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Kinsey 🍉
@kinsio.bsky.social
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Catholic, Marxist, trans lesbian, amateur cartographer (OpenStreetMap editor), huge dork nerd.
"Faith without works is dead." (Jas 2:26)
"If anyone says 'I love God' but hates his brother, he is a liar." (1 Jn 4:20)
en: she/they | eo: ŝi/ri | es: ella/elle
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And it just so happens that I know of a way to visualize repetition in text like this! This is a self-similarity matrix for John 1:1–5 I made with the web app SongSim by Colin Morris (colinmorris.github.io/SongSim/) which was made to analyze repetition in pop music.
A self-similarity matrix representation of the Greek text of the Gospel of John, chapter 1, verses 1 through 5. Each position on the X and Y axis represents one word, and the square is filled in if the X and Y coordinate are the same word. Each word that appears more than once is also given a unique color. A diagonal line runs through the entire matrix, since a word is always identical to itself, and other patterns of diagonals to the sides of the main line visually show repetition of phrases in the text.
January 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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If this happens, having alt text means that there's still a way to view the information conveyed by the image. This is actually likely the main way sighted people have encountered alt text.
A three-part visual depiction of how web browsers use alt text for images that fail to load. First, under the heading "Digital image that loaded correctly", an image of Saint Isidore of Seville. Second, under the heading "Digital image that did not load correctly and does not have alt text", a "broken" image, an icon of a torn sheet of paper in a frame of approximately the same width that the image would have occupied. Third, under the heading "Digital image that did not load correctly and *does* have alt text", the "broken" image icon with the alt text "St. Isidore of Seville" next to it, showing that when an image fails to load, alt text is displayed if it is available.
January 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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to be fair, i think it's safe to say they're pretty proud of them
The flag of the Republic of Lebanon: A horizontal triband of red, white (double height), and red; charged with a green Lebanese cedar tree.
January 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Related story: I once took an Intro to Anthropology class where the final project was to practice doing an archaeological reconstruction by smashing a cup and gluing it back together with Duco Cement (nitrocellulose). Why is this related? Behold:
An Xbox 360 console laying on its side on a table that appears mostly normal at first glance, but when viewed carefully the outer shell has clearly been reassembled after having broken into several pieces, as the fracture lines where the various pieces broke apart from each other are still visible.
January 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Surely this can't be the whole thing?
A screenshot of the linked web page. Text reads: "Above a chair in my parents' bedroom hangs a silver-plated plaque of the Virgin Mary cradling the infant Jesus. Within the folds of her tunic, her baby grasps her chest with his tiny hand, while she looks up lovingly to the heavens. As a child following my mother around the house, I used to crawl up in that chair, my eyes alternating between the mother on the wall and the one in the flesh before me. Both with the soft, supple skin of youth, both bearing the name Maria …"
January 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I also at some point also got The Actual Book of "here are some established prayers and blessings to do at particular times" lol
A photo of a book called Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers
January 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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That photo is computer-generated btw 😕
A cropped section of the image from the original post with two red circles highlighting giveaways that the image was created by a generative artificial neural network: - the child's visible hand has only three fingers - the arm holding the child looks "broken" because it is composited from segments extending outwards at different angles
December 29, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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It has the same number of syllables as the other verses though? 11 10 11 10. The only thing I can think of that's even slightly awkward is that "to" in "Truly he taught us to love one another" is stressed, and that's not even that bad as far as hymns go ("pow'r", anyone?)
The sheet music for "O Holy Night", showing that the verse in question follows the same 11 10 11 10 syllable pattern as the ones before it.
December 22, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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So... I don't like this. I feel like it trips over itself with non-profit-speak in service of incrementalism ("work WITH the unjust systems"? "strategically enact progress"?), so I challenged myself to do it better. Here's what I came up with:
FRANCISCAN VERSION SERENITY PRAYER FOR OUR TIMES God grant me the patience to work with the unjust systems I cannot change today, the courage to strategically enact progress when I know I can, and the wisdom to know that, despite structural oppression, I still can make a difference. Amen.
