I'm obviously not a Christian, & lean atheist, but we were always admonished, "צדק, צדק תרדוף" Often translated "justice" or "righteousness", but those words are so often loaded. It means doing the right thing. How could the right &/ godly course be aligning with a man so obsessed with doing evil?

Groundhog saw its shadow so it means six more weeks of blood libel.

I'd argue that economic arguments are moral and ethical arguments as well: how do we decide what is good and what we should aspire for our policies to achieve? How do we decide how it is is right and proper to act? Defining "Justice" and "the general Welfare" is a moral act.

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

[humorous back-blast innuendo here]

About twelve years ago, I think, I got a Warhammer 40K boxed set that included a squad of Chaos cultists. I had a pleasant enough time assembling and filing most of the minis, until I came to the one holding a flamethrower with a backpack tank. I thought the hose was too flimsy to file safely, so...

I love it when I click "see more replies" and the replies are such unhinged nonsense I go to mute user and realize I already have. Thanks, Bluesky.

I giggled at this.

Aim higher than you intend to achieve, Senator. Aim for freezing ICE so investigations can begin, and then trials, and where there are convictions, harsh sentences for violating people's rights by operating a secret police bureau within the United States. Maybe you'll achieve something worthwhile.

This is a good way to verbalize the ultimate conflict here. (Thanks.)

Somewhere an exhausted woman is climbing up a hillside, a comically oversized firearm slung across her back, as she follows a trail of drag marks and clawed footprints, regretting her decision to get into professional witchery, but unwilling to turn her back on her sworn duty to stop a predator.

The one time antisemitism getting traction did any good. You can't see the expression of humor on my face but it's not a happy one.

We say "young man/young woman" when speaking to teenagers, but legally, in this context, they're children. I think it's important to remember those stories in that light.

Dear Mr E, my colleague, my pal, please, for the love of all that is holy, stop typing your initials as "ew" at the end of clinical documentation. It reads like you're disgusted. "This worker recommends referral to the psychiatric provider-- ew" אני בוכה, לעזאזל

This perfectly ordinary, kinda garrulous fellow drives around in a Honda Fit to stalk immigration enforcers and document their actions like a naturalist would watch the behavior of some species of beetles living in a meadow, and bsky can't fucking shut up about him for some reason.

I saw an odd phrase recently, "Self-defense is not violence". If you're defending yourself against violence or the threat of violence, of course you'll use violence to defend yourself. "If someone comes to kill you, get up earlier and kill him first." The risk of violence is a fact of life. We must

I think there's something to be said about securing your own flotation vest first, then focusing on helping others. As brutal and cold as that logic seems.

It's (today) the 15th of the lunar month of Sh'vat, on which a new year for growing fruit is celebrated, on the basis that fruit trees will be blooming about this time of year.

cant even buy a 2JZ valve cover gasket without thinking about him 😞

And yet the maniacs want to hide away the sins of American policy, under the current government or otherwise, in favor of loudly accusing women and queers.

Overhearing some conversations in the waiting room today, I realize many homeless people, by grim necessity, must have a better grasp on thermodynamics than some engineers.

A wonderful bird is the pelican His beak can hold more than his belly can He can hold in his beak Enough food for a week But I'll be damned if I know how the hellhican!

I thought about this. The people named are, AFAIK, overwhelmingly white or Middle Eastern. I think some of it has to do with who tends to hold outsize wealth and who their social circles include. But that's effectively an indictment of the whole social class. Billionaires are by nature predators.

Who has two thumbs and spent hours shivering in bed because they forgot to draw the curtain on the bedside window all the way to the wall? This fucking idiot.

Trans people - the diplomat spies of the Gender Wars.

Clever cis people could make bank by making this into a thing they do in public. "-can see, I have nothing up my sleeves! And now, watch in amazement as I, through the magic of listening to what trans people are saying to us-" My original words were "could make a killing". Very unfortunate choice.

There it is. We knew it was in you from your first post. You piece of shit ass white supremacist

We have incoherent imagery here: Liberty holding her torch in her right hand and the scales by her left hand. The correct figure would be Justice, who holds the scales aloft in her right hand and the sword low in her left. Justice is also blindfolded. This product will fuck you up badly. Do not.

I am in tears, I can barely see the screen to type this

oh fuck oh no I should not be laughing this hard.

J Rowling: "There just isn't enough time to discuss how a plot that could have been the most worthless pornography becomes, in Nabakov's hands, a great and tragic love story, and I could exhaust my reservoir of superlatives trying to describe the quality of the writing." love story? shitbrain ಠ_ಠ

Once again, I eagerly await the evolution of rhetoric surrounding this possibility. Yes, sarcasm.

I want to pull this out of the Epstein context and think about how we conceive of money and value. I first saw the idea that money could represent work (in the newtonian-mechanical sense) or energy in a Bruce Coville novel. It was something like "$1 spacebux is about 30 minutes spin of a generator"

This looks like "Build a facade out of spare battlemech cockpit fittings"

Like radio static, or tinnitus that's not sound, in your head when your resources are depleted?

I've lost touch with TMNT over the years but I'm a sucker for transformation stories.

1) "Don't believe everything you think" is one of the best bits of advice I've ever received. 2) pretty cat woman

Sometimes you just need some absurdity in your life, like this example.

Kohelet wrote "For one joined to the living there is hope - a live dog is better than a dead lion - as the living know they will die, but the dead know nothing and they have no reward, for the memory of them is forgotten." I think he was onto something, 2200+ years ago. We've had his book all along.

"What if Gadget Hackwrench were a catgirl" what have you done, what horrors have you brought forth into this cursed land

Someone wrote a post suggesting conservative rejection of modernity and people who benefit from modernity is based on resentment that they're chafing at being forced to live with their own restrictive codes while others simply opt out and find other ways of life. If you were stuck in a cage,

I still don't understand why they don't form a crab chain and escape. I mean, I understand why crabs don't, they have tiny little crustacean brains. But we humans are supposed to be more thoughtful.

With kinfolk like her, who needs antisemites?

R (no meaning)

[confused laughter] what the fuck? This headline is beyond parody forward.com/news/antisem...

There's always a tension between "stay put and keep bailing" and "don't create another victim". Any given person or group will have to determine for themselves at what point the scene is no longer safe for them to keep pushing back. Think of it like you're fire or EMS rescue teams.

An artistic collab between Tamsyn Muir and Tobias Forge (et al.) would reach hitherto unimaginable levels of memeception. (Those are the author of The Locked Tomb series and the skull-masked lead performer of Swedish doompop metal band Ghost, respectively.)

(hysterical giggling)

"Because of the alleged secret conspiracy I didn't know about, I did not apply for the job that I know has unjustly been taken from me" He's getting high on his own audacity.

Sometimes you come upon an illustration so lovely it makes you wonder why on earth you haven't followed the artist yet. Like this one.