Spencer Pennington

Diwali Mubarak! 🪔

@aboutelizabethmaxwell.com Happy birthday!!! 🙂

If, in fact, a ceasefire can be reached where this genocide in Gaza is ended and the remaining hostages can be freed from Hamas captivity, then I am in favor of it.

@rialisms.bsky.social Happy birthday!!!

As of this week, in addition to being a doctoral candidate, I’m officially a Teaching Fellow with the UCLA Department of History!

I’m teaching a course on the history of religion in modern South Asia for the duration of the 2025-26 academic year!

Give thanks!

As horrid as I found Charlie Kirk’s views to be, I won’t celebrate his assassination. No one deserves to die that way, and my heart does break for his wife and children, who must now grow up without their father. I wouldn’t wish any of this on my worst enemy.

I will say a prayer for his family.

I never realized that, while pursuing my Ph.D, I would spend so much time trying to improve my high score on Tetris.

Happy birthday, Dad! Nothing gives me more pride than being able to call myself your son! Thank you for planting the seeds of my passions so many years ago.

It’s my honor to celebrate you — today and every day!

I love you, Dad! Here’s to 67 years!

❤️🐻🦁

#Dad #HappyBirthday #HappyBirthdayDad

Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers Doctors and medical researchers expect more outbreaks of infectious disease as the Trump administration crams thousands more people into miserable conditions.

Unsurprising but horrifying. Wherever there are people forced into crowded living conditions, there will be tuberculosis. Wherever people are dehumanized, there will be tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-...

Donate to Support Mike McFarland's Road to Recovery, organized by Brandon McInnis As some of you may know, earlier this week Mike McFarland, the English voice… Brandon McInnis needs your support for Support Mike McFarland's Road to Recovery

Please, if you can, donate to help the great Mike McFarland, spread the word!

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It’s been eleven years, Mom, and I still miss you just as much.

I love you. ❤️

@celticqueenmeg.bsky.social Happy birthday!!! 🙂

August 9th always has me thinking of my first home away from home — the Japanese city of #Nagasaki.

80 years ago, an unimaginable horror was unleashed on that city. Atomic weapons should never have been developed, much less used.

God preserve the memory of those who perished on that day. ❤️

YouTube video by Charalanahzard The Censorship "Hit Squad" attacking Video Games.

Here’s my feature on Collective Shout, and their attempts to take down Steam and itch.io. I found a conversation where they spoke about exactly how they did it, and detailed their plans going forward, which sounds… very unrelenting.

youtu.be/rKD4fYc8xV4

YouTube video by Meg Sullivan The Adventures of Elliot IMPRESSED me!!!

Zelda meets Chrono Trigger!? Here's why you need to try the demo for The Adventures of Elliot: Millennium Tales RIGHT NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9ck...

You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!

Stephen Colbert Echoes ‘South Park’ With ‘Widdle Pwince Vance’ Impression Colbert trashed Vance’s alleged tampering with an Ohio river’s water levels.

Stephen Colbert debuted a new imitation of JD Vance as a spoiled child just as South Park portrayed the vice president as Trump’s tiny sidekick.

I don’t have kids yet, but I think I can safely say that I’m officially becoming a suburban dad: I’m wearing shorts and a button down while sitting in a recliner and watching football.

Go Seahawks!

#Seahwaks #Raiders #SeahawksRaiders #12thMan #Football #ThursdayNightFootball #Seattle

I’m happy to announce that, over the course of the coming academic year, I’ll be teaching a course that I designed from scratch!

It’s called: “Great Awakenings in Modern South Asia: Missionary Zeal, Imperial Networks, and New Religious Movements in British India, c. 1850-1925.”

Give thanks! ❤️

Having once lived in a city which was struck with an atomic bomb, I’m of the view that no country on earth should have nuclear weapons. Ever.

SHUT. IT. DOWN.

A senator was dragged out of a press conference for standing up for his constituents and against fascism.

Watch how your representatives and senators respond to their own colleague being treated like this. That'll show you how they'll react when it's *you* on the ground.

On this day in 632 C.E., the Prophet Muhammad died in the city of Medina, likely of a fever.

His friend, Abu Bakr, addressed mourners gathered outside the Prophet's home, saying:

"If any of you worship Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. If any of you worship God, know that God lives forever."

YouTube video by Davidvinc RPGs NEW RPG NEWS - Lost Square RPG is Back! Lunar! Dragon Quest Surprise!

NEW RPG NEWS - Lost Square RPG is Back! Lunar! Dragon Quest Surprise!
youtu.be/IhaFhpZ9GDw

sidewalk A-frame chalkboard: "TAKE WHAT YOU NEED / WE'VE GOT / FOOD WATER / CLOTHES BOOKS / TOILETRIES / DIAPERS PADS / NARCAN + MORE / everyone welcome / donations accepted / KAT ABUGHAZALEH FOR CONGRESS / katforillinois.com"

Our favorite carpetbagger, @KatAbughazaleh, has now resorted to handing out free food, water, clothes, and other items with “Kat Abughazaleh for Congress” on the same sign. This is very likely illegal because it looks like the campaign is using gifts to win votes. If they truly want to help people without breaking the law, they must remove any campaign branding from the giveaway, run it through a separate charity or volunteer group, make it clear that no one has to vote for Kat to receive help.

🤫 she will say you’re attacking her because she’s a woman. Leftists do this a lot, border line break the rules but there isn’t a soul in this area who will challenge it happening. Remember when the left called for an ethics investigation after Trump gave a woman a $100?

basic kindness is so foreign to the far-right that they think it must be illegal

YouTube video by Meg Sullivan Clair Obscur: Is It Overhyped? (Honest Review)

Is Clair Obscur overhyped? My honest review of the game here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoui...

YouTube video by Davidvinc RPGs 10 JRPGs That Hit Harder As an Adult

Good morning! I've been playing JRPGs since the 1980s, and if you've grown up with the genre like I have then you'll know that your perspectives change as you grow older - so here are 10 Mature, Adult JRPGs that really hit hard! youtu.be/mclRzwHlib8

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

Happy Easter, folks!

God bless each and every one of you! ❤️