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“I worry that it makes those people feel like the skills that fall under a traditional life are things that they can’t pursue... And I think that’s hogwash." @MaterGarruli washingtontimes.com/news/2024/sep/…

@FelixJMiller domnhall?

You're right to point that out. ChatGPT does use that construction a lot. And the fact you noticed it? That's not just perceptive, it's ground-breaking

@FelixJMiller Same. The trouble is that it obscures what people interested in Christianity are actually after, which is (probably) substantive, wholesome community. Overfixation on rite blinds Catholics to this!

@FelixJMiller The biggest trend in Christianity overall is a move toward non-denominational contemporary churches. The trad movement is radically overhyped

what a time to be alive . What a time

@mishapathy @NathanpmYoung As a woman who routinely tells the men in my life that I love they’re handsome with no ulterior motive, I 100 percent believe it’s possible for women to receive it the way you mean it

@NathanpmYoung I think it's very plausibly not an attempt at flirting when it's not! This is a failure on my end, it seems

Is it not permitted for a man to good-naturedly and earnestly and platonically tell a woman she's gorgeous? Alas, it is probably for best that it isn't.

@fatherjohnmisty @ufob0t ok

This is 36 year old technology. Can you imagine what they have now?

@gracecamille_ Asheville too fwiw— 85 percent lesbian

literally every straight girl i know who has moved to Denver is in a relationship with a woman now. what’s going on over there

@shygoblin @woke8yearold Seems to me both genders are generally embittered, in ways that require intense conscious effort to overcome. Sadly, passivity is standard, so a lot of hetero relationships don’t enjoy the romance of soft enmeshment. Just two hardened individuals with a buncha boundaries + anger

@ayersramme @woke8yearold It’s near impossible to find a man who hasn’t become bitter after high school

“Breakups” are unnatural, which is why they are traumatic. For most of history the average person had very few sexual partners and once they were paired off they stayed that way

@jholtillus My friend has a theory that the vast majority of podcast listening is just caused by people being lonely

I'm becoming convinced that constantly listening to a podcast or show while drawing is making me less creative by depriving me of silence. Do you think it affects you?

@phokarlsson Poetry has to be along the lines of saying something strikingly true without saying the thing at all, shaped in infinite forms

Johanna and I have date night and thought we'd discuss what it means when we say that something is poetic. what do we mean when we say that a certain image in a film is poetic, or that a metaphor has poetic force? would appreciate examples of things that feel very poetic to you

peter brooks on why so many good books are long

the lion doesn't concern itself with being a lion

fireflies near the NY/CT state line

@lukeburgis incredibly beautiful

When I was 14 and starting high school, my dad told me that no matter what stupid shit I did, if I ever called him at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, in a bind, and needed him to come pick me up, that i shouldn't hesitate to call—because, he promised me, we wouldn't talk about it that night. We would eventually talk about it and deal with it—maybe even the next day—but he wanted to remove all fear in me of calling and asking for help, in the moment. It was a "no questions asked, I just want you to get home safe" policy. I took him up on it one night, and he was true to his word. I've never forgotten it, and I've never forgotten what would have happened to me if I hadn't trusted in it. Sometimes, when I visit him in the Alzheimer's wing of the Veterans home, I look into his face and see that he trusts in my promise to him, too.

@ZaidJilani Bernie just doesn’t speak Gen Z language fluently, and he seems motivated by something somewhat different and more concrete than his younger supporters. Also this kind of generational difference is so evident in the world of media, where everything is dissected to death

How did Zohran get young people to turn out to vote and Bernie didn’t?

@Suzanne08053 @canonlawyered what was the logic behind that? That it would adjust your internal body temp to suit the environment?

And then there was my grandfather, who unfailingly reminded me that you drink hot coffee in the desert to stay cool. He learned that in WWII boot camp in Texas. When I eventually got to the desert, in my 20s, I stood out in the 110° heat, hot Starbucks in hand - and called him to say it wasn't working.

When its 100 degrees out, there are two kinds of middle-aged American dads: those who ask if it's "hot enough for ya?" and those who remind you to "stay cool." I have to decide which one I want to be.