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First they came for the em dash and I did not speak out. Then they came for the Oxford comma…
amsha.@ohhyesweirdo
I know the tweet is AI generated when they use “ , ” before and.
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@minervas_muse I don't think A Study in Scarlet was serialised, although The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear were later; it occupied 95 pages of the 1887 issue of a magazine which was published annually.
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And it's a sizeable diggresion which is interesting considering it was serialized. Basically a 3 episode flashback in a TV show.
Swann Marcus@SwannMarcus89
The first Sherlock Holmes story has to be the most unintentionally funny classic novel You sit down to read it thinking you know what Sherlock Holmes stories are like and then halfway through it turns into violently bigoted anti-Mormon propaganda where Utah is portrayed like a cross between Nazi Germany and Saudi Arabia and the Mormons have an advanced surveillance state with secret police and roaming Mormon death squads chase families across 50 miles of wilderness because for some reason they really wanted to turn one specific woman into a sex slave It’s the best thing ever written. 15/10
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@baseballcrank That is what you say if you do Latin now, but you learned Latin in an English-speaking country 180 years ago you learned to say it with a J—the medical and legal professions usually preserve this older tradition of pronunciation in the face of reforms in the Latin classroom.
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Is "jus" pronounced with a j, or like "yoos"? I assume the latter, if you do Latin. Gorsuch pronounces the former, Barrett the latter.
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Roberts sounds unconvinced, unsurprisingly: "not sure how you get" from a few "quirky" exceptions to birthright citizenship (eg, children of ambassadors) to "big group" of U.S.-resident illegal aliens.
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@bostonrandy @ThatEricAlper Wasn't basketball invented by a gym teacher? I'd say he was more influential.
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High school gym teacher Leonard Skinner holds the latest album by a band of his former students Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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@boundforthestar @100YearsAgoLive Nothing that didn't get done in the last 44 years
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@100YearsAgoLive Does the sheriff not have anything better to do?
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@SyrusEphrem @FrLavery @DimondCultWatch All heretics charge Rome with doctrinal corruption. The magisterium must be the judge of such controversies. To claim the prerogative of privately judging them with such certainty that you may repudiate the successors of the Apostles for disagreeing with you is Protestantism.
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I still disagree with Sedevacantism entirely, but I have way more respect for Cassicum Thesis Sedes than I do Totalist Sedes. Cassicum Thesis Sedes have a rational solution to the current crisis in Rome. Totalist Sedes have no solution other than hypothetical 1/2
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@FrLavery @DimondCultWatch You do not preserve traditional theology because the traditional theologians teach that there must be a pope continuously and always until the end of the world; even if you could now obtain a pope, there would not be any continuity with Pius XII. The line would be interrupted.
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On the contrary, our position is the only one that involves strictly the use of long-accepted theology, without the need to invent completely novel theories that have never been taught in the Church. The Thesis involves many absurdities including a monster church in which the legal church is somehow different from the real Church or Mystical Body of Christ. There is nothing to respect in the Thesis.
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@severegrace @Christ_Conserv @cath_menarion You do not have only a few seconds to respond. You can always leave it for another time. It's not the end of the world if it takes you a couple of hours to get back to someone on Twitter.
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@Christ_Conserv @cath_menarion I agree my wording was hasty. The vitriol just comes so quickly and one only has a few characters and seconds to respond.
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It might be apologetics slop but stuff like this is always hilarious
Coram Deo Baptist@severegrace
@MaddyStrong3 @FrankLRizzo @TomorrowsWar Are you serious? There is nothing lacking in the suffering of Christ. He bore the full weight of the wrath of God on the sin of His people? What could we possibly make up for in that? Your question is at least approaching blasphemy.
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@drphilipdixon @StMichael71 It wasn't a begrudging concession, either—as soon as he understood what I was asking, he outright insisted on it, as if he thought it was obvious that pure preaching of the word of God and right administration of the sacraments was all that was necessary for Catholicity.
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@drphilipdixon @StMichael71 When I put the case to him, a spokesman for the SSPX told me that an Anglo-Papalist parish with a validly ordained priest which confessed all Catholic doctrine and used the Tridentine liturgy, yet was in communion with Canterbury and not Rome, would be as Catholic as they are.
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@RangerDave2001 @OrinKerr Why couldn't the police search all they want? It is as if he ordered CSAM by postcard. Since he knew he was sending unencrypted Internet traffic through a connection whose owner could monitor it, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.
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Person uses unencrypted wifi (no password) of nearby restaurant to download CSAM. Restaurant notices, alerts cops, logs future downloads. Oregon SCT: Restaurant's monitoring violated the Oregon state constitution, which is broader than federal 4th Am.
storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2026/03/26… #N
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@FreeIrishman7 @Gregory209396 St Alphonsus, for instance, who cites Suárez for the proposition that martyrdom sanctifies infants as well as adults, which he qualified as certain, so that the contrary would temerarious. This is common doctrine.
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@Gregory209396 I’m sorry, what part of my post are you disagreeing with? You’re asking completely separate question. Even if I granted BOD/Blood, which I’m not that does not apply to infants at all. What theologian taught otherwise?
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LIMBO of the Infants
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In Catholic doctrine, unbaptized infants who die go to the Limbo of the Innocents.
Not a place of torment, but perfect natural happiness yet deprived forever of the Beatific Vision.
This upholds three infallible truths at once…
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There's a growing tendency in Britain, and no doubt elsewhere, for non-Muslims to refer to Mohammed as 'the prophet Mohammed': to be avoided.
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There’s like maybe a maximum of 8 jobs where I understand what the job is. Shopkeeper. Farmer. Teacher of some kind. Priest. Novelist. Journalist. Private detective. Chef. That’s it. What is a data engineer. I don’t know.
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OOMFie is saying that “to tweet” in the past tense is “twote”.
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@TheCatholicEngr Unfortunately he went back in time and interfered with his parents' meeting and so is slowly fading out
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So, I don't want to start any conspiracy theories
But the lead engineer of the James Webb Telescope went dark on LinkedIn & all other public outlets
I went to look up a magazine article he was featured in and it disappeared off the face of the internet
Idk what to make of it
kache@yacineMTB
Have we figured out anything cool from the James Webb yet
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@TalentEvaluator He is right, you ass. Read Dominus Iesus, the real Catholic teaching on the subject. You are a schismatic goon.
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Bishop Barron also think Jesus Christ is merely the “privileged route to salvation.” Let’s not go overboard on paimting him as the paragon of Catholic orthodoxy.
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@deerrun98989 @politicalmath I'm still trying to decide whether or not we should have kept up the statues of Hitler?
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I'm not exactly a Cesar Chavez booster but there is something about the insta-erasure of anything problematic that unsettles me
scott budman@scottbudman
Letter by letter, crews cover up “Plaza De Cesar Chavez” in San Jose.
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@MedMilMedicine My grammar is pretty rusty, but doesn’t the text say something like “held the wood?”
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A wooden prop in the margins, used to ‘support’ the text that overruns the end of the line - 15th century, Birgitta of Sweden, British Library, Harley MS 612, f. 50r
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