Ash
@cromulentthoughts.bsky.social
Keyboard Conscientious Objector
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"Every fire thinks it’s a part of God, but lightning is not a promise, a flag is not a shield. Love wants you to believe that there’s a God somewhere who can do your dying for you. There are raptures that won’t come for you and raptures that will." Traci Brimhall, "Lullaby on Mount Moriah"
September 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"Every fire thinks it’s a part of God, but lightning is not a promise, a flag is not a shield. Love wants you to believe that there’s a God somewhere who can do your dying for you. There are raptures that won’t come for you and raptures that will." Traci Brimhall, "Lullaby on Mount Moriah"
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US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.
August 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.
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Standing and waiting like a pet poodle for a murderous foreign dictator who kills America’s friends and allies, trying to suck up to him by rolling out a show of the armed forces that mostly exist to fight that very dictator.
August 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Standing and waiting like a pet poodle for a murderous foreign dictator who kills America’s friends and allies, trying to suck up to him by rolling out a show of the armed forces that mostly exist to fight that very dictator.
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this is what beit hanoun looked like (from arabi21.com/story/155862...)
July 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
this is what beit hanoun looked like (from arabi21.com/story/155862...)
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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Trump just does not understand why anyone would resist a more powerful adversary, for any reason.
"When you're a celebrity they just let you do it" and refusing to pay contractor invoices until they slash the price in desperation is how he understands the world.
Ukraine baffles and infuriates him.
"When you're a celebrity they just let you do it" and refusing to pay contractor invoices until they slash the price in desperation is how he understands the world.
Ukraine baffles and infuriates him.
June 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Trump just does not understand why anyone would resist a more powerful adversary, for any reason.
"When you're a celebrity they just let you do it" and refusing to pay contractor invoices until they slash the price in desperation is how he understands the world.
Ukraine baffles and infuriates him.
"When you're a celebrity they just let you do it" and refusing to pay contractor invoices until they slash the price in desperation is how he understands the world.
Ukraine baffles and infuriates him.
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My 1st time in Japan, long ago, we saw this guy driving a tiny lil custom truck, singing a phrase through a loudspeaker. The melody was gentle, spiritual. We asked our translator “What’s he singing?” She said “He’s saying ‘baaaaked potaaatoooo.’ It is baked potato truck.” I think about that a lot.
May 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My 1st time in Japan, long ago, we saw this guy driving a tiny lil custom truck, singing a phrase through a loudspeaker. The melody was gentle, spiritual. We asked our translator “What’s he singing?” She said “He’s saying ‘baaaaked potaaatoooo.’ It is baked potato truck.” I think about that a lot.
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An extraordinary opinion for an extraordinary moment in American history.
JUST IN: Judge HOWELL rules forcefully in favor of Perkins Coie against Trump's punitive executive order, comparing him to a Shakespearean character who famously called to "kill all the lawyers" in order to amass power.
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May 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
An extraordinary opinion for an extraordinary moment in American history.
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people get left behind by the world sometimes, and a just and compassionate society should strive to look after them. But to paraphrase C.S. Lewis on the damned, the loveless and self-imprisoned cannot be allowed to blackmail the universe.
April 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
people get left behind by the world sometimes, and a just and compassionate society should strive to look after them. But to paraphrase C.S. Lewis on the damned, the loveless and self-imprisoned cannot be allowed to blackmail the universe.
People said this was lazy foreshadowing when it happened 3 months ago, but at least it was accurate
April 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
People said this was lazy foreshadowing when it happened 3 months ago, but at least it was accurate
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Donald Trump was probably sent by God to punish Americans for our gluttonous abuse of the greatest concentration of wealth in world history.
April 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Donald Trump was probably sent by God to punish Americans for our gluttonous abuse of the greatest concentration of wealth in world history.
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"In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day...Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, at least 36 in a brigade. 1/4
In Gaza, almost every IDF platoon keeps a human shield, a sub-army of Palestinian slaves | Opinion
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www.haaretz.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day...Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, at least 36 in a brigade. 1/4
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The hype about the ability for ChatGPT to produce Studio Ghibli style images belies the entire basis of the generative AI hype: it relies on wholesale plagiarism and copyright infringement to create content that is only deemed interesting by dint of sheer imitation. It is anti-art and anti-human.
March 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The hype about the ability for ChatGPT to produce Studio Ghibli style images belies the entire basis of the generative AI hype: it relies on wholesale plagiarism and copyright infringement to create content that is only deemed interesting by dint of sheer imitation. It is anti-art and anti-human.
At least we now know how this happened
March 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
At least we now know how this happened
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Uh, I believe the point is to be better than the criminals.
KARL: Do they have any due process at all?
HOMAN: Due process -- what was Laken Riley's due process?
(That's a "no")
HOMAN: Due process -- what was Laken Riley's due process?
(That's a "no")
March 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Uh, I believe the point is to be better than the criminals.
Find someone who can do all three
March 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Find someone who can do all three
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The wildest part is that the dude is like "I guess I didn't know" and "they need to get the vetting done," and not even renouncing Trump. He disappeared your wife! On your honeymoon! This movement is a scourge that will destroy every last piece of your humanity
This is a very sad story, but what makes me crazy is that people tried to explain that this is what would happen and got caricatured as "woke" hysterics www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.
www.usatoday.com
March 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The wildest part is that the dude is like "I guess I didn't know" and "they need to get the vetting done," and not even renouncing Trump. He disappeared your wife! On your honeymoon! This movement is a scourge that will destroy every last piece of your humanity
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I really can’t get over that all this, the threatening to invade Canada, the torturing of that German guy with a green card, the soon to happen deaths of millions of people from the dismantling of USAID, is a response to the absolute dipshit question “has wokeness gone too far?”
March 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I really can’t get over that all this, the threatening to invade Canada, the torturing of that German guy with a green card, the soon to happen deaths of millions of people from the dismantling of USAID, is a response to the absolute dipshit question “has wokeness gone too far?”
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Being president of America now is essentially just being the judge of a reality show where you not only get to decide who does and doesn’t have rights, you get to assign race, religion, and gender to your enemies for your audience of vindictive boomers
Donald Trump: "Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I am concerned. He has become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He is not Jewish anymore. He is a Palestinian."
March 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Being president of America now is essentially just being the judge of a reality show where you not only get to decide who does and doesn’t have rights, you get to assign race, religion, and gender to your enemies for your audience of vindictive boomers
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There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”
March 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”
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Eight jailed after posing as electricians to divert power to UK cannabis farms
Eight jailed after posing as electricians to divert power to UK cannabis farms
Criminals dressed as utilities repair teams dug up roads to access cables to power industrial-scale drug production
A group of eight criminals who dug up roads and diverted electricity to cannabis farms run by organised crime gangs have been jailed by a…
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Eight jailed after posing as electricians to divert power to UK cannabis farms
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Ernest Hemingway wrote this in 1935…
March 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Ernest Hemingway wrote this in 1935…
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AFRICAN GAZE was an exhibition showcasing the weird and wonderful art form that is the Ghanaian movie poster. On Ghana’s Independence Day, here are some of the best...
1/25 - Mrs Doubtfire
1/25 - Mrs Doubtfire
March 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
AFRICAN GAZE was an exhibition showcasing the weird and wonderful art form that is the Ghanaian movie poster. On Ghana’s Independence Day, here are some of the best...
1/25 - Mrs Doubtfire
1/25 - Mrs Doubtfire