I did a whole ethnographic overview of CLAMP’s self censorship of X/1999 given what was going on in Japan at the time it was releasing and the idea of apocalypse in Japanese media. That was fun. I should see if I can find a copy of the poster somewhere
I work in an environment where we juggle several time zones, I now just default to the entire spread of US time zones if I’m not sure where someone is within the continental US. Which is to say, mood.
A white dog mascot wearing a white middle bowl as a hat and a brown skirt kneels on some grass in front of some trees.
Sanomaru, the mascot of Sano City, is a samurai puppy with a ramen bowl on his head and potato skewer swords.
It's time to set the record straight.
#TheVampireLestat debuts June 7 on AMC and AMC+.
youtu.be/7c7JFMTBeVk
David Lynch in a car holding a can of Coke "I've had two Cokes - two cookies and a Coke. Phenomenal. Wow!"
Reminder from David and I to take joy in the little things, while you're here and able to do so.
*nodding* autistic mummy
is it the one who complained his phone didn't work because it got too hot but he submerged it in a pool *checks and finds I'm now blocked* helllll yeahhhh
Fuckin congrats!!
Shit sleep night, got a dirty chai for the office commute, let’s fucking go.
hello to everyone else included in the "anti-ai ai haters" blocklist the technical advisor of bluesky just followed 🫡 it's an honor just to be nominated
Some fun news: I finally built a standalone webcomic site for The Goblin Throne! If you're interested in a nice, easy place to read the first two parts of this graphic novel (perhaps before the Kickstarter goes live in June, wink wink), this is the place for you 😈 www.thegoblinthrone.com/comic/001/
The ghost holding a bright cross in the movie THE FOG
"One hundred years ago on the 21st of April, out in the waters around Spivey Point, a small clipper ship drew toward land. Suddenly, out of the night, the fog rolled in. For a moment, they could see nothing, not a foot in front of them. Then, they saw a light..."
#TheFog @thehorrormaster.bsky.social
Conservative brain is “We can disenfranchise Black voters by eliminating their districts and merging them with Hitlerberg, Oklahoma but if you DARE to fight back we’ll take our ball and go home!”
Apologies, this is just the best example I can think of for how to cheekily get around it!
FUCKIN FOUND IT. Sex Criminals vol 1, “Fat Bottom Girls”
Hello I am glass roof conservatory
Michael B Jordan all ripped and oily holding a sculpt of his own chest as if he burst out of it and in his left hand and on the left side of his body he has a cool trench coat on but the right side is just bare body with deltoids and pecs and triceps and obliques and forearms and then he has on these green pants made out of Rich Person Material, probably some kind of rare animal leather and the lighting accentuates all the creases pointing to his schmeat oh yeah by the way even his nipple is shiny Rolling Stone did this
Have we discussed this yet?
There’s an image comic that played around with that in a joking way - I just can’t remember which one it is. Watch me remember in like 24 hours. P sure it’s a Matt fraction comic.
![What the founding generation understood as an establishment of
religion is a legal question to be decided by a court, not a “fact” question to
be decided by experts, no matter how credentialed. To be sure, courts must
make a determined effort to grasp the relevant history bearing on that legal
question. Hilsenrath, 136 F.4th at 491 (“This kind of historical inquiry
requires serious work.” (citation omitted)); McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561
U.S. 742, 803 (2010) (Thomas, J., concurring) (noting “[h]istorical
analysis can be difficult”). See generally Heller, 554 U.S. at 592–95, 600–03,
605–19. They do so by consulting articles, books, and historical sources and
bringing their own independent judgment to bear on them—not by
appointing an “expert,” whose “findings” are insulated by clear-error
review on appeal.57
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What the founding generation understood as an establishment of religion is a legal question to be decided by a court, not a “fact” question to be decided by experts, no matter how credentialed. To be sure, courts must make a determined effort to grasp the relevant history bearing on that legal question. Hilsenrath, 136 F.4th at 491 (“This kind of historical inquiry requires serious work.” (citation omitted)); McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742, 803 (2010) (Thomas, J., concurring) (noting “[h]istorical analysis can be difficult”). See generally Heller, 554 U.S. at 592–95, 600–03, 605–19. They do so by consulting articles, books, and historical sources and bringing their own independent judgment to bear on them—not by appointing an “expert,” whose “findings” are insulated by clear-error review on appeal.57 _________________
And then, in one last bizarre twist, the Court says that judges aren't allowed to ask experts in history about questions of history, because experts impact "independent judgment."
