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this will be a very important office and I hope many people are keeping a running list of what it will entail

It’s telling, I think, that whenever something like this comes up, all they do is say “Why is the Pope talking about this???” Instead of actually, you know, attempting to engage with the argument.

thomas is very obviously mainlining the most putrid far right slop imaginable

It’s also, I think, a good commentary on the futility of Trads and Fundamentalists trying to recapture the past and how doing so will only cause immense harm.

I think a lot about this excerpt from one of Tolkien’s letters to his son Michael (dated August 25th, 1967). The idea that the Church is like a tree that continues to grow and flourish and which we must always care for.

If/when we get through all this, I agree that a lot of Conservatives will be forced to reckon with how they played a role in all this happening. That said, if we’re to build a truly just and equitable world afterwards, Liberals will need to rethink their stances on issues like euthanasia.

A masked man in an armored vehicle, dressed as if he is in the middle of a war zone, training a weapon on unarmed protestors. This is simply incompatible with democratic expression.

It appears Fox News is doing a report on the global humanitarian aid crisis, which is pretty rich, given their never-ending worship of the guy who caused it.

Airports are one of the easiest and most obvious places to wear masks. You’re crammed in with strangers from all over, and you’re probably sitting around anyway. It’s extremely low-lift. This is like saying people live in fear of pneumonia because they cover their mouths when they cough.

In the end, Stephen Colbert flirted with his wife, kissed Pedro Pascal & gave CBS the finger. He‘s a class act who kept the lights on at Second City during the pandemic, paid his writers during the strike, is a true Catholicy. He lost his job cause he spoke out against a fascist. I salute you, Sir.

Tired: giving the pope sports jerseys Wired: giving the pope LOTR merch

nobody expects a catholic butlerian jihad

Wrote my first post this morning.

Thread.

It is nice for Tolkien and LOTR to come up in discussions of technology where it is not antithetical to Tolkien's vision

If/when we get through all this, I agree that a lot of Conservatives will be forced to reckon with how they played a role in all this happening. That said, if we’re to build a truly just and equitable world afterwards, Liberals will need to rethink their stances on issues like euthanasia.

Here’s my bridge: meet me on this bridge, federal government.

Someone remind him that people tried building bridges and Trump and his supporters kept burning them all.

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Thinking about how Pierce Brosnan was once rumored to be playing Grand Admiral Thrawn in live-action and they just gave us blue Elon Musk instead. Why? Oh, no reason.

“So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean.” -Pope Leo in Magnifica Humanitas

All exits to Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility in New Jersey, are now being blocked by people who have mobilized in support of a hunger and work strike for better conditions for those detained.

The response to this today from people I trust has been mostly positive, which has given me the encouragement to keep going and improve. That said, if you don’t like my writing or it just doesn’t quite work for you, please be honest and tell me.

It’s also really fucking evil to do. To anyone / an entire nation.

Yes, this nation was 'less divided and polarized' when white men in both parties ran everything. That is not in fact a good thing. Backlash to racism and a revival of Jim Crow should absolutely leave us polarized because not only white men should hold power.

Wrote my first post this morning.

Repost with the Russian agent that spies on your posts

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

If the 2nd greatest English-language filmmaker of all time can cast a black woman as Helen of Troy, then surely Christopher Nolan can, as well.

born to be shunned by society, forced to post on bluesky

I imagine this is what years and years of Dark Superman stories does to your brain.

nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure

And the one on the left is undeniably the best.

Yeah! The one on the left is fun a silver age scifi silliness! You guys don't actually like Superman mythos! I'm going insane

Spencer Pratt's entire campaign is "I hate homeless people and no one should have to look at them." Unless you are proposing systemic change that is centered on the people who are on the street, you are not going to solve this issue in any meaningful way. Fear is not enough. Hate is not a strategy.

Colbert is the strong man, Trump is the weak one. Colbert is the secure man, Trump is the insecure one. You’d raise your kids to be like Colbert. Even Trump’s followers know Trump is the very antithesis of what you raise your kids to be. And some will even admit that to me.

Memorial Day is a good time to remember this disgusting act.

Been having to live like this almost every day for close to two and a half years now and I hate it.

Something they don’t tell you about Covid brain fog is that if you’re Autistic, it severely clouds your ability to imagine things. Which most people might not consider that big of a deal but if you rely on your imagination to help visualize key concepts and ideas, being deprived of that is torture.

For all my issues with the Disney SW movies, I do remember how exciting it was from 2015-2019 when we had one new movie coming out every year. Before the franchise pivoted solely to television. Every trip to the theater with my family felt like a grand night out.

This is how you do it.

Cancel all the TV shows (except VISIONS since that’s mostly a collection of short films anyway) and focus solely on theatrical movies again. Release a new movie no sooner than 3-5 years apart. Make new SW movies feel like events again.

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

Still trying to figure out who the antichrist is, according to Thiel. Is it Greta Thunberg? Pope Leo? The guy who wants him to pay more in taxes? Like, he’s not giving me much to work with here.

Cancel all the TV shows (except VISIONS since that’s mostly a collection of short films anyway) and focus solely on theatrical movies again. Release a new movie no sooner than 3-5 years apart. Make new SW movies feel like events again.