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The Onion @theonion.com · 31m

Marital Frustrations Channeled Through Thermostat

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 34m

VF covered it back in 2011: archive.vanityfair.com/article/2011...

The Trouble with Andrew | Vanity Fair

In the royal-wedding afterglow, Buckingham Palace still has a major P.R. problem: how to handle Prince Andrew, Britain’s trade ambassador and fourth in line to the throne. The prince’s dissolute lifes...

archive.vanityfair.com

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 1h

Clearly having a biracial princess in the family is far more scandalous than pedophilia. Charles was tight with Savile, Peter Ball (pedophile priest), Laurens Van der Post.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 2h

OMG, I love this.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 18h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 22h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 20h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 20h

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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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 19h

God can have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing.

I fucking cannot.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 20h

But in case you missed it, Fr Dowling's statement takes the time to make it explicit: "Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing. Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing."

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 19h

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 21h

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 22h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 19h

I agree. I think this is massively powerful...but not to ICE. Recruits for ICE are in large part evangelicals and may of those think that Catholics are anti-Christian (and empathy is a sin).

If not those, then psychopaths - nothing works on a psychopath.

But it's powerful to everyone ELSE.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 19h

I would assume she had eclectic tastes

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 19h

Some people are just literally insane. Red-string-board crazy. Hearing voices. Writing incoherent manifestos that make no sense to anyone but them.

Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 19h

Clearly a 15-yo girl is just out there raping and murdering and causing general mayhem and absolute chaos - no, wait, that's ICE.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 19h

Kill you. End of.

Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, but if you're being renditioned to god-knows-where, you won't be driving that car anyway.

Make it hard for them.

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robotdharma.bsky.social @robotdharma.bsky.social · 21h

protect his beautiful mind at all costs

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 21h

So they're living the scenarios they wanted the games to permit.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 21h

Mike Flanagan!!!

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 21h

And were rejected by the police and military. Which is saying something.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 21h

These are men who have been dreaming of committing state-sanctioned violence for a long time.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 21h

acab

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 23h

one of my favorite answers to this question comes from @timnitgebru.bsky.social and Émile P. Torres: the "TESCREAL bundle" which denotes "transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, (modern) cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... #ai

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you for continuing to come out here, and for highlighting the rich diversity that people so often ignore.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 22h

I have done this

Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 22h

Accidentally used my mom voice in public and everyone around me thought they were in trouble

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