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we live in a sick society that thinks preventing problems is a waste of time and effort and hey, guess why everything sucks now

A quote and an attribution with the link 🙂 (Should I use Icarus or Avel-Guénin--Carlut?)

Illness, trauma, and cruelty Before you engage with this essay, dear reader, please heed my warning. I have made my best attempt to show how cruelty breaks people, and how it’s embedded in the deepest of our cultural structure. I...

Just published a new Kairos article, in a different style than the usual: kairos-research.org/illness-trau...

It describes my own experience with ME/CFS (a severe chronic illness) and tries to explain the strangely cruel behavior that people often display in response to visible illness.

Every once in a while you come across a piece of writing that feels like it synthesizes every frustrated but important thought you've ever had but could never clearly express.

Thank you, Internet stranger 🙏 This one's going in my email signature.

post-digital baybaaaaayy
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

two fingers on the same pulse :)

ahem 😌

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not the Jerry woes 😞

Quantum Physicists: we regret to inform you there are now infinite Super Downs

Honestly, thank you for the clarification. (It's tough to fit nuance into 300 characters and I hoped you'd elaborate further down.) It all comes down to timing, but "blue no matter who" absolutely has been used as bait.

Pray this skeet is not the unholy torch that corrupts the sauce (whose name we daren't speak).

today I found out I am 87.5% woman

seconded

You say it's just a game but you're cryin' all the time.

On X, formerly Twitter, Graham Allen @GrahamAllen shares a photo of Pete Hegseth in the passenger seat of a fighter jet: THIS IS INSANE!!! The Department of War just dropped this INSANE VIDEO of Secretary Hegseth in a FIGHTER JET!! AMERICA'S SECRETARY OF WAR 🔥🔥🔥

Patrick Cosmos on Bluesky: working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now" "I'm strong and want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve. "I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

please consider turning on bluesky's alt text reminder setting for the low-vision folks 🙏💛

Came here to do this. Beat me by seconds! 😅

Unless it's interactive fiction! (though I suppose that would be more often second person)

I recently discovered I've been saying Anania's name wrong (a-NAAN-ya) but I can't for the life of me remember what it's supposed to be or where I heard it said properly. Someone help?
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The descendants of illegal immigrants who built a nation on stolen land are complaining about illegal immigration.

You really can’t make this up.

"What happens if social media's data-gathering and profiling engine is turned not to selling merch or promoting political rhetoric, but to profiling enemies? Just this week, Trump issued an executive order designating 'Antifa' as a domestic terrorist organization (despite the fact that antifa is not an organization at all)," Karpf writes.

Caligula stabbing the sea

"It's the privileged who talk like this! We need to burn down the system for the oppressed!"

What do you think will happen to your disabled allies in the starvation and rubble of a civil war fought with cruise missiles and drones? You think their meds will still be available?

there's nobody out there going half-mast for robert redford i'll tell you that

A YouTube video called "Just put an egg in a tomato and you will be amazed! Breakfast recipe #5" has been screenshot-ed and shared multiple times, each with the video's title repeated in the post text.

Just put an egg in an egg in an egg in a tomato in a tomato in a tomato and you will be amazed

I've certainly ✍️ had ✍️ a cocktail. ✍️

If you’re doing any writing or posting about the phrase “transgender ideology” it should be to say one of the following things:
— it’s a meaningless dog whistle
— trans people had nothing to do with this shooting
— there’s no evidence shooter was trying to show support for trans people/trans rights

Honest, independent, fearless my whole ass

If violence is never the answer and we should be trying to win over centrists by "exposing the callousness" of people like Kirk, that should start with refusing to lionize them.

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You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.

"Given the crimes Epstein was convicted of, I steeled myself before scrolling. Somehow, my internet-addled imagination failed me. This book is a nightmare." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

And Muslim hatred is Muslim hatred no matter what word is used. I'm glad we agree.