@isaackuo @bmacDonald94
- Their local bishop is in direct vertical relation to them, the Pope is two steps away. Is the bishop racist, or just tactically following instead of leading?
- They've got 50 years of practice at selectively listening to the Pope since Vatican 2 and the Latin Mass controversy.
- Many are de facto evangelical white nationalists with legacy cultural ties to a catholic parish, so the theological contradiction of ignoring the Pope doesn't trouble them.

@FritzAdalis @skinnylatte @briankrebs
😆😉➕1️⃣ Classical Allusion

@thomasfuchs @mattl @vkc @mausimus

often it's tax accounting, iirc?
(unintended consequences of depreciation of assets vs expensing of minor CAPEX, it's easier to destroy it than to find a buyer who'll pay a nominal value, establishing value below depreciated value carried on books, to enable immediate write-down)

@TerryHancock @mattl @cstross
Probably still healthier than the pre-bottled Protein Shakes people on weight-loss or muscle-building diets are buying (but today they'd call it a Liver-Spinach Smoothie).

@mattl I don't know.

W11 needs very-modern mobo unless you use e.g. Rufus hack to force install w/o latest spec.

IDK if that would make multi-boot easier; TPM dislikes foreign OS :-( .

I'm even having boot problems reusing a W10 laptop as single-boot Ubuntu. :-(

@neil
My state, Massachusetts, has a formal referral service to connect creatives with Pro Bono counsel, Mass Lawyers for the Arts.
Their referral helped us reactivate a museum's charitable status (prior Secretary & Treasurer had neglected mandatory and optional-but-not-really annual filings).
Some FLOSS Creators might qualify as edge cases as we did, at least for some issues. (eg. Copyright ©️ is intrinsically creative! )

@mattl @chrisjrn
does this put libre.fm in the top-10 most long-running April Fool's ?
;-)

@bmacDonald94 @MyWoolyMastadon @deepmud
I hear you on that. Mother T was a Milkshake Duck prequel.

The Mother Theresa that Rev Shuma's mother knew was caring for the poor; she didn't see the rumored dark depths that we now hear about. An ideal, not a real person.

As I said, an interesting, unique personal synthesis.
(It must be over 20 years since Rev Shuma was at 1st Parish here. How time flies.)

@deepmud @bmacDonald94
Right, power corrupts, and attracts the already corrupt.

I'm not fond of organized religion.

The UU congregation I was actually part of never was very organized, contrary to stereotype.

The 1st Par. where Rev Shuma was for a year had some organization (precariously) but her personal synthesis was entirely solo, so I could enjoy the cross-connections she drew between traditions, as a frequent visitor.

@MyWoolyMastadon @bmacDonald94 @deepmud
Yes. UU is a very big tent, non-credal. With variation within a congregation, between congregations, and between regions.
Ranging from full Atheist to Christian just without dogmatic trinitarianchristology, with pockets of Eastern mysteries, neopagan/earthmother, neosynctretic, ... .
(A fun preacher here was her own neosyncrethesis: her uncle was an Ashram Guru, her mother a patron of Mother Theresa, and she a grad of Harvard Divinity as UU. )

@Gargron
I switched to Tusky quickly ages ago.
Has the 'official' Mastodon for Android caught up such that I should give it a second look?

@lain
Ouch. I feel this in my joints. 👴

@evan mix

@forteller @mattjhodgkinson

FedEx is likely the branding of the retail copy shop 🖨 that produced the poster sized print 📈 on demand.
Express shipping 📦outlets and copy shop 🖨outlets share retail space frequently. Or both in a corner of an office 🖇 supply shop. Synergy not unlike embedding an ice-cream🍦 franchise in a sandwich 🥪 shop.