Uncle Tim

Frankly unhealthy levels of autism. Image in banner by @ypmuj_ Discord: EvilFuzzy9#2483 Alt: @EvilBoucher Book:

[Uncle Tim @tim_couillard]

The world sucks and people are shit. Making the world suck more won’t make people any less shit.

[History Calendar @historycalendar]

Mel Brooks, age 100, was born before the invention of pre-sliced bread in 1928.

[𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚜 𝚂𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚘 @ThomasSanco]

The first draft of the Declaration of Independence included this passage on the slave trade:

"he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium ofinfidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, & murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another."

Jefferson would later write that the passage "Was struck out in compliance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary wished to continue it."

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Thomas Jefferson submits the final draft of his Declaration of Independence to Continental Congress.

[CEO of CUM 🔞 comms closed! @Krekkov]

My racist friend (who is like that due to family being super racist) just announced that he proposed to his gf that is, you guessed it, the one race they hated the most whose family (and her) ALSO is racist towards my friend's race

And turns out both family became best buds because both side are so racist they found common ground and realise they both understand each other, my friend said both his and the gf's dad didnt stop talking to each other for 18 hours, inseperatable

And when the wedding is gonna happen, they want to combine both tradition, they both dont even have the same religion, one is christian one is muslim

The meme, i cant believe it... that shit real...

[Michael(Poltfan)((JapanDayTripper)) @PoltFan69]

I tested this. It seems that the phrase "made in America" or anything with "made" and "America" is flagged. If you dont use those words it will answer the same as any other country. Clearly something fishy going on.

[M.A. Franklin @FoundationDads]

Recently a popular YouTube, a godless agnostic, listens to the entire Bible and was amazed at how much literature it opened up for him. Formerly obtuse references were made clear. Symbols became enlightening rather than confusing. Almost every piece of modern Western literature he had read, even sci-fi and fantasy, suddenly made so much more sense.

It was like being given a secret key.

The fact he wasn't taught the Bible when a child means he wasn't properly educated. Period.

If you live in the West, it's absurd to claim otherwise.

[Hayduke ⏹️ @GWHayduke97]

A quite moving plaque in the cloisters of England's Durham Cathedral:

[Milk Vessel Pilot @trueliberal1848]

During the Vicksburg campaign, General Sherman is told that a barge carrying several journalists sank in the Mississippi River, killing all on board

[Softball Mantilla 🥎 @PunkyMantilla]

This is why I support kids reading the Bible as literature in schools. The King James, especially, is critical to the English language. This isn’t even an exhaustive list of terms that have entered the language from the KJV.

[Josef “Watermelon Felon” Vissarionovich Stoolin @josefstoolin]

Nixon hate is so funny because he’s the only American president to resign as a matter of shame & principle & then you have a similar opportunity with Clinton, who we now know was compromised at the time, lying under oath, & cheekily because he knew his base would run cover

[Deculture🐟‼️ @magicalgirlnoir]

The fuck should mature empathy be then? Walk away? Nod silently? Give 'em a beer or a gun with one bullet?

Therapyspeak brainrot. Yeah some people don't know how to listen but that's something you can talk over. Sometimes all it takes is another person engaging with your problems with you to jolt you out of the funk or find a solution.

[Willis Eschenbach @WEschenbach]

Here's one of Michael Crichton's very finest quotes, especially applicable to climate "science":

"I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science.

I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.

Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right ... In science, consensus is irrelevant."

Best to everyone,

w.

[Uncle Tim @tim_couillard]

@LexCoryell @IVMiles For cultural literacy, you nitwit. So much of western art (even modern and purely secular works) draws on Biblical stories, themes, and imagery that a child having no familiarity with them is robbed of the ability to understand the cultural canon.

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

Some 1980s illustrations of The Lord of the Rings.

By Alexander Korotich

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

I've said this before: a lot of radfems and such should be nuns and priests.

If you are a high-disgust asexual person, with a strong moral code and an idealized picture of what sex relations and bidness should look like - totally non-functional in the real world but sometimes useful as a guide - there used to be a place for you.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

The reason to teach the Bible in school - and ftm the Gitas, Talmud, Koran, Greek myths, etc in a popular elective class - is not that you think it is true.

You may or may not, but it is the corner-stone text of the Western Canon. If I say "for a mess of pottage" (literally my take on current immigration policy), or "a Babel of languages," or refer to a farmer/herder war in Africa as "the legacy of Cain" - do you know what I mean.

Meeting an educated Westerner - including ADOS Blacks, Ukranian immigrants, Mexican Catholics - who doesn't know this stuff is...embarrassing. It's akin to talking to a smart Chinese who has no idea who Confucius was.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

Michael Crichton is such a fascinating figure and it is a goddamn shame he died so young

This guy got into Harvard Medical School and said "actually, I want to write stories" so he wrote one of the most harrowing long short stories, the Andromeda Strain.

This guy was addicted to research. He read scientific journals for fun and researched everything that captured his interest. He was curious and skeptical. He thought hard about the implications of technology all the time.

And, instead of being a dork and writing a blog, he wrote entire novels warning about the dangers of emerging technologies. And they were great!

He wrote a `Prey` about the dangers of combining AI with nanobots 24 years ago. It's tremendous. You could publish it today and it would be relevant.

I miss him. I miss technically competent authors who can spin a good yarn while informing the reader about how technology is changing the world.

Crichton was a generational talent and we are poorer for his absence.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

People don’t take Watergate seriously at this point because they have no respect for the media. Watergate was a media myth about themselves as fearless guardians of ‘our democracy.’ Robert Redford played Bob Woodward ffs.

Really it was a sordid palace coup, and ‘deep throat’ was just an angry FBI agent who got passed over for promotion. You can’t prop up a myth like that when we can all see that journalists, working with dishonest federal employees, are more prone to lies and setting up fake conspiracies than just about anyone else.