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“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”

Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.

Dear, Bewildered, and Awkward Pierre (As played by Josh Groban in 'Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812')

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Alt text: Screenshot from a White House webpage. The text states that the National Portrait Gallery was set to feature a “painting depicting a transgender Statue of Liberty” before the artist withdrew it. Below, the artwork shows a dark-skinned figure with bright pink hair, wearing a blue gown with a thigh-high slit, holding a torch made of orange flowers against a pink background.

The Smithsonian tried to avoid being targeted by the Trump administration by not exhibiting a portrait of a Black trans statue of liberty. They are being targeted for it anyways.

Capitulation never works.

Alt text: Screenshot of a White House webpage. The first bullet point describes the American History Museum’s “LGBTQ+ History” exhibit, which aims to understand evolving and overlapping identities including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, transsexual, transvestite, mahu, homosexual, fluid, invert, urnring, third sex, two sex, gender-bender, sapphist, hijra, friend of Dorothy, drag queen/king, and more. It also includes articles on “LGBTQ+ inclusion and skateboarding” and “the rise of drag ball culture in the 1920s.” The second bullet point highlights the National Museum of the American Latino’s programming featuring “animated Latinos and Latinas with disabilities.” It includes content from “a disabled, plus-sized actress” and an “ambulatory wheelchair user” who educates on being Latinx, LGBTQ+, and disabled.

The White House listed an exhibit on LGBTQ history at the Smithsonian as objectionable and something to be removed.

I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law

THE INVENTOR OF SADNESS: what if I told you that you could have something that was weightless, yet so very heavy

damn baby are you chick-fil-a bc you taste delicious but ur extremely problematic

TIRED: omg, the concept art for this park is literally California Adventure!

WIRED: This park's financing comes from a 92-year old GOP millionaire Pizza Hut franchisee who says he was defrauded by the park's developers who emailed him daily, as God, from a gmail address, coercing him to investment.

A clam sits beside the sea, clothing discarded in the sand behind it.

A soapstone carving showing a woman emerging from a clam shell.

In #JapaneseFolklore hamaguri nyobo (clam wife) is a #yokai that takes the form of a human woman so she can marry a human man. This often occurs after a fisherman throws a clam back into the sea. His act of kindness is repaid when the clam transforms into a woman in order to...
#MythologyMonday
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Silt Strider from morrowind. A large insect-like creature standing near a river with a ramp leading to it from a nearby hill. A humanoid figure stands on the ramp

hopping on one of these outside the club fucked up as hell

The phases of the moon shown as broken shells, with the full moon being represented as a hermit crab's newfound home. Below is an ornamental illustration of a pair of otter mermaids wearing crowns inspired from the silla kingdom, an open oyster shell held between the two otter. Golden fish and stars surround them. A small illustration of gratitude for my own health recovery.....!!

This Too Shall Pass.

REOWW

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yess

is that a new sona 👁️

A protestor holding up a sign that reads "The only boots worth licking are worn by goth girls"

A sign sighted at a Rhode Island #nokings rally.
I definitely can get behind this.

Aww! I've never seen this.

Brian Wilson has died. I painted him as the moon once

From what I've seen, this may mean no more parades going forward.

I'm absolutely convinced what makes Shakespeare inaccessible to a lot of audiences isn't the iambic pentameter old english it's the fact most plays are rehearsed as spoken verses and not acted with meaning

because when actors actually act out what they're saying it is So Clear

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

Going through something hard doesn’t always make you tougher, and that’s okay. You’re allowed to be soft.

Smokers are half as likely to live to 80 as nonsmokers.

Which appears in the data, if you don't think too hard, as if somehow smoking prevents age-related illnesses.

Which it does, by killing you before that age.

Average age of onset with Parkinson's is 60, Alzheimer's is 65.

Smokers have a 3x higher risk of dying before that age than nonsmokers.

No need to imagine neuroprotective effects, you just die before you have a chance to get em.

There's an interesting thing noted with cigarettes: smokers are less likely to develop both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

For a long time people wondered how smoking protects from these diseases. Does nicotine reduce the risk? Etc

Turns out, smokers just die before getting old enough.

simply delish