Hot take: pastors who claim to preach the Truth (capital T) from the pulpit ought to be the most obsessively fact-checky critics of *every* claim their own sermons, including references to history, science, & politics. If your history is fast & loose, I expect your use of the Bible is too.

Get your medical advice from someone who can say “acetaminophen”

Missiles launching [your kingdom come], soldiers marching [your will be done], enemy combatants getting vaporized [on earth], war crimes being committed [as it is in heaven]. Yeah, this is blasphemy.

With DoD now taking on the less euphemistic title of Dept of War, may I also suggest: - Dept of Propaganda (form. Education) - Dept of Revenge & Secrets (form. Justice) - Dept of Fad Diets and Autism Elimination (form. HHS) - Dept of Minority Abuse (form. DHS) - Dept of Subservience (form. State)

be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting a silent battle you know nothing about (I myself am fighting an army of ninjas)

Maybe I’m not overthinking, maybe I’m just regular thinking about stuff that shouldn’t be happening

Two things I didn’t expect today: 1. Lindsey Ellis returning to YouTube. 2. Lindsey Ellis specifically welcoming David French to the Resistance. So uh… a warm welcome to both of you, I guess? *raises coffee mug in a toast*

(meow) #godot #pixelart #gamedev

listen, scott stapp says he's six feet from the edge and he thinks that six feet isn't that far down. but like, he's six feet from the EDGE. so he's like, unable to see what is down there. further, scott stapp isnt even six feet tall. he doesn't know how far that really is

i cant believe a country that has spent decades measuring success purely by the accumulation of material wealth has lost its moral compass

Big “how do you do, fellow kids” energy. They thought they could use the colors black and red and gold because they are cool, edgy colors. But everyone knows ICE vehicles should be white and blue. Because it’s ICE, and ICE means “White Police”.

Tapping the sign. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Music is great, and I really enjoy listening to: - Televisionhead - Goofyfoot - Ludicrous Punk - Nukes… in… Space! - Kings of the Bronze Age - Your Catatonic Valentine - Meilleur Automne - Frigidplay

Music is great, and I really enjoy listening to: - Telegraphhead - Naturalfoot - Respectable Punk - Duds in the Air - Jacks of the Lower Paleolithic - Someone’s Else’s Bruised Valentine - Été Médiocre - Lukewarmplay

Oh, no!!! Not wheelies....

For your consideration.

A fascinating article by Heather Brady. AI is designed from the ground up to tell us whatever our itching ears want to hear.

The Emperor is trying really hard to get rid of that kid that noticed that his new clothes are a more lightweight than he wanted them to believe.

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

Watched “The Gorge” on Apple TV tonight. Parts were smart. Parts were super-dumb. But overall a fun watch and crossed more movie genres than I expected. My favorite part, though, was a certain musical detail in one of the last scenes. (Musical semi-spoilers after the jump below.)

This cartoon can be used to describe quite a few moments in history.

On the bee forums one beekeeper passed along the news that the Beltsville USDA bee lab that has done all our samples-of-dead-bee testing for free is being closed by the Department of Agriculture. A mod and a bunch of other beekeepers jumped on the OP for being "too political." 🙄 God help us.

Having a lab puppy has really opened my eyes to how much of this world is, in fact, edible

Anyone else, when reading about MTG’s latest shenanigans, thinks, “Hmm… what is Magic: The Gathering” up to now?

Let me get this straight: A skeezy casino owner known for stacking the deck (cheating) in his personal and professional life named “Trump” is in charge. His aides and councilors are influenced by a creepy guy who calls himself -Grima-Wormtongue- oops, no, scratch that out, “Mencius Moldbug”… 🧵 1/

Somewhere in an alternate universe where Kojima and Konami stayed BFFs, the new Metal Gear Solid VII features the rumored 4th brother from Les Enfants Terribles, Rubber Snake. Spoilers: Snake’s real name this time is not Dave or Jack but “Jeff”. Also, I’m very bad at the game. Colonel Campbell:

Who wore it better?

Me: I'm sorry. I never know what to do with my hands, especially when I'm nervous Driving instructor: *screaming intensifies

OOPS I DUNE IT AGAIN

darth vader: (arm extended dramatically) join the dark side way too many people, way too willingly: ok darth vader: (quickly withdrawing arm) jesus christ

I still can’t believe that “Alligator Alcatraz” is real and being celebrated by conservatives. It’s just so cartoonishly evil. What, were all the volcano lairs with laser sharks just too expensive?

I don’t get it.

In Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico, the United States is the most commonly named ally and the top threat. www.pewresearch.org/...

As humans we find “Love your enemies” to be one of Jesus’s hardest commands. And for us, it *is* very hard. But I wonder if this was a command Jesus gave in the same tone as a parent saying “Don’t drink drain cleaner,” and for a similar reason.

Every death needs to be a notification to their offices. "This is to inform you that 'name here,' 'age here,' passed away on 'date here' due to complications created by the Medicaid cuts you voted for in Congress."

Big Beautiful Barrel of Pork. More bacon for the fat cats than you can fit in a $3.3 Trillion increase to the deficit over 10 yrs. Thats a lot of pork!

Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base. This man has no citizenship now.

Everyone Everyone is so near Everyone has got the fear It's holding on

Christian Nationalist Paul would shriek "OH MY GAWWWWD, THERE'S IDOLATROUS OBJECTS OF WORSHIP IN ATHENNNNS! WE NEED TO TAKE OVER ATHENS AND MAKE IT HAVE LAWS ACCORDING TO OUR BELIIIIEEFS, OR WESTERN CIVILIZATION IS DOOOOOMED!" Actual Paul preached the sermon in Acts 17:22-31

One way we signal and practice our commitment to the truth in a world of deepfakes & disinformation means getting comfortable with, “I don’t know.”

Me, watching Avatar The Last Airbender for the first time, seeing S1E6 where the Fire Nation kidnaps people from their homes and sends them to a forever prison overseas: Hm.

He said “no tag-backs”, so it’s fine.

Juneteenth is not a “black holiday.” Juneteenth is an AMERICAN holiday. It commemorates the day that America, slowly, began to right its most heinous wrong.

I love that in the new DK Bananza game, they gave DK a flight form via animal transformation, and I imagine the design meeting on that was like… Boss: Ok, so what if we make him a kind of flying bird…? Guy in the back: an ostrich …and they just all said “yes, perfect” and actually went with it.