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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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Jesus: “I am the resurrection.” Trump: “I am your retribution.” You don’t get to have both. Choose.

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MagicCon outside USA when? @mtgfestivals.com

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Wondering when we’ll have another top-tier @magic.wizards.com event in the UK. I had such a great time at GP London years ago, never guessing it would be the last such gathering, ever?

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her: I'm coming over, you better not be reticulating splines me:

submitted 16 days ago • 47 comments

Chilli dogs and plaid shirts tonight to mark Superb Owl. Best wishes to Taylor Swift’s boyfriend and also all the others.

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you were dead, and are now alive

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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

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our common life depends upon each other's toil

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the Exsultet. It is desirable

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BREAKING: if you don’t like what DOGE is doing at Treasury— neither do we So we just sued to stop it! www.citizen.org/wp-content/u... I’ll be on @thereidout tonight at 7:40 PM ET to break down that and much more

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Oh wow! Hakeem found his spine!

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As China continues to give money and projects to countries to gain influence, we are shutting down our agencies that do that. China is eating our lunch and Trump is the reason. Sorry folks, if you don’t see it you don’t understand how the world works. Period

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📌LISTEN TO ME MEDIA: We have had enough of the breaking news of Musk knocking down the doors of our govt. and accessing OUR information. We get it. It's terrible. We are now at the WHY stage of this story. 📌Please tell the American public WHY Trump is doing this, and the peril EVERYBODY is in.

submitted 26 days ago • 20 comments

1. Show up. Go to the places Musk is taking over, bring cameras, demand to find out what's going on and where it breaks the law. 2. Refuse to allow standard business to continue unimpeded. Deny unanimous consent, delay votes, etc. 3. Be public about how illegal all of this is 4. Lay out a plan

submitted 26 days ago • 197 comments

How is this legal? How? Why is every top Democrat not outside the Treasury right now, holding a press conference at least? Or filing a lawsuit?? I am losing my mind.

submitted 26 days ago • 373 comments

I'm still trying to figure out how leading Democrats think that ‘trying to be bipartisan’ with the Leopards Eating Faces party is a winning strategy. Why not stand up with a positive vision of alternatives to gerrymandering, racism, sexism, white supremacy, & expropriation of wealth to the wealthy?

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To all the congressfolk sending me fundraising emails, less about your bio and more about how you’re taking action against Trump’s illegal consolidation of power and maybe we can talk about sending you a single penny. Looking at you, @aoc.bsky.social

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I'm doing my best not to comment on every little (or big) thing that comes out of the White House these days. However, when it's something that touches directly on my actual areas of expertise, I cannot stay silent. 1/

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Twitter was us all in a giant bin fire, piling on our own little twigs. Blue sky is us all watching the giant bin fire from the relative safety of a bright field where we sit around sharing pictures of cats.

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"An assassin is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent, and carries out murders according to the terms of his contract" --partial text of the assassin's creed

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Bishop Mariann Budde struck a chord! We had four new households in church this morning including a college student from a local university. The message of Jesus is life giving in a culture of contempt! Be encouraged! ⚓🕯️

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There is something precious about hearing my thoughtful, reasonable, highly educated husband interact compassionately and softly with a toddler who is hysterically crying and screaming: “I WANT MY POOPOO TO GO BACK INNNNNNN!!!!!!”

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The ‘problem’ with reading Basho is that one’s thoughts fall or drift into haiku. Winter. Moving clouds./Snow now falls upon the lake./I watch by the fire.

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One of the co-sponsors of the House bill condemning Budde's sermon, listed below, is Rep. Beth Van Duyne, an Episcopalian. I reached out to the Rt. Rev. C Andrew Doyle of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, which appears to be her diocese. He told me he was concerned about govt "policing our sermons."

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Bishop Budde preached from a storied pulpit ⚓️

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Hey, all — Episcopal priest here. You know what you can do that would be better than a Bishop Budde fan club? Show up at your local Episcopal church this Sunday. Make an offering, get to know us, and find out what efforts you can help with in your local community! No belief required.

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