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A. Rascal
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Maple The lake scarlets the same instant as the maple. Let others try to say this is not passion.
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Metallica’s first album, Kill ‘Em All, produced by Megaforce Records, which started at a flea market in East Brunswick, New Jersey
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene

welcome to the resistance
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. The man I supported and helped get elected. Aggressive rhetoric attacking me has historically led to death threats and multiple convictions of men who were radicalized by the same type rhetoric being directed at me right now. This time by the President of the United States. As a woman I take threats from men seriously.
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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la «tentazione di semplificare le questioni complesse per evitare la fatica del pensiero »

“the temptation to simplify complex issues so as to avoid the fatigue of thought”

www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Si riscontra a volte l'idea che la ricerca e lo studio non servano ai fini della vita reale, che ciò che conta nella Chiesa sia la pratica pastorale più che la preparazione teologica, biblica o giuridica. Il rischio è quello di scivolare nella tentazione di semplificare le questioni complesse per evitare la fatica del pensiero, col pericolo che, anche nell'agire pastorale e nei suoi linguaggi, si scada nella banalità, nell'approssimazione o nella rigidita. There is sometimes the idea that research and study don’t serve the ends of real life, that what matters in the Church is pastoral practice rather than the theological, biblical or legal preparation. This risks slipping into the temptation to simplify complex issues so as to avoid the fatigue of thought, with the danger that, even in pastoral action and its languages, it will fall into banality, approximation or rigidity.
November 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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the sense in which, on my worst days, I’m still a 10
Jonathan Edward Durham @thisoneØverhere She's a 10 but mostly on those therapist intake questionnaires
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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it starts on page 257

this is why I take antihypertensive meds 🤣
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I was so young then
a smiling 1940s Texaco gas station attendant in dark olive uniform with black bow tie standing between a red Texaco gas pump and an old green and black Ford
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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RASCAL for A GOOD TIME
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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new arrival
The Life of Saint Macrina by Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa Translated by Kevin Corrigan
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-poor-l...
We are also meant to see the poor as a sacrament of the Lord. One can never fully inhabit the meaning and force of Matthew 25: "What you have done to the least of these, you have done to me." Just as with the Eucharist, Jesus does not mean this as a mere symbol. "This is my body" and "you have done to me" are not metaphors. Just as we blaspheme Christ if we are negligent with his sacramental body, so too we blaspheme when we are negligent with the poor. The host and the poor are both Christ. In the Eucharist, Christ is for us; in the poor Christ allows us to be for him. As Leo teaches, we must perpetuate the Eucharist through love and attention to the Poor." The Trump administration sees things differently. The poor are not to be fed, sheltered, and welcomed; they are to be neglected, means-tested, and turned away. This radical inversion of Christian teaching on the poor can be understood as a kind of re-paganization, a return to pre- Christian ways of seeing.
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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#tfw personal therapy intersects with spiritual direction
November 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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each and every single time a psychotherapist on social media claims that politics has absolutely no place in psychotherapy

and claims this is a completely centrist and politically neutral position
Scooby Doo meme where Fred unmasks a ghost labeled "neither right nor left" and finds a villain labeled "the right"
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Life shines brightly not because we are rich, beautiful or powerful. Instead, it shines when we discover within ourselves the truth that we are called by God, have a vocation, have a mission, that our lives serve something greater than ourselves. Every single creature has a role to play. The contribution that each person can make is uniquely valuable, and the task of educational communities is to encourage and cherish that contribution. Let us not forget that at the heart of the educational journey we do not find abstract individuals but real people, especially those who seem to be underperforming according to the parameters of economies that exclude or even kill them. We are called to form people, so that they may shine like stars in their full dignity.
November 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
The rise of the splitter over the past half a decade -- fueled by the emergence of elite pitching from Japan, where the the offering is a standard part of nearly every pitcher's arsenal, and the softening on its use by MLB teams that at one point had forbid the pitch, fearful that it directly led to elbow injuries - has transformed baseball even more than the cutter and sweeper once did. Because it's a superior pitch to all of them.
October 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Chering is caring
a color-enhanced photo of Cher with closed eyes with the following caption on top: TURN BACK TIME ONE HOUR ON SUNDAY DON’T FORGER TO CHER WITH YOUR FRIENDS
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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the Boston Public Garden on Halloween
a rectangular picture of a long park pond separated by a narrowing (like an hourglass) across which lies a footbridge with crimson, gold, orange, and green trees all around there’s also an island with trees in the top part of the pond and a small boat in the lower part
October 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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oldest (majoring in microbiology) decided to go to class dressed as a noble gas for Halloween

