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Happy feast day of Saint Catherine of Alexandria ❤️🔥
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Happy feast day of Saint Catherine of Alexandria ❤️🔥
gm- I’ve been drinking an exorbitant amount of hot chocolate ☕️
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
gm- I’ve been drinking an exorbitant amount of hot chocolate ☕️
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Pumpkin Spice Book Of Common Prayer
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Pumpkin Spice Book Of Common Prayer
I am regularly visited by the most adorable welsh corgi. They’re all adorable I suppose. So so cute.
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I am regularly visited by the most adorable welsh corgi. They’re all adorable I suppose. So so cute.
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I am once again begging people to stop using « Religion » and « White American Evangelicism » as interchangable.
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I am once again begging people to stop using « Religion » and « White American Evangelicism » as interchangable.
Χαῖρε Κεχαριτωμένη, ὁ Κύριος μετὰ σοῦ, ὁ ἔχων τὸ μέγα ἔλεος. 🩵
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Χαῖρε Κεχαριτωμένη, ὁ Κύριος μετὰ σοῦ, ὁ ἔχων τὸ μέγα ἔλεος. 🩵
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No shade to my former employer, but what’s missing from this story is that the same Mormon anti-porn nonprofit behind Relay previously launched a “shameware” app that pinged Facebook when you masturbated — and sent FB your password in plaintext.
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
No shade to my former employer, but what’s missing from this story is that the same Mormon anti-porn nonprofit behind Relay previously launched a “shameware” app that pinged Facebook when you masturbated — and sent FB your password in plaintext.
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By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation;
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation;
Reading a severely academic text about the gospel of mark rn and using the yall Bible translation to look up the referenced verses
November 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Reading a severely academic text about the gospel of mark rn and using the yall Bible translation to look up the referenced verses
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writing poems is so silly "oh here's what i've been working on for the last few weeks. It's ten lines. And they're not good"
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
writing poems is so silly "oh here's what i've been working on for the last few weeks. It's ten lines. And they're not good"
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This response is interesting publicorthodoxy.org/2025/11/22/o... I’m a recent convert into orthodoxy tho rather than a woman who recently converted out and this article is written by a man too idk haven’t read a woman response yet
The "Orthodoxy as Masculinity" Narrative
According to the New York Times, young, conservative men are flocking to the Orthodox Church because it provides an all-too-rare space that celebrates masculinity. This “Orthodoxy as Masculinity” narr...
publicorthodoxy.org
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This response is interesting publicorthodoxy.org/2025/11/22/o... I’m a recent convert into orthodoxy tho rather than a woman who recently converted out and this article is written by a man too idk haven’t read a woman response yet
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Crisp morning on the farm. God loves us ♥️
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Crisp morning on the farm. God loves us ♥️
Today is the anniversary of my first communion 🕯️ my understanding of Anglicanism is some of you do first communion and baptism together like most Orthodox do and some of you do it separately like most Catholics do. Which way did you do your initiations? I like both ways for different reasons.
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Today is the anniversary of my first communion 🕯️ my understanding of Anglicanism is some of you do first communion and baptism together like most Orthodox do and some of you do it separately like most Catholics do. Which way did you do your initiations? I like both ways for different reasons.
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When I am Pope, I shall finally suppress the Roman Rites and put in place the true liturgy that embodies the spirit of Western Christendom.
The Mozarabic Rite
The Mozarabic Rite
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
When I am Pope, I shall finally suppress the Roman Rites and put in place the true liturgy that embodies the spirit of Western Christendom.
The Mozarabic Rite
The Mozarabic Rite
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Someone asked for an edit of the new Utah house map
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Someone asked for an edit of the new Utah house map
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“We don’t believe the solution to these issues is to avoid using LLMs, especially given the undeniable benefits they offer in many contexts. People simply need to become smarter/strategic users of LLMs – which starts by understanding the domains wherein LLMs are beneficial vs harmful to their goals”
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“We don’t believe the solution to these issues is to avoid using LLMs, especially given the undeniable benefits they offer in many contexts. People simply need to become smarter/strategic users of LLMs – which starts by understanding the domains wherein LLMs are beneficial vs harmful to their goals”
Blessed Feast day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present... to those who celebrate 🕯️ thank God so many of us celebrate this beautiful feast day 🧎♀️
Presentation of Mary - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Blessed Feast day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present... to those who celebrate 🕯️ thank God so many of us celebrate this beautiful feast day 🧎♀️
Today is a very girly feast day of the Orthodox Church btw 🕯️
Really irritating that the NYTimes keeps running these advertisements for some of the worst orthodox influencers possible www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Today is a very girly feast day of the Orthodox Church btw 🕯️
Really irritating that the NYTimes keeps running these advertisements for some of the worst orthodox influencers possible www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Really irritating that the NYTimes keeps running these advertisements for some of the worst orthodox influencers possible www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
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One would expect this to have come to light much sooner if American techbros weren't generally indoctrinated to hold the liberal arts in disdain ...
November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
One would expect this to have come to light much sooner if American techbros weren't generally indoctrinated to hold the liberal arts in disdain ...
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
Mostly successful lol
Gonna walk 2 miles to church tomorrow and then move some furniture afterward
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Mostly successful lol