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music lover, home cook, married dad of 2, BayArea sports from AZ, failed evangelical experiment #exChristian banner: bar roofbeam reads 'ALL I NEED IS JUST TO HEAR A SONG I KNOW' profile: a handsome man with an average mustache smiles
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PLEASE BELIEVE ME EVERY TIME I SAY THAT LIFE WILL ALWAYS FIND A WAY
agree, I keep going back to it @joshuahake.bsky.social and I got to see MOGWAI earlier this year courtesy of a local record store (and we're seeing Sigur Ros in November! 🤘🥰🎶)
RFK Jr. is Repeating Historical Ignorance's Mistakes
the likes are too damn high
a Sigur Ros -ass song (complimentary)
listening to MOGWAI and then it's gonna be some Alcest 🤘🥰🎶
do you have a second to talk about converting to blueskyism?
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Demons: once again vanquished by the sentiment "nuh-uh, that's not a demon"
"We came from a country [where] we had no safety there, and then we see this?" said one church member. "He says that he saw demon. I don’t know, you guys been here for a while. Did you see any demon? I don’t see any demon here." [Stanley] apologized and pledged to pay for repairs.
The suspect, a self-proclaimed demon hunter, says he saw evil figures in the stained-glass windows of the church which has a congregation mostly made up of Iraqi Christians. He incorrectly claimed he had no criminal history & did not use drugs, but later admitted he lied & has a meth addiction.
Conservatives only come in three flavors: liars, dipshits, and swirl.
🎶Told my dad I'm sorry I stopped calling up Jesus cuz he never answers anyways at least not for me🎶 Crawl iii, Slow Joy
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I did my best to push back on my book being "trans memoir" as it's about many things, but most of all how my life was formed by labour. I got my first job @ 13. I was a journeyman Glazier @ 21. I wasn't a writer (or a trans) until my 30s. Celebrate Labour Day by reading about labour 🔗: is.gd/E42lih
I wonder if he is gonna continue Pope Francis' personal habit of using gay slurs behind closed doors
Liberals: “We could try to DO some things to reduce gun violence; ‘thoughts and prayers’ isn’t enough.” Republicans: “Outrage! Disgrace! They’re attacking prayer.” There’s no need to be polite or defensive in response to this. Invoking faith as an excuse to shun responsibility deserves no respect.
Bluesky isn't dying Bluesky is just 'ascending up unto the heavens in celestial form to be reunited with the Lord Jesus Christ, the spotless Lamb of God in all of his glory, forever and ever, amen' also Bluesky's pets and grandparents will be there
yeah I'm hoping to start my kiddos on a ttrpg in their wheelhouse soon, I don't own any yet, I mooch off friends
DND! it's my first campaign, I've only played other ttrpgs
the Rhino Horde hath emerged victorious
shit's going down
homemade bloody mary bar to loosen up before DND, happy weekend bluesky
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title Crying in Tom Clancy's HMart
the degree to which Christians use their religious freedom to NOT be curious about inner mysteries within themselves - the ones they've seen their adults avoid because they correlate anything confusing with the "faith" of staying ignorant - is highly alarming
homemade bloody mary bar to loosen up before DND, happy weekend bluesky
Brilliant
I mean … it’s a Lot
Rudy Giuliani was busy nursing orphaned bald eagles back to health, when he was struck by a car that hated America and it's freedoms
hey soph, you better spoil soph, ya #1 gurl, this september
@treykerby.bsky.social You guys might not be with the Athletic any more but you've got a better platform: The Minnesota State Fair seed art program
goes so hard 🤘🎶
they want/need the scale for the emotional labor of *regular learning* to be tilted in their favor whenever it requires effort from them, it's both entirely that simple AND discovering that THAT is what I was doing was extremely complicated *for me* to learn because of my aforementioned expectations
death™️ should get a nobel prize once he kicks it
yup
Prayer is not enough. And they know that. When it comes to recruiting people to use guns they say "Lord Here I am Send Me". When it's time to protect young people from guns, it's "prayers up." #james2:14 #karolineleavitt #jdvance
honoring indigenous perspectives has been so healing on the journey out of such systems, thanks
"'Growing up evangelical' tells us 'we [as holders of the truth] are the solution for people'.. that's part of authoritarian governments & fascism. I took that with me even when I deconstructed at first, this idea that 'I have some sort of special knowledge, *I* am your solution.'" - Emily Maynard
not a "be mean to the 'puters" -take it is a "if we are protesting 'people being mean' and we aren't worried about the 'people being mean' to other humans who have emotions and nervous systems and blood vessels then we've lost the fuckin plot' LLMs are fine whether we're nice to them or not
ah yes... KANT! -who died in *1804*- knows best about the complexities of late stage, capitalist big tech, we have learned *nothing* about ethics as a human species since Kant, we bow to Leader Kant, may his name be praised!! 🤦 how bout we worry about being mean to those of us who feel pain first?
the degree to which Christians use their religious freedom to NOT be curious about inner mysteries within themselves - the ones they've seen their adults avoid because they correlate anything confusing with the "faith" of staying ignorant - is highly alarming
It's seriously the fault of patriarchy. People want a (violent, authoritarian) daddy to be in charge and make them feel safe. And if you sense a theme between this & my thread about men seduced into fascism because they're mad they don't have sex mommies: yup. Patriarchy is emotionally stunting.
