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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 1d

(Eventually)

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 1d

She seemed to be an a mission to hunt some potential disease-carrying insects

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 1d

She’s so little

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 1d

‘Tis the season.

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t actually enjoy a lot of 21st century literary fiction but I’ll give Laszlo Krasznahorkai a try.

Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a Nobel Prize for having an English undergraduate degree but also being able to rotate shapes in your mind?

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 1d

I definitely have this one on my mental list. Really liked Paprika.

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 2d

But it also sparked my interest in gore/body horror, so a mixed blessing I guess.

Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 2d

Rewatching I, Claudius (1976). Glad I was primed as a kid to distrust anyone who wants to retvrn to the glory of the Roman Empire.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 3d

SYLVESTER THE CAT: *twisted beyond recognition into a cenobite, now a voyager into the hell realms beyond pain and pleasure* your thuffering will be like thuccotash

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 7d

I may or may not be enjoying a sensible 1.5 units of alcohol.

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 7d

One battle after another, huh (2025)

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 9d

A real one. I spoke to her on the astral plane and she told me to donate money to help endangered primates.

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 9d

Jane Goodall taught me it was okay to fuck off somewhere and learn about animals while only grudgingly tolerating human social hierarchies.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 9d

The Jane Goodall Institute says famed primatologist died in California during US speaking tour.

Jane Goodall, conservationist and chimpanzee expert, dies aged 91

The Jane Goodall Institute says famed primatologist died in California during US speaking tour.

bit.ly

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 10d

*define LIFE

Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 10d

People are always trying to define simply as tragedy, or comedy, or tragicomedy, but in “early middle age” I am starting to view it as a tragedy of errors (or starting to view it that way again).

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 10d

Not without its flaws, but basically the perfect film for the 2025 Halloween season

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 12d

when i think about the early 2000s i think about
-night vision videos of iraqis being killed
-a Latino dude i saw at the gas station who got the shit beaten out of him because people assumed he was arab
-feeling completely lost in american culture
-sealab 2021

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Jonathan Von @pnumechomppsky.bsky.social · 14d

When I first read this in the 90s as a teenager, it seemed comical and exaggerated. World War II and nazi ideology seemed so far away and absurd. But it's any propaganda machine, any time, any means of dissemination. Why do people need it? Why is it so important?

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Jonathan Von @pnumechomppsky.bsky.social · 14d

Reread Mother Night. What if there was a public speaker whose fame was due to bad-faith, racist rhetoric, and they were put to death for those ideas? What if a large mass of people needed to grind the gears of reason to make these words fit in an insane machine? A+

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haley; leaf peeper @suspeeria.bsky.social · 15d

little sketch for a little cat

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 12d

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Liz @murkyriverghost.bsky.social · 13d

Saw Weapons finally

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