So have they been doing a lot of heresies at the Rededicate thing, or just anodyne stuff?

Senator Bill Cassidy should have known his career was doomed when he did the right thing in 2021 And spent the last 6 years acting as a foil to movement he knows is deadly and vicious; instead, he enabled and appeased it and lost everything anyway.

Shame on Virgil for desecrating Homer! He will never live it down

The Odyssey is fantasy and as someone points out, Helen’s supposed to stand out anyway, but I do hate this “well akshually it’s not impossible for a person in this period to be X race” because A) it’s still very unlikely even if she was real, and B) it engages people obviously acting in bad faith

Holy crap, the opening track on Thin Lizzy’s second album is just pure, distilled era-rock. If you’re sonically a fan of 1972, check it out.

I would love to see some data on this “festering problem” in Maine

As an experience, 2010, but in retrospect I’m grateful for all of it

Finished this Noah’s Ark puzzle and yeah, some of these species are in trouble all right…

So if people in the 20th century all had ovens, why is “roasting vegetables on a sheet pan“ such a bougie Millennial thing?

Are Republicans demanding that Mississippi change its flag back yet?

The new Louisiana map doesn't seem *terrible*, but I do wonder how a map could be drawn that doesn’t do ridiculous partisan or racial gerrymandering but still yields fair, competitive seats.

It would be kinda cool if they did this but they actually meant the God of Abraham and the actual nation and not the pagan national deity they invented and like 30% of the country. "And to mark this occasion, we are announcing a debt jubilee for the poor & seeking justice against their oppressors"

You ever have one of those days where the 1953 translation of Origen's "Against Celsus" that you've been using on the Internet Archive for work is not available because "Another patron is using this book. Please check back later"?

One of my favorite dad sayings: “Oh you assume? You know what happens when you assume?” “What?” “You make a reasonable guess based on the evidence you have but sometimes it’s not enough.” The best part is that only my wife knows the other dad saying I’m subverting.

www.fox8live.com/2026/05/05/n... So cool that the state’s answer to “what are we going to do about this clear and present problem” is “not a f***ing thing—in fact, we’re gonna cancel efforts that are already years in the making”

3rd Eye Blind’s ”Never Let You Go” is one of those rare songs that came out when I was in HS that‘s a banger but I also thought it was a banger back then.

I am so viscerally tired of hearing about this. I cannot describe how much I never want to see this argument again. Oh NATO allies aren’t rushing into a war they’re not obligated to join months after we threatened to use violence to annex territory of a NATO country. WHAT A FUCKING SHOCK

The worst part about the self-immolation of America is that in terms of the structural problems we’re facing, there’s really nowhere else. Finding housing or a job sucks! Let me take a sip of my coffee and see how things are in Europe and Asia…

So if the SC will presumably overturn any Congressional act that reins in partisan gerrymandering, does this mean the only way to possible end it would be a Constitutional Amendment?

It’s a good thing Republicans hate reading because what if they found out about rotten and pocket boroughs…

Happy Orthodox Star Wars Day to those who celebrate.

There’s no more powerful drug than the belief that you’re personally on the side of the angels and because you’re one of the good people everything you say and do against the bad people is justified and sanctified.

Actually every person almost without exception was part of that mob, but go off.

“What song defines an imaginary «generation» cohort of a 20 year span of time?” is inherently a stupid question

Am I the only one who thinks the World Cup trophy looks obscene?

Baton Rouge's newest Vietnamese joint is right down the street and we went there for lunch and damn, we will be back. A lot.

@11mmyjohns.bsky.social your boy is back in town

Disappointed that so many people seem to think the solution to Callais is “we need racially gerrymandered districts in perpetuity” and not “gerrymandering is inherently disenfranchising and needs to be killed”

this photo from cbs news appeared on the fb feed with absolutely no caption. none needed, honestly

Religionists claim the Bible teaches to love your neighbor, yet I found this story in the Old Testament about a battle 😏

"Dinner Party" (The Office 4.13) and "Scott's Tots" (6.12) are monumental achievements in so many ways.

New levels of antisocial smartphone-enabled behavior being reached by the guy at the library in the work station behind me watching something without headphones and giggling loudly.

Without stating your age post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.

Is the notion that the provisions of the VRA are unconstitutional something that Republicans and FedSoc types have been saying for a long time, or is it something they recently latched onto out of political convenience?

true analog guy rejecting the typewriter as too modern. "the machine lies. longhand cannot lie" etc

Made the dumb choice to look up the Athena Strand case, and yeah, it's heartbreaking as hell. My daughter is the same age. I'm anti-DP, but Tanner Homer will not be mourned. That said, there's a RW narrative that Epstein Island is p. bad but this kind of this happens all the time and is covered up.

Imagine being stupid enough to think this is a good sign

My fear is that by replacing Noem/Bovino with Mullin and whoever is that they'll continue to do their ethnic cleansing in the service of lies, but in a less theatrically evil way, which will allow it to be normalized in ways that it couldn't be when you had the little SA peacock doing his thing.

Just submitted grades for the semester. Now I await the panicked emails from students who've been able to see their final grade on Moodle for the past week expressing shock at their bad grades.

So if the MAGA candidates are beating the incumbents in primaries, is that good news for the general?

The more I learn about WW2, the more the first of these just doesn’t seem plausible; it’s more “what if they were beaten sooner” or “what if they were beaten later”

Bipartisan view of the US government budget

Listening to a podcast on the Battle of Britain—apparently pilots on both sides were *very* young, and pretty had to be for practical reasons. My impression has always been that fighter pilots are “athlete old”—late 20s-30s. Is this impression just wrong, or did something change over time?

I love filling up for $60 when it was $40 like a month or two ago. Surely the American public is happy with this sacrifice.

All forms of fundamentalism and/or traditionalism are *necessarily* and inescapably postmodern.

Yeah the Empire is bad and it’s clearly established on the 1st act of ANH by the stormtroopers murdering all the Jawas and Luke’s family … But *American* fascism? They’re modeled explicitly on the Nazis and are otherwise very British coded.

Perhaps we should have listened when MIA said all she wanted to do was gunshot gunshot gunshot cash register noise, which I believe is the Republican platform

I'm a man born in 1982. I have the most normal Star Wars takes possible.

There’s no possibly argument against Puerto Rican statehood unless it’s that the people themselves don’t want it.

Doing this Noah’s Ark jigsaw puzzle I got years ago at Hobby Lobby, and I think cardinals might go extinct.