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@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social

Metaethics and Animal Ethics Incessant moralizer (that's good)

created November 16, 2024

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Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

That is a very specific lesson

1/9/2025, 12:58:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm gonna screenshot this post and will use it in place of 80% of the negative replies i would otherwise have written

1/9/2025, 6:33:31 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the American constitution's fault. It is crazy bad about defining the president's authority

31/8/2025, 2:18:40 PM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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A pin emoji

29/8/2025, 6:21:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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People wont do any of that, the tooth fairy will take care of it

29/8/2025, 8:42:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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People keep liking a tweet with the word "mpther" in it

28/8/2025, 5:00:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"A good thing" [Picture of a confused dog] "Τhat we done did"

28/8/2025, 8:11:55 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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3. Getting refered to with the correct pronouns should not be conditional on performing some specific act of aesthetic confirmation

28/8/2025, 8:02:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am worri3d about the puritans, and how they ended up in the netherlands

28/8/2025, 7:55:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I remember they taught me to be held aloft by my mpther as a child and at 42 the chickens came home tp roost as i crushed my elderly mother to death

28/8/2025, 7:26:05 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok that is quite good

27/8/2025, 1:00:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

The Democratic party has historically disagreed with you, which is why they went Hillary, Biden, Harris over their more charismatic, more left wing alternatives, why they aren't getting behind mamdani and why they talk about big tents and broad coalitions all the time

26/8/2025, 5:46:02 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Current status quo has been the dems courting the right. You get that "we must have the perfect candidate" is not the position taken by the people who have lost presidency, house and senate right? Their position has been "look, we are people McCain would have liked!"

26/8/2025, 5:41:50 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just want them to point at the country where that strategy worked for a nominally central left party

24/8/2025, 11:51:28 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

One reply deep

24/8/2025, 11:46:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

I doubt you do

23/8/2025, 10:11:21 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

Moving right is not an effective electoral strategy if your opponents are right wing.

23/8/2025, 5:39:35 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

My point is not that No rw policies + no power > rw policies + power I am saying that being more republican does not help you get voters. This is a strategy that is currently very in vogue im europe to "cease the center" and has worked only to move the overton window right with no gains made.

23/8/2025, 5:38:58 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

Whatever you want it to stop in perpetuity, tell it to "remember" You will get a little note that it added it to its memories. You can also edit those memories through some menu or other

22/8/2025, 7:18:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bro we need to seize the center bro, just one more lurch right, they will start loving dems if we just go more right bro, we need to appeal to the center bro I swear just one more right wing policy will get em

22/8/2025, 5:33:14 AM | 22 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Insane weekday to be posting trash boy tuesday

21/8/2025, 4:33:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're wrong; i don't call you 'Mike' in my head

20/8/2025, 10:41:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

So this post is about your preoccupation with a mostly imaginary group of people

20/8/2025, 6:28:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The last prominent person who made the claim the republicans and the democrats are the same was notorious shitlib cenk uygur.

20/8/2025, 6:25:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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FUCK why is this cunt FUNNY I dont wanna be amused by this man!

20/8/2025, 6:22:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

The Fetterman test goes through Israel

19/8/2025, 10:07:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you're horrified by pregnancy, it is probably a body horror kind of horror, sure

19/8/2025, 9:58:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Surprised they didn't rename their company to slop

19/8/2025, 6:00:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A war guy from war during the war

19/8/2025, 2:58:37 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I dont see a link displayed

19/8/2025, 7:55:22 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

That's ai

18/8/2025, 1:09:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Guy who is well versed in Korsgaard but completely oblivious of Kant: You are in for a CONFUSING conversation

18/8/2025, 10:25:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A pin emoji

18/8/2025, 6:19:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I passed that post multiple times on the other site and didnt pay attention and 100% thought it was a joke about fucking a snake

17/8/2025, 11:04:57 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It would. They woulf not look for anything wrong

17/8/2025, 8:07:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

From inside, that does not feel like it is the case. We may have more inertia and a less active billionaire class, but there is a saying in my country: whatever happens in the US happens here with a 10 year delay.

16/8/2025, 8:57:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks like it is a first-then more than an either/or

16/8/2025, 7:17:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You guys get decisions?

15/8/2025, 4:02:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah ok i get it thank you

15/8/2025, 8:57:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm showing my absolute lack of familiarity with anything beyond 102 logic but the hell's that axiom in the first place? Is there anything for which it is not necessarily true that their necessary truth would imply its truth?

15/8/2025, 8:30:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

In what way do you think is the answer to the original question mistaken

14/8/2025, 5:51:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

Nobody has asked this question. The questions have come from the lib and this is the answer

14/8/2025, 5:50:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

It's the same picture

13/8/2025, 7:53:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

Well Dresden was only as justified as it helped the war effort and as far as I know the jury has given a pretty bad verdict on that

13/8/2025, 6:46:21 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

Atthis point i will have to look at the Stanford encyclopedia entry for computationalism about minds, it seems important for my bsky experience

11/8/2025, 5:34:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@lastpositivist.bsky.social liam thanks for being super nice and super helpful to a friend of mine they said you are great in person!

10/8/2025, 10:58:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't judge people for being messy. I think that is fine.

10/8/2025, 6:06:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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An insanely amazing book

10/8/2025, 5:17:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That is especially an intuitionist problem. We're way more likely to be vegan than average tho

10/8/2025, 4:07:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

Actually that ratio is ass compared to, e.g., wikipedia

9/8/2025, 10:46:33 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But the new chicago manual of style fixed this! We are beyond this! Please, the nightmare must end!

8/8/2025, 12:01:39 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm marge holding a potato rn

8/8/2025, 11:56:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didnt think they were great art or even comedy, but i unabashedly enjoyed watching a very wide reaching thing agree with me somewhat surprisingly. That's nice, that's entertaining.

