Given what I’ve read on the subject and how much I’ve talked to rapture believers about it over the course of my lifetime I’d be way more likely to believe that the rapture already happened and we’re the ones left behind than that it’s going to happen tomorrow.

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My semi-recreation of this iconic image

My semi-recreation of this iconic image

Here's a great excerpt from @stefanfatsis.bsky.social's superb new book, Unabridged, which, trust me, you want to read.

I’m old enough to remember Republicans losing their shit over a handful of sentences at Senator Paul Wellstone’s memorial service. Don’t believe there was any pyro at that event.

I had no idea that Ross Gay did a record. I just found it at the used shop down the street. Can’t wait to play it.

I guess the rapture counts as an excusable absence, though why you’d worry about it is beyond me.

Right now it’s really clear that the federal government has way more ability to chill speech it doesn’t like than any individual or group does through public shaming or even economic boycotts. The people who wrote the Constitution understood that power difference.

Anyone else having trouble posting links? I keep trying to share an article from @theverge.com and getting an internal server error

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There’s no such thing as a Ruffalo

You can’t find any of those words in the Bible

I’m not an expert on this but this feels like stuff that rises to the level of impeachment. Congress can impeach and remove any public officer.

This is why I want to build the Defector of Entertainment. The Avengers of TV & Film Writing. If Ben can make his wish to save The Onion come true by posting it here, maybe I can make my dream happen by putting it out there too.

Trump is apparently claiming anti-fascists are “terrorists”. No anti-fascist was involved in any of the recent assassinations. He just wants to make it illegal to oppose his power grabs. Let him try to enforce this anti-American nonsense. I’m going to keep opposing his fascism regardless.

Seems like a lot of trouble just to play Pokémon Go.

I feel like the time travelers who helped the Cubs win the World Series in 2016 and inadvertently gave us Trump as President have come back and are trying to fix things and are just making it weirder instead.

I was late to this album but this song in particular has been in heavy rotation for me since I first heard it. youtu.be/ZPfI8zBWub4?...

If I ever admit out loud that I know the favorite drink of my favorite podcaster, one of y’all has to contact my partner because I’m clearly in the middle of some kind of crisis. If you have no idea what this is referring to, go keep living your best life.

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"Severance" star Britt Lower wrote "Let Me Out" on her acceptance speech paper at the #Emmys, a shoutout to her Helly R character

Kids to their parents who try to get on their case about this stuff

Looking into joining the PRKA prka.co

Happy Covid Vax/Flu Shot Day to all who are celebrating (It’s me. I’m celebrating.) (How fucked up is it that I have to be excited I can do this.)

Looking into joining the PRKA prka.co

Disrespectful

Let me tell the younger guys something here: if you’re in your mid-twenties or older and you’ve got guy friends you can hang out with, hold onto those people with all you’ve got, because it is HARD to make new friends as an adult. And we are social animals. We need those connections.

Only baseball jersey I’ve ever bought and probably the only one I’ll ever buy

Make a band singular: Millus Vanillus

I’m gonna tap my sign today I think

Make a band singular Siouxsie and the Banshee

Post a team you would send instead of Bongino and Patel

On Wednesday, an unnamed “investigator” at ATF leaked lies that blamed “transgender ideology” for the shooting. @wsj.com is the only outlet I saw try to verify the libel before printing it. We deserve a full investigation: who was the leak? Were agents actively promoting hate or just incompetent?

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In a word... Live how you want to be remembered

Especially if you work on a college campus, Shut the Fuck Up Friday applies to anyone asking you about Charlie Kirk.

If you’re a professor and a student asks you about what happened today, you don’t know anything about it and also it’s not pertinent to the class discussion.

If you see anyone raising a flag back up to full staff tomorrow, no you didn’t.

If you’re a professor and a student asks you about what happened today, you don’t know anything about it and also it’s not pertinent to the class discussion.

Beautiful weather today. Low 80’s, sunny. Beautiful bird song when I was walking around out there.

I feel like this needs to be emphasized more: This was a literature class. Dealing with fictional texts. According to the state of Texas, you can’t bring up gender outside of the big two even when talking about made up stories.

When I say RFK Jr should be fired, I want to be clear that I mean out of a cannon.

When I say RFK Jr should be fired, I want to be clear that I mean out of a cannon.

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