ally

diocesan convention day 1 in the books. felt Very Important with my Official Voting Card (i just went as a guest/volunteer last year) and met a lot of super nice people

good point :(

...oof

come on, giant meteor

and humbly ask for your protection through the coming night

And Apple is notoriously bad at promoting its own content, so, there's that.

Overall, not great. It's not bad for me personally because I will just cancel my F1TV subscription and subscribe to Apple TV, since I don't watch ESPN anyway. But making people purchase another subscription if they didn't go the F1TV route is kind of asinine.

to comfort us in all our afflictions, to defend us from all error, and to lead us into all truth

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

OFFICIAL: Apple has agreed a five-year deal with F1, becoming the new broadcast partner of the sport in the United States #F1

That’s Sabrina Carpenter

Here endeth the Lesson

ah shit the library got me looking at old newspapers so I can enter info about them for points

A scandal worse than Watergate that the reporter waited to tell until he had a book to sell. Okay.

Now to be fair, Donald Trump is making certain things much more affordable in America, for instance all of its stocks.

Go (or abide) in peace, and pray for me, a sinner.

A lot of people are calling Booker's speech "performative," but anything that "performs" Strom Thurmond right out of the record books is more than enough substance for me.

If in your hunt for 2 trillion dollars the best you can find are ... Lutherans ... either the 2 trillion isn't there or you dont want it to be there

- racist DOGE guy (redundant) canned
- federal judge upholds birthright citizenship
- another judge blocks voluntary resignation
- NY state going to court over treasury business
- patel put on ice for at least a week

Shocking number of men on both sides of the aisle base their politics around hating their moms

I'm trying to use this site more but I come across people saying things like "if you don't use alt text on your images, you hate accessibility and are also a fascist probably" and then I lose the desire to log in again

Evil that I can’t even describe.

SURELY IT IS SOMEONE'S JOB TO ARREST THESE PEOPLE FOR THE CRIMES THEY ARE VERY PUBLICLY DOING?

After Vance finishes, an attendee at the conference (no idea who, they walked by quickly) walked by the press area and said, loudly, "that was gaslighting."

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

OpenAI says DeepSeek may have "inappropriately" used its models' output The upstart Chinese AI maker might have "distilled" OpenAI's models, violating terms of service, OpenAI said.

“I never thought a company would steal MY intellectual property,” sobs CEO of Stealing Intellectual Property Inc.

[with apologies to Adrian Bott]

This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

“White House officials wouldn't say whether [Musk] was involved in the current effort. But the subject line of the email sent to federal workers is: ‘A fork in the road.’ Musk now has a post pinned on X of an art piece he commissioned called ‘A Fork in the Road.’”