Back injury from Lucy pulling the football away as he tries to kick it.

Just one of those social media games. 😆

Σοβαρά, ξέρει κανείς ποιος ηλίθιος έφερε εδώ raccoon?

They can undo the chip-access only cat door. Of course they can.
Because they are 🤬 raccoons.

If we’re talking about U.S dorks, they have very little idea of the “European Culture” they claim to stand for; how diverse it is, how linked to other continents, how dependent on the migration and mingling of people and ideas for its greatest successes.

I think we have a lot in common, culturally.

Yes. I grew up close to a few Jewish families, and found much to admire.
But Christian orthodoxy is an imperial religion, from its foundations. And the currently most numerous and powerful strand flourishes in Russia, under a patriarchate closely aligned to the ruling order.

I understand the folk practice element is stronger in Judaism, and there’s an invitation to engage with the intellectual tradition.
At least in Greece, the orthodox are not even taught the ancient language of ceremony, and obedience is key. Orthodox Christianity usually aligns with secular power.

Despite the ‘joke’ about change, these congregations sound markedly American, and very different in practice from the orthodoxy most common in my country, with its deep mariolatry and old women as the mainstay of its attendance.

No. I can tell you, having grown up in an orthodox country, and nominally in that church, how rigid is its dogma and how it constantly pushes against the human, folk traditions that build up around it.
I think it less accommodating than even the Catholic Church; no liberation theology or Vatican II.

The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.

I’m also curious to see how this plays with the Maga-friendly British right, pink playing as important a role as it does in the UK upper crust’s leisure clothing.

I reckon Trump is pretty much apolitical, at least at some level. It’s all narcissism, extortion, and primate-brain status games. When he’s around people he perceives as lower status, he domineers; higher, he grovels. Mamdani is so charismatic, he can only see him as a light to bask in.

I love Astro City!