Great new everyone they’re building the graven image from the commandment “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image”

absolute beast mode

"The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee."

-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Rest in power, Dr. Jane Goodall

Replication studies of efficacy of neurodiversity-affirming therapies are needed. Applied Behavior studies tend to be narrower in scope with poorer content validity, but they’re publishable, allowing them to claim “evidence-based.” Cont’d 1/3

the shit they're doing on twitter over this shit is fucking mindblowing by the way

Throughout history, God hasn’t always stopped evil by force, but He has always raised up people.

Moses against Pharaoh, Esther against genocide, Harriet Tubman against slavery, Fannie Lou Hamer against Jim Crow. What if we, in our lifetime, are the voices He raises?

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

― Carl Sagan

the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied

Love to see it

The thing about PBS is that LeVar Burton was to me what MrBeast is to kids today.

A handful of ultra-wealthy people are getting even richer while working class Americans go into debt for healthcare, education, and housing.

This is unsustainable. Eventually, these folks going to run out of the working class’s money.

Someone on here made a banger ass post about how AI is basically the digital equivalent of the Habsburg family line, and yeah.

I'm in tears at this.

When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.

"For example: A writer sets out to write science fiction but isn't familiar with the genre, hasn't read what's been written. This is a fairly common situation, because science fiction is known to sell well but, as a subliterary genre, is not supposed to be worth study —what's to learn? It doesn't occur to the novice that a genre is a genre because it has a field and focus of its own; its appropriate and particular tools, rules, and techniques for handling the material; its traditions; and its experienced, appreciative readers - that it is, in fact, a literature. Ignoring all this, our novice is just about to reinvent the wheel, the space ship, the space alien, and the mad scientist, with cries of innocent wonder. The cries will not be echoed by the readers. Readers familiar with that genre have met the space ship, the alien, and the mad scientist before. They know more about them than the writer does. In the same way, critics who set out to talk about a fantasy novel without having read any fantasy since they were eight, and in ignorance of the history and extensive

fantasy since they were eight, and in ignorance of the history and extensive theory of fantasy literature, will make fools of themselves because they don't know how to read the book. They have no contextual information to tell them what its tradition is, where it's coming from, what it's trying to do, what it does. This was liberally proved when the first Harry Potter book came out and a lot of literary reviewers ran around shrieking about the incredible originality of the book. This originality was an artifact of the reviewers' blank ignorance of its genres (children's fantasy and the British boarding-school story), plus the fact that they hadn't read a fantasy since they were eight. It was pitiful. It was like watching some TV gourmet chef eat a piece of buttered toast and squeal, 'But this is delicious! Unheard of! Where has it been all my life?'" - Ursula K. Le Guin, Genre: A Word Only a Frenchman Could Love (via queenofattolia)

Interviewer: Nicholas Lezard has written 'Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.' What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I'd like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling's writing style. Le Guin: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the "incredible originality" of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy crossed with a "school novel", good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.

Self soothing by sharing a classic, cold-blooded, *surgical* evisceration of JKR’s work delivered by one of the most critically acclaimed authors of all time.

Pope Francis Warns Seals On Jesus’ Tomb Are Weakening VATICAN CITY—As he called on the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics to pray for the bonds restraining the messiah to hold fast, Pope Francis warned Tuesday that the seals on Jesus’ tomb were weakening and Christ could escape at any moment. “Citizens of the world, brace yourselves, for soon the Risen Lord will roam the earth anew, unleashing death and destruction on everything in His path,” said the pontiff, adding that the Vatican had worked for centuries to keep Jesus safely bound and locked away in His crypt, but Church teachings had long foretold He would one day come again to visit His murderous wrath upon the children of God. “The death toll could be in the millions. Once Jesus has broken free, no mortal force can contain Him, and He will not rest until His ravenous blood lust has been sated. As we speak, our most powerful cardinals are in the catacombs blessing the seals with all their might, but we don’t know how long they can hold Him back. The King of Kings has finally been roused from His ancient slumber and is ready to feed.” At press time, Pope Francis was reportedly yelling for everyone to save themselves after Jesus had burst forth from His tomb and devoured a group of Swiss Guards that was futilely stabbing Him with their pikes.

Pope Francis Warns Seals On Jesus’ Tomb Are Weakening
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reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness"

neocons: abolish ICE

david brooks: communist manifesto

Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men

Lorenz then said the bigger issue the country needs to grapple with is the healthcare system, not renegade shooters who are a byproduct of the anger millions of Americans feel. “What I will say is that I don’t believe that our health care system is morally good. I believe that our health care system is morally bankrupt and wrong and murderous,” Lorenz said. “And when we have these conversations and we talk about whether Luigi is morally … what is moral or not, why? Why are the headlines about Luigi and not the headlines about the health care system? What you can put in a headline is that I believe our healthcare system is evil and morally bankrupt.”

I wish any of these right wing rags would engage with the things I actually say. For instance:

That’s a shame

“anything we can actually do, we can afford”

stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college

Do not use or support generative AI. Opt out.

Bro just delete your Meta accounts and sign up for Schplurbo, an open source alternative, the interface is hideous and it doesn’t support pictures, no one you know is on there but a bunch of guys who love reminding you of the rules are

gotta say "you need to go back to Africa - with your overly racist ass" is not a version I can say I've heard too often