@BigImpactHumans The pistachio baklava looks great. I’m sure they’re all good, though. 🤤
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prander
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prander
@p_rander
My arbitrary yet elective (often “paranormal” and adjecent) edutainment: curiosities, info., and whatever's interesting. Talk about it. 💬
Katılım Aralık 2012
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On tonight’s show, I discuss the latest propaganda from Big Dolphin: cocaine sharks.
And then I’m joined by Jeremy Ryan Slate. We talk about the emperor who married a rock, the Crisis of the Third Century, ancient cults, Homer and more.
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@fringedotcom IMO, the crux is that a true angel, theologically and scripturally, would overtly and obviously refuse worship, fascination, adoration, etc. to itself, with simple redirection to God (or just rejection). True angels are servants of God.
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Let's just assume for a moment that Bledsoe's orbs are angels as he claims.
Would truly benevolent messengers of God, or God's true prophet, go against scripture by seducing us into worship, fascination, and adoration?
That type of behavior sounds more like FALLEN angels to me.
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@benjitaylor @MarioNawfal Prioritize fixing the core functioning first, please, especially the algo. 👏🏻 🙏🏻
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Added fact: The movie’s poster creates an optical illusion = the skull marking is a composite of (homage to) Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman’s surrealist artwork: “In Voluptas Mors” (“Voluptuous Death” or “In Pleasure of Death”), which depicts seven naked women arranged to form a human skull.
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In the “Silence of the Lambs,” the death's-head hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos) is used in the movie’s poster and (overwhelmingly) in the movie, though it was called “Acherontia styx”.
The tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) was used for the pupae (called “cocoons”) in the movie.
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My parents’ deaths have, in part, made me so grateful for what they gave me - not of material possessions and all that but of the love behind how they raised me, with how good I have it now.
Yeah, feeling that loss makes so much so much more meaningful.
Laura Matsue@lauramatsue
One of the blessings about death is it has made me realize how very little I care about what is happening politically and how much I care about tending to and loving the people and the world around me
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@wired4wonder I assume there are plenty of unmarked burial sites that remained when it was flooded. That, I’m sure, plays into the lore and legends.
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Amazing location. If these waters could talk...
Folk Bestiary@FolkBestiary
Lake Lanier Ghosts: When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed Lake Lanier in 1956, the project flooded entire communities, farmland, and even cemeteries. #Lake-Lanier-Ghosts" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">folkbestiary.com/Georgia/#Lake-…
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@celestialbe1ng Yes.
This is one of the aspects of modern society / culture that is so lamentable. Instead of being inspired with a ‘cultural spirit,’ it’s incentivized by commodity shallowness. Customized modern brutalism has more ‘spirit’ to it than cheap mass blueprints.
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There was a time when people had beautiful parquet floors, solid wood furniture, decorative tile stoves in their living rooms, 12 foot ceilings and homes that were actually built to last and created to make you feel something and now it’s all plywood walls, IKEA, identical plastic appliances and literal evil fungus growing inside your walls bc homes are built out of cardboard and let’s be honest for a tiny second; even brutalism has more architectural dignity than Western new builds.
Bring back XIX century tenement nationalism pronto; it has a billion times more beauty than the average $2 million new build in the 2020s
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It’s not simply about his ability to appreciate the wrongfulness of his actions due to intellectual impairments - it’s about public safety, particularly given the impairments as a risk factor. Prioritizing compassion for the perpetrator, not the victims and the public, trivializes the impairments in evaluating future risk.
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Man with a 71 IQ was found incompetent to stand trial after randomly shooting at three people. Goes on to murder an 18-year old college student.
The legal system is broken.
Bugman Hegel@FedPoasting
This man was found incompetent to stand trial for randomly shooting into a car with three people in it, and he was just released onto an unwitting public in May 2023. He went on to murder an 18-year old college student five months later. The reason he was originally declared incompetent and released? He had an IQ of 71. ~17.5% of black people have an IQ less than 71 assuming a normal distribution and a mean IQ of 85.
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U.S. Cattleman’s Association Applauds USDA “Product of USA” Awareness Campaign
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U.S. Cattlemen's Association@uscattlemen
"Product of USA” should mean something and now it does. USDA’s new awareness campaign supports its strengthened standard—products must be born, raised, harvested, and processed in the U.S. Read the press release here: bit.ly/3NYK2bp #ProductofUSA #MadeinUSA
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Yes! @HHSGov - Support American farmers and traditional homegrown agriculture, even in simply taking small and incremental steps! This is the right direction = supporting the domestic economy! 💯
The White House@WhiteHouse
Born here. Raised here. Harvested here. Processed here. The TRUE AMERICAN standard. 🇺🇸
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It’s folklorically amusing to me how many mythological beings have some sort of obsessive-compulsive disorder. 😁
They’re compelled to (stop to) count and/or they’re straight-up hyper-greedy horders. They can be tripped up, slowed down, bargained with, and so on. 💡
Coffin Boffin@DrSamGeorge1
WITCHES & JUNIPER Juniper acts as a witch stopper in folklore; they will be compelled to count its myriad of tiny leaves before progressing. Vintage witch cover for The Witch of the Juniper Walk by Mrs May 1895 #FairytaleTuesday
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