@kel Some, but sadly not all, of the mandatory training videos I'm subjected to allow for speed adjustment. 1.75x is about right for me....

@Vikky Go Leafs Go!

@Satchelpooch
https://sackheads.social/@Cloudguy/110256209708866473

This warning was posted late Monday April 24 by an infosec person I follow elsewhere. I'm taking their advice, and if you have an Amazon account, I think you should too.
*******
Go to your Amazon account, sign out of all your devices, everything, everywhere all your Echos (yes I know it's a pain), reset your password, delete 2FA and any tokens and reset them. Now.

That doesn't include Fido / Yubikeys but does include Auth tokens.

Do it now.

@MookyTroubadour All the cop apologists who use the "a few bad apples" argument need to be reminded that the full saying is "It only takes a few bad apples to spoil the whole barrel."

Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!
Χριστός Ανέστη! Aληθώς ανέστη!
Христос воскресе! Воистину воскресе!
Hristos a înviat! Adevărat a înviat!
المسيح قام! حقا قام!

#Pascha #ChristIsRisen #XριστοςAνεστη #XристосBоскресе #المسيح_قام

We worship Thy passion, O Christ.
Show us also Thy glorious resurrection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QD71bV9omM

Happy Birthday to J. S. Bach!

(The title of the piece is somewhat misleading.)

https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/07/27/josef-pieper-only-the-lover-sings/

@MLClark Thinking some more about our conversation, I was reminded of the scene from Hiuckleberry Finn when Huck rips up the letter. "All right then, I'll go to hell."

I'd never made that thematic connection between Twain and Dostoevski before. A friend of mine once commented that Clemens is his favourite theologian. He was mostly kidding, I think.

@MLClark Yeah, I don't disagree that thematically, TBK hinges on the passage from the Gospel of John. I was just offering the observation that it's specifically Russian Orthodoxy that suffuses the novel, and not Roman Catholicism.

Between my first and second reading of TBK, I had begun learning about Orthodoxy: history, theology, practices. The second time through, I got a LOT more out of the experience.

@MLClark If by "shaped around Catholicism" you mean Dostoevski was anti-Catholic, yes. The parable of the Grand Inquisitor was specifically Romophobic.

The larger context of your post suggests that you're not differentiating between Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy. (Which is rather beside the point, to be sure.)

@BosmangBeratna In my late teens, my ponytail was impervious to hat head. Now I keep my hair clipped shorter than yours.

Having squandered the riches of the fatherly gift, I, wretched one, grazed with the dumb beasts. I desired their food and hungered; for I had not enough. Wherefore, I shall return to the compassionate Father, crying with tears: Receive me as one of Thy servants, as I kneel to Thy love for mankind, and save me.

- Doxasticon for the Prodigal Son

@MLClark @fpkthree Oh, wait. The Christofascists probably *love* that verse.

@MLClark @fpkthree "Do not think I came to bring peace, but a sword."