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Deszcz's avatar

“Biblical grounds” does refer specifically to adultery or other sexual impropriety in this context (Matthew 5:32; 19:9). Presumably she hasn’t been abandoned by an unbelieving spouse (1 Corinthians 7:15).

Wtf is that anesthesiologist doing in that pregnancy comic?

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Tom's avatar

Sometimes having an ingrown hair removed is scary and you need to clutch your massive therapy gourd

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Deszcz's avatar

Personally, I’m on the fence between 3 Tuohy needles and 1 Tuohy and a giant staple

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Tom's avatar

I named mine joseph gourdon-levitt

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Kathleen Sykes's avatar

That's the issue with a lot of Christian commenters out there in the ether. The problem is that there are a billion denominations and micro-denominations, and none of them are really on the same page about the details. A trad Catholic and a Missouri Synod Lutheran are going to give you two different answers on this.

Although, fun fact, God instituted divorce pretty early on in the Bible (Deuteronomy). It was effectively a merciful accommodation.

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Deszcz's avatar

I’m not a Yahwist of any description, so I don’t have a position on the correctness of the terminology - I just remembered from the liberal evangelical Fred Clark’s blog Slacktivist that “biblical grounds” was the distinctive evangelical lingo.

Interesting you chose LCMS as one of your go to examples - I do have a soft spot for them specifically.

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Kathleen Sykes's avatar

First one that came to mind with notable differences between them and Catholicism. 😅 I had a really good friend who grew up in LCMS, and her parish was very nice.

And that does make sense. I’ve only ever seen it in more Evangelical contexts. Most notably a local lawyer who specializes in “Biblical divorce.” He’s kind of… an eccentric fellow.

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Bec's avatar

As an anaesthetist I wondered that too. Saving time by injecting the local, the touhy and the metaraminol all at the same time?

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Hazard Stevens's avatar

it looks like she's having acupuncture to me

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KetamineCal's avatar

Anesthesiologist here: sometimes we like to place multiple epidurals so we can operate our patient like a marionette.

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Eric C.'s avatar

Removing the epidural?

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Deszcz's avatar

There should still only be one line in that case (the catheter being pulled out)

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The Cultural Romantic's avatar

Bryan Johnson is so insane but he’s the most wholesome of the deranged set and I include Elon in that list.

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Wandering Llama's avatar

"If you’re not on Twitter anymore, and using Many Such Takes as a way to vaguely understand what’s happening there, this will probably make you feel really good about your decision."

I feel this way every time one of these hits my inbox

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KH's avatar

I really feel bad for the ppl at xAI

“Mom, dad, I got PhD from Stanford in computer science and I now work my dream job of…. Creating Mecha hitler”

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Mariana Trench's avatar

"That's awesome, honey! Can we have $10,000,000 to buy a vacation home?"

"Sure!"

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David Roberts's avatar

It's possible that Ken Paxton's biblical sin is that he's a witch.

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Mewdy Bloo's avatar

That’s almost certainly the reason and I won’t be convinced otherwise.

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Pavlov's Hog's avatar

Right wingers don't like Harry Sisson because the women he was talking to are of age.

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Val's avatar

The shorts oozes lesbian cop to me. A carabiner belongs on those shorts. But the polo hard to say who thats for.

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Tony Bozanich's avatar

Can we acknowledge how weird it is that there is a Bryan Johnson and a Brian Johnson (real name of the Liver King) and that they are both nuts.

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Rob's avatar

When I first heard of the youth-obsessed SV BJ I was very confused and assumed the AC/DC singer had made some very dramatic lifestyle changes

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Rob's avatar

The other obvious musical comparison is Roxy Music, but do these Br(i/y)ans line up? There’s perhaps a case that there’s a smooth optimised yuppie-type/unabashed weirdo dynamic that does

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Tori's avatar

Keturah whatshername is nuts. I *abhor* pregnancy and the only reason I've done it four times is I just love babies that much lol.

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Mewdy Bloo's avatar

Pregnancy is not fun, and she’s lying to get attention online.

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Benjamin Scott's avatar

Saying that hating pregnancy means you hate your fetus/baby is like saying hating COPD means you hate your lungs.

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ProfessorChessDad's avatar

This was a particularly enjoyable and amusing edition of this weekly installment. I was particularly amused by the Alex Jones tweet for some reason, but I don't want to know anything more about what he thinks on any of the issues adjacent to that.

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Tomb of the Unknown Poster's avatar

I saw a post that said "I thought labubu was new slang for lobotomy" and I haven't stopped thinking about it.

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Bruce N's avatar

> his takes call for factual sodomy

What a time to be alive man

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Fashionably Late's avatar

I saw the shorts and shirt and my first thought was that it must be from one of those Shein clones out of China where the photos of the clothes are either badly photoshopped or AI rather than an American drop shipper. And sure enough it was. Because anyone who's had access to American internet fights would know that's an odd combination. TBH, I kinda want to know how many they sold and what percent were bought out of curiosity or "OMG look at what I got".

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GuyInPlace's avatar

Those clothes often have an "unhinged bordering on maybe fascist" aesthetic that comes with not having a human ever looking at it.

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Snow Martingale's avatar

Creepy how that version of Grok is reflective of a certain right-wing flavor of online manipulation. They post something intentionally inflammatory but just vague enough for plausible deniability, then when someone responds normally like "Um, I don't think so" the manipulator points the finger like "Oh, you must be so triggered! You must be so ashamed! AsK wHy iT sTinGs"

AI seems accurate to the way people talk, but that doesn't mean it's reliable in the real world

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Toiler On the Sea's avatar

Isn't having a 3 and a half hour long erection grounds for calling emergency services? I'd be alarmed and not proud.

Grok/MechaHitler's burn on the Sisson thing "if we're rating vibes . ." was actually really good, haha.

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Sean's avatar

I believe 4 hours is when you have to go to the ER.

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Jacob Bartlett's avatar

I can’t believe, ten years on, we get a sequel to Tay Tweets

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