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As someone with a strategically ambiguous relationship to Anglo-Catholicism,
Well yes, the Epstein case should force you to abandon that approach to conspiracism altogether
February 4, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Well yes, the Epstein case should force you to abandon that approach to conspiracism altogether
My greatest personal conspiracy theory is that Putlocker and 123movies and Lookmovie and etc. are actually run by state-actors, not individual pirates
February 4, 2026 at 3:13 AM
My greatest personal conspiracy theory is that Putlocker and 123movies and Lookmovie and etc. are actually run by state-actors, not individual pirates
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that’s actually not in the Bible
Q: Pope Leo cited Matthew 25:35 to critique Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda. How would you respond to Pope Leo in scripture?
MIKE JOHNSON: Sovereign borders are biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside.
MIKE JOHNSON: Sovereign borders are biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside.
February 3, 2026 at 7:43 PM
that’s actually not in the Bible
This is counterintuitive but something that would make my job much less annoying as a church staffer would be to have MORE meetings. Without meetings, people come up with ideas and then get mad when I don’t accept their ideas. But I already am doing something for that. I didn’t need your idea. Sorry
February 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
This is counterintuitive but something that would make my job much less annoying as a church staffer would be to have MORE meetings. Without meetings, people come up with ideas and then get mad when I don’t accept their ideas. But I already am doing something for that. I didn’t need your idea. Sorry
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I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
I think a surprising number of parents are like pet owners who are excited to get a new pet and then grow bored with it and stop investing time and energy. They just like mentally check out as the kids go through elementary school
February 3, 2026 at 5:15 PM
I think a surprising number of parents are like pet owners who are excited to get a new pet and then grow bored with it and stop investing time and energy. They just like mentally check out as the kids go through elementary school
Indescribable how true this is
Walmart dot com is like Amazon pre enshittification
February 3, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Indescribable how true this is
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A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting
Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morning’s alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon
www.nrtoday.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
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i never dreamt that the illicit financial technology designed to avoid scrutiny could be used for *bad* criminal purposes
I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly
February 2, 2026 at 9:07 PM
i never dreamt that the illicit financial technology designed to avoid scrutiny could be used for *bad* criminal purposes
Marlene Dietrich Bonhoeffer (is this anything)
February 2, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Marlene Dietrich Bonhoeffer (is this anything)
I’m glad I got off Twitter and bluesky causes much less psychic damage but I feel like the era of microblogging is just over… maybe it finally is time to make a podcast
February 2, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I’m glad I got off Twitter and bluesky causes much less psychic damage but I feel like the era of microblogging is just over… maybe it finally is time to make a podcast
😭😭😭
Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.
Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency
Congress hasn’t seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community watchdog’s office.
on.wsj.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:26 PM
😭😭😭
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"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:45 AM
"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
It’s real “time for a nap” hours
It’s real “time to wake up” hours
February 1, 2026 at 8:51 PM
It’s real “time for a nap” hours
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Liam Ramos gets to meet the pilot and visit the cockpit on his flight home from the Texas ICE camp
This little boy has become an inadvertent symbol of resistance
A reminder of why we fight
What ICE did to this child was wrong.
May the kindness he receives today help heal the damage.
This little boy has become an inadvertent symbol of resistance
A reminder of why we fight
What ICE did to this child was wrong.
May the kindness he receives today help heal the damage.
February 1, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Liam Ramos gets to meet the pilot and visit the cockpit on his flight home from the Texas ICE camp
This little boy has become an inadvertent symbol of resistance
A reminder of why we fight
What ICE did to this child was wrong.
May the kindness he receives today help heal the damage.
This little boy has become an inadvertent symbol of resistance
A reminder of why we fight
What ICE did to this child was wrong.
May the kindness he receives today help heal the damage.
It’s real “time to wake up” hours
February 1, 2026 at 12:51 PM
It’s real “time to wake up” hours
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Landscape in the Ile de France, 1865
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11341
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11341
February 1, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Landscape in the Ile de France, 1865
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11341
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11341
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Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids
I was there. They were indiscriminately firing multiple canisters into a huge peaceful crowd. Fucking cowards
February 1, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids
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Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
![Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
_________________________________________________
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
[photo of Liam]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreigfz6fzbu65haq7nfqgaoe7m42gsaonpinpmaaptuzd5atkqvya4i@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
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"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."
Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him
CHICAGO—Saying he had been absolutely blindsided by the sudden change in his fortunes, local 33-year-old Tyler Branton, a man who lost everything in cryptocurrencies, told reporters Thursday that he j...
theonion.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:38 PM
"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."
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Public opinion has shifted dramatically against the White House's approach to immigration enforcement, as captured in the rising % of adults who want to abolish ICE (now +12 among independents, per YouGov). Dems have a lot of leverage to push for reforms rn. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...
The ICE shootings are a tipping point
Donald Trump's approval on immigration has collapsed 17 points since taking office, and support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement has swung 50 points since Sept. 2024.
www.gelliottmorris.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Public opinion has shifted dramatically against the White House's approach to immigration enforcement, as captured in the rising % of adults who want to abolish ICE (now +12 among independents, per YouGov). Dems have a lot of leverage to push for reforms rn. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...
One thing that surprised me about joining a church with a much more traditional hymnody is that we never sing Amazing Grace. I figured that would be common but I have literally never heard it sung, in the five years I’ve been in TEC, including at funerals
January 30, 2026 at 5:50 PM
One thing that surprised me about joining a church with a much more traditional hymnody is that we never sing Amazing Grace. I figured that would be common but I have literally never heard it sung, in the five years I’ve been in TEC, including at funerals
Walmart dot com is like Amazon pre enshittification
January 30, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Walmart dot com is like Amazon pre enshittification
Matt 5:16 “let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven”
Matt 6:3-4 “do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you”
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Matt 6:3-4 “do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you”
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January 29, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Matt 5:16 “let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven”
Matt 6:3-4 “do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you”
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Matt 6:3-4 “do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you”
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Looks awful. Also can the AI really not generate shots longer than 1.5 seconds
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Looks awful. Also can the AI really not generate shots longer than 1.5 seconds