Brb going to scream.
But this principle has no application to government use of religious language or symbolism. See Lynch, 465 U.S. at 687 n.13 (declining to apply denominational preference cases to city crèche). Nor could it. Consider the cities of Corpus Christi, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Fe, San Jose, St. Augustine, and Sacramento, to name just a few. Do those names represent “denominational discrimination”? Or take our national motto. See 36 U.S.C. § 302 (“In God We Trust”). Does it show “favoritism” for monotheism over polytheism?
The Fifth Circuit says religious freedom doesn't apply to religious symbols posted by the government because place names exist.
I am not joking.
That is what they said.
Moreover, Plaintiffs have not identified a shred of founding-era evidence equating the government’s use of religious text, displays, or symbols with an establishment of religion. To the contrary, it appears that no one “ever claimed at the founding that the display of religious symbols was a form of religious establishment.” Chapman & McConnell,
See, the Ten Commandments in schools isn't coercive because that's not what the Founders considered coercive.
And then, we get to the most remarkable and batshit part of this whole opinion.
![The key phrase—“an establishment of religion”—was readily
understandable to founding-era citizens. See District of Columbia v. Heller,
554 U.S. 570, 576–77 (2008) (relying on a phrase’s “[n]ormal meaning . . .
known to ordinary citizens in the founding generation”). The reason is
simple. At the time, establishments were “a familiar institution.”
McConnell, Establishment, supra note 12, at 2107.13 Someone on the streets
of 1789 Boston, reading that phrase, would have instantly thought of the
Church of England, the colonial established churches, or the current state
establishments—in other words, a polity’s official church or religion. Ibid.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aw426jbgw7drhivb4ijrizlu/bafkreiduhdy2udsogi6jjhgxmz764ne7a25cvulptoeqmzq2kevp6pe66e)
The key phrase—“an establishment of religion”—was readily understandable to founding-era citizens. See District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 576–77 (2008) (relying on a phrase’s “[n]ormal meaning . . . known to ordinary citizens in the founding generation”). The reason is simple. At the time, establishments were “a familiar institution.” McConnell, Establishment, supra note 12, at 2107.13 Someone on the streets of 1789 Boston, reading that phrase, would have instantly thought of the Church of England, the colonial established churches, or the current state establishments—in other words, a polity’s official church or religion. Ibid.
Although the colonial establishments became more tolerant of dissenters as independence approached, their essence remained unchanged. The original state constitutions reflect as much. Far from rejecting establishments, many states preserved the core components of their establishments, such as public financial support for the official church, regulation of religious institutions, and religious qualifications for civic participation.36 Most explicit was South Carolina, whose 1778 Constitution declared that “the Christian Protestant religion” was “the established religion,” requiring religious societies to subscribe to enumerated articles of faith to receive legal recognition. S.C. Const. of 1778, art. XXXVIII, reprinted in Poore, State Constitutions, supra note 36, at 1626.
The Fifth Circuit flatly states that when the First Amendment says Congress may not create an "establishment of religion," it means the Church of England. They then argue the Founders intended states to have their own churches unaffected by the First Amendment (!!!).
The alt text is v good
A ✍️ bag of Guillermo Del Toro with spider legs and bat wings
DEL TORO TUESDAY
#DelToroTuesday @realgdt.bsky.social
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will never rebuild my twitter follower count on any new platforms as i am simply no longer that mentally ill
a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers
thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool
A digital library app showing the covers for The Language of Liars and the Photonic Effect!
Today in extremely good library arrivals: the new @slhuang.com and @mikechenwriter.bsky.social!!
