Kids who only know @billamend.bsky.social's FoxTrot from the Sunday funny pages at their grandparents' house probably have no idea how hard it went in the early days. Case in point: a drunken HS senior hitting a bong rip, inviting a 14-year-old girl to bed, and then suggesting they snort cocaine -

The world may be... <gestures broadly...> BUT, I have this year at least found out about FOUNTAIN PEN HIGHLIGHTERS. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

If you do that for all of the lower-level Headings, then they'll still appear as Heading N in the Style drop-down, but the Navigator will just display the top-level Headings 1:

Posted as I was screenshotting - if you F11 the Styles menu, RClick "Edit Style" on, say, Heading 2, and then select "Outline level: [None]" from the Outline & List tab, that Heading will vanish from the Navigator. (Setting "Outline level: Level N" for Heading N should restore it.)]:

I had to manually expand each level of Heading to view the full hierarchy:

It might be automatically collapsing them - when I reopened a test document, I saw this:

As Upton Sinclair said, it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary — or, as in the case of David Brooks, his entire career, social standing, and self-image — nay, his whole goddamn Weltanschauung — depends on his not understanding it.

(www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...)

One angel, Satan, was so devout that they refused to bow to Adam, an imperfect creation of God. (For this, some Sufis consider Satan to be one of the most perfect monotheists.)

A flawed man ignoring God's instructions, proving himself unworthy of the angels, and thereby inciting their rebellion...

Now, in the philosophy of the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty, angels can be viewed as instruments of God's will, brought into being and endowed with limited free will in order accomplish a single, specific task, after which their purpose and existence is fulfilled and they vanish. Sound familiar?

Rick, naturally, is the Demiurge, a small-g physical god who fluctuates between outright malevolence and mere incompetence, foolishness, and/or indifference.

Welcome to my Thursday-morning TED Thread!

Rick and Morty S01E05, "Meseeks and Destroy", is a surprisingly lore-accurate Gnostic/Kabbalistic retelling of the Apocalypse of Moses!

(I haven't done this, to be clear - once I figured out how to do it, those "whole lotta reasons" carried the day - but I needed _some_ context for this LeVar Burton Hotline Bling meme.)

Q: Will the USPS REALLY go to court to stop people sending you junk mail?
A: "We have determined that the evidence provided warrants seeking a court order directing compliance with the Prohibitory Order. Your entire case file has been forwarded to our Law Department for the appropriate action."

How it's going:

How it started (December 7, 2024):

Context: My house holds roughly 4x 180-225gal tanks' water-weight worth of books.

(Local building codes specify 30-40psf live loads; however, like aquaria, the loading from bookcases is concentrated across rectangular regions, which is why I confirmed my plans with a professional prior to closing.)

REALITY: [Is... <gestures broadly> ...the way that it is.]

WRITERS OF FICTION:

Dune is even freakier in French.