So it’s just a retelling of “The Dream of the Rood” for people who can’t read poetry?

Screenshot of a discord post, reading: One thing I like about reading history is that every modern scandal, no matter how dumb, has some corollary in the past. Tudor England had an autopen scandal! "The will [of Henry VIll] which Hertford had received from the king's hands was indisputably signed by dry stamp, that is, the outline of the royal autograph had been embossed on the paper with a stamp and then inked in by a clerk empowered to commit what was technically the treasonous act of forging the royal signature, and for which, to safeguard himself, he had regularly to sue pardon. Such a method was commonly used for authenticating routine documents and was presumably used now because the king as too weak to subscribe with his own hand.... Later on, in Elizabeth's reign, it was to be argued by supporters of Mary Queen of Scots that, because the will was stamped, not autographed, it did not fulfil the statutory requirements that it should be subscribed 'with your most gracious hand' and that its exclusion of the Scottish line from the succession...was therefore invalid." (edited) -from Scarisbrick's Henry VIII

This also has pre-industrial antecedents. Fun fact: Tudor England had an auto-pen scandal.

Baruch atah adonAI.

The Dark Side of Counter-Strike 2 YouTube video by Coffeezilla

There is a big online gambling system that uses CS2 skins, largely to get kids to gamble

youtu.be/v6jhjjVy5Ls?...

My mistake

He’s a magistrate judge. Don’t know much about this guy particularly but these are appointed positions that tend to have a pretty low bar for experience or competence

Photo of Heinz purple ketchup bottle behind a serving of fries doused in the purple ketchup. It looks like paint, or maybe Grimace's ejaculate.

Anecdotal, but a bunch of friends and I who live in Normal Heights didn’t get a rent increase last year, which coincided with all those buildings going up on 30th

Beyond any personal affinity, all of his actions make sense if he’s trying to secure backing from the techbros

Le Carré is maybe the only major spy novelist who didn’t try to hide the fact that 90% of espionage was either dull or tragic.

Ie, they’ll argue that Christmas is a pagan holiday bc of Roman traditions that were assimilated into Christmas, which accepts the Christian framing of “this started as a Christian/pagan tradition, therefore it is always inherently so” eg yoga in schools, the US itself.

Phrasing may have been unclear. There are a lot of pagans whose belief system pulls from every religion but Christianity, but without any serious attempt at synthesis. They accept the general arguments that mainstream Christianity makes, only to argue on the conclusions.

There are pagans who try to reconstruct pre-Christian practices in their particular ethnic/geographic background, and there are pagans who pull from everything except Christianity who almost all grew up in Christian communities. They like to cite the Talmud, though it’s usually very superficial

I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.

The only people I’ve see cite the Talmud who aren’t religious Jews are theology scholars, neopagans or antisemitic conservative Christians

Photo of a man looking at a gorilla’s backside

Took my parents to the zoo a couple days ago

Don’t do him the credit of pretending he doesn’t spell it “Zack.”

Maybe I’m wrong, but I think the term was popularized and self-applied by Musk and his ilk as a cudgel against any form of content moderation, and then used sarcastically by people who understood it to be an insincere fig-leaf.

Photo of a man looking at a gorilla’s backside

This photo I took of my dad at the zoo is the closest thing I’ve seen to a real life @pantspants.bsky.social comic

Lights, Camera, Adventure: Adventure Club SLO, a group for neurologically different adults, releases its new film The lights dim and the crowd grows quiet as the whir of the projector lights up the screen, filling it with the magic of filmmaking,...

Really cool thing I know Ted Levine from. He and Timothy Bottoms donated their time to this a ways back:

www.newtimesslo.com/lights-camer...

For anyone interested, the decision is very readable even without a legal background

m.openjurist.org/849/f2d/460

Screenshot from Wikipedia, relevant part reading: the Times called their second story "flawed", stating: While there was no question that the attack occurred, and that some neighbors ignored cries for help, the portrayal of 38 witnesses as fully aware and unresponsive was erroneous. The article grossly exaggerated the number of witnesses and what they had perceived. None saw the attack in its entirety. Only a few had glimpsed parts of it, or recognized the cries for help. Many thought they had heard lovers or drunks quarreling. There were two attacks, not three. And afterward, two people did call the police. A 70-year-old woman ventured out and cradled the dying victim in her arms until they arrived. Ms. Genovese died on the way to a hospital.

Also, the reporting on the Genovese murder was false. People did call the police!

I don’t know the manufacturer, but it’s stamped with Iridium Point Germany

Fountain pen with hardwood body

Fountain pen with hardwood body, uncapped

In all seriousness, I really like this one I got at the woodworkers shop in Balboa Park

The sex criminal formerly known as prince

Trying to be the UKs Clinton

Could be Blair

Across a lot of the iMessages, the number 7, when appearing by itself, is redacted

Dave Bautista’s Bowtie Pasta

Bari Weiʃʃ

Is this anything?