"they might not have breathed fire" is a huge difference. the fact that the dragon can kill you from beyond the reach of your spear changes things completely.

kidnapping your boss to make them pay you

Selection from a scholarly article on medieval Dominican catechesis reading: "So Simon explains that the Father and the Son are different persons of the same divine substance, and not different aspects of the same person. This is of course the modalist Sabellian heresy - but it is also an error that is easy enough to make when a layperson is trying to explain the Trinity, as anyone who has ever had a Sunday School teacher helpfully and heretically liken the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to water, ice, and steam can attest."

Honestly, my favorite bit of snark to have included in a scholarly publication.

"soldiers who died for our way of life", nope, didnt happen. that's not to say we shouldntve fought in wwii, but that wasnt for us (and we absolutely should not have fought in any other war).

as always, it needs to be pointed out that quite literally not a single australian soldier has ever died for "our freedom" or any similar construct.

know someone i'd like to send this to but she's too self-loathing to take it on-board :(

this gives me a good idea: i'll try to keep a running thread of things that are union-busting that you might not know are union-busting.

ERGs are one to start.

another one: employee satisfaction surveys! corporations use them to see where agitation is that could potentially lead to a union

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

my brother and i rented this because "haha bad movie" and halfway through we were like "excuse me why is it good?"

those romans wouldve had a much harder time executing jesus if he had a glock

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

i dont actually care about light vs. dark mode i just use any given app's default

Chris Minns is a constitutional vandal. He must apologise for NSW protest laws or resign NSW Premier Chris Minns' protest laws have been ruled unconstitutional. He shouldn't just be 'disappointed', he should hang his head in shame.

"These politicians demonstrated that it is they who are incompatible with the system of representative and responsible government entrenched by the constitution. They should admit it, apologise, and do better, or join their stupid law in the bin."

Thinking about how I hate "self styled wizard vibecoding" but now Im thinking of wizards binding familiars and summoning demons up in their weird towers and it's like oh no wonder everyone hates wizards, they don't know jack shit, all they can do is be creepy and ask the extra-planar turk to do shit

"pointing out how transphobia harms cis people is rhetorically useful" vs. "can we stop making transphobia about cis people?" idk i kinda think both are true :/

it's ambiguous imo

sweet dreams <3

i can (and do) promise not to forget

maybe i need some system where you reply for me discord and then i delete it

I've had entire visits completely derailed by revealing my sex assigned at birth. Literally ended up taking up half my visit for no reason. Thanks NYU-Langone Gastroenterology

worst thing about the passage of time

Text states that Labor started talking about bludgers in 74.

Whitlam was still PM.

abandoning atheism so i have someone to blame for my facial hair

sam altman probably doesnt deserve to be assassinated but it is hard to feel bad for him

whenever i hear the uncensored version of, this aint a scene it's an arms race, my immediate reaction is "this sounds awful why would you do this to the song", even tho obviously it's the original and of course fall out boy didnt write something good on purpose

yet again, while im all for making fun of karl jobst for being a clueless loser who thought chatgpt could offer him legal advice, i do think it's more important to note that he's (almost certainly, tho i'll admit i could not prove it beyond reasonable doubt) a white supremacist

how do so many people gain a phd in philosophy while remaining literally incapable of recognizing an empirical question?

idk there are a lot of them

Man idk how to express how demoralizing it is to see people doing joke support for the Pope as the Catholic Church implements the most draconian trans healthcare ban anywhere in the US. It's a FULL ADULT TRANS HEALTHCARE BAN!!!THEY KEEP BUYING MORE HOSPITALS!!!!!!!

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

i have an actual friend from Gaza who I used to work in an actual office with who I helped fundraise for to get his family out in early 2024: I can confirm this was not how any of this worked on his end