Chad Koch

I’ll be honest, I did not expect these photos to make me as viscerally angry as they do

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Not enough of you are considering the fun of donating for spite.

Sooners, Buffs, Penn State fans hoping for Matt Rhule... Team One Four would love to welcome you to the squad.

Badgers, PJ Fleck capri pant haters... Team Jack is a fantastic org doing great work for kids.

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I'm thinking more about this and I think industrial music keeps re-evolving from first principles because the conditions that produced it are everywhere

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows "exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation," with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty." Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down." The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote. Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

Pope Leo is spitting.

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If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump.

All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing

The Peloponnesian War is not the worst analog for the last like, 75 years of American history...

If you don't have Calvin Johnson, you shouldn't have the goal line fade in the playbook.

If your name rhymes with Trim Grillin’ 👆

I mean, also it shouldn’t need to be said that concentration camps are unalloyed evil, but I’m trying to emphasize the parts you, as a terrible human being, would ostensibly care about.

To any money obsessed hog farmers moonlighting as governors entertaining the notion of building an ill conceived, immoral prison camp, all while their state finances are already in shambles, I would direct your gaze to the below.

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

I’m old enough to remember when the right wing howled about the slightest whiff of communism, but I guess this is just Sparkling State Ownership of the Means of Production

Have your computer literally scream at you when you tried to get online probably helped with this, too

You're living through a major technological revolution right now and it has nothing to do with AI.

The United States is in danger of missing it and getting left behind because our corrupt President wants us to be buyers-of-last-resort for fossil fuels owned by his paymasters in KSA and Russia.

It’s a broad tent these days. Saw them in Denver a few nights ago, phenomenal show!

Nine Inch Nails performing “Copy of A” at Ball Arena Denver, CO

AHHHH IT WAS SO GOOD #NIN #Denver

21B = NEH funded for more than a century.

But cool. They blew through it in six months. The only efficiency DOGE showed was its cruelty and spendthriftiness.

I mean this as sincerely as possible when I say this administration is stuffed top to bottom with some of the dumbest chucklefucks in history.

The shame of Lincoln, NE

LOL, absolutely wild.

Hilarious getting fact checked by the cited author but anyone who has glanced at ancient demography could tell the data there is hallucinated BS - the evidence simply does not exist to estimate those figures.

Grok just parroting white nationalist propaganda because of course.

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

The best part about a Colbert presidency is that he would absolutely revoke all contracts to Anduril, Palantir, etc purely out of disgust at their misappropriation of Tolkien.

Most people usually remember that hot stove is hot, and then some simply yearn for the burn.

The Supreme Court, every few months:
“In order to save the Constitution, it became necessary to destroy the Constitution”

If you ban Calvin and Hobbes you’re a straight up fascist son of a bitch and that’s that

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.