E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩

Swamp hermit.

I make stories.

Advocate of Truth, Beauty and Goodness.

[E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ @LogoSimian]

My kid likes bugs. I am making bug stuff to make books, and comics, and video games.

[E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ @LogoSimian]

See you in July.

[E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ @LogoSimian]

@cirsova The only month in Minnesota that's never recorded snow is August.

Most years, though, we get four or five months.

[The People's Therapist 👏Expert👏 @Careerflex]

Maybe once a year as a contractor, we get a supremely stupid client who asks us to do some large project. We describe the process and the timeline.

Inevitably, the idiot waits until the halfway point, sees the disastrous-looking construction zone, and without talking to us freaks out and goes on social media with their hysteria.

It's usually only liberal women who validate them. Sane women and men try to challenge them to think through what a project might look like before, during, and after.

We tell them to remove their libelous hysteria, or we walk off the project (it is in the contract). They react like scorned, spoiled children facing consequences for the first time.

Long story short, this country has a subset of idiots who have never built anything, can't understand what a process is, and in their childishness, think that what a thing is like today represents a permanent state of things.

Universal voting rights are a mistake. We need fewer people able to vote, not more.

[Christianity On The Spectrum @ChristianityOn]

1. Expanded Diagnostic Criteria across the spectrum
2. Differentials like ADHD no long preclude autism diagnosis
3. Lots of public attention/media coverage
4. Financial incentives for schools to screen/diagnose
5. Changes in attitudes towards the purpose of diagnosis

[E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ @LogoSimian]

Also, most actual Americans both patriotic and not, are very intensely tepid with regard to association football. Could not summon an ounce of love or hate for the sport.

[gandalf the racist @racistbilbo]

Its actually because half the population has been here for 5 minutes and has no idea what "america 250" even means, because they dont speak any english or know anything about this country.
Of the other half, like a quarter of you just hate america.

[E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ @LogoSimian]

There exists a tradition that he did, and he was Mark.

Nobody considers it authoritative. But there's more than zero evidence for it.

[Rosie Gamgee @Rosie_Gamgee_]

I've always maintained that the rich young man went and sold all of his possessions. It's not an official stance of the Church or anything, just my own interpretation, but I think that there's an argument that could be made for it

[Bennett's Phylactery @extradeadjcb]

racism is prejudice plus INSTITUTIONAL power, the 15 Pakistani men who branded a 13-year-old girl's anus didn't have INSTITUTIONAL power over her

except the fact that the state pays all their bills & covers up their crimes & arrests anyone who criticizes them

[Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D]

Dear Europeans, you do indeed have many varied and storied cultures.

Dear Americans, you have the future.

There. Peace in our time!

[Andy 🦬 @andythegrate]

And the catholic faith is this, that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance.

[E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ @LogoSimian]

Different languages and dialects not only have different sounds, they have different rules for which sounds can be placed next to each other.

Pronunciations get butchered when moving from one language to another. Complaining about it is like complaining about gravity.

[Sean W. Malone | That’s just, like, your opinion. @CitizenAmedia]

I've been learning Japanese for the last 6 months or so, and one of the most endearing aspects of the language are all of the borrowed words from English.

The Japanese word for TV is "terebi", ice cream is "aisukurīmu", elevator is "erebētā", convenience store is "konbini", and so on. If you can pronounce those words in Japanese, you'll know that they're just Japanese people trying and "failing" to say the English words, and then codifying the "bad pronunciation" into their language.

But similarly, "karate" is "karateh" in Japan and "karatee" in the US.

What's weird is getting mad that someone with a different language, removed by thousands of miles of geography, and with minimal historical connections to your country pronounces words your culture created incorrectly.

Of course they do sometimes. Who cares?

[Sean W. Malone | That’s just, like, your opinion. @CitizenAmedia]

I've been learning Japanese for the last 6 months or so, and one of the most endearing aspects of the language are all of the borrowed words from English.

The Japanese word for TV is "terebi", ice cream is "aisukurīmu", elevator is "erebētā", convenience store is "konbini", and so on. If you can pronounce those words in Japanese, you'll know that they're just Japanese people trying and "failing" to say the English words, and then codifying the "bad pronunciation" into their language.

But similarly, "karate" is "karateh" in Japan and "karatee" in the US.

What's weird is getting mad that someone with a different language, removed by thousands of miles of geography, and with minimal historical connections to your country pronounces words your culture created incorrectly.

Of course they do sometimes. Who cares?

[Andrew Stratelates ⚓️(Continuing Anglican) @AStratelates]

Rhetorical and apologetic statements aimed at delegitimizing your opponent’s position and affirming your own are typically impediments, not enablers, of them changing their minds.

Increase the loss of face of conversion makes conversion more costly, not less.

[E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ @LogoSimian]

Since this is the internet, I suppose I ought to specify that I know it was a joke and that I, too, am frolicking with rapturous whimsy.

[E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩ @LogoSimian]

😤

[Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D]

Protestant

[KuroKitsune @OutlawKitsune]

There’s this type of person who always thinks because something is niche it must be true. Oh yeah a schizophrenic rabbi said something in the 12th century, it must be biblical canon.

[Laurel Weaver @thewreathwright]

Many are saying this!

[Isaac Young @HariSel57511397]

Gentle reminder that your civilization dies if the average man can’t reproduce

[John A. Douglas @J0hnADouglas]

*taps the sign*

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

Just this last week, the entire left-of-center world told you that you had to vote for a Texas Democrat because the Republican was an adulterer

Now they will tell you that you have to vote for the adulterer with a Nazi tattoo because the most moderate Republican in the Senate isn't moderate enough