Participantes de uma parada do Orgulho Gay na Dinamarca tentaram zombar dos cristãos com uma encenação da Última Ceia.
Um jovem dinamarquês apareceu rapidamente e tomou-lhes a cruz.
#OTD June 7, 1891:
Charles H. Spurgeon, the renowned English Baptist preacher who regularly drew around 6,000 people to his services, delivered his final sermon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. In it he declared:
“Those who have no master are slaves to themselves. Depend upon it, you will either serve Satan or Christ, either self or the Saviour. You will find sin, self, Satan, and the world to be hard masters; but if you wear the livery of Christ, you will find him so meek and lowly of heart that you will find rest unto your souls. He is the most magnanimous of captains.”
RE: Pride Month
Dear LGBTQ+ People:
We don’t care who you love.
We don’t care what you do to your own body.
We don’t care what you do in private with other consenting adults.
We really don’t care. (And I would protect with my life your right to not care what I think and my right to not care what you think.)
I think I speak for most conservative Christians when I say all that.
What we DO care about is when you endlessly try to shove your lifestyle down our throats and when you try to convince children to join your lifestyle, against their parents’ wishes. Further, we DO care when you require us to accept things that our faith says are sins as not being sinful.
That’s for each of us to decide, and not you.
This is why conservative Christians despise the fact that you attempt to take an entire calendar month to shove your lifestyle down our throats. Live and let live, we say. But you cannot accept that.
It is YOU who are intolerant.
I know not all LGBTQ+ people think this way, but to those who do: KEEP IT PRIVATE BECAUSE WE DON’T CARE.
Love and Peace,
Conservative Christians Everywhere
China has won.
I've decided to never again comment on Chinese propaganda posts to call them out or correct them.
It doesn't work, and especially on instagram there's no way to turn off notifications for the countless replies of trolls and bots.
China spends millions to spread pro-china and anti-us propaganda through bots. Meanwhile those who fall for it, don't even realize that instagram and x are both blocked in China.
Normal Chinese citizens can't and don't use it.
Discussions are in full swing with a number of very large X accounts who are very disappointed with the algorithm changes and monetization cuts to legitimate accounts. Accounts that post verified news updates and commentary. These accounts generate many billions of views each year. Some are scaling back, some are diversifying, and some are talking about walking away completely.
I don't know where I stand on all of this. I love what X has always been. But these latest changes have been rapid and chaotic leading to unpredictability.
🧵 IS X GOING BACKWARDS?
@elonmusk
For most of its existence, X (formerly Twitter) was built on a very simple social contract.
If I chose to follow you, I would see what you posted.
Not every post. Not instantly. Not without interruption. But generally speaking, the platform respected the relationship between creators and their followers.
That was the entire point.
People came to X to exchange ideas, follow breaking news, participate in public conversations, and build communities around shared interests. It was not Instagram. It was not TikTok. It was not YouTube.
It was something different.
The platform's value came from information.
A journalist could break a story. A politician could make an announcement. A soldier could post an update from the battlefield. A citizen could share something happening in real time.
The best content was not necessarily the most creative. It was the most relevant.
Then monetization entered the picture.
In theory, monetization was supposed to reward active users and encourage people to contribute more content. There is nothing inherently wrong with that idea.
The problem is that incentives change behavior.
Some users began stealing content. Others turned their accounts into engagement farms. Some posted intentionally misleading material designed solely to provoke reactions. Rage became a business model.
But instead of addressing those bad actors directly, X appears to have changed the platform itself.
The result is that X is no longer optimizing for information.
It is optimizing for engagement.
And those are not the same thing.
A breaking news report about an important event may receive little engagement because there is nothing to argue about. The information is simply useful.
Meanwhile, a provocative post about race, religion, politics, or culture can generate thousands of comments, arguments, quote posts, and reactions.
The algorithm interprets that engagement as value.
As a result, the platform increasingly rewards controversy over information.
This creates a perverse outcome.
The very content that brought people to X in the first place is often suppressed, while the content that generates outrage receives massive amplification.
A straightforward news report may receive 10,000 views.
A post designed to start a fight may receive 2 million.
The message is clear:
The platform values reactions more than information.
That may produce short-term engagement metrics, but it undermines the reason many people joined X in the first place.
The problem becomes even worse when combined with the current monetization system.
Today, creators are seeing a fraction of the revenue they once received.
At the same time, many report significant reductions in reach.
The incentives that once encouraged news gathering, reporting, and consistent posting are disappearing.
People are posting less because the rewards have diminished.
Users are seeing less because the algorithm has become more selective.
And followers increasingly discover that clicking "Follow" does not actually mean they will see the accounts they chose to follow.
That is perhaps the biggest issue of all.
The platform has quietly broken the relationship between creators and their audiences.
I have more than a million followers.
When a post reaches only a tiny percentage of those followers, it raises an obvious question:
What exactly does the Follow button mean anymore?
If someone explicitly chooses to follow an account, why should an algorithm be allowed to override that decision?
The follower made a choice.
The platform should respect it.
Instead, X increasingly behaves as though it knows better than its users.
The irony is that X seems to be chasing a future that already belongs to someone else.
If people want algorithmically amplified original content, they already have TikTok.
If they want highly visual influencer content, they already have Instagram.
If they want long-form video, they already have YouTube.
Allow me, friends, to save Hollywood.
Make an action/spy movie where China is the villain, and have it be entirely made in America.
James Bond sucks now because he doesn't have the KGB or the Soviet Union to fight. But there is Communist China!
For years Hollywood would never have done this because they were desperate for the Chinese market. But the CCP has now essentially completely cut them off. It doesn't matter if they make a movie where the CCP is the bad guy.
Hollywood has also exported most of its talent outside of the US and the industry stateside is dying.
Americans will LOVE a movie made by Americans, for Americans, featuring an actually significant global threat—the CCP.