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Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · Dec 17

This is my pinned post that links to my threads of Medieval Popes behaving badly. It's a humorous, slightly fast and loose retelling of the stories of some appalling Medieval Popes. When I have a new one, I'll reply with a link to the start of it. Enjoy!

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Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 4h

And half of Sha-na-na ended up as academics, lawyers and physicians. It's weird what musicians get up to outside of music sometimes.

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 1d

Australia didn't have a reigning monarch visit until 1954, but when she finally did arrive, Elizabeth visited the hell out of it. About 3/4 of the population got to see her in person.

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 1d

He sounds like he's in grad school.

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 1d

Your typical 8-6-2-2 double play. What's the big deal?

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 1d

The 4 seats held by Dems are +23D +24D, +17D and +1R (Don Davis). They can redraw Davis right out of his seat without too much trouble (he won by less than 2 percent). The other 3 won election in 2024 by a minimum of 35 points. That's going to be a much bigger lift.

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Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 1d

You're right. The original, Robinson v Landry, got punted back down with orders to use the 2 district map in 2024. Same clowns in the car this time around. There's probably no chance Section 2 survives this term, I'm afraid.

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 1d

North Carolina is much more evenly divided than Texas in terms of electoral composition. They have a smaller tightrope to not fall off of.

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Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that case stinks on ice. Isn't that the one that got that second district created because the SCOTUS said they had to do so and now it's coming back because the composition of the court changed?

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 1d

I'm actually mistaken. The priest who marched there was Fr. Larry Dowling from St. Agatha's in North Lawndale. Also a priest who appears to understand what Christ ordered his followers to do.

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 1d

The St. Eulalia Church is 2 miles distant.

Street map of Maywood and Broadview, Illinois showing the route from the St. Eulalia Church in Maywood to the ICE detention facility in Broadview. The distance is 2 miles.

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 1d

The church that the Catholic priest was from that marched there with the host the other day is in Maywood, about 2 or 3 miles from the facility. He's not an outsider and probably has church members from Broadview.

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Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 2d

Bane calling him Batman's pale brown shadow was the most spot on thing I've ever heard about that character.

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's actually from Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special, isn't it? It really is a great scene regardless of where it was from.

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Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 3d

She looks super focused.

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 3d

Now shifting to axolotls.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 3d

The frog costume is sold out on amazon, BUT they do have an axolotl costume if you anyone wants to keep the amphibian theme going

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Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 3d

Back years and years ago, a woman at my work came out as a lesbian to the 8 or 10 of us who worked in the department with her. The general consensus was, "what, that was you in the closet? We didn't realize you weren't already out." She had been agonizing over it and was so relieved.

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 4d

Joseph Davis, and his younger brother Jeff, ran what was considered to be a model plantation at Davis Bend, Mississippi. That kindly slave master was then President of the Confederacy and got 2% of the entire US population killed, so desperate was he to peacefully transition from slavery.

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 4d

Riveting work. Great job!

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 4d

Will you be including the Bofadese offshoot in your investigation? A Sugondese/Bofadese project is especially timely now.

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Dr. M.A. Davis @mikedavis.bsky.social · 5d

Perhaps the most personally admirable Presidential offspring was Theodore Roosevelt "Jr" (actually TR the III, but since his father did not use II or Jr in his name he is usually remembered as Jr) - (1887-1944)

In many ways, his life was much like his father's - a man of business,

Portrait photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1887-1944);

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Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 5d

They basically did a TV version of posting through it. They declared the second season to be set 5 years prior to the first one even though it didn't work with the continuity. It's not like the fans of the show watched it for the rigorous timeline cleanliness. And we all nodded and said, ok, cool.

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 5d

The TV show Sledge Hammer had the opposite problem. They were sure they weren't getting renewed because they were absurdly over the top and the network execs were utterly traumatized. So for the final episode they nuked the entire city.

They got renewed.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledge_...!

Sledgehammer (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 5d

Waits has had a number of songs covered by more popular artists, including...Springsteen.

Michael Seraphim @mseraphimsl.bsky.social · 6d

What would you know about that?

Oh, doctorate in a science, you say? Ok, that's different then.

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