Duffy

Duffy

@duffy99.bsky.social

I used to be younger.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers
@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:5-6

Duffy
@duffy99.bsky.social

I know there are more important laws that need passing, but I would like a ban on televisions in medical waiting rooms. They drive me insane. I want to scream. OTOH then I would be left with listening to all the annoying conversations going on around me. Can you tell I am cranky today?

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted)
@tylerfromtheinternet.com

I deeply loathe liberals and centrists who laugh at red states and say they deserve their fate. As if you can't be a good person, or woke, or antifascist, or whatever, because you were born in gerrymanderedland without the financial and social mobility to move easily.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social

Left: How people think Mississippi votes Right: How Mississippi actually votes

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Ken Tremendous
@kentremendous.bsky.social

Besides being...horrifying?, this is the absolute bullseye of the AI grift. Take something that's free and has always been free -- faith -- and put a price tag on it. If you use any of these tools, you are a sucker, and are being suckered, and the people who make this slop are laughing at you.

Steven D. Greydanus@decentfilms.bsky.social

This may be a fundamentally new kind of sin blending blasphemy, idolatry, divination, and simony, among others. Those who are not horrified at this may be entirely lacking in authentic religious awareness and feeling.

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Christopher Hale
@christopherjhale.bsky.social

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

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Nicole Bedera
@nbedera.bsky.social

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Abigail Nussbaum
@abigailnussbaum.bsky.social

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

marykmac.bsky.social@marykmac.bsky.social

yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?

Duffy
@duffy99.bsky.social

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David H. Montgomery@dhmontgomery.com

NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American. Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/

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Rick Steves
@ricksteves.bsky.social

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9