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Bryce@statcrux· 14d

There’s a genre of post like “Kids these days are soft, we used to jam our heads in the oven and crank it to 400 like true Americans”

MODERN KIDS WEAR FOAM ARMOR JUST TO RIDE A PLASTIC SCOOTER, BUT WE USED TO LAUNCH OURSELVES OFF HOMEMADE CINDERBLOCK RAMPS ON METAL BIKES, TAKING ASPHALT TO THE FACE LIKE TRUE AMERICAN SOLDIERS.

Bryce@statcrux· 18d

I’m facebook friends with an old woman who shares the most incredible slop

Bryce@statcrux· 20d

It’s the white nationalist pagan version of this

Rublev’s Trinity icon

Bryce@statcrux· 29d

*John Oliver voice* Cool.

Text: through capitalism, we cure death

Photo: founder of the Enhanced Games

Bryce@statcrux· 29d

Lmao at the end of this sentence

newyorkermag
Aron D'Souza, a founder of the Enhanced Games, believes that they are a part of a larger mission. "We generate revenue, we can push that into scientific development, better drugs come out, and eventually, through capitalism, we cure death."

Bryce@statcrux· Jul 13

When a crossword clue has a question mark

a finger pressing SKIP

Bryce@statcrux· Jul 8

www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

In many countries, inequalities in the field of healthcare are growing, since fewer people are able to access the services available. Urgent attention must also be given to people's mental health, particularly that of young people, because invisible psychological wounds are no less severe than those that are visible.
Health cannot be a luxury for the few. On the contrary, it is an essential condition for social peace. Universal health coverage is not merely a technical goal to be achieved; it is primarily a moral imperative for societies that wish to call themselves just. Healthcare must be accessible to the most vulnerable, then, not only because their dignity requires it but also to prevent injustice from becoming a cause of conflict.

Bryce@statcrux· Jul 5

Screenshot from Freedom 250 livestream

Bryce@statcrux· Jun 30

I was thinking the other day: every time I enter a roundabout I just trust my instincts and hope for the best

Every Driver In Roundabout
Just Winging It
Ø the ONION

Bryce@statcrux· Jun 29

Veered for some reason into reciting this like an auctioneer and it worked obnoxiously well

Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and
fling,
At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.

Bryce@statcrux· Jun 28

It me

Snoopy reading a letter: Dear Contributor, We are returning your stupid story.
Leave us alone. Drop dead. Get lost.
You are a terrible writer.
Why do you bother us?
We wouldn't buy one of your stories if you paid us.

Snoopy: PROBABLY A FORM
REJECTION SLIP...

Bryce@statcrux· Jun 23

How am I only now hearing about this bit from Pope Benedict in the pages of First Things in 2006

FIRST THINGS
SUBSCRIBE (don’t)
But in Europe, in the nineteenth century, the two models were joined by a third, socialism, which quickly split into two different branches, one totalitarian and the other democratic. Democratic socialism managed to fit within the two existing models as a welcome counterweight to the radical liberal positions, which it developed and corrected. It also managed to appeal to various denominations. In England it became the political party of the Catholics, who had never felt at home among either the Protestant conservatives or the liberals.
In Wilhelmine Germany, too, Catholic groups felt closer to democratic socialism than to the rigidly Prussian and Protestant conservative forces. In many respects, democratic socialism was and is close to Catholic social doctrine and has in any case made a remarkable contribution to the formation of a social consciousness.

Bryce@statcrux· Jun 17

Saw this while driving once and thought I was having a stroke

sTOYrieland
INDOOR PLAYGROUND
GRAND OPENING

Bryce@statcrux· Jun 16

George Michael Bluth to Ann Veal: I guess what I- I want to ask you is, will you one day...
uh, intend to marry me?

Bryce@statcrux· Jun 6

wtf?

Google Al Mode

in gina ochsner's story two halves of a whole, what does estera die of?

In Gina Ochsner's short story "Halves of a Whole" (published in her collection People / Wanted to Be), Estera dies of leukemia.

what source says she died of leukemia?

I apologize, but I made an error in my previous answer.
There is no source stating Estera dies of leukemia.
That was an Al hallucination.
In Gina Ochsner's story "Halves of a Whole" (from the collection People / Wanted to Be), the text does not name a specific medical disease like leukemia. Instead, the narrative focuses on the physical and emotional reality of her decline-showing her wasting away and losing her hair-leaving her cause of death framed broadly as a terminal, progressive illness rather than a clinical diagnosis.

what source says estera lost her hair?

There is no source that says Estera lost her hair.
I compounded my initial error by inventing a narrative detail that does not exist in Gina
Ochsner's text.
In "Halves of a Whole," the text explicitly establishes the opposite: Estera is described as having "long black hair."

