Chunky?

In the absence of external victories or obvious progress, often broad coalition groups look for internal victories, which is how those groups break up and lose ground.

Me reading The Art of War: this was considered revolutionary? Surely armies knew to have enough supplies and food before going to war!

Me today: oh.

Sure. Times are tough. But we will be able to tell our grandchildren that we were alive when “pope-splaining” was invented.

Someone just told me that The Princess Bride is "overrated" and long story short it's perfectly acceptable to remove toxic people from your life.

Pro-tip for the Swalwell campaign staff now maligning the women accusing their boss of sexual misconduct: it's not worth it. There will be other campaigns and other candidates but there will never be another time that you won't regret behaving this way towards survivors.

I'm struck by the number of modes of transit these astronauts will experience today.

1. Slicing through the Earth's atmosphere in a spaceship
2. An inflatable raft
3. A rope swing
4. Helicopter
5 Aircraft carrier
6. Airplane.
7. Van.

I hope that the return of Integrity is a trend that continues.

“Italian Beef” is a Temu Cheesesteak

A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.

There is no McTry.

My escape from [wildly gestures at everything] is Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. I’m approaching the end again, and it’s so beautiful how PTerry left Discworld better than he found it. Goblins have rights. Dwarves have gender. Humans have (some) understanding. It’s a model that gives me hope.

@merriam-webster.com Is there a word that is an antonym for "onomatopoeia?" I need a word to describe words that do NOT sound like their meaning, like "pulchritude" or "bucolic"

“Hang on to your hope.”

E. B. White in 1973.

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV

Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]

We are so, so small. #Artemis

Star Trek First Contact scene, and if you haven't watched this one you should cancel all plans and view immejietly. (Also has a Mark S from Severance cameo) Ok, it's nighttime and we're close in on 2 dudes, closest is Zefram Cochrane, and just behind him is William T. Riker, famous tromboner. Both are in civilian clothes, Riker a leather jacket, and Zefram in a bomber type coat with the white fluffy wooly stuffing around the collar. Zefram is also wearing a weird black hat that is sort of like a bandana in form and function, but instead of fabric it's bedazzled leather. He's speaking, and looks kind of dumbfounded or stumped. Closed caption reads, "You're all....astronauts .. on some kind of Star Trek" Happy First Contact Day 🖖🏼

Alt in pic 1

Happy First Contact Day 🖖🏽

A Prism of Song A Prism of Song looks at the Old Testament through the lens of the Book of Psalms. The Psalms encapsulate the themes of the Hebrew Bible, representing the earliest expressions of Israel’s diverse theological traditions. The musicality and artistic quality

As a Christian professor (now pastor) I wrote an introduction to try to move Evangelicals away from poor Bible study (I.e., Christian nationalist, homophobic, transphobic, racism). A long project that joined my love of Psalms, pedagogy, and introducing new concepts.
www.helwys.com/a-prism-of-s...

Your regular reminder that dehumanizing the people who are dehumanizing others isn’t how we’re gonna get to liberation.

We have to live into the world we want to create.

Christ be with me,Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me. Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger-St Patrick

Thank you for this post. I have saved it since you wrote it. It provides language and examples to push back against antisemitism that this Christian can use in helpful ways to TRY to educate.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

ah yes, stages 3 and 7 in the writing process

both precede "what if I just set this whole thing on fire" stages

(the imagined fires get bigger the later in the process you get)

My book is now out in Spanish translation! Thanks to Smyth & Helwys for committing to a Spanish copy! Thanks to Isra Hermosillo for his translation! Thanks to Héctor Hermosillo for writing a Foreword to the Spanish edition!

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2 0 2 5 Updates Key Races N.Y.C. Mayor Va. Gov. County Margin Shift from 2024 pres. T Votes Loudoun Spanberger +29 * 12 pts. 164,366 Prince William Spanberger +34 × 16 pts. 161,419 Portsmouth Spanberger +47 * 8.1 pts. 29,956 Washington Earle-Sears +49 * 4.5 pts. 20,927 Louisa Earle-Sears +20 * 6.5 pts. 18,719 Orange Earle-Sears +15 * 9.3 pts. 17,127 Powhatan Earle-Sears +40 * 4.4 pts. 16,957 Pulaski Earle-Sears +38 * 7.1 pts. 12,466 Dinwiddie Earle-Sears +17 ~ 6.3 pts. 11,974 Harrisonburg Spanberger +41 × 15 pts. 11,753 Manassas Spanberger +30 * 16 pts. 11,514 Carroll Earle-Sears +57 ~ 6.1 pts. 11,277 Wise Earle-Sears +59 ~ 4.6 pts. 10,962 Fairfax City Spanberger +45 * 11 pts. 10,232 Fredericksburg Spanberger +43 * 11 pts. 10,191 Salem Earle-Sears +12 6.9 pts. 9,374 King William Earle-Sears +34 * 7.1 pts. 8,999 Russell Earle-Sears +63 * 4.9 pts. 8,860

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

a man in a white shirt stands in front of a crowd wearing a hat that says ' sx ' on it Alt: well... we're waiting

it's been seven minutes since the polls closed, Virginia