Queefy Pop

Vegas bartender/anthropologist. Sidepiece Du Jour. Don’t mind the handle.

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

@babyknifespice @onionweigher Yes..

[Philadelphia Eagles @Eagles]

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

[Joseph 🕊️ @CaudilloXIV]

I’m sorry liver but daddy can still remember her smile

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

Please

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Thomas Massie has officially filed a statement of candidacy, allowing him to raise money for a potential 2028 run.

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

Holy shit

[women🧚🏼‍♀️ @11mnou]

Who's even paying attention to the music at that point??

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

If Massie loses tonight, he should run for President.

If Massie wins tonight, he should run for President.

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

Game

[ᯓ★ @chorio_actis]

woke up so horny i could rip a door off its hinges so i just started fucking running. 8 miles + 900 ft

[Benton Swathford, MBA @BentonSwathford]

@BurnerTJustice No it tickles

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

@PubWanghaf Costco

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

@alkv_c @nyleveakpan It was one of the Halloween episodes

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

@nyleveakpan Favorite episode

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

@dronedoommetal Ouch man

[Marlin @nostalgiafkninc]

The greatest sin on earth is being fat

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

Happy Mother’s Day, guys

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà?

The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history...

Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl.

His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?"

Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect.

The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature:

"Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio."
"Virgin mother, daughter of your own son."

Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator.

But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home.

And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him...

Happy Mother's Day.

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[HowlingMutant @Howlingmutant0]

People always blame Eve (and by extension women) for tricking Adam into eating the apple, and I think that’s misogynistic. At least Eve was tricked by the devil. Adam was just tricked by some dumb broad.

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

My friend, I’m so sorry…

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Brain scans have revealed children living with unstable families (excessive, arguing, abusive and neglectful) have brain changes similar to combat soldiers after active duty

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

First ballot attention whore hall of fame

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

Come fucking get some..

[taoki @justalexoki]

are you in a good headspace for the final ultimate psyop?

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

Bottom quintile is reeling

[Valuetainment @valuetainment]

Kim Kardashian has reportedly decided to end her pursuit of a law degree after failing the bar exam 3 times.

[Queefy Pop @Queefy_Pop]

Yuh

[New York Post @nypost]

School director was 'ringleader' of child fight club https://t.co/GBf7vkY7PD