Cry more

I’m at the Ren Faire and I’m thinking about going around telling people that back scabbards and leather braces aren’t real

Lol get rekt

Breaking my Advent Bluesky fast to say that college football is awesome again—Tulane’s in the playoff. Roll Wave!

The Catechism pulls no punches: welcoming the foreigner is obligatory for the “more prosperous nations.” By most global standards of economic strength, no country is more prosperous than the United States, suggesting that we have more responsibility to welcome immigrants than elsewhere.

Did the Euros see our dumb national parks decision and decide to be almost as dumb?

I absolutely love the Experience column in The Guardian because they always seem to find people who experienced something absolutely nobody else even thought was a thing that could happen

Heartwarming: British conservatives learn willful ignorance of Church history from their American conservative cousins.

Miller is just being a racist, but he's right that certain cultural mindsets can "at scale" persist over generations and be a pernicious strain on the society that they're embedded in. Unfortunately for him that applies to a huge swathe of the GOP base.

Future generations of athiests are going to look back and say, yeah sure the first American pope went to Turkey on Thanksgiving, that’s definitely real

Early Bird Charles V 🤝 Diet of Worms

I absolutely despise the “inclusivity” arguments for genAI. There’s no such thing as someone who has a cool idea that‘s just limited by the barriers of skill. Art IS thinking through an idea, making creative choices, and executing it. Anyone who skips those steps is not making art.

Words in a language have meaning based on whether they’re understood by the average speaker within a given speech community. “USian” doesn't pass the test.

Not menswear guy‘s point, but I really don’t like the whole Iranian suit look.

Finished product, sour cream bounced a bit

The thing about ”Türkiye” and similar things is that the Turkish government didn’t name the country and unless they’re gonna rename it I don’t care what they think the English word should be.

Sorry Hungarians, I make my goulash thick like a stew because it’s just better that way. (Photos to come)

Will never do it, will never respect it, will always see it as a bitch mentality in this case and similar

So those of you up on trad Catholic circles — are they just cool with Peter Thiel as owner and creator of their favorite VP? The guy who believes in salvation though tech and money?

No dirty rice, fake menu

Was watching the HBO show "The Chair Company" and was NOT expecting the scene at the end of the 5th episode. What the hell, man, that came out of nowhere.

Attacking with no casus belli -25 stability hit +2 antagonism +10 war exhaustion

What we're celebrating in Christ the King is the fact that Christ is not like the Pagan Gods whose worship develops out of monarchical cults. He alone among kings does not do what the prophet warns all kings will

🎶 The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy 🎶

My only strong opinion is that app betting should be nuked from orbit and the fortunes of its purveyors entirely wrecked.

Just saw a comment about How We Got Here that blamed … the 3/5 Compromise?

One good consequence of everybody buying big obnoxious Halloween skeletons is when they keep them up long enough to turn them into Christmas skeletons.

guy who finds himself in a situation where he has to ask Berbers if they speak English

Wonder who the one "nay" is

Real question: what's to stop the DOJ from "losing" certain uncomfortable pieces of evidence? Like if it all gets released, how does anyone know it's all of it?

Epstein was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Trump signed it. And Trump’s name was good for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Epstein was as dead as a door-nail.

What’s so galling about this (among other things) is that even if the stuff about the long-time non-enforcement of border security was 100% true and was a problem, the methods they’re using now would still be deeply immoral and anti-Christ, anti-human, and anti-right-reason.

“Okay but what if one day it really can do the things people can do?” Okay, burn it then. I will never watch/read something I know was written/created by AI, even if it’s good by conventional standards.

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social bait

It really boggles my mind that any democratic country is not just allowing, but encouraging the the development of AGI, to say nothing of superintelligence.

Problem is, I turned 16 in 1998.

Just watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit with the kids. There’s really no other movie like it.

Okay but if 60% of a state votes R and 90% of their representatives are Rs, then that’s down to districting.

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

Besides the hilarious fact that they tagged the Louvre of Bluesky, “return the Rosetta Stone“ makes no sense, and I hope it never happens.

Sometimes 1960s book cover design rocks so hard

www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-i... When you worship blood and soil and treasure instead of the Word of God Incarnate.

Let the thoughts of many hearts be revealed

I’m at a birthday party with 2nd/3rd graders and they’re all literally chanting “six seeeven, six seeeven” with the hand motions and all

One thing I’ve never understood about birtherism is that even if Obama was born out of the country … no one denies that his mom, who he looks like, is a US citizen. So why would it even matter?