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· Mar 25
I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves us and who wants to save us.
- Oscar Romero
- Oscar Romero
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It's time for #Europe to stop whining and finally man up. I'm not even into making jokes about DT or smirking at Hegseth's BS anymore.
With the #NSS, it is clear now that the #USA are a power that is hostile to us.
You don't make stupid jokes about your enemies. You cut them off.
With the #NSS, it is clear now that the #USA are a power that is hostile to us.
You don't make stupid jokes about your enemies. You cut them off.
December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hinauf, Patrioten! zum Schloß, zum Schloß!
Hoch flattern die deutschen Farben;
Es keimet die Saat und die Hoffnung ist groß,
Schon binden im Geiste wir Garben:
Es reifet die Aehre mit goldnem Rand,
Und die goldne Erndt' ist das — Vaterland.
Hoch flattern die deutschen Farben;
Es keimet die Saat und die Hoffnung ist groß,
Schon binden im Geiste wir Garben:
Es reifet die Aehre mit goldnem Rand,
Und die goldne Erndt' ist das — Vaterland.
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Hinauf, Patrioten! zum Schloß, zum Schloß!
Hoch flattern die deutschen Farben;
Es keimet die Saat und die Hoffnung ist groß,
Schon binden im Geiste wir Garben:
Es reifet die Aehre mit goldnem Rand,
Und die goldne Erndt' ist das — Vaterland.
Hoch flattern die deutschen Farben;
Es keimet die Saat und die Hoffnung ist groß,
Schon binden im Geiste wir Garben:
Es reifet die Aehre mit goldnem Rand,
Und die goldne Erndt' ist das — Vaterland.
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btw, Balthasar calls Joan of Arc "more innocent than Antigone and trembled like her in full awareness before a terrible death, struggling painfully to maintain full fidelity to herself" and he calls her judges "more guilty than Creon."
He NEVER lets the church off the hook for her death.
He NEVER lets the church off the hook for her death.
This is such a great back-and-forth about which kinds of laws matter and why. Moving between death as a leveler of deeds, civic piety (Creon: δυσσεβεῖ), family, the divine command to bury the dead, moral worthiness, and just... being a darn *woman* (Creon: giving himself away).
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
btw, Balthasar calls Joan of Arc "more innocent than Antigone and trembled like her in full awareness before a terrible death, struggling painfully to maintain full fidelity to herself" and he calls her judges "more guilty than Creon."
He NEVER lets the church off the hook for her death.
He NEVER lets the church off the hook for her death.
The best thing that happened today is the whole rejection of the argument that priests need to be men because Jesus was a man.
December 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The best thing that happened today is the whole rejection of the argument that priests need to be men because Jesus was a man.
The same is true with social media and big tech. And don't get me started with the case of monopolising
So much of this shit is gambling! Robinhood is fucking gambling! Crypto is gambling! Videogame business models are gambling! It's all fucking gambling! Laws need to really catch up to the fact that the brain can be hacked by this shit.
This is gambling, and we've essentially decided that it's okay to let it go on entirely unregulated for ??? Reasons.
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The same is true with social media and big tech. And don't get me started with the case of monopolising
Me, deliberating if I should pay a hundred bucks for a collection of Henri de Lubacs books.
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Me, deliberating if I should pay a hundred bucks for a collection of Henri de Lubacs books.
The thing is, if they want to become an isolationist country, then don't meddle with our politics.
European centrist governments are accused by America of destroying Western civilisation by allowing mass migration, betraying traditional social values and censoring conservative speech. They rightly sense a Trumpian trap econ.st/4pM6hP9
Illustration: Chloe Cushman
Illustration: Chloe Cushman
December 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The thing is, if they want to become an isolationist country, then don't meddle with our politics.
A man who followed his consciousness.
A leaked video of his court-martial has suddenly appeared
The general who refused to crush Tiananmen’s protesters
A leaked video of his court-martial has suddenly appeared
econ.st
December 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A man who followed his consciousness.
Simple evil.
FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”
December 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Simple evil.
@edzitron.com vindicated
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
@edzitron.com vindicated
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My take is we need to promote the beauty of poetry and literature for its own sake to students and stop trying to make it relevant to their lives. 🤓
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My take is we need to promote the beauty of poetry and literature for its own sake to students and stop trying to make it relevant to their lives. 🤓
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Trads are the Sovereign Citizens of Catholicism
Let me guess, when the pope promulgated TC the Vatican was flying the Admiralty flag and it didn’t count
Let me guess, when the pope promulgated TC the Vatican was flying the Admiralty flag and it didn’t count
Peter Kwasniewski (@DrKwasniewski)
A pithy and potent article on the latent schismatic mentality contained in Article 1 of "Traditionis Custodes." If you want to see the essential reason this document has no authority, look no further....
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November 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Trads are the Sovereign Citizens of Catholicism
Let me guess, when the pope promulgated TC the Vatican was flying the Admiralty flag and it didn’t count
Let me guess, when the pope promulgated TC the Vatican was flying the Admiralty flag and it didn’t count
So, I wrote a text about the start of the Advent. If you can read German, here is the link:
stoiccatholicpanda.blogspot.com/2025/11/den-...
stoiccatholicpanda.blogspot.com/2025/11/den-...
Den Advent fruchtbar machen
Bonn, den Freitag der 34. Woche im Jahreskreis, 2025 Wir nähern uns dem ersten Adventssonntag. Dies ist im weltlichen Deutschland immer di...
stoiccatholicpanda.blogspot.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
So, I wrote a text about the start of the Advent. If you can read German, here is the link:
stoiccatholicpanda.blogspot.com/2025/11/den-...
stoiccatholicpanda.blogspot.com/2025/11/den-...
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🕯️ Saint Edith Stein invites us to notice the small spark of joy that marks Advent’s quiet beginning.
🔗 https://twp.ai/ImsBEQ
#Advent #Spirituality
🔗 https://twp.ai/ImsBEQ
#Advent #Spirituality
December 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
🕯️ Saint Edith Stein invites us to notice the small spark of joy that marks Advent’s quiet beginning.
🔗 https://twp.ai/ImsBEQ
#Advent #Spirituality
🔗 https://twp.ai/ImsBEQ
#Advent #Spirituality
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So did he just announce an NFZ over Venezuela or is he just incoherently screaming again
I guess we’re just shouting NOTAMS into the void on truth social now
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
So did he just announce an NFZ over Venezuela or is he just incoherently screaming again
The reason why most modern fantasy I'd most of the time not readable
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The reason why most modern fantasy I'd most of the time not readable
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Police officers, together with #Kyiv residents, rescued a boy from an apartment destroyed by a Russian strike.
They heard a child crying from under the rubble and pulled him out.
📹 Kyiv Patrol Police
They heard a child crying from under the rubble and pulled him out.
📹 Kyiv Patrol Police
November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Police officers, together with #Kyiv residents, rescued a boy from an apartment destroyed by a Russian strike.
They heard a child crying from under the rubble and pulled him out.
📹 Kyiv Patrol Police
They heard a child crying from under the rubble and pulled him out.
📹 Kyiv Patrol Police
Kosovo war
1. What was the first major news story you remember as a child?
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Kosovo war
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I’m not crying, you’re crying. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope Leo and Patriarch Bartholomew reject violence in the name of God - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I sign a Joint Declaration in Istanbul reaffirming their commitment to the path toward full ...
www.vaticannews.va
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’m not crying, you’re crying. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...