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We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own. Romero
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Quakers refuse to exclude trans people from their facilities: ‘This is what Love requires of us’ www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/27/q...

The cliffs of Le-Bouille #artbots #gauguin https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/11732

Criticism of Israeli war crimes isn't anti-semitism. This essay on Israel's war crimes was penned by, let me see, oh, Israel's former Prime Minister. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

I think there's something to this in how social media has made everyone act as a mini-politician rather than a regular person who happens to have political views arising from their own morals and experiences

my nephew has a cyber truck toy car… a harbinger of the End Times

Every time you buy a Harry Potter product, you are financing the dismantling of trans rights

Would you rather debate 30 duck-sized atheists or 30 atheist-sized ducks

"Historian returning from Gaza: 'The most shocking thing is the gap with the outside world's perception.'" No paywall. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Made a sign

Fingers crossed I can get my car out of the parking garage tomorrow morning (there's a parade at 10:00am and I need to leave for 9:30 mass)

Stupid question perhaps but have any of the New Atheists ever read Hegel

Never thought the day would come when I would have to take Jordan Peterson's side

A new book is out making a strong argument that Josephus' Testimonium Flavianum is almost entirely original rather than a product of later editing by Christian authors. And it's open access! academic.oup.com/book/60034

Does anybody want some decade old popcorn (cleaning the Sunday school room part seventeen)

What would be a good price for a rice cooker for one person. I’m going to enter my rice era

Argenteuil, Late Afternoon - 1872 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7761

Should you say “Amen” or “In the name of the F/S/HS, Amen” at the end of your homily? I used to do this but my priest absolutely insisted I not, for liturgical reasons that are too esoteric for me

I am trying these days not to think about issues in terms of coalition politics. Just ask what is right and what is wrong. Let the politicians sort out how to hold us all together.

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

Former Israeli PM Olmert in Haaretz, calls Israel’s assault on Gaza “intentional annihilation” and “war crimes.” Say that as a U.S. politician and AIPAC will spend $5 million to end your career. archive.ph/3vvOi

Just bought the worst Cold Brew of my life at the unauthorized pop up farmers market in town

I'm so annoyed about all the details in this story that don't make sense that I wrote a whole blog post about it. I got both way too technical and way too personal in here. Enjoy. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

I spent many years on a menswear forum with Michael Anton, director of policy planning in Trump's administration. My editors asked if I'd be interested in writing something on him. I have so many stories to tell; this is only a small bit of our shared menswear world www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Not loving all of the ads for AI generated graphic tees that instagram is blasting me with

Headline doesn’t even get at how bad this was: it seems to have been to prevent them testifying about war crimes

The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.

There’s one more day of school on Tuesday but I may or may not pick up a sub job that day. So very possibly, it’s summer!!!!!!

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

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Today is always the right day to cancel your NYT subscription.

I found this statement written by white South African Christian leaders to be clarifying and encouraging. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

open chart, keep scrolling down www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

I wrote about the Abrego Garcia case and Trump's collapsing standing on immigration. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.