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Jonathan Coulton's "Still Alive" (from Portal) is an Easter song, and the lyrics don't even require that much tweaking to work. Imagine Jesus singing it to all of humanity:
This was a triumph
I'm making a note here
"Huge success"
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
My Father's Kingdom
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead
But there's no sense crying over every missed line
You just keep on trying till you run out of wine
And the tombstone grows moss and you make a neat cross
For the people who are still alive
I'm not even angry
I'm being so sincere right now
Even though you broke my heart
And killed me
And tore me to pieces
And threw every piece into a fire
As they burned it hurt because
I was so happy for you
Now, these points of data make a beautiful line
And we're out of beta, we're releasing on time
So I'm glad I got burned, think of all the things we learned
For the people who are still alive
Go 'head and leave me
I think I'd prefer to stay inside
Maybe you'll find someone else
To help you
Maybe Ron Hubbard?
That was a joke, ha-ha, fat chance
Anyway, this wine is great
It's so delicious and moist
Look at me, still talking when there's religion to do
When I look out there, it makes me glad I'm not you
I've experiments to run, there's salvation to be done
On the people who are still alive
And believe me, I am still alive
I'm doing preaching and I'm still alive
I feel fantastic and I'm still alive
While you're dying, I'll be still alive
And when you're dead, I will be still alive
Still alive
Still alive

#wordweavers 06/03/2024 What 3 questions would your MC ask to get to know you?
He knows me already, and knows I am the one who asked him to go on this mission. I once made an interview with my MC, and finished with the question is there anything you would like to tell me?
This is his answer:

#wordweavers 06/03/2024 What 3 questions would your MC ask to get to know you?
He knows me already, and knows I am the one who asked him to go on this mission. I once made an interview with my MC, and finished with the question is there anything you would like to tell me?
This is his answer:

Good Morning #Canada
Are you sleeplessly wondering how many lighthouses there are in Canada? Me neither, but today we can answer that question (lucky you). There are more than 750 lighthouses across the country, with the first one constructed 290 years ago. Only 51 still have a live keeper, while most have been automated. If a lighthouse is a must-have for you, the attached article has info on how to purchase from the government.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Lighthouse
https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/otw-am/lighthouses-phares/canada-eng.html

Good morning #Fediverse
How are we all doing today? Tell me in the comments below what you have planned for the day, or what you've already achieved.
It's just work stuff for me but without meetings today, which is always a plus. So I'll just be answering emails.
I'm going to try and get a post published to the

New frontier in computer science paper titles just dropped. Sure, sure, people have likely used variants of "to be or not to be", but how many people quote from Tamburlaine? Finally my humanities education comes in handy! [From https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/books/r

Like My Book Title? Thanks, I Borrowed It.
Literary allusions are everywhere. What are they good for?

About life and feelings, gloomy and private
The feelings we get from the activities we do could be classified as neutral, positive and negative.
Let's take developing #Gentoo as an example. It's something that makes me happy — but you can't (or at least I can't) just get the happiness and reject everything else. Most of the Gentoo work is basically neutral, even bland — a duty that takes a lot of time and effort, and probably a little of your health. It's statistically probable that you're going to get some positive feelings out of it — the joy of success, satisfaction, appreciation, awareness that you've done something good. But you also get negative feelings — from failures, frustration, negative interactions.
My hiking trips are like that too. My family believes that "I do it for pleasure" — but it's a harmful oversimplification and it only tells me that they even aren't trying to understand me. In fact, it's mostly a necessity, a way of solving specific problems that works for me — halting diabetes-related problems, coping with emotions. Of course there's a positive side to it — good mood, energy to survive another day, something the joy of visiting a new place, seeing something beautiful, finding a solution to a vexatious problem, positive interactions with people. But there are also negative feelings — anger and sadness from failure, stress from problems, negative contacts with people. Sometimes you end up slowly charging your social battery for a whole week, just to have one person destroy it all.
If you think about it, life's something like that. It's mostly a bland effort to survive every following day, sometimes interspersed with positive or negative moments.
#ActuallyAutistic

Surprised to see the best answer on this is from Danny Sauter. None of them explicitly urge a No vote (boo), but Sauter, Sharon Lai, and Moe Jamil say kind of critical things about it, with Sauter being the most strongly critical.
https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/meet-

Meet the District 3 candidates: ‘Do you support Proposition F? Why or why not?’
Up until the November election, Mission Local will ask each candidate one question per week, and candidates will get 100 words to respond.