December 22, 2024 at 4:30 AM
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been thinking of sharing this somewhere for a while. something i kinda idly doodled in a notebook while at the weekend retreat part of the Alpha program my parish did earlier this year, since the theme of the content for the weekend is the Holy Spirit
A scan of two lined pages of a small notebook, turned sideways to be used as a single long page. In large capital letters across both pages is written, "Spiritus Domini super me · propter quod unxit me · annuntiare laeta pauperibus · misit me · mederi contritis corde · praedicare captivis remissionem · et caecis visum · dimittere confractos in remissione ·" [and the following words are written larger than the rest, taking up most of the second page:] "praedicare annum Domini acceptum" [A Greek cross (✚) is inset within the "o" in "Domini" (English: "to the Lord")] (English: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.") Below the text is an abstract geometric representation of the Holy Trinity, with the Persons represented by slightly overlapping circles and their Union represented by a triangle enclosing the three circles. The figure is surrounded on either side by long wavy dashes to make the flourishes take up the same horizontal space as the lines of text above them. Marginal doodles include: - the ΙϹ ΧϹ ΝΙΚΑ Christogram, a Greek cross (✚) with ΙϹ, ΧϹ, ΝΙ, and ΚΑ in the upper left, upper right, lower left, and lower right quadrants of the area divided by the cross respectively, abbreviating the Greek phrase Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς νικᾷ (English: "Jesus Christ conquers") - another abstract geometric representation of the Holy Trinity, with the Persons represented by small circles whose centers are approximately equally spaced around the edge of a larger circle, with a black triangle inside the larger circle drawn from segments of the lines connecting the centers of the smaller circles - at the bottom of the second page, ΠΑΡΑΚΛΗΤΟΣ in all caps (English: Paraclete, "Advocate, Helper, Comforter", a title of the Holy Spirit), bolded
December 17, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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tbh this is true of just about any kind of institutional buyer. was curious at some point about the Zebra TC series handhelds (see picture) used at the job I had at the time and those mfs are over $1000 each.
A photo of a Zebra TC72 handheld provided to illustrate what kind of device I'm referring to. A small handheld device largely similar in form and function to a smartphone, approximately rectangular with rounded edges and with a front face taken up mostly by a touch screen with a black bezel. The left side of the device has one yellow and one black button and the right side has a single yellow button. The sides of the device are silver-colored while the top and bottom edges are black and coated with rubber.
December 17, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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I regret to inform you all that the bishop did in fact do the thing at Mass today
December 15, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Most important detail right here, of course
We Accept All Credit Cards, Checks, Money Orders in USD, Drawn on US Bank
December 13, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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Y'all these Marian devotion grifts are wild. Found this in the free stuff basket in the foyer of the office/chapel building at my parish (devotional medals, prayer cards, etc., and I guess they let anyone just put stuff in there?)
