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JW
@nephislothrop
husband - father - lds - nyc
Manhattan, NY Sumali Şubat 2026
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Yep. It's one of the reasons I love New York and why I tend to really dislike Republicans trying to dunk on it- it's as authentically American as any small town you'll find.
Christopher Johnson ✝️🇺🇸@CJohnsonAELI
Every time I’m in New York, I feel like betting on America.
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"What good did I bring, that You should have mercy on me and justify me? What did You find in me except only sins? Nothing in me is Yours except the nature You created; the rest are my evils, which You have wiped away."
— St. Augustine (In Psalmum 58, Sermo 1:19)
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Pope Francis wrote about this quite beautifully in Our Father:
“The poor guy goes away, finds no way out, and hangs himself. However, there is one thing that makes me think that the story of Judas does not end there. Maybe someone will think, ‘This pope is a heretic.’ Not at all! Go look at a specific medieval capital or column in the Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalene in Vézelay, in Burgundy. The men of the Middle Ages did catechesis through architecture, sculptures, images. On one side of the capital is Judas after he hanged himself, but on the other is the Good Shepherd lifting him onto his shoulders and taking him with him. On the lips of the Good Shepherd is the hint of a smile that I would not call ironic, but somewhat shrewdly knowing. Behind my desk, I keep a photograph of this capital divided into two sections, because it helps me meditate. There are many ways to be ashamed; despair is one of them, but we must try to help the desperate so that they may find the true path of shame, and not travel the one that ends with Judas ... Shame is a grace.”
Edmund@Kulambq
'The hanging of Judas,' at the Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalene in Vézelay to which Bishop Barron refers to in his essay.
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Master of epics like War and Peace, Resurrection and Anna K., Tolstoy was also brilliant at the short form, of which The Death of Ivan Ilyich is one of the finest. A brutal, profound, devastating study of a man struggling against the inescapable. 60 miraculous pages.
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Nietzsche says that Cervantes’s Don Quixote is the most dangerous book that has ever been written
An outstanding PhD dissertation could be written on why he says that and how it provides a fascinating lens through which to understand the thought of Nietzsche
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins@daniel_dsj2110
Philosophers and economists who are blamed by historians of ideas for various evils: 1. Isaiah Berlin/Jacob Talmon: Rousseau to Stalin 2. Karl Popper: Plato to Totalitarianism 3. Allan Bloom: Heidegger to the Closing of the American Mind 4. Anne Norton: Leo Strauss to Iraq War 5. Giorgio Agamben: Carl Schmitt to Patriot Act 6,. Tamsin Shaw: Carl Schmitt to William Barr 7. David French: Carl Schmitt to “MAGA Morality” Other connections: Hayek/Friedman to 2008 financial crisis; Michel Foucault to Neoliberal Revolution; Pat Buchanan to Trumpism; Hayek to Trumpism: Frankfurt School to “Cultural Marxism”: Frankfurt School to CRT (Rufo)
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Baseball rewards the ones who keep showing up.
The ones who put in the extra reps when no one’s watching.
The ones who fail, adjust, and come back stronger.
Hard work doesn’t always show up right away…
But when it does — it’s everything you dreamed of.
Keep going. The game always gives back.
#BaseballDreams #HardWorkPaysOff #KeepGrinding #TrustTheProcess
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the ABS system sits at the vexed crossroads of several highly charged dynamics in our collective life. successful challenges (by your team) feel amazing, like a long-awaited blow against capricious and unearned authority; but the overall existence (and putative infallibility) of ABS inevitably ignites anxieties about the superfluity of human judgement. and yet, the challenge system relies on human hubris, intuition, boldness, and risk. it's a very compelling encounter between populism and the machine.
Samuel Oakford@samueloakford
So baseball is popular again because they humiliate the umpires?
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Amen. And strangely relevant to our current insane times.
David Patrick@_Soup_65
Fuck man gravity's rainbow is so good it's stupid
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Stop panicking about the markets and trust Trump's plan for short term pain for medium term agony for long term catastrophe
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Not to sound like John Keats but we would be collectively happier if we spent time in the woods, read poetry, admired medieval illuminated manuscripts, set aside hours for silence and contemplation. Endless noise & stimulation makes us all miserable. We need nature and books.
the human anachronism™️@FullAsMuchHeart
Getting over my migraine, walked 2 miles in the woods about it
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Listening now to the exuberantly sublime 'Gloria in Excelsis Deo' from Vivaldi's choral 'Gloria" in D Major (RV 589) for chorus & orchestra performed by the Vocal & Instrumental Ensemble of Lausanne-conductor Michel Corboz in this 1975 Lp recording. Enjoy!
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These are considered the earliest surviving paintings of Jesus Christ where he heals the paralytic & walks on water ca. AD 232 from the Roman city of Dura-Europos [Syria]. Notice how Jesus is shown beardless & short-haired as often depicted in early Christian art.
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My third morning reading Fosse and his voice is narrating my life, the daily repetitive actions and the invisible in the visible.
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Beautiful.
I’ll say these…:
Against the Day
A Naked Singularity
The Recognitions
2666
The Death of Virgil
Riddley Walker
Ulysses
The Runaway Soul
Miss Macintosh, My Darling
The Book of Disquiet
Darconville’s Cat
Harris Gondal@dontharrisme
Some novels I wish to reread/read under a different light at some point in future: 2666 Moby Dick The Magic Mountain Under The Volcano To The Lighthouse Anna Karenina Austerlitz Absalom, Absalom! Don Quixote Sula Pedro Paramo How about you folks?
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This is the setup that changed everything for me,
Claude can now browse the internet on its own. Not with your browser. Its own dedicated browser..
It can now login with your credentials, scrape data, monitors communities and generates leads..
all in the background while you sleep
First how you can set it up,
> Open Claude Desktop
> Click the plus (+) icon in the chat bar and select Connectors (or "Manage Connectors")
> Click Add Custom Connector and enter the following details
- Name: Firecrawl
- URL: https://mcp.firecrawl. dev/{FIRECRAWL_API_KEY}/v2/mcp
- API Key: Paste your API key from the Firecrawl dashboard.
> Click Add.
then just enable and Authorize,
> Once added, find "Firecrawl" in your connectors list and toggle it on.
> Claude will ask for approval to use the connector; select Always Allow to let it run tasks without prompting you every time
can start using it normally in chat now..
Prompt it like: "Go to [website], extract [data], and organize it"
It opens its own browser, navigates, scrapes, and brings you clean results.
will share how i use this setup in my next post, so be sure to follow me and turn post notifications on.
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