Shane Liesegang, SJ

tweet from childish branzino @absflora: timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

I am increasingly grateful that somehow my social feeds have only ever been Catholic-adjacent, because every time I get a glimpse of the mainline stuff there it is WILD (derogatory)

Long after this cruelty is over, we will remember those who welcomed it with open arms.

History will judge them in the same breath as those who tacitly approved of the leaders who encouraged the worst in humanity through history.

An Instagram text conversation, one with a picture of Miguel Pro’s tomb and the person saying “Prayed for you” and a response with praying hands and “¡Viva Cristo Rey!”

modern life is my Korean friend sending me prayers from the tomb of a Jesuit in Mexico (Blessed [not yet Saint] Miguel Pro) while I am miles above the eastern seaboard

(my response is Pro’s final words of defiance to the firing squad executing him for violating the anti-Catholic laws of the time)

Today, with Bishop Seitz and members of the immigrant community, Hope Border met Pope Leo and gave him messages and a video from those fearing Trump’s mass deportations. ‘The church cannot stay silent before injustice. You stand with me. And I stand with you’, the pope said.

A movie selection for in-flight entertainment featuring, among other things “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”

Putting a Mr. Rogers movie on a plane selection should be illegal — I made did this once and my poor seatmate had to deal with me bawling

Thankfully for today’s seatmate I have learned that lesson

"The radical left controls the Democrat party"

Brother, I *wish*

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

To the Participants in the 115th Annual Meeting of the Catholic Charities USA Network I was pleased to learn of the 115th Annual Meeting of the Catholic Charities USA Network taking place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and I offer cordial greetings and good wishes to all those participating. You are gathered together as the Church celebrates the Jubilee Year focused on the virtue of hope, which my venerable predecessor defined as "the desire and expectation of good things to come, despite our not knowing what the future may bring" (Bull of Indiction of the Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025, 1). Through your 168 diocesan Catholic Charities agencies, you become "agents of hope" for the millions of people who approach the Church in the United States of America seeking compassion and care. Many of those whom you serve are among the most vulnerable, including migrants and refugees. As they are not able to rely on their own resources and have to depend on God and the goodness of others, in many ways your ministry makes the Lord's providence concrete for them. Through providing food, shelter, medical care, legal assistance, and many other gestures of kindness, Catholic Charities affiliates across the United States show what Pope Francis often referred to as God's "style" of closeness, compassion, and tenderness. While those affected by poverty and forced migration face difficult challenges, let us not forget that they can also be witnesses to hope not only through their trust in divine assistance, but also by their resilience in often...

having to overcome many obstacles on their journeys. In a special way, Catholic migrants and refugees have become missionaries of hope in many nations, including your own, by bringing with them a vibrant faith and the popular devotions that often re-energize the parishes who welcome them (cf. Message for the 11]th World Day of Migrants and Refugees). It might be said that through assisting displaced persons to find their new homes in your country, you also act as bridge builders between nations, cultures and peoples. I encourage you, then, to continue helping the communities who receive these newly arrived brothers and sisters to be living witnesses of hope, recognizing that they have an intrinsic human dignity and are invited to participate fully in community life (cf. ibid.). Dear friends, I express my heartfelt gratitude for all that you and those who work with your networks do each day to put into practice the Lord's admonition to see and serve him in the poor, hungry, homeless, and people in any kind of need (cf. Mt 25:31-46). May Christ continue to accompany you and give you his joy and peace. With these sentiments, I entrust the Annual Meeting to the intercession of Mary, Mother of the Church, and I willingly impart my Apostolic Blessing to all in the Catholic Charities USA Network as a pledge of abundant heavenly graces. From the Vatican, 4 October 2025 Leo PP XIV

Pope Leo: Migrants in America are "living witnesses of hope" who "have an intrinsic human dignity and are invited to participate fully in community life"

yup and yup but damn would it have been a fascinating mess

Also recognizing that debate-club "technically correct" is not useful for the discourse in these times.

I deleted because I misread — I missed that they directly cited 1.1.1, which does make that a shorter leap, admittedly.

USAID cost about one penny of each tax dollar, and was the best thing the American people did, by far. I pray for the lives lost and worsened by our callousness. I pray for the hearts of those who enacted this with such glee and abandon.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

more game-like simulations that don't feel the pressure to be "fun" plz

Microlandia by explodi, importerexporter Brutally honest city builder

(from here)

💀 If citizens get sick and there's no hospital capacity, they die. 💼 When they can't drive to work because there's no road or excessive traffic, they get fired. 📉 When companies don’t make ends meet, they go bankrupt, and everyone is fired. 🤑 When the supply of housing is scarce, landlords get greedy and increase rents. 👩‍❤️‍👩 Citizens fall in and out of love and can have children. 🚧 Roads cost thousands of dollars per kilometer, and it's a huge investment for the city. 💸 On the other hand, a housing building will be paid for by the private sector, and it’s virtually "free". 🥷 When citizens have no job for some time, they consider a career in the criminal underworld. 📈 Simulation mechanics are carefully modeled after publications like World Bank Open Data, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Equity Atlas, and others. You can check a detailed list of parameters used in the simulation here. The objective is to build a good enough simulation so it can provide real insight into the social, economic, and environmental challenges of modern life. It still aims to be a fun game, but unlike other city builders, it doesn’t have the constraints of needing to be a simplistic product.

meme from The Onion where a creepy guy wearing a shirt that says "SICKOS" peers through a window saying "YES... HA HA HA... YES!"

will this game be "fun"?

probably not

do I love that it exists, even in rudimentary work-in-progress form?

HECK YEAH

two astronauts looking at earth with one saying "so AI is just an amorphous label that gets applied to whatever new CS stuff is happening?" and the other, behind him holding a gun, says "always has been"

that said,

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI

I haven't done Arduino stuff in forever but this still makes me sad

A shot of the Faber Jesuit Community in Boston, with four people waving to the camera

set up a timelapse camera out my window to record the tree changing colors (because it RULES) and made the mistake of telling the other Jesuits the capture schedule. 😅

(one said he’s got “plans” for Halloween! 🎃🙀)

screenshot from Everything Everywhere All At Once - he is saying "When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I've learned to survive through everything."

your daily reminder that hope is a floatation device- grab it with both hands 🖤

YouTube video by ABC News Marshawn Lynch's Bizarre Super Bowl Interview: 'I'm Just Here So I Won't Get Fined'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmAB...

Another semester where I am obliged to make a discussion post every week, another regular temptation to post the Marshawn Lynch “I’m just here so I won’t get fined” video.

I'm a total OED-ite when it comes to dictionary fandoms, but I respect the Merriam-Webster social media game so much

Yeah, I think a lot of people came to it expecting it to be something it wasn't trying to be. I went in expecting a Bethesda game in space and, hey, I love Bethesda games! And I love space! So that was super cool!

I think it shows in your artistic sensibilities. 🥰

I liked it! :D