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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 11h

do you hate the Supreme Court? do you think they're biased? do you think they're making obviously wrong decisions? so does the President!

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 23h

after botched execution Tenn gov Bill Lee pauses executions for year of 2026 tragic situation

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

on the Christa Pike thing, I am rather unsure the death penalty isn't great except maybe in the most extraordinary cases - eg, if you're trying Hitler or Stalin - but there is smth abt that particular crime which is rather bloodcurdling how do you balance all things? how to *really* be just?

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm split on the DP bc on one hand I accept the Church's teaching but otoh I do not see, given the various ends of punishment, how some exemplary crimes (eg genocide, serial murder, extreme forms of rape, tyranny however moderate) can justly be punished w anything less) maybe the mercy is worth it

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

nasty anti-semitism neither 10/7 nor the devastation in gaza make all things permissible

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I’m not that bad! As it is said in Harbardsjlod, Odin’s is the jarls, but mine is the thralls! And verily each day and night they do feast with me in Bildskirnir—“ “Wait a second—what in the ever loving hay of things is a thrall?” “Er, uh, a laborer—“ “Does he get paid?”

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this does make some sense to me

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

apparently Hormuz oil flows have increased not likely to lead to strategic victory but hooray I guess

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Adrian Vermeule, once cited by J Kagan in a dissent, says smth valuable (the like bar is misleading; I am blocked, perhaps for liking smth Yankee Papist said abt him)

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you can't fucking be serious with that fucking ending to that fucking football game as the Lord lives, so am I wrathful; as the heavens are high, so is my anger great; as Job, so am I weary of this existence in which is little joy and many tribulations, and burdens upon burdens

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Apparently the Oxford Oratorians are now ready to achieve the sanctuary restoration they announced some time ago Seems promising

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A Dem Pres would prob veto I suspect

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the hasan thing seems so odd maybe not the biggest issue but seems like smth of an issue

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Was she old enough to remember the Bellamy salute? How bizarre

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@kurtbusiek.bsky.social out of curiosity was Marvels done full script?

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

was Marvels written full-script style or per the Marvel Method?

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"Boo!"-ver Street Rag @hooverstreetrag.org · 06/09/2026

No one else is going to care about this, but the Michigan Stadium in-game experience is sliding downhill really fast. 1). Adding the weird little LED buttons to the aisle handrails makes the whole place seem cheap. 1a). Not adding them in the student section because you know they would be stolen.

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Steve Skroce’s Tales of Wonder is really interesting And Stu and Jake are interesting analogues to two famous Marvel creators

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Eventually, Superman (albeit not the modern version) will enter the public domain This will also eventually happen to Captain America What happens then?

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have to confess I never really liked Amora don't get me wrong, I really appreciate Marvel's Thor - Simonson's run was my gateway, and my favorite - but I've always liked him in his most mythic incarnations Simonson aping alliterative verse and all Amora is a Latin name try smth out of the sagas

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

at one point I thought this was the beginning of the movie so when i finally sat down to watch it i was confused

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

fwiw supposedly we're going to see more whenever Ghosts of Marvel Comics comes out - it's a graphic novel (tho fwiw this may be a pt. against; diff bw all comics, however great, and history/journalism) based on a bunch of archival research

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The big question, if Whyte actually could mimic Stan so well no one could spot it, is why Stan didn't hire Whyte to just...write Marvel Comics? He hired Roy and Denny and Gerry and Archie and others, and none of them could match Stan's style as well as Whyte...if Whyte actually wrote the issues...

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

if the Joker keeps winding up in Arkham, maybe it’s bc he keeps on getting found non compos menti when he isn’t--when he really has mens rea (the guilty mind) all along that could lead to interesting angles Batman’s a detective, isn’t he? What if his challenge is to *prove* Joker is guilty

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

By the way it’s really great to be afforded opportunities like this to learn abt this wonderfully rich medium from people of such experience Def smth to be grateful for

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Agatha looks vaguely Asian in this. Not sure I'm the biggest fan.

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The only option is Mark Hamill

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

the bishop's rant I think is a little dodgy to say the least, but at the risk of perhaps speaking in my folly I feel like it also wouldn't be right to act like his case was a pure lynching, as if all the claims were absolutely baseless

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

always interesting to see noteworthy sci-fi/fantasy/superhero genre guys in comic book letters Busiek's letter abt the Phoenix storyline is famous, in part bc he had a role in (partially) retconning it; GRRM's even more so, but bc of GOT/ASOIAF

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

this kinda makes me think abt classical chinese tho afaict the language is pretty static I guess for the most part

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

actually this makes me wonder if jerome said anything abt it bc obv he knew hebrew

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

when it comes to Arday I do not see why we can't say that he was both a fabulist who likely didn't merit his formerly high position and nonetheless a person whose death is for us a tragedy if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

this is personally how I see it

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

you definitely don’t see that every day at the old mass these days

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

the poor may be bad people but so am I

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

learned how to shuck oysters today

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The New Liturgy [Album]: Bad! Name Name PhD Musicology, Thomas Aquinas College

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I don't really know abt this there's a lot of aspects of liturgical renewal that I think have not been achieved eg, Pristas' and similar authors' works seem to show goal of textual renewal, explicitly laid out in S Paul VI's bull Missale Romanum, def not achieved chant renewal, partially aborted -

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

saw movie and read review imo think film better than she is, but not entirely unfair—that he’s polymechanicos does sort of matter, so yeah I think the anecdote w bed and the construction of raft do count here (tho is maybe nitpicky quality to that—but classicists are like that)

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Saw Odyssey movie While Wilson’s critique maybe not right, think Bard College’s NYRB review not unfair that it presents Odysseus entirely negatively—Trojan sack as Bronze Age Hiroshima, Odysseus’ return voyage of penitent (perhaps this undercuts theme of nostos), kleos as entirely vain (but in fact

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

As much as left of center Americans like to tout other countries as the goal there’s a shocking ignorance about how these countries *actually* work. Is there a single influential person in the US who touts European countries but wants a 20%+ federal sales tax?

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

See in a sense it’s abt sharing—the Eucharist

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

MLB owners of losing teams getting ready to point to the Dodgers for why they need a salary cap

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I still don’t know that I agree w this After all, Marxism-Leninism is also inherently an ideology opposed to our democracy If the incompatibility of an ideology w our values is sufficient reason to repress it, are we also reviving HUAC? Moreover, isn’t this the logic behind Turkey’s Ataturk laws?

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I don’t understand the idea of prison abolition OK sure prisons are often abusive and function as mechanisms of repression Now what do you propose? will unlimited truth and reconciliation meetings work on everyone? I doubt it Then what? Ritual killings? Blood feuds?

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Possum Lover @bigblobape.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The metaphor always sucked Mutants are like if walking nukes asked not to be monitored and then had the occasional tendency to vote en Masse for Mutant Death Star Hitler And then there’s the red-haired bird god (now and forever, literally this time) who eats stars

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