@jonny @frog Yeah, this stuff is fascinating; you can see how other mythologies and philosophies affect how scripture is/was written and interpreted. One of the first things in his "Guide for the Perplexed," Maimonides has to deal with, is that God is incorporeal while tons of scripture describe God doing physical stuff. Maimonides says that the "back parts" revealed to moses should be taken figuratively and are likened to God's prior work —not his butt because no butt. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed_(1904)
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With all scriptural interpretations I am just like "that's cool! Why not!" A metaphor makes sense but also if seeing your face would kill someone, and they want to see you just to like behold your magnificence, showing them your backside is a pretty polite and generous way to safely display your magnificence
Catholic bishops tell Florida there's no religious reason for vaccine exemptions
The bishops' snub comes as the state continues to attack vaccines.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/catholic-bishops-tell-florida-theres-no-religious-reason-for-vaccine-exemptions/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Catholic bishops prove to be the most reasonable people.
Brave New World, my ass.
Top of my own wishlist, this one:
got <!-- pagebreak --> working this week: one long guide becomes five real pages, each with its own URL, canonical and hreflang. no front matter, no config.
Not in the release I'm announcing this week. It'll be in the one after. Or sooner if enough of you make noise.
You can see it in action on the docs site:
https://www.eleventy-baseline.dev/docs/tutorial/multilingual-baseline-site/
https://www.eleventy-baseline.dev/docs/integrations/integrate-eleventy-base-blog/
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South Stack Lighthouse, #YnysMôn📍
This won't be the last photo you see of this one.
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Yet another manifestation of the ongoing and so far more or less cold Second American Civil War. This has weird echoes of the antebellum fights over fugitive slaves, though in this situation the fugitive is a federal ICE agent. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/ice-agent-shooting-texas-minnesota-extradition
Have you seen the movie The Second Civil War from 1997? It centers around immigrants and the state of Idaho. He has an all star cast including James Earl Jones.
The idea that democratic socialists are hypocrites if they have jobs or money or nice houses is so fucking painfully stupid that honestly every time I encounter it I just want to quit society and go raise alpacas in the mountains, but god, it just never dies & people never stop falling for it.
Good news, everyone.
📦️ As part of our @nlnet milestones, we've modularised dokieli's #WebAnnotation, #LinkedDataNotifications #ActivityStreams, and #WebAccessControl code into standalone open source TypeScript libraries that anyone can use.
📝 https://git.dokie.li/web-annotation/
🔔 https://git.dokie.li/notifications/
🔐 https://git.dokie.li/web-access-control/
Also available at npmjs.
These components have been foundational to dokieli, and useful for building decentralised social web apps.
Go build something fun and let us know :)
The Fediverse is Throwing a Music Festival
In 2010, during the Trienalle art exhibition in Nagoya that heavily featured Yayoi Kusama's work, polka dotted Priuses would shuttle museum patrons between the sites. I turned all of this into a CLIL lesson and a school field trip. I learned so much about Yayoi Kusama's life and the meaning behind the polka dots. Her museum in Matsumoto is a must see! #yayoikusama
@frog I also sort of didn't know that the Christian God was explicitly a guy and not like an abstract spiritual force
@jonny @frog Yeah, this stuff is fascinating; you can see how other mythologies and philosophies affect how scripture is/was written and interpreted. One of the first things in his "Guide for the Perplexed," Maimonides has to deal with, is that God is incorporeal while tons of scripture describe God doing physical stuff. Maimonides says that the "back parts" revealed to moses should be taken figuratively and are likened to God's prior work —not his butt because no butt. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed_(1904)
“Turkey said on Friday it would seek an Interpol red notice for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a domestic criminal case linked to an attack on activists seeking to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.”
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Netanyahu #warCriminal #StopIsrael #flotilla #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine
Happy Birthday #Linux 🎉🐧
On this day, Linus Torvald first posted that he was working on a small and free operating system and now, 35 years later, it has become one of the most popular platforms on the planet.
If Linux's story shows us one thing, it's this: Together we can fight for a better internet ✊
Let us know your other favorite open-source solutions in the comments down below 👇
A little sneak peek at some very big updates to `speedlify` (just kidding they’re live): https://www.speedlify.dev/
Decoupled measure step from rank so that it runs continuously & incrementally. Ranks sites on CWV field data and Axe violations.
This is the new home for the @11ty Leaderboards.
@ccunning I recommend Japanese audio with subtitles, but do whatever you have to do to get yourself to actually watch the movie.