Excellent content.👍

I'm curious if you fact-checked the claims in that pic.
I did, at www.snopes.com/fact-check/t....
According to snopes, the source is a guy who also claims Obama is gay and W's feces and urine are classified top secret & are "flown back from Europe." 🤷
I wouldn't be posting his claims about anything.

I don't know how to respond to that.

I'm not getting the reference. Is that an insurance company exec?

Of course not. He's going to disrupt one of the world's largest trading relationships and millions of people over the *concept* of this. 🤦

Welcome to Bluesky! 💙
Glad you're still fighting the good fight on Xitter, but damn it's good to see you in a place of safety, too.

Well put.

That puts a different shine on "testament." 😄
Minor pt: the Latin derivation reflects the Roman oath on one's _own_ testes. Unclear if that was influenced by Jews or if Rs developed it independently. Possibly a neat example of independent invention!
anthrotheorylearning.wordpress.com/2018/02/25/i...

I'm not above embarrassing my friends.
But I wouldn't do that to you, it would be like icing a cake twice.

It's OK, I'm confident that he was joking.
But it's sweet that you were willing to back him up without needing an explanation. That's friendship. ❤️

If you're interested, in July 2024, the American Rose Society posted an article with a photo of what the writer called "the first truly black rose I have ever seen." Just one, possibly mutant blossom! They also mention some varieties that get close to black.
Link: rose.org/a-little-bot...

Or be!

Works for me! Not the Silmarillion, tho; that book is many things, but a "comfort read" isn't one. 😄