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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 7h

This was Dune for me. I saw the new movie and had wanted to read them for a while, so I gave it a go.

It's a wonderful story full of badly dated characters and it makes it hard for me to get into.

I can read old series, LotR is probably my fav set of books, just bounced right off Dune.

Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 8h

Not a bad days work. I had hoped to get more done but it turns out stripping 1-2 layers of latex with citrus strip takes more than half a dozen of oil based with a heat gun.

And the house now smells strongly of fake orange.

But just this door and the closet door and it's painting time, baby.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 10h

The people behind Android are at it as well. I don't understand people who feel the need to fiddle with a UI that's been around forever, but make your "customization is the point" OS less customizable is just peak Google.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 11h

Any particular platform this can be found on?

Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 15h

I just want the ability to use it with my Chromecast.

Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 19h

The only rivalry "trophy" with any meaning anymore. Such a shame to lose the Bell/Mizzou rivalry for some corporate ass glass trophy named something bland.

$5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy @chairtrophy.bsky.social · 21h

@dukesmayobowl.bsky.social Your defending champ Minnesota Gopher fans are in a Chair-ity drive for pediatric cancer. Can we get some CFB online silliness to join forces and share this explainer post? We're trying to get to $15K for each Chair-ity and tell pediatric cancer to kick rocks.

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 1d

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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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 19h

Bessent wants a farmer bail out because he owns farmland and would get that bail out.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22h

NEW: Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.

Education Dept. Reverses Decision to Halt Funds for Deafblind Student Programs

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.

www.propublica.org

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MariEsposeets @mariesposeets.bsky.social · Aug 23

Red-breasted merganser watercolor comic, sorry had to after seeing bsky.app/profile/hibb...

Watercolor sketch: a male red-breasted merganser does the courtship dance of sticking his butt out of the water and looking weird (see real-life red-breasted merganser mating dance). Says: Huhhhughhuh s'up ladies, huhuhuh.
A group of female mergansers on rocks are watching. First one: Ugh. Second one: Creep.
Third one is gawking in delight and her tail feathers are fanning like crazy trying to cool her down.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 21h

I'm a fan of No Step on Snek or the BDSM snake who wants you to step harder, Daddy.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

Those weren't as ubiquitous then, but cigarette butts were.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

What gets me are the liquor bottles and shooters. I would be walking along a rural highway in the middle of nowhere and find cases of beer or an empty fireball bottle.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie with the words pathetic written on the bottom .

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie with the words pathetic written on the bottom .

media.tenor.com

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao, ok bud, if you think the AI summary is enough to form a solid opinion on Grant, I don't think you have the attention span for a book anyways.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 1d

You should read a history of him that wasn't written by bitter Southerners or politically connected Union generals he embarrassed.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine, if you will, fifty protesters in inflatable animal costumes converging on ICE agents while blowing Aztec Death Whistles.

(You can 3D print death whistles and there’s tons of free designs - we have already printed off a few and are printing more for No Kings).

Aztec Death Whistle: The Sound That Terrifies

YouTube video by Aztec Death Whistle

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 1d

persecuting minority groups who they imagine are poisoning society is an inherent part of the ideology, they need it, even if they were handed an ethnically 'cleansed' fascist state it would collapse in a witch-hunt for secret jews and suspected homosexuals and insufficiently committed fascists

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully it's the Alabama white sauce.

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 2d

Nebraska's winning one-score games. Huskers fans are trying to set expectations...

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 2d

There's purges where you aren't welcome at the parties, and there's purges where you're killed in the street and your wealth seized by the state to fund the government of the guy who ordered it.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 2d

Many such cases. But he was very anti-Nazi and anti-xenophobe. Just don't look at the anti Japanese cartoons 🫠

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 2d

From hazy memory, I think 4Es crime was everyone's turn taking forever instead of just the casters because we all had our daily/encounter/"basic" attacks, plus abilities.

Cool ideas, didn't love playing it.

Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 2d

I was a protester, more in 2020 than now, and we knew the risks the whole time and the ordinance used to arrest us was overturned by a judge saying it was unconstitutional in the wake of a bunch of us getting arrested.

It's not pretty or fun, but an effective protest is one met with State violence.

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Sean @titaniumman91.bsky.social · 2d

Politically, it's better for the harsher agency to overreact than for a friendlier agency to quiet things down and be softer. ICE getting aggressive against people in inflatable costumes and clergy is extremely bad for ICE long term.

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