Pythagoras
@pythagoras2024.bsky.social
If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand them over to their master. Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress them.
Deuteronomy 23:15-16
Deuteronomy 23:15-16
This is the first time I’ve followed a starter pack, but I like the topic.
My wife’s illegal palenque culture has accepted immigrants and refugees for centuries, and in fact, this was a major sticking point between her culture and the Spanish Empire and the colonial government back in the day.
My wife’s illegal palenque culture has accepted immigrants and refugees for centuries, and in fact, this was a major sticking point between her culture and the Spanish Empire and the colonial government back in the day.
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is the first time I’ve followed a starter pack, but I like the topic.
My wife’s illegal palenque culture has accepted immigrants and refugees for centuries, and in fact, this was a major sticking point between her culture and the Spanish Empire and the colonial government back in the day.
My wife’s illegal palenque culture has accepted immigrants and refugees for centuries, and in fact, this was a major sticking point between her culture and the Spanish Empire and the colonial government back in the day.
It’s a long story, going back some 500 years or so, but her culture fought multiple religious wars to preserve their autonomy and their rights to accept immigrants and refugees.
November 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It’s a long story, going back some 500 years or so, but her culture fought multiple religious wars to preserve their autonomy and their rights to accept immigrants and refugees.
One of the things that I’ve noticed is that the language used to demonize and dehumanize my wife’s culture, religion and identity today in the 21st century is very closely related to the language was used to do the same thing for centuries, except now it’s in English instead of Spanish.
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
One of the things that I’ve noticed is that the language used to demonize and dehumanize my wife’s culture, religion and identity today in the 21st century is very closely related to the language was used to do the same thing for centuries, except now it’s in English instead of Spanish.
Believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast is a part of my job description.
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Math
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20 Things You Didn't Know About... Math
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November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast is a part of my job description.
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Math
www.discovermagazine.com/20-things-yo...
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Math
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As a mathematician, I’m about as far from a historian as one can possibly be, but I do know that my wife’s Catholic culture was considered as illegal by the Spanish Empire and the colonial state.
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
As a mathematician, I’m about as far from a historian as one can possibly be, but I do know that my wife’s Catholic culture was considered as illegal by the Spanish Empire and the colonial state.
@carnivalisforever.bsky.social
There’s lots of cool things about western cultures, but in their defense, is this really the hill that westerners want to die on?
There’s lots of cool things about western cultures, but in their defense, is this really the hill that westerners want to die on?
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
@carnivalisforever.bsky.social
There’s lots of cool things about western cultures, but in their defense, is this really the hill that westerners want to die on?
There’s lots of cool things about western cultures, but in their defense, is this really the hill that westerners want to die on?
@carnivalisforever.bsky.social
Maybe, your culture would benefit from considering just why my wife’s religion is a religion of war. And why the music of her culture is the music of war. Her palenque is one of the very few in the entire world that have actually survived into the 21st century.
Maybe, your culture would benefit from considering just why my wife’s religion is a religion of war. And why the music of her culture is the music of war. Her palenque is one of the very few in the entire world that have actually survived into the 21st century.
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@carnivalisforever.bsky.social
Maybe, your culture would benefit from considering just why my wife’s religion is a religion of war. And why the music of her culture is the music of war. Her palenque is one of the very few in the entire world that have actually survived into the 21st century.
Maybe, your culture would benefit from considering just why my wife’s religion is a religion of war. And why the music of her culture is the music of war. Her palenque is one of the very few in the entire world that have actually survived into the 21st century.
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
If precedent is any indication, it seem to me that both Alito and Thomas are destined to haunt the grounds of the US Supreme Court at midnight on Good Fridays for eternity vainly seeking repentance for their sins, just like Julio Arboleda.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If precedent is any indication, it seem to me that both Alito and Thomas are destined to haunt the grounds of the US Supreme Court at midnight on Good Fridays for eternity vainly seeking repentance for their sins, just like Julio Arboleda.
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I recently read a dissent in an emergency US Supreme Court hearing in a case about human trafficking held at midnight on Good Friday in which the dissenters (Alito and Thomas) actually put pen to paper to complain about having to wake up to hear the case.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I recently read a dissent in an emergency US Supreme Court hearing in a case about human trafficking held at midnight on Good Friday in which the dissenters (Alito and Thomas) actually put pen to paper to complain about having to wake up to hear the case.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
So Black cultures don’t have histories?
November 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
So Black cultures don’t have histories?
My wife’s ancestors, as cimarrones, started running away from their masters some 500 years ago, and formed a free Black Catholic palenque culture here in America.
I’m pretty sure that they thought that slavery was bad, considering how many religious wars they fought.
I’m pretty sure that they thought that slavery was bad, considering how many religious wars they fought.
November 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
My wife’s ancestors, as cimarrones, started running away from their masters some 500 years ago, and formed a free Black Catholic palenque culture here in America.
I’m pretty sure that they thought that slavery was bad, considering how many religious wars they fought.
I’m pretty sure that they thought that slavery was bad, considering how many religious wars they fought.
Do you consider somebody pointing out issues of personal safety like the possibility of getting your head cracked open as hypocrisy?
Because that’s the context in which you appropriated his words.
Because that’s the context in which you appropriated his words.
November 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Do you consider somebody pointing out issues of personal safety like the possibility of getting your head cracked open as hypocrisy?
Because that’s the context in which you appropriated his words.
Because that’s the context in which you appropriated his words.
This is what I consider a distinct lack of empathy.
November 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This is what I consider a distinct lack of empathy.
This racist blocked me but left her post up.
November 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This racist blocked me but left her post up.
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Let’s not start another round of this anti-latino bullshit for Halloween, OK?
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Let’s not start another round of this anti-latino bullshit for Halloween, OK?
Oh, not this again!
November 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Oh, not this again!
You and I were discussing the history of freedom cities (ie: palenques) back in this thread.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
You and I were discussing the history of freedom cities (ie: palenques) back in this thread.
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The level of discourse here leaves something to be desired.
October 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The level of discourse here leaves something to be desired.
“It’s a hard question because…”
Then speak for yourself.
How much trust would you have if it were you?
Then speak for yourself.
How much trust would you have if it were you?
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“It’s a hard question because…”
Then speak for yourself.
How much trust would you have if it were you?
Then speak for yourself.
How much trust would you have if it were you?
That’s…um…interesting.
October 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
That’s…um…interesting.
You may be overestimating the levels of trust, here.
My wife’s Black culture zealously guarded their autonomy over the centuries, from the days when her ancestors first started running away from their masters some 500 years ago.
My wife’s Black culture zealously guarded their autonomy over the centuries, from the days when her ancestors first started running away from their masters some 500 years ago.
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
You may be overestimating the levels of trust, here.
My wife’s Black culture zealously guarded their autonomy over the centuries, from the days when her ancestors first started running away from their masters some 500 years ago.
My wife’s Black culture zealously guarded their autonomy over the centuries, from the days when her ancestors first started running away from their masters some 500 years ago.
…to transport troops south to the border with Peru in the early 1930s for some war about who knows what.
Whatever that glorious war was all about, my wife’s entire culture was just colateral damage.
Whatever that glorious war was all about, my wife’s entire culture was just colateral damage.
October 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
…to transport troops south to the border with Peru in the early 1930s for some war about who knows what.
Whatever that glorious war was all about, my wife’s entire culture was just colateral damage.
Whatever that glorious war was all about, my wife’s entire culture was just colateral damage.