Shane Liesegang, SJ (シェーン|شَيْن|เชน)

I'm increasingly skeptical that "another birdsite" is the answer but there's so many people I can only keep in touch with on the social, so here we are. My old feed was a mix of lefty politics, tech/games, and religion. Trying to find more of the same, but now with migration/refugee stuff thrown in.

had reason to look this up for a group chat recently and thought it was too good to let languish over on the bad place

Politics hits different when you're an "issue" instead of a citizen

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Today is Quintidi the 5th of Brumaire in the year 235. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate geese. #JacobinDay See today's page

The whole world no longer smells like cigarettes.

also (not that any of this matters to Musk but) that particular proverb comes from the mouth of Jesus and is clearly meant as a call to live peacefully; it’s preceded by “put away your sword…” to twist it into a call for violent revenge is a perversion of the Gospel that should offend any Christian

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

this also demonstrates that the show didn't involve and would not have directly benefited the studio either beyond the IP halo effect, which is real but much more subtle than the direct influx of megabucks people assume tv shows to be

Just got all my boys together to take on the wandering ronin who came to town. There’s like 15 of us and only one of him so pretty much the only thing that would give me any pause is if he was master of the devastating and lightning-fast iaidō style. But that’s not likely. Coward hasn’t even drawn h

Allegedly the kid’s mom shoplifted some DIAPERS. That was why the cops were called. The officer who shot and killed the baby had two misconduct complaints, one settled, and had been reported for making racially offensive remarks days earlier.

I wonder why the name of New York doesn’t seem to irk him… oh well, who is to say?

one of the most beloved stories of literature and stage is about the, like, seventh most significant time the French people did this to France

Today is Octidi the 28th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate tomatoes. #JacobinDay See today's page

you can tell Pope Leo is American because even though he literally answers to nobody but God he still feels like he has to be apologetic for taking sick leave around necessary surgery while promising to be back at work ASAP

life in the tropics is very consistent

I hate cradle versus convert discourse, but this man is no Catholic and has no fear of God if his bowels didn't drop out when a religious sister accused him

one of the things that struck me watching that exchange is that I don't think El-Sayed's heart rate exceeded 75bpm at any point

I can’t tell whether the idea that my car would contain multiple kgs of tnt equivalent of hydrazine or that is a sentient slave experiencing Maryland traffic against its will is worse. Honestly.

Today is Septidi the 27th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate chili peppers. #JacobinDay See today's page

Also, there's no possible way the Roadster will ever be street legal, so that "wild looping track" will probably be the only place a purchaser will ever be able to use the car.

I sometimes forget how thoroughly Jesuit-pilled I've been over the last decade or so until I casually throw out a phrase like "way of proceeding" to a lay friend and watch her blink at me for several seconds waiting for me to clarify.

corals can heal each other surely we can try to do the same

I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia for Tax Purposes

I love this story because it’s about an unlikely Jaguars victory, of course, but I especially love detailed stories about easy-to-overlook contributors who quietly operate at extremely high levels.