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number1mongrel

"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

crazy-brazilian

jewish-joy

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

jewish-joy

#i love prayer plants but they're fussy so I don't keep them#can we have a picture op they're so pretty

Behold, Dorothea

(Naming my plant "Gift of God," and then giving her to a seminarian with just the explanation that it's a prayer plant? Okay, that's my bad.)

jewish-joy

I should also add- I ran into my rabbi and explained the situation. I then asked, earnestly, if there was a remedy. A mikveh of sorts, or a beit din, or something.

He turned to me, sighed, and said in a very deadpan tone-- "Plants don't have covenants, Joy,"

So Theodora's a free agent according to rabbinic opinion. I guess I'll permit her to be Roman Catholic.

stephendann

Free Roamin' Catholic Plants. What will they think of next?

wifemoji

white ppl with small dogs will go places u never thought possible

wifemoji

this was about a dog i saw inside mcdonalds but ur right . ur so right.

foone

the upside of ADHD is that it makes you a fucking genius

the downside is that you don't get to decide when and for how long you're a genius.

foone

Or what you are going to be a genius about.

You have a big work project?

Nah. You're now a genius at making boardgames. For 7 hours.

unrivalling

thepumpkin-queenn

starry--eye-s

dduane

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

tonydinozzo-jr

credit: bright-mademoiselle (deleted)

marigoldrouge

the ai-ification of f1 has to be one of its worst ideas

drivers can make one small mistake and then have no idea how the ai will take that into account and change the energy deployment for their next lap. how are they supposed to fix mistakes if the algorithm is changing things unpredictably?

motorsport.com article

marigoldrouge

and how are we as viewers supposed to understand and compare driver performance if it’s sometimes coming down to ai decision making that not even the teams can identify?

duckymallardfan

lordsfromelsewhere

afl gesture-y doodle dump #gosports

chaos-footy

I don’t think we talk enough about the fact that every club has their own little song they sing together. It really opens the doors to some very funny mental images.

Do players who get traded to a new club have to spend the evening before their first game studying up the lyrics just in case their new club wins?

Do players have little practice groups together to refresh themselves on the lyrics?

Do new clubs (like Tasmania) get all their players together and learn the song like a choir would?

theultimateetc

There is footage out there of GCS, GWS and most recently Tassie (VFL) having the song lyrics on boards and held up so everyone can read the lyrics as they sing

#Afl

tony-x-ziva-is-tiva

synthetic-ultramarine

as a child I saw princess leia and miss piggy and princess fiona on my vhs tapes and i thought, okay so part of being a woman is like, attacking people. That's an important part of femininity.