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SlacktivistFred@slacktivistfred.bsky.social |
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Galatians 5:12
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SlacktivistFred
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Even though he’s rich enough to be on the “Wealthiest Men in the World” lists, Vladimir Putin never makes the Top 10. That’s because, unlike Nos. 2 thru 11, he’s rich enough to keep his name off the list.
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SlacktivistFred
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The 2024 New York Metropolitans have won more games than they have lost.
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SlacktivistFred
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What’s the deal with our Harriet Tubman 20s?
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CZEdwards
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It’s because we’re not having a real argument, we’re having a collective anxiety attack. There’s no thinking going on. It’s all feels and vibes and inchoate anxieties and displacement.
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SlacktivistFred
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19-year-old kid at work: Is Springsteen the guy with that song about America? Me: Yes.
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SlacktivistFred
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Also, fans’ two-week freakout has little real-world consequence and does not damage the Eagles’ playoff chances more than that single loss did. But pundits’ two-week panic-palooza IS consequential. It’s a far bigger deal than the problem it’s purportedly a response to.
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SlacktivistFred
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And, no, this isn’t really about Iggles fans. The guy from Pennsauken calling in to say “Jalen sucks” may be an idiot, but he’s not a professional “pundit” getting paid more than I’ll ever make to publish his hot takes as a Very Serious Person.
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SlacktivistFred
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I sometimes listen to sports talk radio here in Philly, but never after the Eagles lose heading into a bye week. No one wants to hear that freak-out. Two weeks of panicked callers demanding firings and mid-season trades? No thank you.
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post malone ergo propter malone
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NatC for short
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SlacktivistFred
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TIL!
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SlacktivistFred
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(It’s just a joke, people. “Hell” may be a blasphemous, unbiblical bit of pernicious folklore posing as doctrine, but it’s still a salient cultural reference point.)
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SlacktivistFred
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James Inhofe has died. Got my best people work-shopping a “snowball’s chance in Hell” joke.
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SlacktivistFred
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This is an essential theme in Dickens’ more-beloved-than-heeded “A Christmas Carol.” Scrooge is ultimately redeemed only because others spoke ill of the dead.
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SlacktivistFred
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This BS also violates basic principles. Consider the rule that requires a full ID on first reference. You can’t just say “Biden” because “everybody already knows” who that is. You have to say “President Joe Biden.” You don’t get to decide if everybody already knows that.
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SlacktivistFred
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Hide it under a bushel? No! I’m gonna let it shine!
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SlacktivistFred
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Growing up in an evangelical private school and church, I saw “The Hiding Place” movie at least once every year. Kinda weird that *the same people* who showed us that movie over and over are now eagerly supporting camps and mass deportations.
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Bill Corbett
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I think the @nytimes.com is just too old to be covering politics now. Its ability to handle the rigor and complexity of modern campaigns is obviously not there anymore. Put it out to pasture so younger newspapers can do the job.
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SlacktivistFred
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Lots and lots of good stuff in replies here. I’ll add Sly & the Family’s “Que Sera Sera” and Aztec Camera’s version of Van Halen’s “Jump.”
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SlacktivistFred
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French election a reminder that any individual candidate will have baggage or flaws or gaffes or bad nights, but making “Say No to Fascism” the focus eclipses all of that.
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Patrick S. Tomlinson
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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.
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SlacktivistFred
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Still pissed off at the moderators for not challenging Trump’s lies at the debate. And by “the moderators” I mean the pundits and posters on here who haven’t mentioned any of those lies ever since because they’re now more obsessed with Biden’s age than the NYT was with her emails.
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SlacktivistFred
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I suppose I was thinking of Joe Torre because he found a way to overcome the obstacle of George Steinbrenner, the second-worst New York City billionaire of the ‘80s and ‘90s.
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In, like, '95 or '96, Joe Torre was asked about his rookie pitcher getting shellacked. He said good veterans have a game like that every 10 or 15 starts & for good rookies it's every 5 or 10 starts & that baseball writers should know that & not freak out like it defined the kid or the whole season.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
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SlacktivistFred
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John Howard Yoder.
