Eat-In car, early drive-in restaurant, Los Angeles,
1935 John Gutmann
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From Here
Jeanne Lohmann
for all that has been, thanks
for all that shall be, yes
- Dag Hammerskjold, Markings
No one who looks back is fit, the gospel says,
for the kingdom. Renouncing my small hope
of getting in, disqualified by all that turns me round
in thanks for grace or chance that led me here,
I can't see where's the harm. So far I've not
been changed to salt and am no pillar in the road,
so far the winter breaks to sounds of streams ahead.
The past is iron and roses, health and sickness
as in a marriage vow. I'm pledged to all that was,
and to this moment's breath, the next.
[alive on all channels]
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If the BG3 companions went on a road trip, who’s the designated refueler and why is it Astarion
I saw this cosplay on Reddit and immediately had to draw it because I love it so much
Here’s a timelapse of it!
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Crowley from Good Omens crashed his car through my living room wall while I was eating breakfast. He stole my waffle, got back in the Bentley, and drove off. I was so offended I woke up.
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Eight years ago Will Saletan said “The GOP is a failed state. Donald Trump is its warlord.” There’s probably no short summary, phrase or aphorism I’ve repeated more times on TPM. Because it’s that good. Today we’re seeing another permutation and illustration of that enduring reality.
This is more basic than a fractured caucus or any of the personalities involved. It is the logical end result of a party and political movement based on rule-breaking, as a central value and mode of operation. When rule-breaking becomes the norm organizations and polities fall apart … without a strongman. For eight years Donald Trump has been that strongman. It’s Trump’s general indifference to the House Speaker debacle and perhaps focus on his unfolding legal woes that has allowed the chaos to drag on.
This is always the relationship between civic democracies and the broken states where strongmen thrive and dominate. Civic democracy operates through an organized competition between different stakeholders in society. It requires a consensus to litigate disagreements through a prescribed set of rules. The breakdown of those rules creates an opening for strongmen who traffic in raw power and sell their ability to impose order. It is both the cause and result of the species of civic and moral degeneracy we see as the mother’s milk of Trumpism.
The Party of Rule-Breaking Trundles Toward Its Inevitable End Point - TPM – Talking Points Memo
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