𝚙𝚒𝚐𝚎𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚝

have you tried simply being a ray of god's shining light

@menavisualss oh wow that's beautiful... puts the Bellagio fountains to shame

🇮🇷 A water ballet accompanying the night in Tehran, Iran. Located in western Tehran, Iran Mall is not just a shopping center; it is one of the world's largest commercial and cultural complexes, spanning approximately 1.4 million square meters.

@xoaanya this isn't to say that the capitalist class properly understands this, or that they won't do a massive amount of damage in an attempt to do away with human labor. But I think it's important that they can't actually do what they say they want to

@xoaanya Another thing that I think gets missed a lot is that without human labor to exploit, there is no surplus value created that can be siphoned off for profit. AI/robots are just the newest form of "dead labor," and can't ever fully replace workers in a profit-driven economy

Everyone says AI will replace most jobs. But if there are no jobs, there’s no income. No income means no spending. So how does the economy even function? What am I missing?

@goodbyetheo of course he did

camus had a kitten named cigarette

@corpseinorbit dumb question - is Leo a Jesuit too?

There's an interview with Francis (I think it's the first, post-inauguration) where the interviewer notes that Francis makes a lot of literary allusions, and he says, "Well, a Jesuit MUST be creative!," and I could *hear* a quarter-billion people going "Ohhh god fucking dammit"

Basically, imagine the Pope has a personal East India Company for every nation on Earth, but the employees of that Company are extremely well-educated, verbally slick, and bitchy, and they live to stuff your soul in the right hole. That's what Jesuits are. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

@Brumairian :O omg!!!

@topogeny And my wife!

today is the birthday of a guy I dated for a few months 14 years ago, and I thought April 14th was such a beautiful sounding day that I made it my fake birthday for my anonymous accounts. so, happy fake birthday to me

@Brumairian lfg

@topogeny There's a famous scene in Romance of the Three Kingdoms where three of the characters become blood brothers. Not a formality, a literal rite in Ancient China.

I unironically think there should be formal rites of adoptive brotherhood and sisterhood

the Name that gleams in every 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎, on every tongue I have heard it in the vessel’s tongue, which is always the angel’s tongue and I have heard it in the tongue of the Blessed Prophet goodworks.substack.com/p/the-beautifu…

@moatshark yeah he sucks ass in so many ways dude but if Israel tries to invade Turkey I'm gonna end up having to defend him and i won't like it one bit

@topogeny He still stocking idf diapers for a kickback?

i swear oml if Israel makes me have to defend Erdogan I'm gonna lose my entire mind

@Brumairian it's toxic individualism fr

I love how much self-help advice is directed at people with no morally serious obligations like kids or ailing parents who require your care.

@not__dog__ he flies with his own wings

To seize upon the mountains ahead, joyfully, making his own path.

YouTube censored IranRadio English?? :(

Witnessing the Real in women is the greatest and most perfect witnessing. (Ibn Arabi)

@corpseinorbit based on all the yt videos I've seen I think guys just... watch a video and give it a shot. maybe they open a window it really can't be that hard if my stepdad figured it out. you're a precise type of person I'm sure you can do it

How do people learn to solder. I would love to be able to solder. In a sense, which I'm still making up, I need to solder. But how do you learn that shit without a big ventilated room and a workshop desk and are all you motherfuckers still using 60/40 lead? And breathing it?

it's so annoying that to see my friends' posts i have to go to their profile specifically, and then I respond to four tweets in one go like a maniac

@vo_ro_na this has been my struggle for the last decade. at this point I have a small group of close people who have the same mindset, but every existing org we've all tried to work with has been an American-ass disappointment

I need to join or assemble some group. I need to administrate or build something. But the question remains what a group can do without devolving into novelties or a book club divorced from pertinence