so crazy
this one is totally Nine Inch Nails
maybe some Royal Blood too
this song has Muse Audioslave Jack White Queens of the Stone Age at their best -vibes
Chevelle goes so hard, hell ya
woah new Chevelle album, hell yeah let's light up a joint and do this 🥰🎶
👋 why hello
hash brown patties spray w/ oil, sprinkle w/ salt, 400° for 20m flipping halfway
I can
oof 🫂 yeah when we can't make sense of the world with the tools we have we tend to blame ourselves for our bad feelings & experiences, and many MANY use that tendency to take advantage of us for their own purposes 😭
other language for this phenomenon might be 'folks used to trusting narcissistic systems can only feel safe when they see their own personality quirks reflected & mimicked back at them'
God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all categories of human thought, including being and non-being - Joseph Campbell
no one would criticize "thoughts and prayers" if that phrase didn't almost exclusively show up when used to spiritually bypass critically thinking about gun legislation
"When you spend the first quarter of your life cramming in the idea that sex is to be shared with one person and one person only, if that person leaves you, you can't just Select All and delete that shit like a shameful browser history. It's in there."
this makes me wanna dive into it again with a fresh perspective cuz I kinda forgot about it up next!
and I love Petals for Armor and Flowers for Vases too!! but yeah this one probably tops those, still want time with it as an ALBUM but I keep discovering new depths to the songs on each listen
In summary, the average child sexual predator’s profile is: married, male, white, heterosexual, religious, surrounded by friends and family, and a parent.
maybe just me.. but the Hayley Williams singles are hitting deeper as an album with a chosen song order rather than just alphabetical or random 🥰🎶
I just want one coffee shop where I know the cash isn't being donated to some self proclaimed prophet's livestream about chemtrails being demon farts or whatever
my main takeaway from the new Jurassic World movie was that damn does Steven Spielberg fuckin love putting candy on screen
rumors of Trump's death is just a distraction from how ass the Democratic party is which is a distraction from college football which is a distraction from tariffs which is a distraction from Gavin Newsom being a scientologist which is a distraction from the ICE police state which is a distraction f
it's a Japan -originated term but seeing it out of the context of a restaurant doing that cuisine is probably some kind of weird cultural appropriation/ethnic signaling sans understanding, your rage is warranted
naw, "spiritual bypassing" is a real human behavior - using spirituality in this way, to avoid thinking, regardless of the realness of said spirits, is an asshole move for assholes
the hawk tuah viral moment to meme coin dump grift all happened within the last 12 months
one thing grampsboi president loves is a highly public firing to assert his projected dominance, and you know he despises RFK Jr because 1) he has that OG nepo-baby 'Merican white political lineage Trump lacks & 2) they were opponents what, like a year ago?
lol I didn't even notice, my brain fixed it
"I do not come to bring peace, but a sword" - also Jesus people find whatever they want to see in his words imo it depends on what the people who show you Jesus emphasize what degree of freedom-to-control we settle on and white American X-ians heavily tilt towards control
imo they use religious freedom like a get-out-of-jail-free card to avoid being forced to critically think, for some that's ALL they use spirituality for, for others, to various degrees, it's a COMBO of critical thinking & spiritual bypassing that is problematic in a correlation to that same degree
and when I say "no one" I am excluding reddit atheist -types who definitely would criticize it, but you can discount their opinions because they're basically doing some weird kind of non-spiritual? bypassing? that also just baaaaarely involves critical thinking and then insists "no more is needed!"
"but your honor.. that's my client's *religious freedom* to be a fuggin' idiot!" *grins smugly at the jury*
no one would criticize "thoughts and prayers" if that phrase didn't almost exclusively show up when used to spiritually bypass critically thinking about gun legislation
oh you think you know more about AI than me? *tries to show you all the AI related articles I have in my browser tabs but the browser keeps crashing*
*five heavily sweating secret service agents with necks larger than their heads puppeteering Trump's rotting corpse into doing golf moves in the thick southern Florida humidity*
new The Beths album, letsss goooo! 🥰🎶
have you taken your required-for -shitposting, BlueSky -brand online course "Understanding Absurdist Humor In A Post- Truth Digital Environment?" because it really doesn't seem like it
Happy Skynet day to all who celebrate!
the evidence is out there if only people actually care to look, seek and ye shall find!!!
A portrait of young Gavin Newsom dressed up for Halloween as a SEA org captain, his dream job at the time The artist painted over his trademark creepy smile at the request of his real mother, Darla Postine-Clancy, one of L Ron Hubbard's many salt-wives, photographed below with a copy of 'Dianetics'
hard to remember to time ur pics well when the weeds hittin
buy our new Oops! All Paper joints for a nostalgia flavorblast!
the prophet predicted this
I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
another slice for breakfast this morning #frittatahive
the white/Christian -urge to "let ✨ME✨ just police that thing and it will probably get better for very real reasons that .. unfortunately I don't have words to explain" 👋 still rooting it out myself, supremacy is a bitch
why would I need an AI to mirror the most toxic thoughts of my inner critic back to me when I do that to myself already for free?
they’ll just move him to a different parish and he’ll do it again
Breaking: Chuck Schumer has recruited the corpse of Teddy Roosevelt to run for Congress Schumer: he's the youngest candidate we could find that really embodied the true spirit of the Democratic part- *bats away zombie hands* -goddammit Ted.. no you cannot "has my bwains"!
"people don't fall for my techno-capitalist bullshit anymore and now I can't get that sweet sweet narcissistic supply I'm so accustomed to receiving"
Got it. They're vampires.
