M.O.D.O.X.
@modox613.bsky.social
Modern Orthodox Designed Only for eXcoriating rebuttals. (Just kidding. I try to keep things polite.)
It's so freeing to be on a site that believes in content moderation.
It's so freeing to be on a site that believes in content moderation.
1) When people said they’ve been to Hell and back, how did you think they’d gotten there?
2) Whether or not humans plan to drive on the road to Hell doesn’t change the fact that Satan runs a tight ship and values well-maintained infrastructure.
2) Whether or not humans plan to drive on the road to Hell doesn’t change the fact that Satan runs a tight ship and values well-maintained infrastructure.
Why do people think the road to hell is paved at all? Are you planning to drive there?
More specifically, the road to hell is paved with the intention to make good things last.
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
1) When people said they’ve been to Hell and back, how did you think they’d gotten there?
2) Whether or not humans plan to drive on the road to Hell doesn’t change the fact that Satan runs a tight ship and values well-maintained infrastructure.
2) Whether or not humans plan to drive on the road to Hell doesn’t change the fact that Satan runs a tight ship and values well-maintained infrastructure.
I think Duffy heard that “track suit” is a type of workout clothes and misunderstood something.
it’s pretty funny that Duffy is simultaneously
1. scolding passengers for not wearing fancy clothes while flying
2. supporting airport gyms so passengers can be sweaty and gross while flying
both of these proposals are idiotic but the direct contradiction is next level
1. scolding passengers for not wearing fancy clothes while flying
2. supporting airport gyms so passengers can be sweaty and gross while flying
both of these proposals are idiotic but the direct contradiction is next level
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I think Duffy heard that “track suit” is a type of workout clothes and misunderstood something.
I thought I had a joke about Jericho, but it all just fell apart in the end.
I don't have a joke about Enoch because God took it.
I have a joke about Job, but all my friends blame me for it.
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I thought I had a joke about Jericho, but it all just fell apart in the end.
They only had to debate for two hours after bringing up sea lions? They got lucky.
A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives spent more than two hours debating the Pacific Northwest’s sea lion problem.
Sea lions keep eating the salmon in the Columbia River. Some lawmakers want to kill more of them
A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives spent more than two hours debating the Pacific Northwest’s sea lion problem.
www.oregonlive.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
They only had to debate for two hours after bringing up sea lions? They got lucky.
In Judaism, over 99% of religious rules come with the caveat that if following the rule will endanger your life, break it. Your life is more important than following rules. There are only three rules where you’re told to die rather than violate them. One of them: Thou Shalt Not Kill.
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BRENNAN: Do you have confidence in Admiral Bradley?
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
December 8, 2025 at 3:19 AM
In Judaism, over 99% of religious rules come with the caveat that if following the rule will endanger your life, break it. Your life is more important than following rules. There are only three rules where you’re told to die rather than violate them. One of them: Thou Shalt Not Kill.
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Apparently I’ve been blocked by @eleanor.lockhart.contact. I don’t know why, and I enjoyed reading their opinion, when I could. If I accidentally said something rude I apologize. (I don’t like offending people by accident, so if someone knows what I did, please enlighten me.)
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Apparently I’ve been blocked by @eleanor.lockhart.contact. I don’t know why, and I enjoyed reading their opinion, when I could. If I accidentally said something rude I apologize. (I don’t like offending people by accident, so if someone knows what I did, please enlighten me.)
I think the Addams family network is a rival group because 1) they would find it fun to be engaged in a never-ending war with a globe-spanning assassins’ guild and 2) the Addams family strike me as people who would think that contract killing takes all the fun out of murder.
we are watching the addams family (1991) and i am suddenly intensely curious about whether the addams underground network ever connects with the john wick underground network
December 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I think the Addams family network is a rival group because 1) they would find it fun to be engaged in a never-ending war with a globe-spanning assassins’ guild and 2) the Addams family strike me as people who would think that contract killing takes all the fun out of murder.
I propose the, “America: Love It or Leave It,” plan, where people who oppose birthright citizenship are stripped of their citizenship to make room for people who actually value the USA and our Constitution.
still poleaxed by the idea that you could oppose birthright citizenship and still think of yourself as a liberal in any sense of the term.
December 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I propose the, “America: Love It or Leave It,” plan, where people who oppose birthright citizenship are stripped of their citizenship to make room for people who actually value the USA and our Constitution.
Right. Anti-vaxxers can’t be humored anymore. At this point, their material impact on society might be worse than neo-Nazis, and they should be treated as the child murderers they are.
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Right. Anti-vaxxers can’t be humored anymore. At this point, their material impact on society might be worse than neo-Nazis, and they should be treated as the child murderers they are.
I disagree. Big Facial Scar is character development, but there are other types. Metal Hook and Robot Arm are overlooked in the original conjugation.
Character development is Big Facial Scar
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I disagree. Big Facial Scar is character development, but there are other types. Metal Hook and Robot Arm are overlooked in the original conjugation.
If you’re outside a synagogue yelling, “baby killers,” you’re just doing blood libel.
Today at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in LA
Protesters justify their disturbances (school was in session at the time) by saying "it's no longer holy"
As usual & per their training, the refuse to have a discussion.
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Protesters justify their disturbances (school was in session at the time) by saying "it's no longer holy"
As usual & per their training, the refuse to have a discussion.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If you’re outside a synagogue yelling, “baby killers,” you’re just doing blood libel.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but when the publishers of an icon like this come out and ask for the memes to stop, I can’t really enjoy the memes anymore. Some people only get memed harder for trying to stop it, but this is a group that deserves respect, even on this cynical website.
