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Got some worrying news early this morning. Please pray for a special intention.

Well *this* was premature. Don't know what I did, but the whole left side of me from neck to thigh is now cramping in protest

About to visit the Sacrament just briefly; drop your intentions in the replies if you'd like me to pray for them.

the spider does come off a little insidiously here, but it's not like she kicked Miette or anything

time to make the magic happen (eat ice cream for breakfast again)

Logging off for Monday soon. Be lovely, my lovelies, and I'll see you Tuesday.

sign reading "it's candy corn season for all you crayon-eating psychopaths"

I like it when sign dudes go off-book

It's been a year almost exactly, and I'm not totally in the same place emotionally, but I'm certainly not as far as I'd like to be. www.patheos.com/blogs/mudblo...

already seeing some improvement in the pain—I can bend over now, and you don't need me to tell you how important *that* skill is for an hourly wage-earner

my RNA was not activated by the alert and frankly I feel left out. just math camp all over again

apparently I have pulled some muscle or other in my leg, my back, or both 👍🏻 excellent

we haven't got enough crazies on bluesky yet. there oughta be a law

you talk about cyborgs. but have you ever thought of the cryborgs? yeah, didn't think so. asshole

"yeah it was a key participant in genocide, but" is really not a sentence that needs finishing hon

Will be starting my Monday logoff by midnight—see y'all Tuesday

how do you beat that? you can't! certain tales are simply unsurpassable: the Gospels, the Oresteia, Beauty and the Beast, Oedipus Rex, the Odyssey, and the Chess Butt Plug Theory

just learned that there was a cheating scandal in the chess grandmaster world this year about which reddit cooked up a theory that the accused effected his cheating by the use of a vibrating butt plug, and all I can think is "damn I wish I were that good at coming up with stories"

(entirely joking, as I actually quite like the fourteenth century, though admittedly this is intimately tied to the fact that I don't have to live in it)

ah, the tenth century, my darling little revolting trashfire of an era (guess which, uh, bishopric I'm particularly interested in the tenth century history of—go on, you'll never guess)

Ceci n'est pas une Handmaid's Tale

Oh, I had thought the HMAs were held to begin with the 12th c. renaissance. Learned something I didn't even ask about 😄

Which, certainly—I was just wondering whether "Dark Ages" in the narrower sense I mentioned was also used (especially since Early Medieval can cover as late as the eleventh century, iirc).

"supermassive black hole" how bout we stop body-shaming the sky

just learned somewhat randomly that Doug Wilson has written a blog post titled "Surplices Are for Sissies." dude, knowing what the word 'surplice' even means is for sissies. having an opinion on whether and how to use them is fully sodomite-with-unpleasant-accent territory

the term "Late Antique," but I've always understood that to denote a much broader period.)

Also, out of curiosity: my study (so to call it) of medievalism has been entirely self-directed and piecemeal, so I don't know the answer to this. I'd likely use the term "Dark Ages" for Western and Northern Europe in the sixth and seventh centuries; is that a thing? (I do also know of

admittedly it's not as amazing as seeing it posted unironically, but I always get a lovely moment of nostalgia when I glimpse The Chart

really its would be the highest dudgeon

okay, but where are you putting your will to dominate all life