A photo of the front page of a printed brochure with the following content: The Miraculous Icon® (Many "Miracles" are being reported!) [asterisk] *For* Great Outpouring of *All* God's Graces! *Full* Protection Against *All* Evil!™ [An icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus with the text "DOMINA NOSTRA MEDIATRIX OMNIUM GRATIARUM" at the top.] ✝ The Sacred Icon® of Jesus and Mary The Mother of God, In Mary's Most Powerful Role! as "Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces!",...® "As our Mediatrix", Mary is: Our Maternal Mediator, Our Queen of Heaven INTERCESSOR, and The DISPENSER OF ALL OF GOD'S GRACES! From thousands of statements on The Catholic Church Doctrine [asterisk] Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces: 1. POPE JOHN PAUL II in his Encyclical "Redemptoris Mater" wrote: "*Mary acts as Mediatrix* in her position as Mother, *pointing out to her Son the needs of mankind, and intercedes*." (through our 2 Prayers!) 2. POPE JOHN PAUL II in his Address proclaimed: "As maternal Mediatrix, Mary *presents* our desires and petitions to Christ, *and transmits the divine gifts to us, interceding continually on our behalf*." L'Osservatore Romano 3. SAINT LOUIS MONTFORT wrote: "God chose Mary to be *the dispenser of all He possesses, she distributes* to whom she wills, as much as she wills, as she wills, and when she wills, *all His gifts and graces*." 4. SAINT ALPHONS LIGUORI wrote: "God wills that all graces that have been, that are, and will be dispensed, should be dispensed by the hands, and through the intercession of Mary," *Mediatrix of All Graces*. 5. SAINT MAXIMILIAN KOLBE wrote: "The Holy Spirit grants no grace *except through The Mediatrix of All Graces*. *She receives all graces* as her own, *and distributes them* to whom and in the measure she wills."
December 12, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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Fun fact of the day that I just learned. Kate Quiñones, "Vatican: Holy Days of Obligation Not Dispensed If Transferred to a Monday", Catholic News Agency, Nov. 1, 2024, www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/260207/....
A wall calendar opened to December 2024. Printed on Monday, December 9 is the text "THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (Patronal Feastday of the United States of America) (not a Holy Day of Obligation this year)". The line that reads "(not a Holy Day of Obligation this year)" has been struck through in pen.
December 5, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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Like, why am I like this.
A screenshot of a Google Books Ngram Viewer query showing the relative prevalence of "grammar Nazi" ("Nazi" spelled with a capital "N") versus "grammar nazi" ("nazi" spelled with a lowercase "n") from 1998 to 2022. The graph appears to show that the capital-"N" variant was more prevalent from 1998 to 2001, then the lowercase-"n" variant was more prevalent between 2001 and 2007, and then finally that the capital-"N" variant became more prevalent again in 2007 and continued to be more prevalent through the end of the time period depicted.
December 5, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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Silly thing that I've done: Christian-themed Magic: The Gathering cards, complete with Scripture quotes not in standard chapter-and-verse format but the way you'd expect to find something in-universe quoted in flavor text
A Magic: The Gathering custom card. The card art depicts a beam of light descending from the sky to destroy what it touches on the ground. Wrath of God {2}{W}{W} Sorcery Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Flavor text: "Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it." —The Book of the Prophet Isaiah A Magic: The Gathering custom card. The card art depicts the Harrowing of Hell: Jesus Christ stands at the entrance of a cave, extending his hand toward the first in a procession of robed figures with halos walking toward him out of the cave. The Harrowing of Hell {X}{W}{W}{W} (Ascend from Avernus) Sorcery Return all creature and planeswalker cards with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile The Harrowing of Hell. Flavor text: "On this mountain he will destroy the veil that veils all peoples, the web that is woven over all nations. He will destroy death forever." —The Book of the Prophet Isaiah A Magic: The Gathering custom card. The card art depicts a woman with a saint's halo behind her head, her eyes closed and head bowed, wearing a red cape and chainmail armor with a red cross painted on it, and holding a sword whose blade is transforming into a dove with a shimmering mist trailing behind it. Swords to Plowshares {W} Instant Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power. Flavor text: "He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; one nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again." —The Book of the Prophet Isaiah A Magic: The Gathering custom card. The card art is a Rembrandt painting depicting the Parable of the Day Laborers: In a room lit only by the light from a window, several laborers stand talking to the landowner sitting at a desk. The Last Will Be First {3}{U} (Tales of the Ancestors) Sorcery Each player with fewer cards in hand than the player with the most cards in hand draws cards equal to the difference. Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.) Flavor text: "They grumbled against the landowner, saying, 'These last ones worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who bore the day's burden and the heat.' He said to one of them in reply, 'My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage? Take what is yours and go.'" —The Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew
November 24, 2024 at 4:20 PM