his chem professor came as a heavy metal 🤘🏼
a black T-shirt with the chemical element Neon and its atomic number and weight in aquamarine a gold crown, red cloak with black and white polka dot lining, and a scepter
October 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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mine too
a red, gold, and green tree also a Rastafarian symbol (think Karma Chameleon)
October 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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two things struck me about this article:

• the ethics of going on a date with someone you’d likely never date *and* who doesn’t know you’re going to report what they said to you in confidence

• the highlighted sentence in the following paragraph:

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
I went on a date with Ron*, 42, who was excited to tell me about his passion for funding women's health clinics. "Like Planned Parenthood?" I asked. "That's funny," he replied. No, he was talking about crisis pregnancy centres, which typically have religious affiliations and give out false information to pregnant women seeking abortions. When I asked Ron how many abortions hed prevented with his donations, he said "over a thousand". [this is the highlighted sentence] When I asked how many of those women died as a result of their pregnancy, he said, "If they picked up a Bible, God would show mercy." I couldn't help wondering aloud if he knew that one in four abortions in America is performed for a Catholic woman. Or that the majority of married Catholic women who have abortions are mothers who have already given birth twice. He said he didn't know. He gave his glass a little shake. The last few drops of his drink dribbled through the ice into his mouth.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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just discovered a wonderful iOS app that has the Divine Office, Order of the Mass, and Rosary in English and Latin

it’s fittingly called Universalis apps.apple.com/app/id284942...
Wednesday 29 October 2025 Wednesday of week 30 in Ordinary Time Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (without Invitatory) If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version with the Invitatory Psalm instead. Deus, in adiutórium meum inténde. Dómine, ad adiuvándum me festína. Glória Patri et Fílio™ et Spirítui Sancto. Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper* et in sécula sæculórum. Amen. Allelúia. God, come to my assistance. Lord, make haste to help me. Glory to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia. Hymnus Fulgéntis auctor átheris, qui lunam lumen nóctibus… Hymn Now that the daylight fills the sky, we lift our hearts to God on high… Wednesday 29 October 2025 Wednesday of week 30 in Ordinary Time Morning Prayer (Lauds) Introduction (with Invitatory) If this is not the first Hour that you are reciting today, use the version without the Invitatory Psalm instead. Dómine, lábia mea apéries. Et os meum annuntiábit laudem tam. Ps 94 (95) "Adhortamini vosmetipsos per singulos dies, done illud «hodie» vocatur" (Hebr 3, 13). Lord, open my lips. And my mouth will proclaim your praise. Invitatory Psalm - Psalm 94(95) "Every day, as long as this today' lasts, keep encouraging one another" (Heb 3:13). lubiláte Deo, omnis terra, servite Dómino in lætítia. Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth; serve the Lord with gladness.
October 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano embracing his daughter Meadow (played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler) James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano wearing white gloves and aiming a rifle
October 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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the arrows represent the direction we want our lives to take #existentialism
[picture of IKEA floor with arrows taped on the floor] Man arrested for putting fake arrow decals on the floor in IKEA and for creating a labyrinth with no exit
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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it starts at 3:45 youtu.be/Tp1T7kPEdDY
"WE SHOULD BEWARE OF THE DEMAGOGUES WHO ARE WILLING TO DECLARE A TRADE WAR AGAINST OUR FRIENDS, WEAKENING OUR ECONOMY, OUR NATIONAL SECURITY, AND THE ENTIRE FREE WORLD ALL WHILE CYNICALLY WAVING THE AMERICAN FLAG." -PRESIDENT RONALD REAGANj
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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guitarists: if you know harmonics, you might be a Pythagorean
a chart showing a guitar fretboard with varying harmonics depicted as wave forms underneath, from 1/2 to 1/7 of the string
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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What’s it like inside your head?
October 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM