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@TheLizVariant I'm confident that God the Father is masculine (whatever that means in a spiritual world). And Jesus is clearly masculine, since he was born a man. I do wonder if maybe the Holy Spirit has some aspects of being feminine (whatever *that* means in a spiritual world).

God refers to Himself with masculine pronouns throughout the Word but the pronoun police aren’t respecting them.

@MOSSADil This is good (and important) to do, but I am quite confident that he won't care. It'd take at least tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands. He "knows" he is "in the right", so he's not going to care about a small crowd in NYC.

🗽 NYC—Thousands are gathering in New York City to protest against mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, with demonstrators voicing concerns over his policies, lack of action, and anti-American political positions.

I found the last all Jewish village in the world! I flew to the Red Village in Azerbaijan. 300 years ago, the ruler of this region gave this village to the Jews so they could live here without fear. Although it is a tiny village of 3,000 people, there are 3 billionaires that were born here! Because this village is so remote, they have traditions you can't find anywhere else in the world: the women cover their hair with a scarf, the floors are covered in carpet, and they speak a language you can only find here called Juuri. This village is also right across the river from an all Muslim village. From the Synagogue, you can see the Mosque and they have lived in peace for hundreds of years.

Taryn Thomas, once considered an icon of Stanford’s pro-Palestinian movement, radically changed her views after visiting an exhibition dedicated to the victims of the Nova Music Festival massacre in Israel. At 20, she had fully immersed herself in activist culture — wearing a keffiyeh, living in protest camps, organizing demonstrations, and believing she was fighting for justice against “evil Zionists.” After October 7, 2023, she became part of the leadership of Stanford’s pro-Palestinian protests. Like many around her, she was convinced Israel was committing “genocide.” In June 2024, she participated in the occupation and vandalism of Stanford’s president’s office, where extremist anti-Israel and anti-American slogans were painted on the walls. Taryn later admitted that the movement had stopped being about Palestinians at all. Hatred itself had become the driving force. Everything changed when she visited the Nova Festival exhibition in Los Angeles in late 2024. She originally expected to expose it as “Zionist propaganda,” but instead left emotionally shattered. For the first time, she saw the victims not as political symbols, but as ordinary young people dancing, laughing, trying to survive, and dying in terror. One moment affected her deeply: an audio recording of a Hamas fighter proudly telling his father he had killed ten Jews, while his father celebrated the murders. Taryn realized these were the same people many activists openly defended or glorified. She later traveled to Israel shortly before the brief war with Iran. During a missile attack near southern Israel, she found herself lying on the ground praying for Israel’s air defenses to protect her. “The missiles don’t care about politics,” she later reflected. After posting photos from Israel online, she lost almost all her friends. Former allies called her a traitor, accused her of supporting genocide, and sent death threats. Ironically, the people who treated her with the most understanding were Jewish students — even those who knew she had once protested against Israel. “They knew who I was and still welcomed me,” she said. On May 22, 2026, Taryn attended the opening of the Nova exhibition in London. Though she was never at the festival itself, she says the experience changed her forever. “I’m not Jewish. I’m African American,” she told The Jerusalem Post. “But after Israel, I can’t stay silent anymore. I stand with Israel.”

@horizontalescal @Osinttechnical Important detail: The Islamic Republic of Iran is run by the IRGC. They are not the Persian people. Persians made up a large part of the 30,000-40,000 citizens of Iran that the IRGC gunned down in the streets in January.

@Osinttechnical Have persians always been this insufferable

Iran says it will not toll ships in the Strait of Hormuz, instead charging fees for “environmental protection.” -IRNA

People are spiritually starving trying to fill a God sized hole with anger, politics, attention, money, validation, substances, endless scrolling… and then wondering why they still feel empty inside. Hurt people often try to spread their hurt to everyone around them. But Jesus offers something the world never can… peace that doesn’t depend on circumstances, joy that isn’t fake, and a soul that is actually full. The world keeps treating symptoms while Christ heals the heart.

@StarbaseColonel @TheAliceSmith Ah, very good. Thanks for tracking that down!

@Drosehn @TheAliceSmith No, he didn't say that. In his autobiography it say's "so that even if the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a missionary to preach Mohammedanism to us, he would find a pulpit at his service."

When the Founding Fathers spoke of civil and religious liberty, did they only envisaged this within the context of a wider Christian (even Protestant) society? Did they mean to include Islam - or, as they would have called it, Mohammedanism?

@StarbaseColonel @TheAliceSmith You could start by doing a search on "ben franklin contribute churches". That might eventually lead you to him saying that he'd contribute to a local mosque (or whatever word he used for that) if someone was going to build one.

@Drosehn @TheAliceSmith Can you find the quote?

@StarbaseColonel @TheAliceSmith If I thought I could find it in 2 minutes, I would have done the web searches before posting. I'm remembering something I read over 30 years ago. I think we were still using papyrus back then... 🙂

@TheAliceSmith ... I'm certain he would not have welcomed a religion which showed up and expected it would have the right to impose Shira law on all citizens in a community! But he was certainly aware of Islam, and wasn't going to make any laws forbidding it.

@TheAliceSmith It seems to me there is some quote from Ben Franklin saying that he would welcome a mosque if someone wanted to build one. Maybe "welcome" is too strong a word, but it was something like the US should be a place for any religion to show up. ...

Here's an interesting analysis of two major failures wrt AI deployment.  The failures happened because companies were certain that AI would be great at replacing employees, and when that confidence goes wrong, it can go catastrophically wrong: youtube.com/watch?v=Jbh8Qt…

@rabbriansamuel I think this shows that there are a lot of voters who do not spend their days on Twitter. 🙂

Glad to have been wrong. 👇

@MOSSADil Unfortunately, Trump says something different every day. He keeps generating random sayings so that everyone gives up on paying attention to him.

🇺🇸 UPDATE—President Trump told lawmakers at the White House that the US “will end the war very quickly” with Iran, signaling confidence in a swift conclusion to military intervention.

@davepl1968 @WorkElizab Wow. How much do custom signs cost where you live!!

@WorkElizab She can afford to have custom signs made, she can buy a phone.

Do you agree?

@WalterBright Well, I want to answer this in a way that says "it's better to try something than to constantly sit back and do nothing", but I can't decide which button to click on for that. 🙂

The eternal question:

@steipete Wrt "How would we build software in the future if tokens don't matter?": Meanwhile, we're seeing AI providers switching from monthly subscriptions to charges based on tokens. And they're doing this because they're all *LOSING* money on their AI services.

People freaking out over my AI spend. What nobody sees: Part of what excites me so much about working on OpenClaw is that I'm trying to answer the question: How would we build software in the future if tokens don't matter? We constant run ~100 codex in the cloud, reviewing every PR, every issue. If a fix on main lands, @clawsweeper will eventually find that 6 month old issue and close it with an exact reference. We run codex on every commit to review for security issues (as it's far too easy to miss). We run codex to de-duplicate issues and find clusters and send reports for the most pressing issues. We have agents that can recreate complex setups, spin up ephemeral crabbox.sh machines, log into e.g. Telegram, make a video and post before/after fix on the PR. There's codex that watch new issues and - if it fits our documented vision well, automatically create a PR of it. (that then another codex reviews) We have codex running that scans comments for spam and blocks people. We have codex instances running that verify performance benchmarks and report regressions into Discord. We have agents that listen on our meetings and proactively start work, e.g. create PRs when we discuss new features while we discuss them. We build clawpatch.ai to split all our projects into functional units to review and find bugs and regresssions. We do the same split for security with Vercel's deepsec and Codex Security to find regressions and vulnerabilities. All that automation allows us to run this project extremely lean.

@TomK_Brit1993 As long as he is still the PM, then he was not wrong. And the entire Labour party seems incapable of removing him, which IMO says a lot about the Labour Party.

He thought he could come into office and abuse the entire nation. He thought he was invincible. He thought he was the big man. He thought wrong.

@toadmeister @SpeechUnion The fact that they "apologized" *afterwards* is not much of a win. Zero real consequences.

Met Police apologises to Graham Linehan over Heathrow arrest – another victory for the @speechunion. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/1…

@GaryMarcus The thing is that LLM's are absolutely great at gaslighting people, including proponets.

it’s funny how people here just make stuff up.