Okay so how are they even proposing this happen, legally (I know they don’t care but they at least make fake arguments)? Just don’t have an election, somehow? Just refuse to leave? The 22nd Amendment does exist.

This anti-human garbage idea deserves nothing but contempt overall, but "personalization at scale" is clearly a terrible idea. Like if no one is watching the same thing, there's no shared cultural touchstone at all. Is there even a market for that? (I guess I don't want to know the answer).

Gonna add the Gilded Monstrosity to my list of “destroy it, damn the money it would evaporate” things, alongside app-based sports betting the porn industry payday lenders It’s small potatoes in comparison.

Okay so apparently the line is “lol libs are freaking out about a much-needed renovation, and besides other presidents have renovated before.” a) is there any evidence at all that a renovation was needed or desired before a few months ago? b) were previous renovations this unilateral and quick?

Given my mufos on here, how has no one else posted this puff piece on the guy who’s building the mansion-dwarfing monstrosity in DC? www.ncregister.com/news/catholi...

So I know demolishing the East Wing was a surprise, but has the movement settled on a justification yet that they will all repeat ad nauseam? Or for why building a peripheral structure that dwarfs the main, historic structure is a good idea?

One of the most annoying species of tryhard Bluesky lib is ”erm, don’t say ‘American’ because ‘America’ includes more than just the US.”

Tfw you think the Mobile Bay ferry will cost you $6 and be available in a few minutes and it ends up costing $39 and you have to wait an hour (but the weather on the bay in Fort Morgan is delightful)

So is the facade of the East Wing not a historical landmark? I know it was built in 1942, so does the status of the WH not include the outlying wings?

non-exhaustive: Half Life 2 Super Metroid Morrowind Paper Mario Hollow Knight Knights of the Old Republic Fallout: New Vegas

Gonna replace traditional grade scales with this so the kidz (note the "z") know I am cool and with it.

So, no reports of violence yet? This is awesome, and hilarious (for them)

Who manages to meet a girl so fair in the darkest depths of Mordor? And when did Gollum collide with Sauron to steal women?

Does anyone know how to take apart his actual claim here re: Julia Letlow's special election when Pelosi was speaker?

This is literally the most perfect Bluesky comment ever. He just forgot "Erm..."

So, if this were to happen, it's pretty clear that the practices they're in trouble for go back to the founder ... who was declared a saint in 2002. Is there historical precedent for something like that?

7yo loves pretending everything is his classroom at school, so we have signs all over the place that say "NO NUTS".

Also, a frat house is only a “masculine” environment if you have a stunted view of manhood.

This is so much stupider and more brazenly dishonest than 2003.

Some things I’d love to see: - abolish party/closed primaries - expand the House - require districts to follow existing borders (city, county, neighborhood, etc)

Just saw a tall pointy bald white guy with a beard and glasses on campus and thought it was David French.

It’s perversely funny that he literally talks about “small, mom-and-pop lenders” as if that’s a thing, and that thing is not called loansharking.

Started reading Stefan Zweig’s “Die Welt von Gestern” yesterday and it‘a already a banger. Apparently the whole thing was written from memory in a hotel room in England? He mentions that he had no access to any outside sources, including his own writings. Bro just use the Cloud.

It's going to be really funny if the World Cup matches are all just located to Canada and Mexico ... not because FIFA cares about principles, but they probably do care about stability of event planning.

Finally finished Peter Wilson's book on the 30 Years' War yesterday. I loved the first few hundred pages (setting the stage and discussing the military realities of the period) and the last 150 or so (discussing the aftermath and the human cost), but the whole thing was great.

So is it just because we’re in a bubble, or are there any videos or evidence of assault against solid-water guys? Like I know they consider filming and standing in the way to be assault, but are there any examples of genuine violence against them?

Bishop Barron come on man

War and Peace is so good that I will probably read it a second time.

Me when I’m a Bluesky Redditor and I don’t understand context

Recently went to Latin Tridentine Mass for the first time; my impressions ranged from ”this is beautiful and I’m glad we’re seeing more and more of it in regular parishes” to “oh, now I see why they changed that”

Saw this comment on FB: "JFK sent 5, FIVE armed soldiers for every one student to a college in Mississippi in 1962. The college had 6000 students. He sent 31,000. Did the Vatican weigh-in on that one?" Almost like that was an actual issue.

Tremendous description of Dick Tracy (1990).

I love how because of AI I have to go through and meticulously check all the sources my students cite in their essays to see if they're fake or not (they're fake depressingly often). So much time saved, thanks Sam!

The real problem here is the illusion that an LLM can represent some Platonic "unbiased" view on a given subject; aside from God Himself, no one and no thing can have a complete, comprehensive, objective view of reality as it is. An LLM will *always* exhibit some perspective, some bias.

Classic Bluesky exchange. Guy asserts WW2 vets voted for T2, guy corrects him, first guy says “akshually Reagan ‘84 was the same thing”, another guy implies WW2 vets largely did not vote for Reagan (who famously won like every state).

Every now and then I check on Rod's blog out of curiosity and saw that he has a long post about how wonderful the thing in AZ was and how it was great that they unabashedly proclaimed the Gospel, including a quote from the bald millennial guy. Just ... how?

As always, can't sleep on Mark Knopfler

"I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor." (Pope Leo XIV)

Tchoupitoulas, Calliope, Carondelet

People are saying they‘d like to see him write something connecting this Issue to the environment, and no, it should be laser-focused on the treatment of migrants. From a doctrinal perspective, it‘s not remotely as dependent on conditions or consequences; give no wiggle room.

No comment on the rest but there is no universe where New Orleans and Tallahassee share a cultural zone.

Will the new edition of the Liturgy of the Hours be freely accessible, with WOF only publishing the official books, or will it all be tied up behind a copyright?

Starting to think a lot of Christians in positions of power think of God more in Harald Bluetooth terms than St Francis of Assisi.

Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro

Catholics familiar with politicized traddery: Have you heard of a book by T. Gress called “The Anti-Mary”? If so do you know of any good critiques, preferably from an orthodox Catholic perspective? (Or do YOU have a good one)

Youth pastor who gives a chastity talk based on “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”

Bruh just realized The Black Parade is older than the Rolling Stones’ Some Girls was when I was in high school.

Yeah, you could say we’re all about wieners over here…

Blowing out my tire and then slowing my speed so the thumping of the tire matches the beat of White Stripe’s drummer Meg White.