"I will face God and walk backwards into Hell"

When JD does get excommunicated it's gonna ping every mob guy in northeastern Ohio's phone like John Wick

I’ve been informed this is the plot of Dune

Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

This is NUTS

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Canticle for Leibowitz
Zothique
Decline & Fall of the RE
Moby-Dick
Left Hand of Darkness
A Perfect Vacuum
The Boat of a Million Years
Song of Solomon
Book of the New Sun
Frankenstein
The Waste Lands
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1000 Years of Nonlinear History
Byzantium (Norwich)
A Fire Upon the Deep

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

This is a reminder to Americans that others have endured far worse and still kept fighting bsky.app/profile/adam...

marathon is so premium that this is achieving wisemind

it’s giving crusades it’s giving Avignon papacy

Evangelical-Catholic-Orthodox should be referred to as a Dreher.

You only get the Full Dreher if you have gone to two countries as an exile.

(Some of you may not know this, but I was a theologian in a previous life path.)

Theologically, yes; this is on-point

I only ever end up with two kinds of seat neighbors in airplane economy sections:

1. Aggressively manspreading dudes.
2. Extremely salty older Eastern European women.

Young adult happiness is falling. Percent of young people who are pretty or very happy has dropped from 88% to 76% over the last 15 years after having held fairly steady between 1980 and 2010

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

One superpower I want in life is the ability to change the thermostat setting in Chicago O’Hare so it’s not a zillion degrees all the time.

portland commute

Marathon (2026)

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

How is the human race still struggling with the basic concepts of representation

lmao get clowned on, Pixar

We (collective electorate “we”) might have wanted to consider not handing over control of the USA to a bloodthirsty white supremacist death cult but nooooOOOOOOoooooo

Leaf blowers.

when a person dies in las vegas their body’s water is returned to the bellagio fountain

A crudely made sign stand of bundled bamboo held together with wire, upon which is mounted a roughly made sign of a single piece of wood, painted black, on which someone has crudely written BOOKS with an arrow pointing to the right, in a street somewhere.

When I know it's definitely a trap, but I'm going anyway.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

We should measure ambient temperature in Fahrenheit when it’s hot out and Celsius when it’s cold out. Celsius does not have enough numbers to describe the feeling of being hot, but has too many numbers to describe the feeling of being cold

All of these are entirely normal positions of the Church which were also stated repeatedly by Francis and Benedict and John Paul II through various media