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SlacktivistFred
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“Hope has two beautiful daughters, Anger and Courage.”
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Brendan Nyhan
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.
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hilzoy
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Two things. First, I have said this before but it gets special emphasis today: I never, EVER want to hear conservatives talk about originalism or judicial restraint ever again. There is nothing about Presidential immunity in the Constitution.
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SlacktivistFred
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"When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.” -- 1 Samuel 8:10-18
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"Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. "He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. ...
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SlacktivistFred
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"He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. "He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. ...
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SlacktivistFred
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"Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. "He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. ...
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SlacktivistFred
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Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: "He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. ...
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Col. Boozy Badger
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“You’re a lawyer! What does this mean, really?” Man, I don’t fucking know. In the last week an entire area of law I studied was more or less rendered entirely moot and now there’s one specific guy in the whole country who may be able to do anything he wants without recourse. This is kind of new.
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SlacktivistFred
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I recently said “Fred Ward” when I meant to say “Fred Willard” and now I’m imagining a very different version of “Tremors.” (And also “Henry and June.”)
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SlacktivistFred
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Mail is homework.
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Steve Buchheit
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So coworker said that with the upcoming election that they’ll be glad to vote to stop paying the Biden tax they’d been paying since he came into office. I challenged him on that. “What new tax? What are you paying? Show your work.” He couldn’t, so I told him to stop lying.
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SlacktivistFred
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Visitor on the patio.
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rahaeli
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Gorsuch literally wrote, in almost those exact same words, "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."
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SlacktivistFred
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Gotta buy some fireworks for the 4th of July. I don’t really like fireworks, I just hate dogs. And veterans. And counting to ten. [please note: I do not actually hate dogs and/or veterans and will not really be buying any fireworks. If you do, have fun but please be considerate. And careful.]
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SlacktivistFred
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Any country, any time, any election or succession or duel of ruling factions: if one side is the “I hate immigrants and refugees” party, has it EVER been true that they were the good guys in that story? Have they ever even been the *smart* guys in that story?
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SlacktivistFred
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Sometimes, when I’m feeling reckless, I *don’t* allow something to stand for one minute in the microwave before serving.
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SlacktivistFred
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Delightful thread. I saw Apollo 13 in the theater with Cliff Benzel, who was working at Grumman in April of 1970 -- with engineers who'd designed the lunar module. They told him what NASA was attempting would never work. They built the thing and they were sure it was going to burn on re-entry.
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SlacktivistFred
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Because they can. I mean, they’d also love to do a formal investigation of Taylor Swift, Rachel Held Evans, and Katharine Hepburn (for scandalously wearing *pants*) but, alas, none of them falls under the PCA’s jurisdiction.
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SlacktivistFred
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Roy Moore has weighed in on Louisiana’s 11 Commandments law.
Now somebody ask him about Robert Morris’ resignation from Gateway Church.
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SlacktivistFred
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Suppose I should include this:
www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...
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SlacktivistFred
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That is the source of the language now mandated by law in Louisiana. Meaning, also, that posting the biblical texts from Exodus or Deuteronomy, in translation or in Hebrew, would violate the law. It FORBIDS the biblical text. Only the DeMille-approved Fraternal Order of Eagles text is permitted.
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SlacktivistFred
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The Fraternal Order of Eagles didn't get much traction until Cecil B. DeMille decided to use their campaign to promote his movie. He funded & designed the monuments the Eagles pushed for public lands across the US. (Yul Brynner, Pharaoh himself, was sent to cut the ribbon for the first one.)
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SlacktivistFred
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Because Lutherans, Catholics, and Jews all number the biblical commandments differently, the Eagles' version sought a broader civil religious appeal by not numbering them. It's just a list of 11, or maybe 12, unnumbered, nearly-but-not-exactly biblical statements. Oh, and it was a movie promotion.
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