Dean Dettloff

My cat, begging for an unprecedented double dinner

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"It is ... clear that the international community is, unfortunately, powerless and that the countries truly capable of exerting influence have so far failed to act to stop the ongoing massacre," Parolin told the Vatican's media outlet.

Reflection for Cristianisme i Justícia - Blog CJ My name is Mays Nassar, a Palestinian Christian woman from the town of Bethlehem, in Palestine. I write to you as a witness from a land valued for its holiness, yet burdened with immense sorrow, pain,...

"It is one thing to live under an unlawful occupation, overwhelmed with fear, frustration, and anxiety, but it is another, deeper wound to know that much of the world, and many of our fellow Christians, are allowing this to happen."

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Finally got around to finishing this. Surprisingly for Fitzpatrick I found the Stalin material the least interesting and thought she could have done more on the revolution and Lenin, but the Brezhnev, Gorbachev, and Putin chapters were all good reads.

An interesting note where Felix Guattari compares Donald Trump as real estate mogul to algae (from The Three Ecologies, originally published in 1989).

I mean I think reporting on the leadership of the World Evangelical Alliance earns the use of the term.

Or at least, it's about tracing the influence of Middle Eastern evangelicals on the global evangelical movement, which seems pretty relevant right now specifically.

But it's not about US evangelical Christianity per se, it's about evangelicalism in the Middle East. Kuttab is a longtime Palestinian Christian journalist who knows his region well. Reducing "evangelicalism" to its US expressions is unhelpful, unless I'm misunderstanding you here.

Lately I've been doing sequence edits of pelicans diving, but for the marine life feed hitting 2k likes, how about a NEARLY FULL BODY HUMPBACK BREACH sequence? 🦑

Absolutely but Italy also has like three times the union density, which is to say if you want to build a movement that no government can ignore you should lean into building the labor movement.

The Canadian government wants you to think postal workers and services are a waste of money and therefore tons of good jobs and access to mail ought to get the axe but the murder industry is a good investment for all Canadians. It's an insult to public intelligence.

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I'm unfortunately sick but if I *wasn't* sick I would definitely go to this fun spooky event in Toronto this weekend.

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You know the thing about evolution is that it can also end up causing an organism to be so specifically adapted to a particular set of conditions that it eventually goes extinct.

Happy birthday to my favorite agnostic Catholic, novelist Graham Greene, born in 1904.

He wrote: “You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”

To be fair, so does Augustine! (Albeit not so enthusiastically.)

There's an essay to be written about how this is actually an inter-Augustinian conflict.

Yes I hear you, but the trouble is that all too often it's virtue paying tribute to vice. A constant given of violence as an open secret might indeed be preferable to a constant given of honest and therefore more widely ruthless violence, but I do think we need to reject the given of violence.

Begs the question though given that the US military is really not famous around the world for respecting Rules of Engagement. Whatever value they might have for diplomacy or legal rights, and they might have that, functionally they also make it possible to do a lot of evil with a thin cynical veneer

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

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True, that's the good kind

Cardinal McElroy at Mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “We are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our nation…this assault is intended to make life miserable for undocumented migrants…our government is engaged in a comprehensive campaign of fear at its core.”

I'm imagining it, and I don't like it.

They're not book smart though.

You might not like my skeets but I'm actually carefully crafting a big textual footprint on the internet that ensures if you try to bring me back to life via AI I'm even more annoying than I was in real life when I was alive.

Embarrassing tbh

Even setting aside ethics (but, yknow, THAT) - I just don’t want AI bullshit. I don’t want an AI pop star, movie, book, video game.

Art is a conversation. Why would I stare at a dictionary run through the washing machine when I could read a poem lovingly constructed by someone’s hands?