SilentSnerk
@silentsnerk.bsky.social
Profoundly curious. Midwest coaster, Esperantist, queer, married.
August 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Ben Song? Really? I'm sure they got the wrong guy, otherwise he messed up his leap pretty badly.
July 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Ben Song? Really? I'm sure they got the wrong guy, otherwise he messed up his leap pretty badly.
I'm a little bummed they included Dr Jesse Lazear (second on their list) but didn't mention the guy and his method of death is depicted in a stained glass window in the National Cathedral in DC.
March 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'm a little bummed they included Dr Jesse Lazear (second on their list) but didn't mention the guy and his method of death is depicted in a stained glass window in the National Cathedral in DC.
This has me thinking of this guy again, Werner Goldberg, a half-Jewish German whose photo was used as Nazi propaganda of the "ideal German soldier." He served in their army invading Poland, before being discharged over his ancestry. He & his father were the only survivors in his paternal family.
March 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This has me thinking of this guy again, Werner Goldberg, a half-Jewish German whose photo was used as Nazi propaganda of the "ideal German soldier." He served in their army invading Poland, before being discharged over his ancestry. He & his father were the only survivors in his paternal family.
It's basically left-er because 1) there's already a rightwing media system, so what's the point, and 2) for religious reasons the educational audience skews left-- You're not gonna get the young earth creationists.
At any rate most of the funding is private already.
www.npr.org/about-npr/17...
At any rate most of the funding is private already.
www.npr.org/about-npr/17...
January 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It's basically left-er because 1) there's already a rightwing media system, so what's the point, and 2) for religious reasons the educational audience skews left-- You're not gonna get the young earth creationists.
At any rate most of the funding is private already.
www.npr.org/about-npr/17...
At any rate most of the funding is private already.
www.npr.org/about-npr/17...
While all of these are good changes, I'm not sold on their explanatory power in that time range. Many of these factors hit later, & caused 20th century improvements.
For example, In the mid1800s, pasteurization wasn't yet widespread (invented in the 1860s, not common for milk til the 1900s).
For example, In the mid1800s, pasteurization wasn't yet widespread (invented in the 1860s, not common for milk til the 1900s).
December 30, 2024 at 7:35 AM
While all of these are good changes, I'm not sold on their explanatory power in that time range. Many of these factors hit later, & caused 20th century improvements.
For example, In the mid1800s, pasteurization wasn't yet widespread (invented in the 1860s, not common for milk til the 1900s).
For example, In the mid1800s, pasteurization wasn't yet widespread (invented in the 1860s, not common for milk til the 1900s).
From the graph in my original link: servicewomen suffer SA at a rate ~5x their male counterparts, but since there are ~6x as many men in total, most victims are still male.
December 18, 2024 at 7:56 PM
From the graph in my original link: servicewomen suffer SA at a rate ~5x their male counterparts, but since there are ~6x as many men in total, most victims are still male.
Diphtheria is viscerally terrifying. Hearing death tolls from centuries ago is one thing, but have you seen pictures? A membrane grows across the inside of a kid's throat and strangles them from the inside. I wished people realized this was what this is, not some old timey flu.
December 17, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Diphtheria is viscerally terrifying. Hearing death tolls from centuries ago is one thing, but have you seen pictures? A membrane grows across the inside of a kid's throat and strangles them from the inside. I wished people realized this was what this is, not some old timey flu.
Dumb kid should've just made a balloon gun along with their classmates.
December 9, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Dumb kid should've just made a balloon gun along with their classmates.
Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally?
November 22, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally?
It gives me flashes of AC/DC, but not in a good way.
November 20, 2024 at 5:55 PM
It gives me flashes of AC/DC, but not in a good way.
Yep. For those who want a more Biblical source:
James 2:24 "You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone".
Honestly the whole context is pure fire.
James 2:24 "You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone".
Honestly the whole context is pure fire.
![James 2:14-26
14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.
20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[d]? 21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”[e] and he was called God’s friend. 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.
25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? 26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hndztxotjey5gikxmod2hjuw/bafkreidfrsdvbvejxohkkab4n5sapbmsvitnly6sbyipxrn573m3ofevkq@jpeg)
November 19, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Yep. For those who want a more Biblical source:
James 2:24 "You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone".
Honestly the whole context is pure fire.
James 2:24 "You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone".
Honestly the whole context is pure fire.
Closest I can think of is when Gillian Anderson was David Bowie in an episode of American Gods.
November 18, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Closest I can think of is when Gillian Anderson was David Bowie in an episode of American Gods.