So far this Holy Week I have: Given a sermon about how I'd do exactly the same thing Judas did. Made my Spiritual Director watch the trailer for Heated Rivalry (also the shower scene from ep 1) Silently scranned the Holy Sacrament while hiding hunched over behind a pillar. And it's only Friday

1. "Here's an extreme idea. We're platforming it, so that people can watch out." 2. "This idea is gaining traction. We're publishing an op-ed in favour, for balance." 3. "This idea is popular now. Why does the left refuse to consider it?"

The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.

The gaslighting in that article from Streeting. "For some, it may feel like support is being taken away, or that doors are closing." BECAUSE IT IS YOU LYING SCUMBAG. BY YOU!

Ok, why am I only now hearing about THIS horror show? kbizoom.com/zhu-yu-ai-fa...

This should be broadcast, streamed, and read aloud by Democrats between now and the Second Coming. Trump says all federal programs—Medicare and Medicaid by name, Social Security by implication—must go. It’s astounding. It’s political poison. Make Republicans drink it.

My aunt, the doctor, told me a new joke. She asked: Did you hear that the CDC is pausing testing for rabies, smallpox, and monkeypox? And when I asked for the punchline she just replied: No, this is real it’s not an April Fool’s joke. And then neither of us laughed.

Okay I’m generally very anti April Fool’s Day but our friend Mike Brady (a Titanic historian I follow on YouTube) posted a 25 minute video about steam powered tractors and I snorted

CONVERSION THERAPY IS LEGALIZED GROOMING. theres a reason so many of these fundies are caught raping children! when you treat a child as an incomplete and inferior being with zero agency you can do w/e you want to them. cis ppl give child rapists the benefit of the doubt so long as the childs queer

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

Trump be like...

PLEASE can these idiot STEM majors stop trying to build the fucking Torment Nexus? 😭😭😭 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_L...

Zionism is racism.

"I don't write political romance, my books just deal with the wealthy Regency aristocracy" is like watching fish argue that their books have nothing to do with water. And makes about as much sense as you'd get from a fish.

sHoUlD tHeRe Be pOlItIcS iN SF oh great god. lol mate I write romance novels--little stories about 💕two people falling in love💖--and I can't think of a single book that hasn't required me to engage hard with the politics of *something*. Class, gender, race, law, policing, education, economics.

I don’t care about Star Trek and even I know this is stupid about Star Trek but what’s interesting here is the “if I know an author’s politics I can guess how the story will end” as if the perfect book is one that keeps its plot as open as possible for as long as possible

This is what you do with fame.

Honestly, the comments sections SLAY me. Everyone seems to be winning here? This lad (who apparently used to be 100lb heavier) seems sanguine & amused wrt the discovery that his Only Fans followers (which I am not) include his mum’s friends, former professors, high school bullies etc.

But his emails.

I have stolen 12T of KitKats that were in transit and which you were probably hoping to buy in Poland forgive me the world is stressful and I needed a break

No Quarter is terrible strategy. In The Art of War, Sun Tzu said if you surround and outnumber an enemy, always leave a little exit. The exit is not logistically realistic for escape. It's for hope. Because enemies past hope are past fear, and will fight to the last soldier, raising casualties.

Not sure why the FB algorithm decided I was the kind of auntie who would enjoy seeing hot young Asian/Asian American blokes creating sassy thirst traps, but I honestly can’t be mad about it. No, I am not going to seek out their Only Fans content. I am looking respectfully. Fairly respectfully. 👀

It worries me in a time where people judge thought crimes to see this commercialised toothlessness. If the only victims we can sympathise with are misjudged innocents then… we will sympathise with few victims, who tend to lash & act out. I stand with vampires with teeth & revenge quests.

T h i s Emerald Ferrell’s Heathcliff is just a sad puppy with a heart of gold. He’s not mad at anyone. He’s not mean. He’s certainly not a vicious dog-killing wife-beating asshole. To all intents & purposes Robbie!Catherine & Elodie!Heathcliff are written as Catherine Linton & Hareton Earnshaw.

"You gotta mike the box." the engineer Bill Halverson on the making of "Ain't No Sunshine," 1971 (from a Mix interview in 2012)

Sense and Sensibility and Totoro

2(or 3) sisters and their somewhat distracted parent move to a new house in the country, where the responsible oldest sister takes on some of the parenting and the emotional younger one runs a bit wild. They meet interesting neighbors.

When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.

“This morning, the Israeli Police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land…from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, as they made their way to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass.”

more fuel for my theory that Francis handpicked Leo as his successor explicitly to try and stop Trump - and the US right wing more broadly - from breaking the world

44 years old, been Catholic my whole life, this is the first time I have ever heard “some people suck so bad God simply hangs up on them” presented as a tenet of our theology

The guy who invents the test disagrees with this use of it. (See also, the guy who invented the lie detection spent much of his life explaining it really didn't work very well)

I'm going to start a thread collating expert responses to the IOC's sex testing policy. Please feel free to reply with additions. I'm more interested in the views of scientists than lawyers or philosophers, but everything counts.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

I sincerely hope there is CCTV footage of whichever fucko did this, and he rots in jail. JFC.

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

Holy New York.

the terms “very seriously injured/ill” (VSI) and “seriously injured” (SI) mean very specific things within DoD: - VSI: death is more likely than not to occur within 72 hours - SI: death is possible but not likely within 72 hours; injury is permanent, life-altering, or need extended hospitalization

Quote this with your most "I wrote this for me, but you can read if you want to" fanwork …OR you could (like me) post something you made just for one particular person: A 72k MCR/bandom vampire story that I wrote (& illustrated!) for Jilli, after her mother died. archiveofourown.org/works/167916

So: Gajar Ka Halwa (carrot pudding) in half an Easter Egg shell: is this a genius dessert idea for Easter Weekend? (I’m thinking make it with coconut milk as well as spices, because hello yum. Maybe add a blob of pistachio cream blended with cream cheese before topping with nuts?)

Oh my God. This could save so many lives. Read the article and the thread!

My alabaster milk child Teuton keeps asking for ranch dressing at the caviar factory, it is most epic. The fishmongers despise him.

As a Marine platoon leader in Vietnam, Mueller was shot and later returned to lead his platoon after his recovery. He received a Bronze Star for valor, a Purple Heart, 2 Navy/Marine Commendation medals, Republican of Vietnam Cross of Valor, and numerous other medals.

“because the reason the piece-of-shit AI loves an emdash is because it stole all our work, and all our work features a lot of goddamn emdashes. It doesn’t use emdashes. We use emdashes, and it stole our work and then mimics us. Emdashes and all.”

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

Good to see our pledge to stop energy bills rising on the front page of the Financial Times - the Government must step in urgently. We badly need to align capital gains tax in line with income tax. We need to tax unearned wealth the same as we tax earned income.

Spot on, this. Baldwin's GamerGate role alone makes it a "no" from me.