James Packer

‘Follow, poet, follow right/ To the bottom of the night/ With your unconstraining voice/ Still persuade us to rejoice’

[James Packer @james_c_packer]

@IAPonomarenko The Museum of Discovery, Adelaide, South Australia 🇺🇦

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"Military Target" by Boris Groh

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

MAGA:

[James Packer @james_c_packer]

@zaydante The place you’re looking for is Threads

[Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh]

This is fundamentally flawed logic that unfortunately many on the left continue to embrace: "Economic sanctions punish ordinary people who did not ask for this war." Interestingly enough, in their minds, the same logic somehow doesn't apply to Israel.

However, it presumes that most Russian citizens are victims of the regime, not its enablers. Obviously, there are a brave few who actually try to do something and have paid a price for doing so, but they are rather the exception. The vast majority either actively supports the war or simply does not care enough to oppose it because it hasn't significantly disrupted their daily lives. Yet.

Many in the U.S. are not aware that Russia's war machine is not primarily fueled by conscripts dragged unwillingly to the front. It relies heavily on volunteers who knowingly sign contracts and travel to Ukraine to kill people for money. They don't have a moral problem with it and see it as just another risky job.

Those who are not in the military manufacture drones, sew uniforms, maintain military logistics, and keep defense factories running around the clock. They produce propaganda on TV, print books that justify aggression, adopt stolen Ukrainian kids, create "patriotic" art, spread pro-war messages on social media, and pay taxes that finance the war - or simply do nothing and accept the invasion of Ukraine because "what can we do?"

Sanctions are not designed to be pleasant. Their purpose is precisely to increase the economic and political cost of aggression both for the regime and its enablers. If Russian society can continue living largely normal lives while missiles rain down on Ukrainian cities every single night, there is little incentive for anyone inside Russia to question the war.

[eliza ˙⋆✮ @enchantedflms]

bold of u to assume i ever stopped calling it twitter

[James Packer @james_c_packer]

@Shoeless__Joe @agraybee True. I meant - every planet is desert or forest or snow, just as examples. Every different landscape on earth has its own planet in Star Wars but each planet has no variety 😀

[soup🍓 @thrluv]

"use ai or you'll get left behind" oh no that's okay you guys go on ahead i'll be back here with my reading comprehension & critical thinking skills

[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.

[dhwani @dhwanisaraiya_]

They scraped the internet for every last bit of data, stole information from books, articles, art etc. all created by HUMANS, and now want to sell it back to you at a premium because you all have convinced yourselves this is the future and it’s inevitable lmao

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Please stop. I don’t want an AI summary of my Google search. I don’t want an AI summary of the text message from my friend at work. I don’t want an AI summary of the email I’m about to read. Please just stop.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

You’re standing on a planet with molten lava at its core. Trees are turning sunlight into air you can breathe. Your heart is beating without you asking it to. There’s a moon in the sky and bugs that glow. This whole thing is absurdly beautiful. Don’t forget to notice it.

[James Packer @james_c_packer]

@chenweihua @WSJ Chen Weihua’s definition of “fake news” is anything at all that’s even remotely critical of China, which he spends all his time pushing propaganda for

[James Packer @james_c_packer]

@demisdev @HarrietSergeant You are almost literally describing the Chinese government. Not all Chinese people support their government’s actions, but what you wrote is pretty much what Beijing is doing

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

Cruciformity remains the only reliable test of ministry. Eloquence does not authenticate it, nor does platform, nor the fervor of followers, nor even the accuracy of a given word. The cross shaped into a life is what authenticates everything else, and its absence is what exposes the counterfeit. Formation is slow, hidden, and costly. Folly is fast, visible, and cheap. The difference is visible to anyone willing to look.

The recovery of wisdom in such an age will not come through the production of more content. It will come through the renewal of practices the Church has always known and mostly forgotten. These include silence held rather than filled, Scripture read slowly rather than scrolled, Eucharist received with the body present, confession offered in the company of others, and friendship kept over decades rather than follows accumulated in an afternoon. The old disciplines are not quaint. They are the only soil in which anything other than folly grows.

[James Packer @james_c_packer]

@The_Kyle_Mann “CS Lewis is a talking tree”??

[James Packer @james_c_packer]

@TimWolffAuthor “Captain,” he said, approaching his captain.

[Ryan Detrick, CMT @RyanDetrick]

So many of these, but this one is a classic Chuck Norris joke. 🐅

#RIPChuckNorris

https://t.co/UcAuqNEtFF

[Brandon Salmon @BrandonSalmon]

@RyanDetrick

[GnosisWolf @GnosisWolf]

Ziggy hears pool and all chill leaves his body instantly…lol. 😂😂🐶🐶⚡️⚡️

I want to work at a dog pool btw. I didn’t even know that was a thing.