"‘Santa’s reindeer’ are under threat. Are Russia’s wolves to blame?" - isobel Yeung, CNN, 22DEC2025

>Kujala’s reindeer herd has found itself in unusual danger. On a near daily basis, he’s coming across reindeer carcasses. And he directs blame at an unlikely suspect: Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose war in Ukraine has long-reaching consequences.

>Kujala’s family has been herding reindeer in Kuusamo, northern Finland, for over 400 years.

>Lapland, Finland’s most northerly region, is marketed as the “official home of Santa Claus”

>“It feels really sad. Really, really sad,” says Kujala. “The balance is not right. The wolves are so many that they threaten the whole system here. … They just kill, kill, kill.

>“If we don’t do nothing, in a few years whole areas (will have) no reindeer anymore. That’s sad, because it’s the oldest thing in the whole of Finland: reindeer herding.”

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They’re gonna rewrite the entire windows kernel to Rust using AI.

The levels of slop are gonna be out of this world.

Average Turanian

"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him is the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest human achievement."

+Saint Augustine

"By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most foolish, by substituting instruction for education, by encouraging cleverness rather than wisdom, the upstart rather than the qualified, by fostering a notion of getting on to which the alternative is hopeless apathy, Liberalism can prepare the way for that which is its own negation: the artificial, mechanized or brutalized control which is a desperate remedy for its chaos."

~T.S. Eliot

"Beauty tells us about the eternal verities... A work of art doesn’t invent truth, but it does make it accessible to us in ways that are not normally available because words and images have been tarnished by overuse or neglect. Art fails when it merely tells us what we already know in the ways that we already know it. That is why art is so deeply related to the prophetic dimension and the place where it connects to truth. That prophetic shock, that challenge to complacency, that revelatory reconfiguration of the way things are, gives us a truer picture of the way that the world is... Truth without beauty is fleshless abstraction, a set of propositions. Only beauty can incarnate truth in concrete, believable, human flesh... Beauty without truth becomes a mask that has no relationship to the face behind it. Beauty without truth is a lie."

~Gregory Wolfe

"Beauty tutors our compassion, making us more prone to love and to see the attraction of goodness. Art takes us out of our self-referentiality and invites us to see through the eyes of the other, whether that other is the artist herself or a character in a story. Because beauty endows goodness with mercy, it enables us to see how difficult it is to achieve goodness, how often one good exists in tension with another. Our pursuit of the good is inherently dramatic, and drama is based on conflict. Thus goodness without beauty is moralism, holier than thou... Beauty without goodness is frigid and lifeless. It can be pure virtuosity—form without meaning—but then it fails to touch the heart. We admire the acrobatics but fail to see the point."

~Gregory Wolfe

You guys are destroying the GOP. I hope you're happy.
https://x.com/SenTedCruz/status/1987912001817866344

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