promise of resurrection and a moral obligation we are called to as followers of the Prince of Peace.

This is important to know, of course, and good of her to do by putting herself out there and being open. The Internet is a dangerous place. But I just...can't tell you how much it sucks that a lot of the comments are discussing whether or not they would fuck a perfect stranger w/o filters.

via @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: At meeting, US Catholic bishops say they oppose "indiscriminate mass deportation of people" —> religionnews.com/2025/11/12/a...

This is like wanting laundry help via a hydrogen bomb

let second graders name everything holy shit

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I like this Johnny Cash lyric in which the singer accepts responsibility for his actions and does not pitch a tantrum about consequences

Mandatory ICE detention is *not* holding up under habeas review by district court judges.

i think ideally you don't ban for this (it was related to Johnny Cash) but i can see how it would be hard to write or apply a consistent policy that gets what you want without opening the door to things you don't.

I’ve yet to have anyone explain to me how calling people “transgender cissexual” helps them get HRT It’s all vague handwaving about “different needs” and irrelevant fears like “not wanting to be told our needs aren’t real” “I must call transgender people cissexual to get HRT” FUCKING WHY?

Siri, what's one way that I could prove the lack of basic logic inherent in transphobia with one stupid, ironic choice?

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

This article is required reading. When I was writing my space opera trilogy a few years ago, I decided never to use the word "race" to refer to alien species. I used "species," "peoples," "civilizations," etc. I've also tried to stop saying "human race" in casual conversation.

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

Everything went well. Now we work on recovery on rehab. Thanks to all of you.

Dad's surgery is today. Removing bone shards, connecting some vertebrae, possibly giving the cord itself some room in the veretebrae. Prayers deeply appreciated. #narthex

any bsky poaster have a theory of victory aligned with keeping the govt shutdown indefinitely I'm all ears, because again I think I've got a history that's pretty indicative I'm more than supportive of COAs that fuck me over personally if there's a viable path to an achievable end state

I think one thing we lose sight of is that it’s really easy to chant that we gotta touch the stove, and it’s a completely different thing to be the owner of the ongoing decision that 40 million people gotta go hungry. That’s a heavy thing and I’m not at all surprised that some Dems are worried.

My friend is nonbinary and had to get a breast reduction because their GP was worried about their spine, and now they have to get a hysterectomy because they've got endometriosis, and I can't believe a person can be so biologically transgender that the NHS accidentally insists on transitioning them.

Reposting for #narthex because y'all are wonderful people who know a lot and because, obviously, we could use a ton of prayers (or good vibes, or thoughts, or whatever the positive metaphysics of you the reader permit. We are not picky). ⚓

Does anyone have any good resources on assistive tools for serious upper limb #disability? My father broke his neck (c4 fracture) a few days ago, and we don't know what recovery will look like. Right now he can only move his arms a few inches upward, no finger movement. Very little leg movement.

The concept of there being some sort of discontinuity of being in transition has always been a disturbing one to me. I'm the exact same person I was in the same way that everyone is the person they were as a child. My transition is as relevant to that as my getting glasses.

A living church. A thriving church. A church with no functional noticeboard but a lot of space on the railings.

I'm confused about this hubbub because this is, as far as I know, not at all a new thing? I have had "rude" set to "warn" for ages so that the (very rare) false positives don't get filtered out, and when this new batch of discourse dropped I saw that I'd set everything to warn. So...

The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!