December 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I don’t know about the rest of you, but when the publishers of an icon like this come out and ask for the memes to stop, I can’t really enjoy the memes anymore. Some people only get memed harder for trying to stop it, but this is a group that deserves respect, even on this cynical website.
If your whole thing is setting up elaborate scenarios where you inevitably fail, and repeat the cycle endlessly without ever trying to create a situation where you could succeed?
That’s follyamory. And its relationships are rarely healthy.
That’s follyamory. And its relationships are rarely healthy.
If you’re dating a musician named Parton? That’s Dollyamory.
Don’t even THINK about trying something, Jolene.
Don’t even THINK about trying something, Jolene.
If your thing is constructing elaborate fantasy scenarios that give the person you're dating the illusion of moral responsibility in order to distract them from a larger structural injustice they are powerless to intervene in?
That's trollyamory.
That's trollyamory.
December 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
If your whole thing is setting up elaborate scenarios where you inevitably fail, and repeat the cycle endlessly without ever trying to create a situation where you could succeed?
That’s follyamory. And its relationships are rarely healthy.
That’s follyamory. And its relationships are rarely healthy.
Elphaba. Yes, she‘s flirting. But she’s also 100% serious when she says, “let me slip into something more comfortable.”
some captchas are particularly humiliating
is the fact that I’m searching for “elphaba sex cardigan” not proof enough that I’m not a robot for you, google
do I also have to click on two pictures of a bus
is the fact that I’m searching for “elphaba sex cardigan” not proof enough that I’m not a robot for you, google
do I also have to click on two pictures of a bus
November 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Elphaba. Yes, she‘s flirting. But she’s also 100% serious when she says, “let me slip into something more comfortable.”
I have a joke about Judith, but I’m worried people will lose their heads over it.
I have a joke about Jael, but I have no stake in its reception.
I have a joke about Balaam, but telling it makes me look like such an ass.
November 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I have a joke about Judith, but I’m worried people will lose their heads over it.
“So. I heard you ‘Traditional Catholics’ had an issue with the Vatican II liturgy.”
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“So. I heard you ‘Traditional Catholics’ had an issue with the Vatican II liturgy.”
300 years ago, wars were fought over a fraction of the contents of your average grocery store spice isle. The average citizen has easy access to a more varied diet than royalty from the 18th century.
Throughout history technological developments have promised great wealth for all. However this has proved widely over optimistic. Farming, the industrial revolution, automation, the internet and now ai. Greater wealth has only been for those who control the means and systems. The rest get poorer
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
300 years ago, wars were fought over a fraction of the contents of your average grocery store spice isle. The average citizen has easy access to a more varied diet than royalty from the 18th century.
I thought that for most of my life. I was disabused of the notion when I went to a museum with life-sized animal sculptures.
Most people think of moose as "a big dear" and not "slightly smaller than an asiatic elephant".
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I thought that for most of my life. I was disabused of the notion when I went to a museum with life-sized animal sculptures.
If I’m spending $100k on a personal vehicle it better have a smuggler’s compartment and a consistently functional hyperdrive. And a replicator would be nice, too.
if i'm spending $100k on a personal vehicle it better have dynamic hyperspectral camouflage and synthetic myomer strength enhancements
if I'm spending $100K on a personal vehicle it better be bipedal and have hardpoints for a brace of PPCs
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If I’m spending $100k on a personal vehicle it better have a smuggler’s compartment and a consistently functional hyperdrive. And a replicator would be nice, too.
I view this hypothetical as a, “try to get the British palace guard to laugh,” situation, but with monks and their vows of celibacy.
[old professor voice] a key thing to understand about Western culture is a remarkable amount of mental energy has been dedicated to wondering “what if we put a hot girl in church?”
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I view this hypothetical as a, “try to get the British palace guard to laugh,” situation, but with monks and their vows of celibacy.
I think it helps that most of the time, when Flambae acts like a jerk the game (usually through Robert) punishes him for it, and the times it doesn’t are when him being a jerk is also kind of funny. (It also helps that even the Z-Team get annoyed when he’s excessively mean.)
... isn't particularly rewarding. Visi doesn't improve as a hero until she makes an effort to open up and let down her walls. Phenomeman took out his depression on others (but mostly himself) until given a constructive outlet via the Z-Team. Flambae's a douche, but he has a soft spot for kids.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I think it helps that most of the time, when Flambae acts like a jerk the game (usually through Robert) punishes him for it, and the times it doesn’t are when him being a jerk is also kind of funny. (It also helps that even the Z-Team get annoyed when he’s excessively mean.)
I’m pretty sure it’s presenting, so I’m just going to look away. I have no desire to see cybertrucks mating.
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I’m pretty sure it’s presenting, so I’m just going to look away. I have no desire to see cybertrucks mating.
I wonder if calling it, “lore,” is a bit of a Freudian Slip. It’s not usually a word used to describe information in a nonfiction context.
I don't know what's more unhinged, the repeating lies peddled about me for years now, or the "I saw Goody Proctor Dancing with the Devil!" response.
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I wonder if calling it, “lore,” is a bit of a Freudian Slip. It’s not usually a word used to describe information in a nonfiction context.
This was the response to a rabbi asking Christians not to use Hebrew words for their institutions since it’s confusing for Jews trying to find Jewish institutions. And here I thought I wouldn’t get to use my old supersession meme.
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
This was the response to a rabbi asking Christians not to use Hebrew words for their institutions since it’s confusing for Jews trying to find Jewish institutions. And here I thought I wouldn’t get to use my old supersession meme.