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veterans are being fired across the government, the VA is being hollowed out, social security claims are being delayed centrist dems: have I mentioned how much I hate trans people?

They don’t want a real conversation about how to win next time, because the implication would be their loss of control over the party.

"The temporal myth is man. Reach heaven by violence. This magic I give to you: the world you will rule is only an intermittent hope and you must be the letter written in uncertainty." --Vivec

TREBEK: Feel free to ask these diminutive spirits for sexual favors, but don't say "guten Tag" -- they're not actually German! me: who are the slut gnomes of false berlin TREBEK: Bizarre little men. You're still in control of the board

You can now read and download *for free* this unique and clearly written short book on contemporary pagan philosophy. It's a smart philosophical defense of paganism, its metaphysics, ethics, and practices such as spellcasting and divination by Eric Steinhart. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The struggle before us is not over abortion or no abortion. It's between bodily autonomy and authoritarianism. If people can reorient their understanding of abortion on that axis, it changes what you're willing to compromise.

Full sequence of the annular solar eclipse at Shiprock, New Mexico. This was a dream composition of mine. So much time, energy, and money went into making it happen. I'm forever grateful to the Navajo for letting me shoot it from sacred ground. An experience I'll never forget.

Naomi Shihab Nye

fully convinced that the popularity of this screenshot has single handedly created a powerful tulpa that people are manifesting and it will cause the downfall of the UK in 2024

"Your future is a horror story written by your crimes," is such an absolute A+ literary line that you'd be forgiven for forgetting it comes from the Muppets.

For decades, scientists couldn't figure out why the measles vaccine didn't just lower death rates from measles, but from other diseases too. Now we know it's because measles causes immune amnesia. Measles resets the immune system. It forgets how to fight every single pathogen it's ever encountered.

I consider this one of the most important parables to come out of Twitter’s existence

Lorenzo Lippi, Allegory of Simulation, Oil on Canvas, 73 x 89 cm, c. 1640 (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers)

grateful for the privilege of growing older, being a papa, watching my son play with friends

“Coral Dictionary [calls] attention to the notion that language, while at times functioning as a medium of universality, is also a deeply grounded phenomenon that weaves together shape and sound, place and meaning.” Such a lovely book lareviewofbooks.org/article/cora...

If you are not already aware that the little owl antennae are called “plumicorns” I would like to be the one who shared that information with you.

My other favorite "things washing up on a beach" story is the time a container of synthesizers washed up in Cape Verde and local officials distributed them to schools and the students created *a whole new genre of music* www.theguardian.com/music/2016/m...

This is exactly what it’s like in my brain all the time, all four levels, simultaneously

you can't use AI to solve complex societal problems such as human rights and war when the very foundation of AI is built on corporate profit maximisation and power centralisation

PSA

in my backyard, silently observing bees shuttle between flowers

enantiodromia, again.

Cold plunge tub salesman: in an ideal world, how would you start each day Me: cup of coff- Him: that's right, a simulation of an ice fishing accident