Yeah, I've managed to spend 4 hours on a set of 3 minute screencasts. Thought I'd go bonkers.
We will know who all was a saint, when we get to where we all get to.
I didn't agree with this, even recently, but yeah. It's just completely over the top, now.
Church attendence is noticeably up, all over America. People are coming together, over his death. Young Christians are hiding less and speaking up more.
Yeah, I know. A lot of Islam is correct, or at least complementary, but without the Trinity they're missing the core, so they veer off onto counter-productive tangents and are overfocused on earthly existence and utopia-building.
It's the same, as with Jews. So close, but no Trinity. 🤷🏻♀️
Kirk is a revolutionary, instead of a reactionary, yes. He was looking forward. He had a positive outlook, and genuinely wanted to convert the people he interacted with and create something new and better, than what had gone before.
The veneration of Mary is a hard message to swallow, I think, but I think his message that Saint Mary is an excellent role model for all of us, and especially for women, is 🎯
All baptized Christians are saints (and priests). We are all members of the communion of saints.
That is why the Apostel's Creed says:
* I believe in the Holy Spirit,
* the holy catholic Church,
* _the communion of saints_,
* the forgiveness of sins,
* the resurrection of the body,
* and life everlasting.
Canonized saints are those whose life has been particularly exemplerary and who have been investigated and whose lives are therefore positive examples. The investigation takes decades, but it always begins with a popular veneration.
We will all die in our own time. This was his time.
Everything turns to good.
MLK also became a martyr in 24 hours.
That happens, when someone so central to a larger movement is assassinated. It is then seen as an attack on the entire group, and not merely an attack on that particular person.
I don't agree with him on everything. I don't even agree with the Pope on everything, nor am I expected to.
Saints aren't expected to be perfect, they're expected to display heroic virtue, which he did.
If you want a reminder, of how respectful, kind and empathatic Charlie Kirk could be, here's some of his best-of:
#papst #katholisch #catholic
Yeah, they're going to all degrade, I guess.
I know someone who works for the government who said he had seen AI that was easily twice as good, as what civilians are getting.
The little ones are so adorable. 🥰
Einen schönen ersten Schultag, allen bayerischen Kindern!
Yeah, saw her on a talk show, last night, and it was as cringe, as always.
Ricarda Lang is looking pretty.
There's no reason for it, that benefits the receiving country. It's done for the sake of foreigners.
I have family and friends that are schizophrenic. You sometimes need lots of help, to care for them.
US jails are full of the mentally ill because the mental hospitals are underfunded and understaffed.
> Dewitt said her son had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had been given medication, but she said he refused to take it.
> Dewitt said she grew increasingly concerned about the safety of her and her husband and took Brown to a mental health hospital. She said the hospital told her they didn't have enough room to admit Brown and because he wasn't threatening to hurt himself, they couldn't take him.
#TurdWorldCountry
Decarlos Brown was out on cashless bail.
His family repeatedly tried to get him professional help, but were turned away because he wasn't suicidal and was deemed harmless. Despite him assaulting family members and being a 14-time violent felon. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but refused to take the meds and wandered around the house and the town, talking to himself.
Impeach Magistrate Teresa Stokes. She is not a licensed attorney or a member of the NC bar, but she was a part-owner (together with her wife) of a mental health recovery center, indirectly profiting from mentally ill criminals.
🫠 Unfuckingbelievablewhatashitshow.
EU inflation hovers around 2%, but that masks falling or stagnant prices in Germany, Italy and France, and rapidly-rising prices in Eastern Europe.
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2025/09/PD25_333_611.html
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-euro-indicators/w/2-02092025-ap
Watching Western Europe deindustrialize and turn into a gigantic combination old folks' home plus refugee camp.
Sort of sad, but okay. Yay, democracy.
Yeah, it's nuts.
You hear about all of the money people make over there, but then everything costs so much, that they are left poorer.
