In the mainline denominations it kinda got diverted into abtruse academic theology that common believers never encounter, but maybe underappreciated that in Protestantism, like Judaism, the most batshit stuff doesn’t come from wild-eyed fanatics but from people with serious institutional educations, a long record of publication, and an extensive – if not comprehensive – history of grappling with the literature and peer scholarship regarding their particular batshit

that-one-scared-gay:

lifeattomsdiner:

prokopetz:

Deity who’s unacquainted with concept of evolution creating a world with, like, twelve different kinds of creatures, thinking “yes, that’s a good number – nice and symmetrical”, then going on vacation for a couple million years and being very upset at what’s waiting for them when they get back.

#they keep throwing extinction events at the world in an effort to get a clean slate and start over #life just keeps getting weirder in response #they’re practically at their wits’ end #and that’s a lot of wits to be at the end of

#one day something sentient goes ‘do you fucking MIND’#and the deity goes 'YOU CAN TALK?’ via @titan-mom​

Moderately amused that vape pens make it totally normal to call a contractor over and stand around in your living room smoking pot while you watch him work

Okay, another T-posed night and the shoulder feels not perfect but no pain even bending down to pick something up with the right hand, which was the real tell before

Waiting for some fireplace guys to show up and replace my damper, then I’ll try it out for yard work.

apricops:

cryptotheism:

I am neither gormless nor gormful, but possessed of a mid quantity of gorm that the hoes find thoroughly unimpressive.

gormpilled

memecucker:

Thinking about the old romantic idea of a beloved giving a lock of her hair to a knight off to war and how often that was just like, sniffed while wanking inside a tent. I wonder if that’s the intended implication

uncle-mojave:

epilepticsaints:

Ok but how do you get in?

candiceirae:

uncle-mojave:

celestial-naiad:

beardedmrbean:

I hate it

I love it

I hate it so much.

You know, for basically the cost of the Virtual Insanity video, a whole generation recognizes Jamiroquai.

reallyreallyreallytrying:

“cape town” is a fuckin pokemon name for a city. who named this shit. game freak

By contrast “Anchorage” is like yeah, it sure fucking is

play-now-my-lord:

what cis people do before a date

straight men: put on your faggiest little outfit
bi men: DM your ex-wife for encouragement on the only method of communication available to both of you since they migrated to Signal and started refusing to take insecure text messages: Soulseek
gay men: post a picture of Chandler on Instagram to let your friends know you’re seeing a guy from New York and make them jealous
straight women: obsessively research murder statistics and kind of lowkey hope to get murdered because it’s definitely the sort of thing that happens all the time right, podcasters wouldn’t lie about that
bi women: preemptively script a derisive tiktok about his stroke game
gay women: same as straight men. Same exact faggy little outfit
baleen whales: first thing you do is suck a bunch of krill into your hair-filled mouth

kontextmaschine:

Gonna be awkward when it turns out the best tactics against military AI exploit the inhibitions that prevent it from doing war crimes

famously, Teslas don’t pickily obey every driving law, they’d deliver a much inferior experience that way

Gonna be awkward when it turns out the best tactics against military AI exploit the inhibitions that prevent it from doing war crimes

Alright, sleeping half T-posed made the muscle tweaks better but I wound up one attempt at a maul smash and was like “nope!”.

So I got some weeding, and some moving dirt around, and some moving wood around, and some replacing a warped polesaw blade.

morlock-holmes:

kontextmaschine:

morlock-holmes:

illuminator-of-eternal-warfare:

morlock-holmes:

Basically as far as I can tell all the problems in Portland are related to government apathy about staffing.

Pretty much every government agency I get any insight into here is deeply understaffed for the workload, and also deeply committed to not doing anything to attract staff.

Culture war stuff or ideology seems largely unrelated.

“Pretty much every government agency I get any insight into here is deeply understaffed for the workload, and also deeply committed to not doing anything to attract staff.“

Sounds like ideology to me.

Well, sure, but how would you call that ideology? Republican small government ideology? I mean, I guess our city government is pretty right wing.

We’re hoping that once the structural changes go through the bureaucracy will unclog itself a little.

Well, I do think that until the 2020 unpleasantness, the downtown establishment was like “engaged community-oriented young people with leftward-trending opinions? all to the good, they’ll be great allies in developing this liberal city, perhaps as pertains to service provision and incorporating marginalized eastside communities into our (fundamentally neoliberal westside property owner-run) civic order!” and they’re a bit more hesitant to bring new employees or allies on board without proper vetting now.

What we’re vetting for is “will tolerate police corruption as the price of doing business instead of getting all riot-y about it” yeah?

Well, with Hardesty gone they’ve purged the council but they were too halfassed to keep the rabble-rousers off the charter reform commission or get their proposal rejected, they might shave it down some in the courts but the insurgent left def. planned it to undermine establishmentarian locks by expanding the council and dividing it into multi-member districts. I’m in the same one as Lents and I’ll do my part to keep Sarah Iannarone out, but in case she gets in you sure don’t want her to have sympathizers inside administrative agencies she can articulate with.

the-real-numbers-deactivated202:

The best time to have planted a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now. The third best time? An arithmetic sequence extrapolation indicates it might be in twenty years. Take your time!

vickysaurus:

Whales! I know this is kicking in an open door but folks, they are really fucking big

vriskakinnieaynrand:

kontext’s “of course i’m a machine to be used for purpose and then discarded” thing isn’t him being edgy, it’s just east coast upper middle class socialization. like it very much is like that

It is implicit in the culture, but you could do more with it if it were explicit, is my thinking.

seongpinkhwa:

no but i can fuck both your parents