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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 3m

being a woke american catholic is so cool man

- love da pope
- cardinals are okay
- bishops are getting name dropped in emily wilson's dante's inferno
- love da priests

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 13m

But the tide has been turning over the last decade or so because Francis and now Leo are *very* much of the other, and it is making the US leadership Big, Big Mad. Like, BIG mad.

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 7m

and it is _so_ fantastic to see as a parishioner

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 10m

saw a guy in a vietnam war veteran hat today. brother that shit ended fifty years ago and you don't look sixty-eight to me. you better start carrying your dd-214 next to your drivers license fucko

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 11m

there's nothing special about learning how to do murder. lots of people do that as a hobby or in private sector. what's special about being in the united states military isn't the weaponry. it's the camaraderie. they shouldn't get to hoard that and imagine themselves a special caste. they aren't.

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 11m

i also unironically not-kidding believe in the power of uniformed services and formal rank structures as ways to shape social bonding and force people to acknowledge as peers and superiors other people that they otherwise would not.

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 11m

it is time to put Basically Every Single Adult In Uniform. we do not need four hundred million people to all be direct uniformed employees of the federal government, but i unironically not-kidding believe that a massively overhauled and expanded federal works program will do wonders for us socially

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 11m

teachers (only armed at PTA meetings) and farmers (we will break the monsantulaks) and constructors and forest rangers. i am sick and fucking tired of the attitude that pervades our current and ex uniformed government employees, be they troops or cops, that the uniform makes them separate from us.

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 11m

i think we should have way, way, way more of these. i think we should militarize accountants (i want one million IRS agents and i want them all armed) and engineers (i want one million OSHA/NLRB agents, with sidearm) and lawyers (one million federal public defenders, with sidearm),

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 11m

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 11m

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA_Co...

NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps - Wikipedia

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 11m

everyone knows about the four Big Troops (army navy air force marines) and two of the Little Troops (coast guard space force) but there are _eight_ federal uniformed services of the united states, not six.

the other two are weathermen and doctors.

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 49m

under mamdani they’re going to be mcmain-buss

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pumpkin spice linux @selectric.space · 6h

save big money, skip the guards

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 5h

“people with capital to burn shouldn’t be able to steal implements of production away from their operators” is communism actually

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 5h

"Rust is an activist language" is technically true, but the ideology it's pushing is "it's bad when the computer gets rooted and incorporated into a botnet because you wrote everything in C", not communism

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HurakanWorks @hurakanworks.bsky.social · 1d

When talking about politics and philosophy there's this inevitable point where someone claims my kindness is my weakness and that's just not true. My weakness is sugary drinks and mentally unstable women with big tits.

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

real

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 7h

The Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale has added these (and more) quotations from various papal teachings about care and concern for immigrants to the windows outside its main meeting room. This is the kind of catechesis we need more of in the U.S. church.

A window pane with this text: "...No one would exchange his country for a foreign land if his own afforded him the means of living a decent and happy life." —Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (1891), no. 47

"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, living in exile in Egypt to escape the fury of an evil king, are, for all times and all places, the models and protectors of every migrant, alien, and refugee of whatever kind, who, whether compelled by fear of persecution or by want, is forced to leave his native land, his beloved friends and relatives, his close friends, and to seek a foreign soil." —Pope Pius XII, Exsul Familia Nazarethana (1962), Apostolic Constitution

"The poverty and misfortune with which immigrants are stricken are yet another reason for coming generously to their aid... It is necessary to guard against the rise of new forms of racism or xenophobic behavior, which attempt to make these brothers and sisters of ours scapegoats for what may be difficult local situations..." John Paul II, World Migration Day (1996)

"Migrants present a particular challenge for me, since I am the pastor of a church without frontiers, a Church which considers herself a mother to all. For this reason, I exhort all countries to a generous openness which, rather than fearing the loss of local identity, will prove capable of creating new forms of cultural synthesis." Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (2013)

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

nobody can force you to run pacman -Syu against your will. although i will grant they can and frequently do make you wish you had

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

don’t make me post the aelkus penguin

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

i like to think i hate rethuglicans more than these people hate racial minorities and unlike them i am right to do so but even so. i have other things to post about than just that and i want to see other kinds of posts than that also. what the hell

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

i genuinely cannot imagine feeling so firmly the need to be racist that i go to a dedicated racism website where the ONLY thing we talk about is racism against ONE group. get a second hobby! how is this fun for you!

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

the racist website has this banner

> Just a reminder. Violence or even the suggestion of violence in a post or shout will result in automatic deletion and infraction. … We do not support violence. … Also, we don't mention or make fun of other races here, only [RACIAL SLUR]s

cool. normal. awesome

a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

okay so i searched “is mcmastercarr woke” and found an extremely racist forum that posted a grainger ad with a black woman on it and some extremely racist usernames complained about grainger being woke so, ruling confirmed. jury’s out on mcmastercarr still

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

okay so i searched “is mcmastercarr woke” and found an extremely racist forum that posted a grainger ad with a black woman on it and some extremely racist usernames complained about grainger being woke so, ruling confirmed. jury’s out on mcmastercarr still

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

grainger board (12 total) has two black men, a latin woman, and while majority white is also midwestern and pretty evenly male/female

my ruling:

[x] WOKE
[ ] CHUD

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

if grainger turns out fash i am going to go uncle ted mode

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