My graphic novel, Hyena Queen, is under construction. Follow me for updates!
It’s a story about a bioengineered monster on a quest for a crown she was cheated of by fate.
The terrifying thing is, she might well succeed.
But has her heart ever truly been tested? 🧵
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Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳
It represents the first filter-feeding pterosaur described from the tropics and it was discovered inside a fossilized regurgitate 😱
🎨Julio Lacerda
@FrTotleben92742 The irony here of course is that so many of these changes were ostensibly made in an effort to undo centuries of clericalist oppression.
So… this actually reminds me of when I was morbidly obsessed with Nazis and watched a playlist of Nazi-era German songs on Youtube in chronological order. It was the weirdest thing… the early ones, from the ‘30s, sound like regular ‘30s music. The later ones, from the ‘40s… also sound like ‘30s music.
Total stagnation. Also weird, the later ones, from when they were losing the war, got happier and happier, like they were getting increasingly manic and insane as they tried to keep propping up their fake, crumbling utopia with this fabricated, dead, forcibly-happy culture…
So the lesson I took is that if you see stagnation, there is a) top-down control of culture and b) civilizational death. That’s what I see here in the digital realm. We could create all kinds of fantastically cool online spaces, and instead what we have is centrally-managed cookie-cutter stagnation with all the soul and hope sucked out of it and nowhere to run.
I still remember when the official Star Wars website had this very cool navigation menu where you’d click on a planet to visit part of the website, and they would rotate as you moused from one to the other. That was probably back in 2006-7. It is now late 2025, and our online spaces are, frankly, trash. Especially with the advent of AI and most people now having reliable high-speed internet, there are really no excuses for not having cool, dynamic, immersive, and inspiring online spaces.
@Mike_Sharpe_ My advice: study Aquinas! He’ll challenge you without ever sucking your soul. Then, if you want to tackle the moderns, you’ll have a sharp sword to bring with you.
That, and never stray far from Christ.
@FrDylanSchrader My friend from grad school (I have an MA in Philosophy from the same program where he got his Ph.D.) keeps this on his Thomistic Philosophy page (at one time I had a Latin copy of this):
https://t.co/QQeIVqy3NX
For his visit to the President of Italy, Pope Leo wore a relic stole of John Paul II. It was first used during his visit to Rebiba Prison in 1984 & used frequently after for the feast of St. Agnes (whose image is in the middle portion of the stole), the Via Crucis, & consistories
September 10th, 2001
The last homily of Father Mychael Judge to the New York Fire Department, the first official victim of 9/11
He died at the World Trade Center with many of those listening to him in the video
The first recorded casualty on the morning of 9/11 was Roman Catholic Priest and NYFD Chaplain Father Mychal Judge. He was witnessed calling upon the Holy Spirit and absolving people as they fell to their death.