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C.A modest proposal about popes...So, another pope has died and his ashes will soon be emitted from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel. It is time to select a new pope.But the pope has presided over a seemingly endless series of scandals for generations. They keep electing new popes, but the problems never go away. Why can't they solve these problems?Looking for commonalities among all the popes of the last century or so, one stood out to me: they're all Catholic!Maybe they should try choosing a nice Unitarian, or perhaps a Wiccan? They'd have at least as good a chance of solving the problems as the last umpteen Catholic popes. Maybe even better.It's worth a shot.(V jbaqre ubj znal ercyl thlf jvyy rnearfgyl rkcynva gb zr jul gur cbcr zhfg or Pngubyvp.)<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/pope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pope</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/selection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selection</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/conclave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conclave</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Swift</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/JonathanSwift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JonathanSwift</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AModestProposal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AModestProposal</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#catholic</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/wiccan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wiccan</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/unitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unitarian</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/cardinal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cardinal</a>

Dr Ian McCormickNames of Craters on Phobos, discovered in 1877. You may recognize some of them? <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Swift" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Swift</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23TeamEnglish" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeamEnglish</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23literature" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23satire" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#satire</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23astronomy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23science" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23telescope" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#telescope</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23scifi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23moon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moon</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JonathanSwift" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JonathanSwift</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%2318thcentury" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#18thcentury</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%2319thcentury" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#19thcentury</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23cartography" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23lunar" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lunar</a>

Roman ALANUseless quote for 10 Mar:"How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?"~ Jonathan Swift, in "Thoughts on various subjects", 1711-1726<a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/UselessQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UselessQuote</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Advice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Advice</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Warning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Warning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/JonathanSwift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JonathanSwift</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®I have a modest proposal.Wait, hear me out.- <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/JonathanSwift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JonathanSwift</a>, probably

JasonDamn you <a href="https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/JonathanSwift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JonathanSwift</a>! If you had only kept your mouth shut! 😂😂😂> He then commanded six-and-thirty of the lads, to read the several lines softly, as they appeared upon the frame; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes.This work was repeated three or four times, and at every turn, the engine was so contrived, that the words shifted into new places, as the square bits of wood moved upside down.…> He assured me “that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest computation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbers of particles, nouns, and verbs, and other parts of speechvia <a href="https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/thechipletter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thechipletter</a>’s latest, <a href="https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-engine" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-engine</a><a href="https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/GPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GPT</a>

iamBullivantOn this day in 1667 Jonathan Swift, poet, satirist and clergyman was born in Dublin. He was an Anglican cleric and became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dublin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JonathanSwift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JonathanSwift</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

Roman ALANUseless quote for 12 Nov:"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the world see them to be in downright nonsense."~Jonathan Swift, under the nom de plume "Tobiah Greenhat", in The Tatler No. 63 (1-3 Sep 1709)<a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/UselessQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UselessQuote</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/JonathanSwift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JonathanSwift</a>

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