Notices by Daniel Johnson (ossobuffo@deacon.social)

@golemwire I doubt it has been in use for the last 25 years, probably longer.

@golemwire I always like using 'uce@ftc.gov'. The FTC used to actually monitor that one for a while in the 90s — you'd forward them Unsolicited Commercial Email aka spam and they'd (theoretically) take action.

@royal @dan @RevEricBurrowsStone It is useful to stop using the overloaded term hell, and start referring to the following:

– Hades: the generic abode of the dead. In Greek mythology, both the evil and the good crossed the Styx and arrived here. The righteous inhabited the Elysian Fields within Hades.

– Sheol: the Hebrew cognate of Hades; simply the abode of the dead.

– Gehenna: The place of judgment after death. This is a hellenization of a Hebrew word.

– Tartarus: The abyss of eternal punishment in Greek mythology. This term is also used in many patristic writings.

– Abaddon: the Hebrew cognate of Tartarus.

So Hades and Sheol are synonymous, Tartarus and Abaddon are synonymous, and Gehenna usually carries roughly the same connotation as Tartarus or Abaddon.

In Norse mythology, Hel is a person/place pretty much equivalent to Hades (also both a person and a place); but in English usage hell has taken on the meaning of Gehenna.

@seanbala I am in the process of making longaniza pork sausage for the Paschal feast. Meat and fat have been carved into chunks and are resting in the freezer while I take a brief nap. Then I will grind them, add non-meat ingredients, rest again, and finally stuff into casings. I’ll cook them up Saturday afternoon and leave them in a slow-cooker to stay warm. That will make me exceedingly happy at about 2:30am on Sunday morning!

"Lord, save us from fools, somehow!"

— St. Sophrony of Essex (d. 1993)

@paulisci This one's got to be in the running. Apologies for injecting politics into anyone's lighthearted timeline.

https://www.mind-war.com/p/wheres-president-musks-birth-certificate