Nah, they'll wear Nikes instead. New sponsorship deal.

I appreciate seeing an attempt at alt text, but next time please describe what's in the image, rather than repeating the content of your post. I and others often rely on accurate image descriptions to understand what a post is talking about.

It's not like the Pope is even saying anything difficult, esoteric, or controversial to actual theologians.

Peace, kindness, valuing life -- I've never met a biblical scholar of any tradition who would disagree that these are not basic elements of the Gospels.

It's only controversial to grifters.

I'm not in a good (health) place right now, but I'll start the book when I can focus on it.

Anyway, link above. Sorry I forgot that earlier.

@violet.dftba.social
@elisemeyers.bsky.social
@ofunderworlds.bsky.social
@ladyjane.bsky.social

Did I not actually share the buddy read link? How embarrassing.

app.thestorygraph.com/buddy_reads/...

💙📚🌶️ #romancelandia

I'll watch for the audio to come available on Libro FM -- congrats!

How about they not use survivors as a political prop, but instead, you know, deal with these crimes with the laws already on the books?

"When the church aligns itself with power, it compromises its prophetic role."

Alt: quoted photo shows @nakedpastor.bsky.social holding a sign that says the above text, with which I heartily agree.

I often think the church took a wrong turn with Constantine.

Not at all surprising

Right. I thought it claimed to be informed by clinical studies. Sorry if I was mistaken there. In many cases, such reports distort the scientific conclusions and utility of the works they cite. If this didn't claim to cite such studies, my bad.

It'll be good to have you whenever you're available. 🧡

I probably won't start right away. I'm having trouble focusing on books, plus I have to do my taxes today (I know, I know).

• Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life by upholding the Equality Act and delivering clear instructions to public services on how to comply with their legal obligations to women and to trans people. • Keeping women's prisons for women, instructing the Scottish Prison Service to remove all biologically male prisoners from women's prisons within days of the election. • Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex, and ensuring patients can request same sex provision wherever possible.

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

a man in a cape stands in front of a batman symbol Alt: Batman sees the bat signal

@ofunderworlds.bsky.social
@ladyjane.bsky.social
@elisemeyers.bsky.social
@violet.dftba.social

It's release day for the new Chloe Liese book, Happy Ending!

You're welcome to join the buddy read on Storygraph. Folks will be joining and reading at their own pace as they get the book and time allows.

Happy reading 💙📚🌶️ #romancelandia

holy shit he actually conceded

folks, they tell you they’re invincible

they tell you they’re inevitable

they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting

and absolutely none of that is true

One of the key things to know if you're ever faced with anyone trying to tell you ABA is evidence-based

i don't have the right words to describe this new symptom. i do, however, have these 2 middle fingers. mybodyistryingtokillme.com

I'm in a clinical trial now through Scripps which is accessible for me. Everything is shipped and monitoring is virtual. It's a rarity for sure.

But with most of these studies, I think they're neglecting the most seriously ill cohort.

What if I can pull my pajama bottoms over my boots or shoes? Does that make them sweatpants?

Don't forget impeachment.

Damn. I read that first sentence in the past tense and

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

When we truly feel and understand that our living planet took almost 4.5 billion years to create the perfect balance for us humans to be able to live here, we may start remembering that caring for our only home is not only imperative for humanity's survival - it's an ethical revolution.
🌍✊💚

Band from the bathroom:

The Dookie Brothers

Offering Compline this night for those who are letting the day end without getting the last word.

May God hold what remains unsaid, and grant you rest.

a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room Alt: Scotty in Star Trek IV proclaims "There be whales here!" after successfully rescuing a breeding pair of humpbacks from hunters in the nick of time, thus delivering the key to saving Earth.

They are a stunning species. Their "language" is sophisticated. I can see why Star Trek decided to make them intelligent friends of an alien power.

I love humpback whales, and years ago I read about changes in the way their songs develop. Pods that used to sing to each other can now no longer communicate, so they are evolving separate "dialects."

Linguistically fascinating, but ecologically troubling.

Good morning, beloved.

Nothing gets done until somebody does it.

Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

We've been conditioned my entire adult life to bow down to the invisible hand of The Market. Well, guess what - the market doesn't wanted entitled asshole men as much as it used to