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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14h

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14h

It's been really, really nice seeing the Catholic social justice tradition in the US feel like it's empowered to spread its wings again without risking censure after a long time of being suppressed by US Catholic leadership, and it's exactly what I was hoping for from Pope Bob.

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 54m

Art

Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 1h

I appreciate you, Dunkins at South Station, for giving me cream cheese for my bagel a) in a little container on the side b) with nothing to spread it with. Five stars.

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 3h

About 90% of Quakers are evangelical.

Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 10h

If people with more money than sense want to give you their money, just take it. Take their money. They are clearly too dumb to manage it sensibly on their own, so you might as well have it instead.

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 10h

Look at a certain point you have to just sit back and admire the con, I put this up there with people who charge $100 for a donut covered in edible gold leaf you can buy at Michael's for 50 cents a sheet. As long as nobody is getting hurt, take the money and run, that's my advice.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 11h

Her bespoke naming services include a “baby name branding” campaign, a genealogical investigation designed to ferret out old family names and even a think tank to discuss the top naming options.

Meet the San Francisco woman who charges up to $30,000 to name your baby

Her bespoke naming services include a “baby name branding” campaign, a genealogical investigation designed to ferret out old family names and even a think tank to discuss the top naming options.

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 11h

I keep thinking about this and wondering how this ad made it through all the meetings and focus groups and approvals and not one person was like wait a second, do we think this is going to make people want a computer that helps them buy stuff, or just wish they had ice cream instead of a phone?

Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 15h

Just saw an ad for the Gemini "AI" plug-in for some phone, and the conceit is that everyone who doesn't have a phone with that feature has a vanilla soft serve ice cream and not a phone and my friends all it did was convince me that we'd all be better off with ice cream cones instead of phones.

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 11h

Quakers and Congregationalists are Evangelical and I assure you both of them have a liberation theology.

Mina @minerva1.bsky.social · 15h

Evangelicals don’t have a liberation theology.

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 11h

WHOOOOOOO son #Boots

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 11h

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 12h

Oh my GOD

Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 12h

Burrito taxi

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 13h

If they'd taken all the "movie" parts out and just been left with a 1:15 or so Trent Reznor video with computer animation video game stuff that would have been pretty rad tbh.

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 13h

Chocolate vanilla twist with jimmies for me

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 13h

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 13h

#nfotd TRON: ARES

The part where it was a movie with a story and acting was quite bad.

The part where it was a highly effects-driven Trent Reznor video was pretty good.

(Speaking of, dig the call sign of the fighter pilot)

Jordan Catalano is 100% charisma-free. What a terrible casting choice.

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 15h

I wish the PREDATOR franchise had continued on with Predators encountering and getting their asses whooped by indigenous people around the planet, in those indigenous languages.

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 15h

It makes a very good squash soup

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 15h

@unlikelywords.bsky.social

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 15h

Just saw an ad for the Gemini "AI" plug-in for some phone, and the conceit is that everyone who doesn't have a phone with that feature has a vanilla soft serve ice cream and not a phone and my friends all it did was convince me that we'd all be better off with ice cream cones instead of phones.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 17h

The frog costume is sold out on amazon, BUT they do have an axolotl costume if you anyone wants to keep the amphibian theme going

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 17h

She was an absolutely wonderful actress- and a rare and fascinating person. Thoughts with her children and sisters. Rest in peace Diane.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 18h

A reminder that Walz kept hitting the "weird" thing to the very end, neither Harris nor the vaguely defined "consultants" told him to stop, and the difference was the press stopped covering it

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Tintin and the Somerville Polyculeans @jamtoday.bsky.social · 18h

Diane 💔