Zen Rand

Why do you go to battle? What is the point? Why? All was still…Why? Rand thought with wonder. Because each time we live, we get to love again.

[Zen Rand @TankLord24]

@MarvelStudios Really hoping we see these three legends team up in Multiverse of Madness 🤞

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A stadium parking lot. I came to watch a battle, and found the army feasting three hours before it.

Hundreds of tents. Grills. Clan flags flying from trucks. Men in war paint handing food to strangers. I assumed the game had been cancelled and this was the consolation.

"When does the battle begin?" I asked a man tending an enormous grill.

"Kickoff's at one. We've been here since seven."

Seven. In my land, an army eats quietly before war, in case it is the last meal. Here, the meal IS the war. The enemy parking lot is doing the same thing forty yards away. Nobody is fighting. Everyone is grilling.

A man handed me a plate. I had not asked. I was not known to him. The plate held more meat than my ancestors saw in a winter.

"You with us or them?" he asked.

"I am with whoever fed me," I said. It is the oldest law.

"Good answer," he said, and gave me more.

Then I learned the terrible truth. The man at the grill — the general of this feast — was not going inside.

"You will not watch the battle?"

"Nah. I'll catch it on the radio. Somebody's gotta watch the grill."

He marches to the war. He feeds the army. He does not enter. In eight hundred years of my family's records, there is no rank for this man.

There should be.

I was full. I was confused. I was, somehow, home.

An army that eats together has already won. The game is a detail.

When the crowd roared inside the stadium, the grill man nodded once, and flipped a burger.

Next week I am bringing my own tent. He said I could park beside him. We are allies now.

The terms were ribs.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

We have a major escalation….the Scots have discovered American 12% Four Loko tall boy cans 🤣….their’s is 8% with no caffeine

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

The world's first trillionaire begged the world's most notorious pedophile to be allowed to come to his child rape island.

That's a matter of public record

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Israel is not our ally. They're a foreign government that has stolen our nuclear secrets, nuclear triggers and uranium. And they built weapons of mass destruction with them. They also stole our most sensitive intelligence through Jonathan Pollard.

They have robbed us of $320 billion. They made us waste $8 trillion fighting their wars in the Middle East.

The way they pulled off these heists is by legally bribing almost our entire Congress and being the top donor to presidents from both parties.

Their co-conspirators are the national media who cover up all these crimes and pretend that Israel is an innocent victim who desperately needs our help. When they are the exact opposite. They are an aggressive empire that takes our money and military and uses it to attack their neighbors and take their land.

We have to stop this inflitration of our country by a foreign nation that has taken control of the power structure in Washington. We are occupied.

[Chris Evangelista @cevangelista413]

Whoever invented these bad boys really knocked it out of the park, just a perfect little treat

[Aaron! @c6_shanky]

You take for granted the humble car napkin until you really need one

[judy morris @judymorris3]

Merging the US military with the IDF would give Israel permanent control of the US military and by extension US foreign policy. This is clearly illegal and unconstitutional, not to mention the act of traitors loyal to a foreign country.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Tommy Stella @tommy_stella]

I know we all treat him like a creative god on here because he made the cool space franchise, but it is genuinely so cool and inspiring that in his retirement he made a museum love letter to storytelling. Like thank you, George. That's genuinely so important right now.

[Papa León XIV @Pontifex_es]

Las inteligencias artificiales no viven una experiencia, no poseen un cuerpo, no pasan por la alegría y el dolor, no maduran en las relaciones ni conocen desde dentro lo que significan el amor, el trabajo, la amistad y la responsabilidad. Tampoco tienen una conciencia moral: no juzgan el bien y el mal, no captan el sentido último de las situaciones ni asumen el peso de las consecuencias. Pueden imitar, pueden simular pero no conocen lo que producen, porque no residen en el horizonte afectivo, relacional y espiritual en el que el ser humano se hace sabio. #MagnificaHumanitas

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Capitalism has ruined people’s worldview, making extreme selfishness and greed seem normal. It’s not humane, or normal, to believe that human beings should be denied shelter, food, and healthcare simply because they have no money. This is dystopian.

[lowkeymatt @lowkeymattyt]

So far AI has:

• destroyed the prices of personal electronics
• have data centers relocate people from homes and contaminate water supplies
• destroy the concept of objective reality with Gen AI
• layoff off thousands from jobs

Oh, but it’s the future guys!

[Edgar Allen Poe @allenakinkunle]

📌

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

This is exactly what Pope Leo XIV is fighting against.

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

AI is so popular because it gives uncreative people the illusion that they are creative. It lets them skip right to the part where they get validation. It’s not only parasitic, but extremely narcissistic.

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

Pope Leo writes, “The speed and ease with which answers or summaries can be obtained risk extinguishing the desire to ask questions.” Curiosity and the human hunger to learn are under attack. They are trying to build a world in which no one *wants* to know anything.

[jeremy @jeremylovesyall]

no one could have foreseen that the butlerian jihad will be catholic

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Pope Leo XIV on AI:

“Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word [disarmed] is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.”

[☀️AliquisNovus☀️ @PalmyrPar]

That vanilla ice cream is its own unique flavor and in fact has a much more complex profile than nearly all other flavors when done correctly.

[Soleil @soleiljolina]

Microdosing hell by being aware and literate