It’s traditional to crap on the brummies, but I’ve come round to the melodic innocence of a good brummie accent.

The actual worst is the unremarkable and boring middle class thames estuary accent, esp out the mouths of strivers in London who think they’re something special.

some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it’s not yet associated with vlc

“Hey… it looks like your going to have to buy a codec…”

manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly

There isn’t a solution. People don’t want to pay for something that costs huge resources. So their attention becoming the product that’s sold is inevitable. They also want to doomscroll slop; it’s mindless and mildly entertaining. The same way tabloid newspapers were massively popular before the internet and gossip mags exist despite being utter horseshite. It’s what people want. Truly fighting it would requires huge benevolent resources, a group willing to finance a manipulative and compelling experience and then not exploit it for ad dollars, push educational things instead or something. Facebook, twitter etc are enshitified but they still cost huge amounts to run. And for all their faults at least they’re a single point where illegal material can be tackled. There isn’t a proper corollary for this in decentralised solutions once things scale up. It’s better that free, decentralised services stay small so they can stay under the radar of bots and bad actors. When things do get bigger then gated communities probably are the way to go. Perhaps until there’s a social media not-for-profit that’s trusted to manage identity, that people don’t mind contributing costs to. But that’s a huge undertaking. One day hopefully…

As the WORD of God he’s the source of Proverbs and Song of Solomon so…

Her: Dark am I, yet lovely, because I am darkened by the sun - Song of Solomon 1

so… tanned

works with eager hands… her arms are strong for her tasks - Proverbs 31

… toned forearms …

Her: Like an apple[c] tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste - Song of Solomon 2

… not opposed to oblique references to pre-marital fellatio …

Her: strengthen me with raisins

… … … nutrition aware(?) …

Her: I am … a lily of the valley … My beloved … browses among the lilies

… not opposed to oblique references to pre-marital cunnilingus … (see also 4:16)

Him: Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from the hills of Gilead. 2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone. 3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely - Song of Solomon 4

… mysterious eyes … flowing hair … no missing teeth (lol) … red lips …

Him: Your breasts are like two fawns

… young(?), pert, nimble breasts …

Him: You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water

… looks at camera …

Her: Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread everywhere

… … my bro was definitely into some sensory stuff …

Her: My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him. I arose to open for my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the bolt. - Song of Solomon 5

(authors of erotic lit take note, this is your lord and god speaking)

Him: I went down to the grove of nut trees to look at the new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the pomegranates were in bloom. - Song of Solomon 6

… so … pubescent? hey, could be worse …

Him: Your graceful legs are like jewels - Song of Solomon 7

… legs guy! …

Him: Your breasts are like two fawns

… breasts again! …

Him: your breasts like clusters of fruit

… breasts mention number 3 …

Him: May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine

… #4 …

breasts … like towers - Song of Solomon 8

… #5 …

I think you can draw your own conclusions.

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Downloading ADHD_memory_cheetsheet.pdf, phone suggests save name as ADHD_memory_cheetsheet(3).pdf…

Heretic. True believers know it was 8 seconds ago.

Plenty of enlightened gents hitting the thread here to rubbish the need for a women’s category whilst simultaneously demonstrating the need for a women’s category

Well… this is certainly enough bullshit to make the crops grow

Half of America that didn’t get the love and affection they needed would have voted for some other guy who didn’t get the love and attention he needed.

It’s a systemic issue

You hear that Mr Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability

18 years here. ‘do not cite the deep magic to me…’

Gargh!

Had to contact support this week because (on top of an already infuriating week of marketing cloud bullcrap) an exit criteria in Journey Builder was firing when it shouldn’t. Basically amounted to a string comparison of A = B? But one was from Contact Data and the other from Journey Data. And you know what their response was? “Yeah… that won’t work, you have to do B = A”. I kid you not. What’s worse is that actually fixed it! What a joke of a platform. How shit do you have to be at coding to end up making a string comparison non-commutative? Like…I don’t even know how you’d screw up that badly accidentally. It’s a veritable kaleidoscope of shitty infuriating bugs.

I’ve been pulling my hair out with the totally unrelated but also awful Marketing Cloud (owned by Salesforce). This article made me feel better.

While Christianity became unambiguously misogynistic, it’s doubted whether or not this sentiment actually reflects the historical Paul and the early churches he moved amongst. Faced with having to choose which of his writings are more genuine: the inclusive writings or heavily patriarchal writings, it really does seem his more radical opinions were watered down by the later church which caved in to the pressure of the existing misogyny.

Paul regarded that men and women had equal access to Christ’s grace (Gal 3:28) within a discourse in which he explains the point of law is a temporary restraint to limit sin but ultimately it ought to fall away. He names and thanks dozens of women in helping to run and support the house church networks. He names “Junia” as the only names female apostle (Romans 16:7). Calls others “co workers” and “fellow servants” in the gospel.

It all falls in line with the traditions that are least likely to have been invented given the prevailing sentiment : that women were the financial support of Christ’s ministry (Luke 8:3), the first portrayed as gathering others to Christ (John 4:27-30), the first witnesses of the resurrection, the first commissioned by Christ to the take the news to others etc

True. Though “repent” doesn’t just mean saying sorry.

Some others in the Anglosphere:

Fred Bloggs - no idea where it’s from. Related to “bog” as in bog standard maybe?

Tom, Dick and Harry - is ages old. Even as far back as Shakespeare you can see the triplet evolving. “Tom, Dicke, and Francis” : Henry IV, Part I

Great idea!

Postliberal?

If Adam can curse the whole human race without their involvement, why can’t Christ save the whole human race in the same way? Paul almost says as much in Romans…

18 Consequently, just as one sin (Adam’s) resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act (Jesus Christ’s) resulted in justification for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of [Adam] the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man [Jesus Christ] the many will be made righteous.