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This is the low stakes petty drama I am here for.

Delightful thread.

Once you try spongy keys you can't go back.

You go because they want you to stay home. It matters:

I had the privilege this morning of leading a Eucharistic Procession from St. Eulalia Church in Maywood, IL to the ICE Detention Center in Broadview. We went to pray and have a few of us clergy and religious women bring Holy Communion and the love of the Christian community to the men and women detained there under inhumane conditions. Over 1,000 Catholics and other Christians marched in peaceful prayer and song, facilitated by the Maywood and Broadview Police Departments and the Illinois State Police. I cannot speak more highly of these public safety officers in providing us safe passage. Upon arrival, it was a different story. There were no ICE or Federal representatives there. When requesting to talk with a representative from Homeland Security and ICE, the State Police reached out on our behalf to make the request over the phone, After a brief wait, the answer came back very clearly: NO, YOU CANNOT BRING A HINT OF COMPASSION AND PRAYER INTO THIS PLACE! NO, YOU CANNOT OFFER ANY SOLACE TO THE MEN AND WOMEN FEARFUL AND SUFFERING INSIDE! NO, YOU CANNOT BRING JESUS, THE SON OF GOD. THE LOVE OF GOD. INTO THIS PLACE!

No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ. What we have been able to do for detainees for the past several years, which is written into Illinois law, was refused by this current Federal Government. "Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing." "Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing. Touch their hearts and transform them from stony hearts into fleshy, life-giving hearts." "Only through, with and in God will hearts be changed!" The battle for hearts and minds, compassion and mercy, continues... Please pray especially for the children, for the mothers and fathers who are being treated inhumanely. Please step up and speak out. Silence is supporting this abuse of these members of God's family. Peace! Fr. Larry Dowling

photo of a large crowd with protest signs and journalists crowded around a fancy gold tent where you can see a priest, several deacons and at least one nun gathered around. I think the tent is over the monstrance though I can’t see it

goddammit I JUST noticed that the original post didn’t have alt text and now it’s gonna be buried in the thread I’M SO SORRY BESTIES HERE U GO

FULL CONTEXT IS IMPORTANT

This is exactly my reaction. I might not believe anymore but I still have a deep respect for what is sacred.

One day I'll go to a mental health at work meeting that addresses how the work can be made less stressful rather than how staff can be made more resilient

They think we are here to serve the people saying this bullshit.

Can't have the slave classes imagining a better world.

Sewing kits!

Meme with an old photo of the British/American rock band and the words: "Bloody Foreigner Coming over here demanding to know what love is"

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

I worked for social security. We shared a database with the pensions people. The system randomly marked people as dead. Stopped their benefits, title to ssp etc. I don't trust any UK gov with a centralised id system. One glitch and there goes your life. We have an awful record with big data safety.

Another artist told me once to go see the full-size Muchas because you can see all the errors. I did and damned if she wasn’t right. It was a weird relief.

I binged 4 episodes on sun/mon because this happened to me last year. For some reason they never hide sewing bee spoilers. Its infuriating.

Its a really good final though. Lots of mistakes and corrections from everyone. I hope you still enjoy.

There's tonight sorted. Talks from Icy are always worth making time for.

Moments like this are why Taskmaster is still appointment viewing for me.

Also. Best subtitle game in the business. The youtube ones are pants in comparison.

This thread has made my morning.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book is being republished this Thursday. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

Great man. He has the healers touch.

Even visiting through a screen you feel just that bit better.

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

"Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"

A Warning to the Curious - A Romancing the Gothic Conference Celebrating 100 years of M R James' A Warning to the Curious

Have you bought your tickets for the M R James online conference yet?

We've got so much amazing stuff going on, including a performance from ROBERT LLOYD PARRY of 'A Warning to the Curious'

Check out the website and get your tickets

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YouTube video by Nunkie Films Dim Presences

It's 100 years since M R James's great ghost story "A Warning to the Curious" was published.
"Dim Presences", Nunkie and ThomThom Films documentary about the story, is now free to view on YouTube.
youtu.be/Ne2kYzwvHOI
checkidoot!

Specifically this one.

The DWP has denied nearly half a million disabled people daily living PIP in just 21 months As is increasingly the case, we only know this information about DWP PIP thanks to an FOI from a disabled person themselves

Tax the frucking RICH.

"Half a million claimants have tried and failed to qualify for the daily living element of the state’s Personal Independence Payment (DWP PIP) since November 2024, according to Freedom of Information (FOI)."

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Hundreds sit on the ground in Parliament Square with Big Ben in the background. They are holding placards which read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”

According to Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper and the Met Police, this was the largest, co-ordinated terrorist incident in UK history.

(📸 Press Association)

It is just a bit less sucky when you remember other people are in the trenches too.

YouTube video by SpinalTapVEVO Spinal Tap - Stonehenge ft. Elton John (Official Video)

I am beyond excited that Spinal Tap have reformed. This is utterly brilliant 🤩
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A damn good list for everyone.

3 years after diagnosis I finally got to talk to a Dr about my A1AT deficiency.
Great news is my liver hasnt picked up too much damage in 48 years. Liver hardness of 8 was a lot better than I was dreading.

I have noone irl to tell so I'm celebrating here.

Any yr now I'll get the lung consult....

I am increasingly sick and tired of businesses trying to force me to install their proprietary apps! My phone is full! Let me print my boarding pass at the airport! Let me get a posted paper schedule for the con! YOU ARE NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN 5,000 PICTURES OF MY CATS!

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
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