Gabe Pyle

I don’t tweet a lot but my children’s book “14 Animals (That are Definitely NOT an Octopus)” is available now.

[Gabe Pyle @Gabe_Pyle]

Looking for a gift for a young reader in your life? Want to avoid books that contain octopuses*? My book "14 Animals (That are Definitely Not an Octopus)" is available here for $8.99. https://t.co/LXRWN0RF1o

*book may secretly contain octopuses

[Gabe Pyle @Gabe_Pyle]

My good friend Cal reflects on holding hobbies with a loose fist to make room for more lamps and also a baby.

[Cal is @MTGCal]

Learning to Let Go

I'm the Gamecube guy but I'm selling my Gamecubes. I sold my last cEDH deck in its entirety last year. The money is nice & all but it's more than that - hobbies should serve you, not the other way around. My latest for Hispters:
https://t.co/6WcJ4lKGEH

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

When a human being dances, he’s reaching up toward something sublime, letting the music draw his natural form upward into grace. Even if it’s a pop song like Billie Jean, even if it’s a desperately troubled human like Michael Jackson. When he stumbles, the eye reads the fall as a fall from grace—just like we can’t help but read death as something unnatural tugging a soul that was made for life down into the dust.

When a robot dances, even if it dances amusingly and well, it’s being prodded into an uncanny mimicry of something that’s not congruent with its matter, like an amputated limb galvanized by electricity into a sudden jolt of movement. When it falls, we see its true nature: inert, lifeless, mere stuff.

The intuition tracks what the eye alone can’t see, which is why you’ll notice no one has the impulse to get up and help the robot the way they might a man. It’s the difference between raw matter being pushed up from below against gravity, and spirit reaching down to draw matter up into the dance.

Also it’s freaking hilarious.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

A lot of people are under the mistaken impression that progress means advances in tech. Real progress is kids who are literate, free meals for public school students, a culture in which human art & poetry are celebrated. We're regressing rapidly & the only way forward is to read.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

The Book of Revelation really made all this sound like it was going to be more poetic and less stupid.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Very easy to tell who the bad guys are here

[Bo Winegard @EPoe187]

One of the greatest enemies of true Christianity is militant faux Christianity which preens publicly and seems to delight rather than grieve at war and destruction. People who are not partisans see this and think, "If that's what Christianity is, then no thanks."

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Wake up, kids
We got the dreamers disease.

‘Radical’ comes from a Latin word meaning "root."

Because roots are the deepest part of a plant, ‘radical’ came to describe things understood as fundamental or essential.

‘Radical change’ was a change at the root of a system.

[Alireza Akbari @itsalireza_akb]

Hamidreza Afrideh, a composer and kamancheh player, sits on the ruins of his music school and says:

"I wanted the last sound that remains here to be music, not bombs and missiles."

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

So God loves only American troops? Not innocent people who lost their lives in Iran? Where was God's "miraculous protection" for them? This is the inevitable result of believing that God is on "our side." It's making a false god in our image: a god who despises Iranians.

[Dr. Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones]

He was always this person.

And everyone who knew he was this person was accused of having derangement syndrome.

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

It’s not a coincidence that the astronauts who’ve traveled further than any human don’t talk like they know everything. They talk like students and explorers. Their wonder and curiosity are on full display.

That’s what science does to you.

It dissolves your ego and forces you to confront the vastness of the unknown. It makes you more careful with your words, more open to being wrong and more in awe of the questions than obsessed with the answers.

It softens you in the best way possible.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Evil.

Straight up evil.

[🌷 , petra! 𝜗𝜚 @peterfemmejay]

the whiplash of my timeline going from celebrating the best of humanity with artemis vs sheer terror at the worst of humanity with trump's threat is so much. i hate the fact that there is such evil and poison in the world.

[Philip Bunn @PhilipDBunn]

I think being president means you have greater responsibility for the words you say than the average bozo, not less

[Roman 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @Rx410]

A little more than a year between these two pictures

[trash jones @jzux]

wake up, America. Iranians are not “animals.” Palestinians are not animals. immigrants are not animals. our leaders are teaching you to fear people with less power than you so we don’t all join forces to confront the people with MORE power than all of us

[Russell Moore @drmoore]

That one can excuse or ignore this while claiming to be “pro-life” is a sign of a seared conscience. God have mercy on us all.