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29 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
this isn't even right about Christianity, where Easter is far holier than Christmas.
IT'S LITERALLY CALLED HOLY WEEK.
it's always good to be reminded that most believers of all religions basically practice a faith stitched together in their head out of folk and national custom, parental injunctions, and personal quirks.
Area Man Big Believer in What He Thinks Bible Says.

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29 Nov
A short thread on something I've been thinking about in the Crown: would the Queen, in 1984, have known and used the phrase 'friend of Dorothy?'
So, 'friend of Dorothy' (FOD) in the early 1980s - despite being a three decade or more old expression - was still not a widely known euphemism for gay men among straight people. Your average extremely conventional 58-year-old straight woman like Lizzie W. would not know it.
This is about the time, for instance, that the Naval Intelligence Service spends *months* looking for a woman called Dorothy that they believe to at the heart of a ring of gay servicemen. lgbtqnation.com/2019/10/surren…
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9 Nov
A short thread on animal mourning, prompted by observing our remaining dog, Calvin, over the last month. Calvin is seven - half the age of Hobbes, our late dog. He first started following us when he was a stray in Beijing when we took Hobbes (and another rescue foster) for walks
He was clearly drawn to the idea of having a pack - or a family, which are the same thing for dogs. Hobbes was very accepting of him, though he never stopped insisting on his place as First Dog, despite being considerably smaller.
For the last six and a half years, then, they were apart for, at most, a few hours at a time. When they flew from China to the US together they shared a cage. They often sat on top of each other on the sofa, and they play-wrestled a few times a day.
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9 Nov
a sampling of headlines from the site Bannon co-runs
honestly these aren't even the worst ones.
anyway remember when Very Serious Outlets wanted to interview him all the time
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8 Nov
People saying Hank Hill wouldn’t have voted Trump is just cope for their relatives doing so in reality.
Your dad/uncle who “believes in character” and “values humility” still voted Trump in 2016 and did so even more enthusiastically in 2020 after four years of denialism and Fox and Facebook posts.
In reality, people put aside their personal dislikes for group identity all the time.
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8 Nov
I can't emphasize enough how *batshit crazy* Guo Wengui's GNews is. NSFW examples below.
"Mr. Hunter Biden, when you dicked teenage girls with your 9.5-inch penis all night long, did it ever occur to you that these girls could be left psychologically scarred for lifetime, even lifelong sterility or death?"
"On one hand he sold out the U.S. National Interests; on the other hand he absorbed the marrow of Chinese people. The 9.5-inch penis pierce through the souls of all the forces of justice. Now is the time for us to cut off 9.5-inch penis and Satan’s evil forces."
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24 Oct
Racism - specifically the utter unwillingness to believe in Chinese deaths as real, or to listen and learn from East Asian experience - has played a big goddamn role in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary covid-19 deaths.
When I say 'believe in Chinese deaths as real,' I mean to take the suffering and loss of Wuhan as something catastrophic and imminent, as - eventually, partially - we did Italy, rather than as something far away that couldn't happen to us.
And when it comes to the dismissal of East Asian experience, I don't just mean the refusal to learn from masks and centralized isolation and other verifiable on-the-ground successes, but the inanity of 'their culture is different' takes.
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