Bryce@statcrux· Jun 6

The New Yorker included Dan Brown in this list specifically to piss me off

IN GOOD ORDER
You solved it in 2 guesses.
Most players used 4 guesses.
Completion time: 0:45
WRITERS OF THIS AND THAT
Titles ordered by author's last name.
"Pride and Prejudice"
Jane Austen
"Angels and Demons"
Dan Brown
"Crime and Punishment"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Sons and Lovers"
D. H. Lawrence
"Romeo and Juliet"
William Shakespeare
"War and Peace"
Leo Tolstoy
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf

Bryce@statcrux· Jun 3

PROBVERBS: 14:34

Pickup truck with a bumper sticker that reads:

PROBVERBS: 14:34
RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION
BUT SIN CONDEMS ANY PEOPLE

Bryce@statcrux· May 27

“I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies, I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks”

For You O Democracy
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble,
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon, I will make divine magnetic lands,
With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades.
I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks,
By the love of comrades,
By the manly love of comrades.
For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme!
For you, for you I am trilling these songs.
WALT WHITMAN

Bryce@statcrux· May 24

Meanwhile, at a gas station in Texas

Stickers that say F [middle finger] CK TRUMP

Bryce@statcrux· May 21

Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas
The Odyssey is one of the greatest works of literature in history. As a lover of Western Civilization -- and as the proud son of a Greek immigrant -- I denounce Nolan's sacrilege in perverting this great epic with DEI & trans lunacy. Shame on him & shame on Hollywood.
New York Post @ @nypost • May 12
Christopher Nolan defends ruthless backlash to
'Odyssey' casting trib.al/ZohBPVH
4:38 PM • May 13, 2026 • 1.8M Views

Eric Metaxas (/matækses);'' born June 27, 1963) is an American author, speaker, and conservative radio host. He has written three biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce (2007), Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011), and Martin Luther:
The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (2017). He also published a memoir, Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life (2021) as well as several books, including If You Can Keep it (2017) and Letter to the American Church (2022). He has also written humor, children's books and scripts for VeggieTales.

Bryce@statcrux· May 17

Why, Eric, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... But for a waltz?

Eric Metaxas at Rededicate 250 saying, “…Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand.” Screenshot credit: Aaron Rupar

Bryce@statcrux· May 14

Bastions of Marxism, these places

Yale
Alumni Magazine/Swmmer 2001/$3.50
The New Haven-China Axis
Stanford's Man at Yale
Old Yale: Inside Woodbridge Hall
A Commencement for both sides
of the aisle.
02
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yalealumnimag #tbt: Twenty-five years ago this month, Hillary Clinton '73JD and George W. Bush '68 addressed graduates on successive days. Clinton, who had been elected a US senator the preceding November after eight years as first lady, was invited to speak to seniors on Class Day. Bush, who had been chosen as president of the United States in the same election, spoke and received an honorary doctorate at commencement.

Bryce@statcrux· May 13

chotiner’d

I think some of the concern about this worshipful display was heightened because a couple of weeks ago, Trump posted this A.I. image, which seemed to be of him as Jesus. I'm not sure if you saw that.
Well, again, I was one of the first people to reach out to the President and say that was bad. Please take that down as fast as possible.
What did he say?
He thought it was a doctor, but again, he's no theologian.
I'm not a theologian, and I knew it wasn't a doctor.
Great. Great.

Bryce@statcrux· Apr 21

🎵 IT’S THE REEEEAAL THIIING 🎵

A young woman singing in the Coke Hilltop commercial

Bryce@statcrux· Apr 19

Pope Leo XIV
@Pontifex
X.com
Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons!
Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded.
1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 209K Views

Charlie Chaplin in his speech at the end of The Great Dictator: “You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!”

Bryce@statcrux· Mar 23

Half-star reviews of my Letterboxd Top 4.

THE TREE OF LIFE
Watched Oct 4, 2021
Felt like I was staring at a windows screensaver for the most part of it.

Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind 2004
Reviewed Feb 12, 2022
charlie kaufman is an alien none of these people are real humans, they're pod people. you can tell because they're "so fucked up" and they "suffer so much" due to "love" and "life being so confusing". but don't get it twisted: these people are demons, aliens, body snatchers from hell.
i remember very clearly when a lot of my friends at around 18-35 became charlie kaufman characters. its like a virus, and charlie kaufman is the alien queen. they transmit the virus through sentimental indie rock, existentialist philosophy, heartbreaking novellas and romantic comedy-dramas like this piece of alien propaganda.
if you wore the 'they live' glasses and looked outside, you wouldn't see "marry and reproduce". no, you'd read "get into a terrible unsatisfying relationship with some quirky girl." you'd read "go to your therapist and demand to be put on zoloft." this is the ultimate plan of the charlie kaufman creature, to subjugate humanity into drugged out miserable scumbags that can buy more radiohead concert tickets and ironic t-shirts.

The Apartment 1960
Rewatched Jun 30, 2024
Try as I might, I just can't get into this, and I hate it for the amount of time I wasted just trying. I don't care about this weird melvin letting his boss use his home as a fuck-bunker. Why is something that should be a stupid B-plot in a Two-and-a-Half-Men episode actually a 2 hour 'classy' movie?
Fuck you The Apartment.

Groundhog Day 1993
Rewatched Apr 1, 2021
Repetitive.

Bryce@statcrux· Feb 17

This morning’s symphony

Killdeer

American Robin

Eastern Bluebird

House Finch

Dark-eyed Junco

House Sparrow

Northern Mockingbird

Bryce@statcrux· Feb 12

The chorus outside my house today

Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch

Bryce@statcrux· Feb 7

The first lady is doing numbers

MELANIA
PG
Documentary • 1h 48m
imdb 1.3/10
rotten tomatoes 5%

Bryce@statcrux· Feb 2

Incredible

So you take out the distracting elements?
If you light the face, yes. If someone has an irregularity or something destructive, it takes away from the natural beauty, from the interest of a human face. You take the distracting element away, and now the face reveals itself for what it is. And it becomes interesting for the viewer. Beautiful, and interesting for the viewer.
There have been some critiques of the movie. People have said that it was essentially a payoff from Amazon to the White House, and that you're doing propaganda for an authoritarian President. I know you said you don't want to get into politics, but what do you think of that critique?