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Bluesky Spaces when

y’all this goes so hard

It was so bad back then you could barely use the platform

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

I spent today working 1:1 with a third grader in the Structured Learning classroom (think one step above full special ed class) which was fun but very tiring. He likes to do headstands which are not allowed so it was a lot of "Okay, we are going to put our feet on the ground now" all day lol

"most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense"

is basically the entirety of the present situation on every front

Off topic but I cannot imagine being a Bishop and typing in a sans-serif font

MAGA is a wholesale rejection of the Enlightenment including stuff so basic that we don't even think of it being part of the Enlightenment project--like being polite to people and making social interactions smooth and pleasant.

Yes

Insane take

The NY Times continues to be the biggest sucker in the world for bad faith bullshit, just so the publisher can claim they're not too liberal and to pretend they'll somehow convince MAGA they're being fair to them.

David Greene on LRC one time was so credulous to a stupid conservative gripe about his reporting that I just tuned out and gave up on the show

The Bridge at Trinquetaille - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14443

just an incredibly impressive human being in so many ways

Senior Pastor of First Presbyterian in Chicago, in clerical, praying.

Shot in the head with a pepper ball by laughing federal agents.

a fascist president, a corrupt president, a vindictive president, a senile president we might endure — but a pelagian president?

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Literally could not care less about the CEO drama on this site

IANAT but this seems like an underexplored avenue

Real talk why don’t thieves use tasers on people to stun them and steal their stuff

I am aware that this view represents a kind of violence against Jewish identity and self determination

Unrelated to the suspension and just on the content here, I was raised a Christian Zionist and never heard anyone say this. The teaching was that Jews would just effortlessly convert when Christ returns. Maybe someone has said this though?

On the level of pure textualist interpretation though, there is no way to positively construct the comp position from the statement “there is neither male nor female for all are one in Christ Jesus”

The basic argument is that the verse somehow only refers to membership in the church and not roles within it. They also note other NT texts (1 Tim 2, 1 Cor 14, etc) that are sexist and contradict the egalitarian reading here. Which is true, the NT has many views on race, gender, and slavery

Is there any interpretation of Scripture more absurd than the complementarian reading of Galatians 3:28

It also sounded bizarre, like an emulated chorus or something with tons of vibrato and a very cold timbre. It was hilarious but not what I planned for the communion hymn

Yesterday while we sang in choir the church’s organ apparently had a leaking pipe whistling out air. And it happened to be whistling at just the right pitch (perhaps a tritone) to make the song sound just demonic. I almost laughed out loud

She’s a Resistance Lib Wine Mom to be clear

And that’s why the bullet missed, if he hadn’t moved his head one second before it would have killed him. She said the assassins are just that precise. I said hmmm okay anyways

Teenager agree to get his head blown off in this scenario and she said he was a plant. I said why would Trump agree to almost get shot, like an archer shooting an apple off his head, and she said Trump is just that cunning. I said okay but if you look at the reconstruction, he jerked his head around