8/8/2025, 7:58:50 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The camera men and producers would report the murder

6/8/2025, 5:02:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That'sa good move within the inherently not-so-good structure of modern sci journals

6/8/2025, 10:21:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

And let's not forget that the greater good is nebulous and maliable, not some strict ideal of justice or even universalist utility

6/8/2025, 10:20:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

Btw, Landsmagd maybe?

5/8/2025, 5:51:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean that's a straight up 10/10 landsknecht (assuming a feathered hat is resting on a table off screen)

5/8/2025, 5:48:51 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2=2 Millionen, das muss einfach gesagt sein

5/8/2025, 12:48:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yea and turns out your constitution is set up such that the president can just be king if he tries

5/8/2025, 7:06:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Under which circumstances?

5/8/2025, 6:48:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

How does she signal that she has had enough play?

5/8/2025, 6:31:10 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

And it is in fact the only event i have so far gotten any information on by following you. (Not saying you havent posted about other things, you may have, but what algo there is has only shown me things about this pointless thing)

5/8/2025, 5:36:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

How is pushing for electability helpful? The assumption is that people want democrats to win. Under that assumption it is helpful.

5/8/2025, 5:28:19 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

And it is frankly normal and good to agree with people who you think are smart

4/8/2025, 5:42:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But it is not replacing those people. This is just not happening outside of graphic design.

4/8/2025, 6:35:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

That blogpodt was an insanely confusing read

4/8/2025, 6:06:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love this guy's talking points, and it is very good that he clearly has thought of answers beforehand. This rules

3/8/2025, 5:30:00 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My bluesky algorithm wants me to be gay so bad

3/8/2025, 3:39:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this tweet an example of you swinging one way right now?

3/8/2025, 3:12:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It is also bad when russia hits powerplants imo

3/8/2025, 10:18:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Real confidence booster that one

3/8/2025, 7:37:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's honestly wild

2/8/2025, 8:13:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

But still funny as hell

2/8/2025, 7:22:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

So up with caution, down with hubris, probably don't be a utilitarian? I agree with that!

2/8/2025, 2:10:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

I should have put spellcheck back on for this thread

2/8/2025, 1:42:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

All the big three do it, and the precise example you are giving (oh if i use an articulatable system i come into danger of acting cruelly because i rhink rthings are nonconscious or have no moral status) is famously adressed by Kant with a reference to virtue, and with the recommendations you'd like

2/8/2025, 1:42:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

That is especially teue for modern constitutivists like korsgaard and Velleman, but obvs Fichte is pretty concerned qith (his concept) of the self in his ethics too, for example. The point at issue though is that virtue ethicshas no monopoly on recommending fostering character traits

2/8/2025, 1:40:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I also disagree that virtue ethics is mpst tied to the self among the big three; it just is most tied to its conceptipn of the self, which is that of character. Kantian deontologists would say they are way more tied to the concept of the self since that is where they get normstivity from

2/8/2025, 1:38:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay so I think if virtue ethics cant get you a conxeption of the good qua the virtuous man, it's not really virtue ethics classically conceived but just an account of virtues - Kant has that as much as Sidgwick, tht foesnt feel enough for virtue ethics

2/8/2025, 1:36:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Seems like this holds for virtue ethics only if the requisit moral progress is made beforehand. I seem to recall a pretty big virtue ethicist who fell into a different but related trap of justifying slavery.

2/8/2025, 12:53:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ostrich (@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow yes two completely opposite and uncoordinated events that contradict each othet and in no way legitimize each other no sire no way no how, couldn't dream of it sir, no sir

31/7/2025, 10:49:42 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Okay we found the good tweet, the convo has borne fruit

31/7/2025, 10:56:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Typical for our neocapitalist technotopia, work previously done by skilled experts is offloaded to the much less qualified consumer

31/7/2025, 10:18:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Okay lets see here, the kigo is probably the all morning breakfast, evoking summer, and the kireju is placed, very traditionally, at the end

31/7/2025, 8:45:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sorry but why does this article read like that? Why is there no voice, why are none of the houghts connected, why is no attention paid to the fact he did not appear to have any plans ot actually photographing anybody? "Guy plagiarizes" is a crazy way to report this

31/7/2025, 7:27:31 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Join and push for it!

30/7/2025, 11:17:32 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fuuuuick yeeeees

30/7/2025, 9:19:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It should be made explicit that "no jews" is fine and addable

29/7/2025, 10:33:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wow thanks Kamil, the next time i ask a question related to this I will use this tweet as an answer.

29/7/2025, 10:21:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Correct me if i am wrong but there wasn't equal pay for all people within one profession nor between professions in the Soviet Union or any of the Eastern bloc countries?

29/7/2025, 7:56:31 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Doch doch, wir verstehen das

29/7/2025, 7:20:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Zionists love being evil more than they love the truth sadly

27/7/2025, 6:45:31 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have you tried having a conversation with it where you take the role of the human-mind-exceptionalist?

27/7/2025, 7:11:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This feels deliberately obtuse. Both those people seem to think that saying "good genes" or "a certain colour of eyes is desirable" is explicitely eigenicist and you are defending it. If I thought you were defending eugenics by saying "actually its just normal" I'd be confused too.

27/7/2025, 6:47:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is it a good idea to give a book gift on a second date

26/7/2025, 10:41:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not socialist vienna!

25/7/2025, 10:10:11 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Confounding!

24/7/2025, 12:07:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this meant to be about sex changes or something, what is this even about

24/7/2025, 6:00:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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J3sus Christ Joshua may is on here? This app rules

23/7/2025, 4:53:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view