For all y'all getting in the Advent spirit, my parish's choir just released an album of carols, featuring some interstitial music composed by our extremely talented music director. Check it out! ⚓ open.spotify.com/album/4QmDSq...

It looks like voters are angry with Republicans. They will consider voting for Democrats or won't vote. It would be a shame not to nominate a Democrat for every open position. The Democratic Party has the power to reduce qualification fees for first time candidates. Do it and fundraise on it.

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1. DNS lookups for both URLs to see if they resolve to the same IP 2. If either DNS lookup fails, do a case-insensitive textual comparison of the URLs 3. If that fails, check if they're both null 4. If that fails, then they're not equal.

oddly specific

Does anyone know a doctor anywhere in North America who could assess someone with severe GI damage from multiple infections, worsened by Rituximab/prolonged oral prednisone, malnutrition (including severe Thiamine deficiency), and autoimmune neuropathy?

I love being in trans-inclusive spaces even as a regrettably cis person

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

On this #NationalComingOutDay: we’re glad we can say that there is a place in the Episcopal Church for us to be our whole selves, wondrously made as we are. For history, connection, and resources, this page is a good place to start: www.episcopalchurch.org/organization... ⚓️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Anyway, my only actual comment on Charlie Kirk's death is the same as my comment on today's school mass shooting is the same as my comment on the assassination of Melissa Hortman and her husband is the same as my comment on-- m.youtube.com/watch?v=CG4Y...

EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS infuriating, deplorable account of what one trans woman in the U.K. has gone through as a result of the country's shifting laws (particularly as they have moved toward explicit hatred this year). Just read it. My God.

My kid, whose cégep campus (Vanier) abuts that of a Francophone cégep, St.-Laurent: "You can tell where the border is between the two, because the flyers advocating communist revolution switch from French to English."

what I tell you three times is true

AI is really good at faking empathy and since that’s often a part of therapy, people might think it’s working. But if it tells you what you want to hear, it enforces a false reality and can make you literally psychotic. A good tip is if a therapist (AI or human) never challenges you, get a new one.

if your balance sheet does not dictate that you hold an entire Omelas child in reserve, you may elect to hold tokenized fractional Omelas children instead

You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.

People of the PNW: it is time to take stock of your spider ranch. Is yours fruitful and fulfilling, like mine? Or does it need further tending, like appropriate sized insects, or some light misting?

We can't let Foone down. We would regret it.

official DHS account posting fourteen word long tweets with the H's randomly capitalized groyper occupied government

What a good way of putting this. I feel similarly about The Sparrow. All that violence I will never be able to un-imagine.

Yes! Not only are they not recognizably Christian, they're claiming the demonym for themselves alone, and insisting none of the rest of us are real Christians. And a lot of regular people believe them.

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

As an Episcopalian whose church is suing this administration, I do not feel protected one bit by the Trump gang. Everything they have done from cutting funds for food & health care to kidnapping my neighbors and sending them to prison camps and gulags, is the opposite of our teachings. ⚓️

If you’re going to be at the Worldcon in person, right now is a good time to get a COVID booster because four weeks from now will be your peak immunity. (We just got ours.)

the 80/20 rule says that the last 20% of a project usually takes about 80 years to get done

After a falling tree branch paralyzed him, Google software engineer Sasha Blair-Goldensohn began helping people with disabilities navigate their cities and neighborhoods.

my “swarm of earthquakes not a cause for concern” tee is raising a lot of questions

like 90 percent of NYT coverage is the best journalism in the country. the other 10 percent is a Nazi substack that is also the front page

This used to be more acceptable when anyone could view a tweet. Now that X is behind a registration wall, there’s no excuse for using it to disseminate public information. Even Facebook is a better alternative. Ideally they should, you know, spin up a website.

It really does look this spectacular today. I turned south onto Rainier Avenue in Seattle this afternoon and my breath caught. I wish I knew if they named the road for the view, or planned the road for the view.

OMG JKRowling is going to drive people to assault girls with short hair in bathrooms. You cannot actually tell gender from hair/makeup/dress and honestly if a drag queen is in your restroom you don't have a threat, you have 100 beauty emergency solutions.

another reason i think we're witnessing a religious left revival is our enemy is in fact evil and people find purpose in the belief of fighting in an army of the lord. and they may in fact be fighting in an army of the lord!

ok Episcopalians I know we're terrified of evangelism, but people don't even know who we are. My 18yo just informed their gay Catholic friend that we ordain women and gay and trans people, and the kid was blown away. Why don't we at least have, like, polite ads with clergy in rainbow stoles? ⚓️

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

Good news for NYC but also for proponents of ranked choice voting. I try not to have too many opinions on other people's elections, but I'm very glad to see New Yorkers get solid proof that RCV doesn't automatically get you an Eric Adams.

yeah -- ground beef hit an all-time high last week, and nobody appears to be reporting on that www.bls.gov/charts/consu...

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Ex: I once confidently said on the Other Site that in Plessy the Court was simply bowing to public sentiment: the white majority simply wouldn’t abide desegregation. Wrong. It followed and built on a series of decisions that overturned democratically enacted civil rights laws.

If you have a Dem senator, do not assume they will challenge the all-ages trans healthcare funding ban in the budget bill. Call them *today*. I’m squeezing my calls in between meetings. Cis folks doing “We support trans kids,” please please be on this.

This is the most impressive ratio I've ever seen. Not a single like or non-quote repost six hours in. Excellent discipline bluesky, keep it up

Normal Greeks: “emergency exit procedure.” Me, a late antique Hellenist: “liturgy of the exodus of danger.”

When Teddy Roosevelt was called disloyal for criticizing Wilson’s conduct of WWI, he said “to announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

spoken like a diehard White Sox fan

It is so outrageously ableist to say we should ban masks & stop people from protecting their health & the health of those around you. COVID is still spreading. People are still dying from COVID. Millions of people are struggling with #LongCOVID. And COVID is just one of many reasons to mask

So what happened was: someone drew a gun intending to fire on the crowd, some "good guys with guns" preemptively shot at him and accidentally killed someone else. The "shooter" may not have even fired his gun. In other words: The problem is guns. Guns, and people who think guns are the answer.

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

ok I had to do it, tag urselves