Domestic Dad. Words and essays in @frednewspost and @frederickmag. Fan of newspapers and other endangered relics of material culture. #Maryland
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Fox Corp. will buy streaming platform Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $22 billion. apnews.com/article/fox-roku-…
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For me, classical music doesn’t get better than Dvorak. I’m always moved and, honestly, always blown away by how achingly intimate yet soaring to inexplicable heights his compositions are. Every listen is like the first time and somehow an old friend.
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Average Joe retweeted
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Dude he literally running New York like the average joe in a movie who gets elected into office as a gag and then fixes everything simply because he is not a politician and an earnest regular guy.
1,000 New Yorkers won our lottery for affordable tickets to the World Cup.
Today, we celebrated in the stands for the first NY/NJ game of the tournament.
The beautiful game belongs to everyone.
ALT Mayor Mamdani attends the match between Morocco and Brazil with some of the New Yorkers who won the World Cup affordable tickets lottery.
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I find that most people who leave church don’t miss the religious aspect of it but do miss the community aspect of it. In many ways, the brilliance of belonging to an organized religion, even one that’s more hateful and problematic than you personally are or prefer, is that it 1/
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Has a turn-key, ready made community that is easy to plug into. Not just for social fun, but for a sense of belonging, an outlet to serve, a spirit of unity and a place to belong. This I think, is so much more useful to one’s lived experience than any theology of the hereafter 2/
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EDIT: I realize I expressed an idea of belonging twice. On that first reference, I meant to say a sense of purpose.
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I think knowing that you’re gonna feel the absence of community in a way that will feel discouraging for what you felt was a principled choice to leave the faith will help navigate life after the exit. Afterall, Adam and Eve had to labor for their fruit after they left Eden… 6/
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The irony is that doing so was the method by which they were able to grow, mature, and progress. Maybe we were created by some kind of god, but I believe that creating community is the work of neighborhoods and shared humanity, not religions and exclusive beliefs. /end.
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Did nobody tell this guy that his prophet actually said the word apology doesn’t exist in the scriptures?
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“I deeply regret saying what I said,” an LDS Church general authority stated in an apology for off-the-cuff remarks he made during Sunday worship services. sltrib.com/religion/2026/06/…
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Group A folks unite!
Two types of readers: a) infinite books in progress; b) fully devoted to one book at a time
I admire those of group (a) for I'm thoroughly in group (b)
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In this book, Alberta quotes a theologian who says the best antidote to bad religion is good religion. But I say, show me the good religion? In my own context, Mormonism and the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have insisted on brazenly falling short.
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This book is a diagnosis and a warning. It’s a very concerning but essential read.
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This book is a diagnosis and a warning. It’s a very concerning but essential read.
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Average Joe retweeted
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Everyone always talking about “talent density” in Silicon Valley when we really should be talking about how 80% of pretzels in America come from a small region of Pennsylvania
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Left. Middle left. Middle right. Right.
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Personally I’m finding life to be much better after freeing myself from the idea that I am required or somehow cosmically engineered to worship something. Or someone. You can just believe in goodness. It doesn’t require worship. Believe in ideals. Work toward them. Live life.
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Cognitive scientist of religion here. It is simply not true that "people have to worship something." While most everyone believes in something bigger than themselves, that overwhelmingly means things other than deities. This is an asinine attempt to make atheism a religion.
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Jun 11
Where are all the think pieces on the new season of Beef, this show is so meticulous and smart. It’s what White Lotus wants to be.
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“I always carry my diary with me, one must have something interesting to read while traveling.” -a quote as I remember it from one of the movie adaptions of one of Oscar Wilde’s plays.
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Classic novels simply aren't relatable. Even contemporary literature is often about things I have never personally experienced. My preferred genre is autobiographical fiction that I have written myself
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