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Catholic German. Lawful good. Nerd. TANSTAAFL. Friend of Liberty and Democracy. Milquetoast centre-right guy
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
-Lord Acton
Hopefully
"A picture says more than a thousand words."

The regime in #Iran is doomed.
Ein Bild sagt mehr als Tausend Worte.
January 8, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Hey, we are more reasonable and empirical than this
Today in AI research papers that sound like theological arguments

www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.24661
January 8, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Tauet, Himmel, den Gerechten!
Wolken, regnet ihn herab«,
rief das Volk in bangen Nächten.
January 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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"ICE agents. Executed. An American mother. 🔫 On an American street. In broad daylight. While her partner watched. While her six-year-old son waited at home for her to walk through the door.
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She was 37 years old. She was a U.S. citizen. She was unarmed. She was..."
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www.patheos.com/blogs/jeffho...
Renee Nicole Good & The God Who Sees The Evil Of ICE
Renee Nicole Good is dead Minneapolis. ICE murdered her. This is a prophetic call to abolish ICE and prosecute the ICE killers.
www.patheos.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Die härtesten Tage des Winters beginnen in der Ukraine: Ab Freitag gehen die Temperaturen hierzulande dauerhaft unter -10 Grad. Große Herausforderung für Energieinfrastruktur unter russischem Beschuss. Die Lage etwa in Dnipro ist schon kritisch. Selbst Krankenhäuser zu versorgen ist ein Problem.
January 8, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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Der Sonnengesang ist Weltliteratur. Br. Marinus Parzinger, Kapuziner im bayerischen Altötting, sagt, warum ihn der Text beeindruckt und berichtet von einer Verbindung mit Bruder Konrad.

www.kapuziner.org/der-sonnenge...
Der Sonnengesang und das Gespür für das Wesentliche - Deutsche Kapuzinerprovinz
Der Sonnengesang ist Weltliteratur. Br. Marinus Parzinger, Kapuziner im bayerischen Altötting, sagt, warum ihn der Text beeindruckt und berichtet von einer Verbindung mit Bruder Konrad.
www.kapuziner.org
January 8, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Die Situation ist in America mittlerweile so schlimm, dass ich quasi jederzeit mit dem Auftreten eines neuen Propheten ala Jeremia erwarte.
January 8, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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Hi all, just sent out this piece. The Venezuela intervention is a real exception in the study of US public opinion and military intervention. It was unpopular before the Maduro seizure and has not improved since. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Does The US Public Have A Different Idea Of What Makes America "Great"?
Public Reaction to the Venezuela intervention Is Surprising
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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ChatGPT's growth plateaued and appears to have started to collapse, this chart is kinda hard to read so it's hard to tell if it's down 22% week over week, or whether on a three month basis traffic is down. Either way, this is not good
www.similarweb.com/corp/wp-cont...
January 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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Spot the difference: "Das Meshtastic-Projekt basiert ebenfalls auf einer LoRa-Netzwerkarchitektur, aber die Geräte sind nicht klein. Außerdem nutzt das Projekt in China hergestellte Platinen. ... Wir entwickeln unsere Platine selbst und stellen sie in Europa her."
Helena Nikonole hat Kameras in Russland gehackt und Anti-Kriegsbotschaften verbreitet. Nun entwickelt die Künstlerin ein winziges Gerät, um ohne Internet Nachrichten zu verschicken. Mit kreativen und praktischen Lösungen will sich Nikonole einer zusammenbrechenden Welt entgegenstellen.
Hacken & Kunst: „Kunst allein reicht nicht aus“
Helena Nikonole hat Kameras in Russland gehackt und Anti-Kriegsbotschaften verbreitet. Nun entwickelt die Künstlerin ein winziges Gerät, um ohne Internet Nachrichten zu verschicken. Mit kreativen und ...
netzpolitik.org
January 8, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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Death to short form video
January 6, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Burning my feet with boiling noodle water when I wanted to drain it.
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.

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January 6, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Fortune telling is a sign of a doubting believer, as you doesn't trust God's plan. More or less my conclusion about the prophets from the shepard of Hermas.
January 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Good. Underrated time
Pope continues to be art deco, and I continue to stan. Also, he keeps wearing his amice, which is fantastic.
January 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
-Lord Acton
January 6, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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"It seems that he did engage with his Blackness, at the very least in the confessional booth. In 'God’s Men of Color,' Fr [Albert] Foley recounts multiple stories wherein penitents confessed their racism to Healy, after which he gently confronts them on their ignorance..."
Bishop James A. Healy of Portland in Maine was the nation's first openly Black Catholic prelate, but passed for White after escaping slavery in the South as a child in the 1830s.

Tulio Huggins writes that his story is both complicated and inspirational. buff.ly/JSrlDqC
January 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Wohin flieht der Oberislamist, wenn's hart auf hart kommt? Natürlich nach Russland, der Bastion des christlichen Abendlandes, das Europa vor der Islamisierung bewahrt.
January 5, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Schnee und Rheinland - schwierige Kombi
January 5, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Feeling really down at the moment. Please pray for me
January 4, 2026 at 12:22 PM
A farmer in Chinese fantasy world
Well, now I'm an English professor...
January 4, 2026 at 8:12 AM
My brilliant future
January 3, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Sonehow, I thought that I would defend Lithuania from Russia, but now I have a new fascinating option to be in a trench around Uummanaq.
These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver.

This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.
January 3, 2026 at 10:18 PM