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Gonna fuck around and frog a blanket tonight instead of thinking about life.

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Absolutely rocked the Yip-Yip costumes in Washington Square Park with the kiddo during this afternoon's children's parade. A huge hit with the over-40 crowd.

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I helped clean up and organize my kids' ballet school and found some old ballet book gems. I love the cover of this one, Ballet for Beginners, by Atkinson and Draper. Totally loving the black fishnets and light pointe shoes look.

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Interviewer: Are women in this country going to be better off... uh, with President Reagan in office?

Alan Alda: [laughter] No. (x)

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Before the pandemic, I never encountered anyone who was happy about coming into work sick. Now It's almost an every day occurrence....

Mask up. Stop the spread.

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Hello Josh, Pentiment is one of my favorite games of all time. It’s an emotional journey for me. I can relate to Andreas’s melancholy and really like the character arc for him. Thank you for creating this amazing story.

I have a question about Seal of Confession in Pentiment. Sister Amalie disclosed Brother Guy’s confession to Andreas and explained why Guy can’t be protected by Seal of Confession. But as a catholic I was taught that Seal of Confession cannot be violated under any circumstances, and the seal also applies to anyone who overhears a confession. I assumed that the rule was different in Middle Ages. Did canon law back in 16th century mention anything about eavesdropping confessions?

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Certainly under modern canon law, Sister Amalie would be subject to church discipline equal to that of a priest who violated the seal, which could include excommunication.

Re: 16th century canon law on witnesses to confession other than the confessor: the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) did not mention witnesses, only the confessor:

Canon 21: On yearly confession to one’s own priest, yearly communion, the confessional seal All the faithful of either sex, after they have reached the age of discernment, should individually confess all their sins in a faithful manner to their own priest at least once a year, and let them take care to do what they can to perform the penance imposed on them. Let them reverently receive the sacrament of the eucharist at least at Easter unless they think, for a good reason and on the advice of their own priest, that they should abstain from receiving it for a time. Otherwise they shall be barred from entering a church during their lifetime and they shall be denied a Christian burial at death. Let this salutary decree be frequently published in churches, so that nobody may find the pretense of an excuse in the blindness of ignorance. If any persons wish, for good reasons, to confess their sins to another priest let them first ask and obtain the permission of their own priest; for otherwise the other priest will not have the power to absolve or to bind them. The priest shall be discerning and prudent, so that like a skilled doctor he may pour wine and oil over the wounds of the injured one. Let him carefully inquire about the circumstances of both the sinner and the sin, so that he may prudently discern what sort of advice he ought to give and what remedy to apply, using various means to heal the sick person. Let him take the utmost care, however, not to betray the sinner at all by word or sign or in any other way. If the priest needs wise advice, let him seek it cautiously without any mention of the person concerned. For if anyone presumes to reveal a sin disclosed to him in confession, we decree that he is not only to be deposed from his priestly office but also to be confined to a strict monastery to do perpetual penance.

The Corpus Juris Canonici may cover this, but I would make two statements here: 1) detailed canon law was not something most parish priests or certainly anchoresses would be familiar with 2) it's late and I don't want to try to search through the UCLA's digital library copy of the Corpus Juris Canonici.

That said, I do have a copy of Thomas Tentler's Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation which gets into the weeds on what was going down in the Holy Roman Empire in the early 16th century. I used it as the basis for a lot of the specifics in Father Thomas' Saint John's Day confessions. I'll try to look it up this question tomorrow.

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Reblogging so I can remember this sanity-saving tip.

Lifesaving tip for anyone flat-knitting a sweater:

The width of the sleeve panel (assuming it wraps all the way around) is usually half the body width. So if the front of your sweater is 120 stitches wide, make the sleeves 60.

You’re welcome

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i remember adults telling me, as a kid, to listen to doctors and get my flu vaccine and any shots i could because they remembered Before.

then they started fighting Covid precautions.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that the ozone was disappearing and the earth was dying and we needed to recycle and save the planet.

now my parents think climate change is a myth.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that racism was a plague, that we had to love and accept everyone, that we should never judge before walking a mile in their shoes.

then they told me that protesting for my Black siblings was wrong.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that we needed to give to the poor. working at soup kitchens. making quilts. collecting food and money and supplies. building houses. because it was the christian and just plain right thing to do.

now they look at me, on food stamps with their grandchildren, and lament the "welfare state".

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that any rich man, especially an immoral one, should never run our country.

you can guess who they voted for.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, so very much.

when did they forget?

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1) My job has a weekly staff newsletter, each week a different employee is highlighted

2) Colleague nominated me, the plucky archivist and librarian, because “you have to feature her! She makes archives and history memes! She knows so many weird and cool things!”

3) They asked for a photo. I don’t want a photo of me featured. I can send some other options, like some of those history and archives memes you were told about or a recent craft project?

4) Great!

5) I am genuinely sad they didn’t use this one.

I really wanted the nationwide org to learn about this and maybe even listen to it and hear the president say “bunghole” because I care about history...and also think about this too often

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Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

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Feeling bold and brave. Here’s the c2c avocado blanket I made for my kid. She created a comic anti-hero named Avo von Cado and I wanted to celebrate her stories. It was my first attempt at a graphghan and at some point the math stopped mathing, so I crocheted the pit on hope and vibes. Yay me!

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every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking

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this is funny

like really, really funny

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Maryland is a real place btw

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One think I love about pentiment is that if you take a look at global achievements statistics on steam a high number of players has completed the first case AND discovered the secret entrance to the library which means they learned about sister matilda's secret (if they also choose to speak to the mother superior after that but still). And yet the achievement for exposing sister matilda as the culprit has one of the lowest percentages and this means that people learned about that fucking rapist piece of shit and went "sister matilda you did absolutely nothing wrong beloved <3 have fun standing next to a bloodstained shovel with your very strong motive i won't say a thing" and they in fact did not <3

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