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Rowan and I were scanning YouTube for toy train videos when we were assaulted by this ad. He found it merely intrusive, but I positively freaked out. Something is wrong on the Internet indeed: medium.com/@jamesbridle...

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René Girard on the end of the world, from Cynthia Haven's biography. I'm reminded of an apocryphal statement attributed to Paul Virilio: "To have faith means to believe that, in the end, we lose, we all die... And then, we do something else."

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Der Hölderlin isch et verrückt gwae

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I hide mini ghost stories in hotels for the curious traveller. This is my latest entry- writelikeashark.com/2025/04/22/h...

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"It is more difficult to give proper expression to nature when the artist finds himself surrounded by masterpieces than when he is virtually alone amidst the living world." -- F. Hölderlin, proto-emo

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Something I like about Christianity is this idea it has where sharing in the vulnerability of others is seen as genuinely good, and making others vulnerable is seen as genuinely bad. It’s easy to get those things confused, but they’re very different.

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Similarly: perpetuating the vulnerable in their vulnerability is NOT, in fact, the basis of charity. When Christ says, "You will always have the poor with you," that wasn't, like...A SUGGESTION. cf. William Blake, "Holy Thursday": www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43661/...

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Baby is home and doing better than I could have hoped. Far from home, Kilmar is alive. My heart, tired from worrying so much, feels buoyed up by all those who are turning their own hearts towards justice and compassion right now. Sunday is indeed always coming.

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Kiddo spent two nights in the hospital and we have moved onto the "all pain is forgotten, engage total recklessness" stage of things.

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I am so excited for this to come together, I can't even.

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It’s just really stark to me that AOC and Bernie are wandering around the nation saying “each of you matter,” and this one Senator from Maryland is saying “fuck it I’m flying to El Salvador for just one legal resident,” and the GOP is… bereft of messages so simple and good. I dunno. Just stark.

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Please keep me and my wife in your prayers/remembrances tomorrow as we take our 2yo daughter in for reconstructive hip surgery. And when you think of her, think of Kilmar, too. Hope for life and justice, for good news in hard places. I'll be hoping with you.

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Protests in New York totally blindsided police. They managed with 44 officers. No event incidents. "A great crowd." I can't overstate how amazing and encouraging that is. Everyone keep at it.

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Did you know that the season of Lent kicks off by commemorating Jesus fasting alone in the desert for 40 days? Even if you don't observe religiously, this season invites you to audit where you're spending your attention, and whether that's giving you life or not.

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Indeed, if civility is indeed a virtue (and I think it is), then its prudent expression is highly context dependent, i.e. doing the right thing at the right time in the right way.

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Woke up early to put finishing touches on an adventure @artdad.bsky.social and I have been writing. Our ecosystem is still mostly #5e but we're playing with "transitional" material that hopefully teaches some #osr attitudes while being a little more "The Mummy" than "Temple of Doom" #ttrpgcommunity

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Or, as Josh Johnson might put it, certain prominent losers throw tantrums when it's clear they cannot "buy their cool."

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"Misanthropy...is akin to intellectual prudishness, which Nietzsche would call ressentiment: the defensive strategy of the losers, of those who speak against desire because they are unsuccessful in their attempts to attract it and capitalize on it." -- René Girard, 'Things Hidden', p.370

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I think the important thing here isn't deciding what issues to focus on (there are MANY evils that are in the church's purview right now) -- but instead focusing on HOW we practice solidarity in ways that are communal, sustainable, and accessible.

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It's good to have friends. Praying during this solemn week that we remember how.

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