We won't be able to see it until its Netflix release, but we ARE watching Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass which is very Catholic in a different way and I'm singing along to all the hymns (for @zdfithian.bsky.social 's education)

Granddaughter's boyfriend who asks about trains at Christmas energy

I think "oh Dad is cooking"!

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You're writing checks Hades already cashed, buddy

"Fires the bigotry neuron" is one of the ways that process is described! Engaging in bigoted patterns of thought and speech at inapposite targets genuinely does alter a speaker's patterns of thinking! Or, to put it differently, "ironic" racism incepts people into real racism.

We have decades of evidence that regularly repeating statements that "ironically" borrow from the language of bigotry and apply it to inapposite targets genuinely do alter the taboo threshold at which the speaker both believes in and is willing to express bigotry against actual marginalized groups!

Hestia, love 2 set things on fire and run away

Oh no. Always the worst day and no way to make it easier. I am so sorry for your loss.