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I thought it was fun that the statue that inspired Victor's 'angel of darkness' was of Michael, the first to rise up and defend heaven against God's rebellious creations. Often, we are programmed for evil, and therefore we fail to recognize it as such.

We are together, even if we can not see or hear each other. We are together in the dark.

And dawn is coming.

It effectively uses the three prequel films as an extended flashback, nestled after a crushing defeat where Luke learns about Vader and before he goes on to confront and reconcile with him.

I also seem to recall that the writer made Phantom optional, depending on how much one stans QuiGon Jinn.

I once read someone making a case for watching the first six Star Wars films thusly:

1) A New Hope
2) Empire Strikes Back
3) Phantom Menace
4) Attack of the Clones
5) Revenge of the Sith
6) Return of the Jedi

Gratitude is for beauty.

"Honey, I just read in Forbes that Musk is buying himself a yacht for Christmas."

I appreciate your clarification!

Menefee, Edwards head to runoff for Houston's vacant congressional seat The candidates are vying to succeed the late U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner.

According to Axios, the runoff is set for December 13th. I am unfamiliar with the process by which runoff dates are set, so I take this only as unconfirmed evidence.
www.axios.com/local/housto...

We did not win because of them, we won despite them. No bigger indicator than the same candidate for NYC mayor being beaten in the primary and then *again* as an independent in the general.

Seems like Mike Johnson should call the house back into session and start working on a compromise to end it. Clearly, there's no going forward without negotiation.

Your mother's work was and is important. But she was merely one soldier in a war for the human concept of truth.

As a former teacher, I can assure you there is a concerted investment in "alternative education," a tech-media-industrial complex, actively working at all times, in all places, to subvert the efforts of true educators and perpetuate a large, gullible population that is likely to enable itself.

Sing it with me now!

🎶Land doesn't vote!🎶

Call the house back in session.
Seat Grijalva.
Negotiate a budget.
Open the government.
Do your damn jobs.

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

I wish for no man's death. It is the easier, gentler path. I wish upon all mankind the arduous, painful path of healing. To recognize their misdeeds and understand their evil, to seek an impossible atonement, to live to regret their cruelty and pursue redemption. Perhaps I am even less wise for it.

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
-Gandalf the Grey

Worth noting;
Uganda looks like that because of considerable resource extraction by the British Empire for 70 years, during which time they pitched local groups against one another.

Today's billionaires operate in much the same way, and they are the ones who will decimate local economies.

They've actually (on at least one occasion) already done that, and he continued to feign absentmindedness on account of he's "pretty busy."

It’s time

To be born mortal and finite,
But with the capacity for limitless fantasy,
Is the central curse and ultimate blessing of being.

I am not an all-mutable shape changer,
But I can be a maker of masks.
I will fail to meet all that I would love,
But while I live, there will always be more to love.

I have been dwelling recently on the concept of safety; what it means, and how we feel, assess, and understand it. I hadn't appreciated how exceedingly central it is to the experience of living things.

It is the nexus point of information and emotion, the axis about which reliability and risk turn.

*a friend with whom I periodically exchange finds.*

I have quite a collection, since I have a friend who I periodically exchange finds with.

A meme wherein an unusually well-educated orc debates the challenges of deforesting Isengard with Saruman the White.

WTAF is wrong with these people? Apparently Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, thinks it’s funny to call teachers unions a trick and closing the Department of Education a treat. I’m not laughing.

By that logic, it's totally acceptable for my Spanish-speaking neighbors to desire that I speak Spanish. And of course, all this outrage is rendered perfectly irrelevant when you consider that multilingualism exists.

They do not think, or speak, or make any exertion. They do not scheme, or plan, or design.

Yet they uplift the world entire, simply by feeling, simply by growing, simply by breathing.

The greatest teacher is a tree.

This is the true height of introspective philosophy. The guy who made the Human Centipede was so close.

Those who merely understand Cow Tools are insects next to those who find Cow Tools hilarious.