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Cake day: July 27th, 2025

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  • Reading through history is like, “oh wow what a cool unique culture!” Then you get to the part where a missionary shows up and starts taking it apart or suddenly there’s a civil/holy war that obliterates most traces of the old culture.

    In many cases the missionaries were slaughtered, but they sent more, or sent armies. Heck, the British had to try like 5-6 times to take over one particular Indian kingdom (that I can’t remember off the top of my head).

    Never underestimate the power of sheer persistence and a rabid dedication to a cause.




  • I swear that America - well the world at large, but especially America - has a reality problem.

    I see the swell of anti-science anti-intellectual ‘experts’, the aggressive evangelicals beating queerfolk with holy books they haven’t read, the facebook addicts praising pyramid oils and herbs and crystals instead of medicine, the pearl-clutching racists shouting off statistics as justification to expel the ‘others’ … and I just wonder if we’ve collectively lost the ability to think.