Germany is a cheap place to have kids.
Nope. The children are here.
We just have no debt and hardly any recurring payments. Most of the money goes to food, travel, and savings.
It's amazing, how low our family's running costs now are. Bizarre. 😂
I can't really get used to it, after being broke, or nearly-broke, for a couple of decades.
Our electrical bill just goes down, down, down...
Rapidly rising residential real estate prices suppress the native birth rate.
Weniger Kinder wegen Immobilienboom? Die Folgen hoher Hauspreise für die Familienplanung
#europe #demographics
Darn. OnlyFridays counts, but OnlyWednesdays means I need to send the vicar, to setup a candlelight vigil on your lawn, or something.
Mood.
You're right. I spend too much time on social media.
I'm going to logout and watch TV, instead, retro-style. Maybe there's something from Rosamunde Pilcher or Iny Lorentz on.
When everyone is complaining about being on social media too much, but you're on it more than they are and it's the only time when you can really relax and escape all of the work piling up around you, and all of the conversations about the work that is piling up, and you're reminded that most people have lots of free time and aren't always stressed out and you want to get off the phone, but there are 3 hours worth of kitchen work waiting for you, but you're tired and have to get up early, so you just keep scrolling and hope the house elves come and do all of the housework while you're asleep, but they never do.
fuck 🍎I really don't get it. Totally bizarre. All they use it for is posting selfies on Insta and arranging coffee dates on WhatsApp. They can't even figure out how to use the browser or send an e-mail with it.
And they all buy on credit. 😂
Yeah, spent like €250 on a Moto and it's actually quite nice. Supermarket mobile service, too. 😂
I agree, regarding something easily assignable to a particular person, like income taxes. Since there should be no taxation without representation.
I would tend to make federal voting sex-neutral, but require the ability/fitness and willingness to sign on to the draft. And you should have to renew your draft every ten years, starting at 18, at which point you can renew your voting registration. I think that would also solve for the problems we currently have, like gerontocracy, vote-buying, people voting themselves more state monies, foreigners voting, voting being tied to driver's licenses, dead or unconscious people voting, and etc.
It would send a stronger message about what a (federal) government is primarily focused on: mounting a common defense.
These are all the people who would fight.
These are all the people who get to decide, if we fight.
Yeah, I'm not one of the Good Vibes Only Crew, and never have been. I have a complex internal life, an alert mind, and I'm interested in the things happening around me; including sad or horrid things.
Our lives on Earth are not always merry, and aren't meant to be. This is not Heaven.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.
Amen.
You can tell which npubs have personally dealt with violent, mentally-ill people and who hasn't.
I have seen some ish, in my private life, working at a hospital, riding on public transport.
I am not demonizing such people, but I also don't want them sitting behind me on the bus.
Unlike most of the people pretending like this was alien probes or Da Joos, or whatever, I don't have a car. A drug addict, from Syria, went ape-shit on a route I regularly ride on, just last month. Everyone like, Oh, it's racist to complain about this sort of thing, but HE WENT AFTER A SYRIAN FAMILY SITTING ON THE TRAIN AND TRIED TO BEAT THEIR HEADS IN WITH A HAMMER AND AN AX.
There are big Russian-Belarrussian military excercises going on, next door, right now. So, there are drones flying all over. There are also drone swarms being lodged at Ukraine, on a regular basis, from the same area, and it is apparently possible to return them to the sender.
But this looks like someone wanted to see if NATO is paying attention.
Now, we all know:
No, NATO is not paying attention.
I doubt Russians are afraid of NATO. Afraid of what? We can't even shoot down drones. LOL
Could barely even handle 20 of them, and didn't see them coming. Pathetic.
They literally had to call us and be like, yo, we accidentally invaded your air space. Might want to do something about that. 🤙🏻
They know our defenses are a joke.
Oof, telling the Ukrainians that they should just stop whining and become a vassal state of Russia is not a solution I'd propose.