Pastor Randy Saylor pleaded no contest to 11 counts of criminal sexual conduct involving two children under 13. His conviction makes him the THIRD elder from Living Word Church (Midland, Michigan, the congregation founded by televangelist Mark Barclay) to be convicted of sexually assaulting minors.🤬

Third Living Word Church Leader Convicted of Child Sexual Abuse - MinistryWatch

A third leader connected to Living Word Church in Midland, Michigan, has now been convicted of criminal sexual conduct, deepening scrutiny over a string of abuse cases linked to the congregation found...

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20 question book challenge complete!! 📚💚 tell me what I should read and find me on Storygraphs @ t2thacoops

Tim-my Eat World 😋🌏🎶@t2thacoops.bsky.social · 9h ago

ok I'm gonna do this because my car won't start and I'm waiting for a tow and I need a distraction so I stop catastrophizing 1) the least fun answer but the book I have reread the most is The Holy Bible, due to X-ian schooling & indoctrination, but every day that passes I forget more of it ✊

Monstrous Regiment gets, rightly, a lot of credit for how it deals with Gender, but it is also a really good examination of nationalism and all of its pitfalls pride goeth before a lot of things, and one of the things it goeth before is a lot of dead young men and women in a field somewhere

the OColman/ASkarsgård flick isn't in the gif library yet so we'll settle for Nic Cage

Nicolas Cage: Not The Bees!

Alt: Not The Bees! Nicholas Cage yells with his head in a cage in a clip from The Wicker Man

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Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · 1h ago

It’s disgusting what these companies can do, how much they can own. Disney owns every property under the sun. Live Nation has a strangle hold on the music industry. The only way we change it is if we start building some wicker men and stock up on bees and fire.

Men would literally rather make a disappointing solo album than go to therapy

billboard@billboard.com · 1h ago

Joe Jonas Says Disappointing Solo Album Sales Led Him to Seek Therapy for the First Time

“You think AI is necessary for survival? Wait till you hear about food.” These AI bros are their own worst advocates

🎶In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule, I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black, And I held my tongue as she told me, "Son, fear is the heart of love." So I never went back🎶

SWIIRL (Sativa Diva 💅🏿)@thatonegirlkendra.blacksky.app · 7h ago

If you see this, quote it with a song lyric you love

"The Vatican could have told Anthropic to stop stealing data, exploiting labor, killing the environment, deceiving us with anthropomorphic designs and lying about product 'capabilities.' Instead they partnered with [Anthropic], like partnering with the Sackler family to discuss the harms of oxy."

20 question book challenge complete!! 📚💚 tell me what I should read and find me on Storygraphs @ t2thacoops

Tim-my Eat World 😋🌏🎶@t2thacoops.bsky.social · 9h ago

ok I'm gonna do this because my car won't start and I'm waiting for a tow and I need a distraction so I stop catastrophizing 1) the least fun answer but the book I have reread the most is The Holy Bible, due to X-ian schooling & indoctrination, but every day that passes I forget more of it ✊

ok I'm gonna do this because my car won't start and I'm waiting for a tow and I need a distraction so I stop catastrophizing 1) the least fun answer but the book I have reread the most is The Holy Bible, due to X-ian schooling & indoctrination, but every day that passes I forget more of it ✊

"We've crashed into the moon!"

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

this is the star

K Spesh@gimmethekspecial.bsky.social · 2d ago

The bright white star Vega of the constellation Lyra the harp, as seen through my scope tonight. Its claim to fame is being the star that the protagonist of the movie Contact goes to visit

Once again, your regular reminder that Alt NPS is a grifter account that is not worth your time or respect.

AltWatcher@altwatcher.bsky.social · 2d ago

After a few months of mostly sticking to banal news updates, the Alt National Park Service is going back to their conspiracy LARPer roots.

🚨🤬nope nope nope🤬🚨 THE BLOOD OVER AUTISM REW💡RED FOR HIS GLORY

Lucy@lucyxiv.boontavista.com · 4d ago

here's Saosin covering Blindside's 'Pitiful' live w/ crowd sing-a-long for.. *all screaming* 🎶AND I REMEMBER EVERY WORD YOU SAAAAID🎶🥰🤘

Saosin - Pitiful (Live From The Garden Amphitheater)

YouTube video by Born Losers Records

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splurged on a Death Cab poster at their show a few nights ago and I've decided where I'm gonna put it in the house, gonna be sick as shit, stay tuned..

2026 books thread: July

in 2026 I've listened to *150* new albums 235 times, these are the albums 👇 the dashes are for relistens and hint at what my faves might be what've I missed from 2026's releases?

the grass may wither and the flower fadeth away but erre year the Dodgers will come for thy souls amen

@trustedreveler.bsky.social Hey I found a shirt for us.

Death Cab for Cutie w/ Nation of Language July 31, 2026 Arizona Financial Theater Phoenix, AZ, USA Ben Gibbard went 150% and it made a pretty decent show into a great show, also they can pretty much make an all banger setlist at this point

Tim-my Eat World 😋🌏🎶@t2thacoops.bsky.social · 5d ago

Death Cab just played What Sarah Said -into- acoustic solo Ben Gibbard + extra crowd only chorus sing-a-long I Will Follow You Into The Dark -into- the long jam intro version of I Will Possess Your Heart which predictably had me feeling feels

Are you there, God? It's me, the guy who makes creepy Judy Blume references

Death Cab just played What Sarah Said -into- acoustic solo Ben Gibbard + extra crowd only chorus sing-a-long I Will Follow You Into The Dark -into- the long jam intro version of I Will Possess Your Heart which predictably had me feeling feels

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

ah yeah new Sour Widows 🎶🥰 sourwidows.bandcamp.com/album/sigil

Sigil, by Sour Widows

11 track album

sourwidows.bandcamp.com

"..those who crave superiority in their individual relationships also crave a sense of collective superiority where they think of the group they belong to as also superior to other groups: collective authoritarianism"

Why authoritarian parents love authoritarian politicians

YouTube video by Psychology with Dr. Ana

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honey, I halo-effected a quizmaster