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Josiah Hawthorne

@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social

This is the end result of the "Jesus was punished by God in your place" gospel.

All of Jesus's hard teachings, all of Jesus's examples, move from "Go and do likewise" to "You'll never be able to live up to that, so don't bother trying."

January 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

@theradr.bsky.social

"... whoever saves one life, it is as if they had saved the whole of mankind"- Quran 5:32

"if one destroys a single life, it’s as if they destroyed an entire world, while if one saves a single life, it’s as if they saved an entire world..." Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jan 10

Both the Mishna—the foundation-text of Rabbinic Judaism—and the Quran teach that if you save one life, you save a whole world.

January 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM

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Neil Lewis, Jr.

@neillewisjr.bsky.social

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.

December 27, 2024 at 11:07 PM

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Diana Butler Bass

@dianabutlerbass.bsky.social

Evil always overreaches.

But, in the reach, many people can be hurt and much violence done.

December 1, 2024 at 3:25 PM

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The Athletic

@theathletic.com

Medrick Burnett Jr. of Alabama A&M suffered a head injury in an October football game and died Wednesday night.

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www.nytimes.com/athletic/595...

Medrick Burnett Jr., Alabama A&M linebacker, dies from head injury

Medrick suffered a head injury during a Magic City Classic game Oct. 26 against in-state rival Alabama State

www.nytimes.com

November 29, 2024 at 11:29 PM

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Sophie Pedder

@sophiepedder.bsky.social

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

November 29, 2024 at 8:08 AM

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Dr. Laura Robinson

@laurarbnsn.bsky.social

Well now it's Muppet Christmas Carol time and it's my annual tradition of gassing the shit out of this movie.
Keep an eye out in the opening montage for the muppet dumping a chamber pot full of banana peels into the street.

November 30, 2024 at 12:44 AM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

i need more jwst planet images

Jupiter dominates the black background of space. The image is a composite, and shows Jupiter in enhanced color, featuring the planet’s turbulent Great Red Spot, which appears white here. The planet is striated with swirling horizontal stripes of neon turquoise, periwinkle, light pink, and cream. The stripes interact and mix at their edges like cream in coffee. Along both of the poles, the planet glows in turquoise. Bright orange auroras glow just above the planet’s surface at both poles.

The background is mostly dark. At the center is a dark orange-brown circle, surrounded by several blazing bright, thick, horizontal whiteish rings. This is Saturn and its rings. There are three tiny dots in the image—one to the upper left of the planet, one to the direct left of the planet, and the lower left of the planet. These are three of Saturn’s moons: Dione, Enceladus, and Tethys, respectively. There is a slightly darker tint at the northern and southern poles of the planet. The rings surrounding Saturn are mostly broad, with a few singular narrow gaps between the broader rings. There is an innermost, thicker ring, and next to that is a brighter, wider ring. Traveling farther outward, there is a small dark gap before another thicker ring. In the thicker ring, there is a narrow faint band. There is then an outermost, faintest, thinnest ring.

The planet Uranus on a black background. The planet appears light blue with a large, white patch on the right side. On the edge of that patch at the upper left is a bright white spot. Another white spot is located on the left side of the planet at the 9 o’clock position. Around the planet is a system of nested rings. The outermost ring is the brightest while the innermost ring is the faintest. Unlike Saturn’s horizontal rings, the rings of Uranus are vertical and so they appear to surround the planet.

In this Webb image, Neptune resembles a pearl with rings that look like ethereal concentric ovals around it. There are 2 thinner, crisper rings and 2 broader, fainter rings. A few extremely bright patches on the lower half of Neptune represent methane ice clouds. Six tiny white dots, which are six of Neptune’s 14 moons, are scattered among the rings. The background of the image is black.

November 18, 2024 at 3:30 AM

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Ryan Marino, MD

@ryanmarino.bsky.social

Toxicologist here for any fluoride concerns! The amount of fluoride added to water to prevent tooth decay is so minuscule that—no matter your age, size, or health status—you would die from water poisoning long before you could ever even start getting toxicity from fluoride. Fluoridated water is safe

November 8, 2024 at 6:38 PM