Lee M

Taking a break from this app for a bit ✌️

Little dudes rock

Sort of wild how “slide show of your friend’s vacation” used to be held up as an example of boring activities that people hate but now it’s one of the most popular social media apps.

the first issue of the comics adaptation of Star Wars came out a couple months before the movie

meaning the very first ever mention of The Force; the world’s introduction to its power was… Darth Vader getting a cup of coffee

One thing I take from the Psalmist is that it’s canonical to bully God a little.

“They say you can’t do it, Lord. I don’t say that, but they say that. Will you let them talk about you like that, Lord, or are you gonna show up?”

We're doomed

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

Bill Watterson deserves a lot of credit for being a major communicator of the new science of dinosaurs that emerged in the 70s and 80s. His vibrant, naturalistic dinosaurs introduced the new paradigm to comics page addicted kids for years before Jurassic Park canonized it in the public imagination

"mainstream media is suppressing information that's only on social media" the information on social media:

Over the Rhine
The Beths
Beth Orton
Tori Amos
The Innocence Mission

Finished Walter Rauschenbusch's 'Theology for the Social Gospel' today -- definitely dated in some respects (not least his attitude toward Judaism), but many of the main arguments remain timely and persuasive

Get our asses

Just an annual reminder that as Lent approaches, I will not be taking a break from Bluesky. Rather, I shall post more to help you with your penance and mortification.

strange but true: you don't have to fight the 2028 primary on here yet if you don't want to

A giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.

I have no knowledge of/interest in GoT. Would it be stupid to watch Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?

Such a weird niche thing to write a folk-pop song about (complimentary)

Scott Bakula

Scott Glenn

Adam Scott

Ridley Scott

I too enjoy the culture of the Scotts

Opinion | Whatever This Is, It Isn’t Anti-Zionism

And since Christians have persecuted Jews so viciously, we have a special responsibility to make amends, to repair the damage that the church has done. That begins by turning to the new Christian antisemites and shouting “No!” Ancient hatreds and ancient heresies have no place in the church today.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

I kind of always thought the problem with Brown was that his plan had basically no chance of succeeding (as Frederick Douglass realized). Traditional just war criteria (e.g.) require you to consider the likelihood of success. Being right isn't a free floating license for violence

We're rewatching 'Aliens' and there's a scene where Bill Paxton's character tells the other space Marines to "Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen."

I can assure you that you do not in fact want that.

Put 'Goat' in the file of kids' movies that were better than they strictly needed to be

That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason CO @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. • 24 L7 1.8K 15K Ill 399K ... Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

a man is standing in front of a machine that looks like a robot with wings . ALT: a man is standing in front of a machine that looks like a robot with wings .

For Valentine's Day we're watching the most romantic movie ever made

Good luck to everyone holding out for a presidential candidate who's more left-wing than AOC