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You can always tell someone is using ChatGPT when there are no em-dashes—they have obviously edited them out, a sure sign of a guilty conscience.

Very few things diminish my respect for someone's intellect as much as the inability or unwillingness to understand the basic logistics of climate change.

What kind of neurotrophics do I need to take to get into the timeline where Obama nationalized the banks and the car companies?

I need to read more Keynes

Genuinely shocked to learn that still exists.

14 LGBTQ-affirming ministers lose credentials, more face investigation, over beliefs (RNS) — An LGBTQ-inclusive congregation is also exiting the Anderson, Indiana-based Church of God movement.

After three decades of being a minister at the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), the Rev. Sam Collins had his credentials revoked in January after signing an LGBTQ-affirming statement.

I adore that theme song

Does anyone know of a monograph (or any significant history) focusing on LGBT advocacy in church spaces in the 20th century?

One thing that genAI boosters aren't prepared (or frankly equipped) to handle is how the right-wing tech CEO set are going to shift the models toward right-wing outputs. There will be a concerted effort to make these intentional propaganda machines.

Screenshot of an email from Rudy Giuliani with the subject line "My 100th birthday...in prison?"

It would be like a birthday gift to the world

You believe in God because you think the Bible is a literal historical account.

I believe in God because Anselm made up a silly argument.

We are not the same.

A crosswalk sign with a handmade sticker obscuring the stick figure, resulting in the text "PUSH BUTTON FOR Mike Braun Stay out of my Medical Records :)"

Observed in the wild

i wish the political press were more conversant in american religion because there is a story to write about the inverted christianity that predominates among the new right, postliberal set

Me and my interfaith congregation are out here making sack lunches for the homeless like

Starting a business selling I Hate Entrepreneurship merch

Nationalize the means of production. No, not like that

Red dye No. 3: FDA bans ingredient from food | CNN The US Food and Drug Administration has banned the use of red dye No. 3 in food, drinks and ingested drugs.

Three cheers for the regulatory administrative state. www.cnn.com/2025/01/15/h...

Personally, there are a lot of people I could have a very pleasant conversation with at a social function and then immediately go to work to try to undo their life's work.

When someone relates a distressful situation they're going through, it's not hard to say, "OMG, that sucks" instead of lecturing them.

Nothing has ever been less worth it than "keto bread"

Advancing the "Great Enbies of History" thesis

this may be true (I have my doubts) but even if it is they are still idiots. like 3/4ths of the administrative state is designed to keep capitalism working properly instead of blowing itself up bsky.app/profile/neqo...

I get that you might not agree with the post, but you really don't understand what it's saying?

Ringing in 2025 right by watching Hellboy 2 (2008)

Yeah, I think New Years is more central to the structure than Christmas. It's a New Years movie.

The annual viewing of Rent (2005) has begun

Potentially dangerous to the holder, then?

Dangerous where and to whom?

I do love everytime I see a story like, "This lost manuscript was discovered languishing in the archives" and when you do a Google search you find that the collection was fully described and searchable for fifteen years before any historian actually did work with it.