Russ!

Agapé is a part of the celebration

Don’t forget, Red October was about an expensive thing that sunk

17 straight retired for Jesús Luzardo

GET.
THIS.
MAN.
SOME.
RUNS.

Does anyone know more about how they use AI or what they use it for? I'd love to be healthier and more physically flexible, but I'm not sure that's worth the potential costs of using AI for it, you know? (3/3)

Specifically, concerns around fair use of the training data, and the environmental costs of the electricity use for data centers to run the things.
Sword claims that "Humans are always in the loop to ensure equity, responsibility, and safety," but that's just vague marketing-speak. (2/3)

My insurance coverage includes a thing called #SwordHealth.

It bills itself as "AI-driven physical therapy."
I've used it for a couple of sessions now, and it's, like, not terrible, but I have a whole bunch of ethical and/or environmental concerns about AI. (1/3)

It kind of conflicts with my whole "dont be an asshole" thing.

"Ivy is such a cute name for a dog! But your child is old enough that they shouldn't be mispronouncing V sounds anymore."
"Yeah... That's because he's not named Ivy. There was this thing on bluesky and.... No! Ibuprofen! Down!

Oh my god they’re gonna win on the dumbest possible thing

So, I presume we can opt out of curriculum that teaches our children that genocidal, slave-owning, rapists were “heroes”?

Impeachment when, Congressman?

Because fuck these animals, this is my goddamn country of misfits, miscreants, migrants and dreamers, and some chinless MAGA puke doesn't get a say in that fact.

I’m a Christian and a pastor and while I would never want to sugarcoat the realities of death, I would never act to hasten anyone’s death, or treat their death flippantly. And that’s just treating one another with dignity.

Things I love: Vacation Bible School.
Things I don't love: registering my children for Vacation Bible School.

Can non-Episcopalians chime in? If so, my Lutheran sensibilities resonate most with Prayer B. I'd swap the Words of Institution for the ones I know by heart, but if my ELW Prayer I isn't an option, I could quite happily use TEC Prayer B for the rest of my time celebrating Holy Communion.

Oh no

crazy to me a whole generation of dudes heard pete rose lie about betting on baseball, then lie about not betting on the reds as a manager, then lie about not betting as a player, then finally heard him lie about the girls he preyed on, dusted off their hands, and went "well that's that i suppose"

I dunno; if the raccoon had a second pipe for when the first one got confiscated, I'm pretty sure he was more than fully baked, y'know?

Angry/Annoyed Pingu Sitting in Chair meme (Pingu is a claymation penguin)

Me waiting for the people ahead of me to finish reading a book I have on HOLD so I can finally read it

Pierbattista Pizzaballa 🤝 Lars Nootbaar

Cardinals who you initially only notice because of their hilarious names, but then you look into it and realize they're actually pretty good

The US would be better off being allies with Canada than with El Salvador.

Canada has a bigger economy, a stronger military, more land—including Arctic access—a long border with the US, good values, and a history of mutually beneficial cooperation.

Sorry to get so partisan, but that's how I feel.

Since so many organizations are dancing around it, I wanted to say it directly.

Today, we celebrate Jackie Robinson because he broke a decades long color barrier. Thanks to his perseverance, and talent on the field, the door was opened for POC to play in MLB. 👏

Nearly always good advice.

If you're going to say it, it should mean something.

No news organization should ever use the words "third term" without the word "unconstitutional" preceding it

Definitely just had to look up the date of my ordination for my reports to the bishop. Which I did by checking the metadata on the photos on my Google drive.

At least I remember my wedding anniversary date...

Go birds!

We can only share 4 pics at a time on here so PLEASE, please, check our Instagram for a post about *probably* the weirdest thing we've found in our archives www.instagram.com/p/DGBXd8DOLp... Happy #Valentines!

Roughly according to the liturgical season, because we change musical settings and other prayers roughly-seasonally, too. Feels long enough to have a sense of continuity and for the words to soak in with people, but not so long that it becomes The Way We've Always Done It And Can Never Do Otherwise.