After really enjoying Predator: Killer of Killers, I had to go dig through my old comic books to find my Batman v. Predator.

IMO, #Predator has been a fairly solid franchise, for the most part, but I've really enjoyed the recent movies. I think they're the best since the first two.

Adding on, one of the weirdest things is when they post stuff that seems to indicate they don't know how to swing a tool, while fetishizing it. Like this guy, with an AI image of himself splitting wood with the wrong kind of ax, in a bad stance that would end with him hitting himself in the crotch.

Whoever at @rollingstone.com came up with that little highlighted "Quacks Like a Duck" above the title is exactly the kind of person who needs to be setting headlines these days. It's so obvious, it's brilliant.

Gee. If only people could have predicted Trump would be bad for the economy and would blame others for his own incompetence. (I definitely wasn't the only one, either.)

Christian women, more often than not (see: Anabaptist Christian martyrs).

I say that because there are quite a few who believe the lie that a "Christian nation" protects Christians, but it does not. "Christian nations" protect their own power, and non-conforming Christians are a threat.

Sending some peace and encouragement your way.

Hm. I tried it and it went through.
Prompt: "a cell-shaded cartoon of a hand holding up a red stapler"
Most interesting results (including the 6-fingered and 3-fingered ones)

Just a reminder: anyone trying to claim asylum-seekers are "illegal immigrants" is, at best, misinformed and xenophobic. At worst, they are lying and racist.

(CPB One was a means of seeking asylum. It had many known technical issues, but racists hated it as a means four legal immigration.)

Huh. TikTok is back up, I hear, but Marvel Snap is down. That's pretty wild for unintended consequences.

3) Following Jesus, on the other hand, has always been radical. Many followers of Jesus have been persecuted and killed by "Biblical Christians" over the centuries.

Ann Telnaes called it, and now Zuckerberg and the rest aren't even being subtle about it. They're publicly going along with fascist rhetoric for the money.

My 4-year-old daughter has developed a... striking art style in her self-portraits she brings home from preschool.

Why are you using some kind of bad AI image that seems to mash up a millennium of different clothing styles?

Some of the most brutal religious oppression came during the Reformation, not the middle ages, though.

See: Anabaptist, Waldensian, Huguenot, Quaker, etc. persecution

Since raw milk is showing up again in my feed, let me say it again as a long-time ag-adjacent person: raw milk is a terrible consumer product. Don't buy the scam-fluencer garbage.

I'm no farmer, but my picture hangs on a lot of farm walls. I also know the process and the animals.

There's a reason for this. Mennonites arose out of the Radical Reformation, which set itself apart by refusing to be a state church (with one horrific exception in Munster).

The state did not like the prospect losing power over Christians, and responded with brutal persecution.

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🧵 A core piece of Mennonite theology is recognizing that it's not my job to control other people's sin. (Obviously, there's a difference when that sin involves injustices.)

This applies to my opposition to Christian nationalism and indifference to LGBTQ+ rights.

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