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#SciFi

https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/03/06/the-diversity-principle-tracking-the-long-history-of-a-powerful-idea/

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"The #diversity principle holds that when you bring together #people with different #backgrounds and #experiences, including people of different #ages, of different #religions, of different #races and #ethnicities and #genders, when you include people with #disabilities, when you include people who are perennially #outsiders and make them all part of a #group they will be better problem-solvers."

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A quotation from James Randi

The first thing a cult does is tell you everyone else is lying.

James Randi (1928-2020) Canadian-American stage magician ("The Amazing Randi") and scientific skeptic. [b. Randall James Hamilton Zwinge]
(Attributed)

More about this quote: wist.info/randi-james/82442/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jamesrandi #cult #divinetruth #mistrust #onetrueway #others #outsiders #truebelievers #trust #usvsthem

The uneasiness of small town narratives in unfamiliar landscapes

"But there are negative consequences to this construction of the detective as outsider when the outback setting is presented as something unfamiliar, something to be feared. These arise from the origins of Australian Gothic, which scholars have long recognised as an expression of settler-colonial anxiety about the violent dispossession of the country’s Indigenous people."
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https://theconversation.com/why-jane-harpers-outback-noir-novels-make-for-comfortable-and-uncomfortable-reading-266228
#unsettling #SettlerSociety #SettlerColonialAnxiety #SettlerGothic #HauntedSpaces #noir #unease #anxiety #WillfulIgnorance #comfort #landscape #outsiders #narrative #HeteroglossicSpaceMaking #culture

📌La política de los «outsiders»
https://carabanchel.net/la-politica-de-los-outsiders/
#Carabanchel #Madrid #antisistemas #discursoradical #outsiders

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/28/kent-asylum-seekers-reform-napier-barracks. "More than anywhere else I have been, #Kent is full of symbols of how #politics & #policy are being reshaped by the West’s growing hostility to #outsiders."

𝐀ctrice 𝐝𝐮 𝐉our

𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐞
Actrice Américaine

@dianelaneofficial c'est plus de 𝟓𝟎 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬

*Rusty James de Francis Ford Coppola en 1983
*Chaplin de Richard Attenborough en 1992
*En pleine tempête de Wolfgang Petersen en 2000
*Nos nuits à Rodanthe de George C. Wolfe en 2008
*Anniversary de Jan Komasa en 2024

#DianeLane #ActriceDuJour #actress #Outsiders #RustyJames #Chaplin #EnPleineTempête #cinema #DaltonTrumbo #StreetsOfFire
#cinegenres

𝐅ilmographie 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐞 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHzx0RyK48

New Artist announced for Indian Spirit Festival 2025: 🔥 Outsiders 🔥

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#Indian_Spirit_Festival_2025 #Outsiders #fyre_festivals #livemusic #youtube #spotify #music #musicfestivals #playlist #tickets #announcement

Noting Vance's meeting with Francis just before Francis died, Ali says,

"The contrast between the men and their understanding of Christianity could not be clearer.

In his last sermon delivered on Easter, Pope Francis recognized the humanity of Palestinians and called for a ceasefire."

#PopeFrancis #Trump #Vance #Palestinians #Gaza #immigrants #outsiders #humanity
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Wajahat Ali notes that, as a Muslim, he first read the bible and learned about Jesus, a major prophet of Islam, in the Jesuit high school he attended in the Bay Area. The Jesus his Jesuit education presented to him embodied agape, selfless love for others, and called his followers to “faith through service,” specifically for the most marginalized among us.

This is the lens through which Ali views Pope Francis.

#PopeFrancis #immigrants #outsiders #humanity
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/pope-francis-a-contrast-to-the-false

"This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed."

#PopeFrancis #capitalism #economy #outsiders #humanity
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And he did not tolerate them in the years that followed, as figures even crueler than Ryan took the stage in the US and around the world.

'Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world,' wrote the then-new pope in his manifesto."

#PopeFrancis #capitalism #economy #outsiders #humanity
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"What made Pope Francis’s contribution to the global dialogue about the economy so significant was his explicit rejection of the basic underpinnings of the broken economic models that have created the current crisis. He did not tolerate ideas and approaches that in 2013 were promoted by fiscal fabulists like House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan and conservative leaders in Europe."

~ John Nichols

#PopeFrancis #capitalism #economy #outsiders #humanity
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pope-francis-dead-obituary-economic-justice/

"Migrants, Gaza, the climate. He was much more than these three issues, of course, but his moral authority demanded caring attention to them, at a time when so-called leaders — such as the person who now inhabits the White House — would rather deploy brutality.

Pope Francis, RIP."

~ Robert Reich

#PopeFrancis #immigrants #Gaza #climate #outsiders #humanity
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-conscience-of-the-world

“Francis fiercely rebuked the ‘globalization of indifference’ and the ‘idolatry’ of money. He explicitly condemned ‘trickle down’ economics as based on ‘a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.’”

~ E.J. Dionne

#PopeFrancis #immigrants #capitalism #outsiders #humanity
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https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/tributes-to-pope-francis

"Francis took the unprecedented step of writing a public letter condemning Vice President J.D. Vance, a Catholic, for stirring 'narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters.'”

#PopeFrancis #Trump #Vance #immigrants #outsiders #humanity
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"It may sound like a minor bit of trivia—the first non-European pope since the 8th century, and the first pope from outside of Europe or the Mediterranean—but Francis’ outsider identity shifted, in a way, how the entire Catholic Church came to see itself."

~ Molly Olmstead

#PopeFrancis #outsiders #humanity
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https://slate.com/life/2025/04/pope-francis-death-catholic-church-vatican-conclave-cardinals.html

“'How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants,' he said in his Easter address, right after meeting with Vance."

~ Robyn Pennacchia

#PopeFrancis #Trump #Vance #immigrants #outsiders #humanity
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/best-pope-ever-has-final-moments

"The outsider from Buenos Aires used his power and charisma effectively, in order to shape a more outwards-facing, generous-spirited and socially-engaged church. We will now find out how durable that influence will be."

~ Julian Coman

#PopeFrancis #outsiders #humanity
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/pope-francis-outsider-whose-reforming-mission-made-him-an-ally-of-progressives

"Pope Francis is rescuing the faith from those who hunker down in gilded cathedrals and wield doctrine like a sword. The edifice of fortress Catholicism — in which progressive Catholics, gay Catholics, Catholic women and others who love the Church, but often feel marginalized by the hierarchy — is starting to crumble."

~ John Gehring quoted by Rock Ronald Rozario

#PopeFrancis #outsiders #humanity
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https://www.ucanews.com/news/pope-francis-the-reformist-extraordinaire/107966

Snyder remembers this as a symbolic enactment on Francis' part, a deliberate choice to declare a message to the whole group. He concludes,

"Such symbols matter, because in them we can glimpse something higher through something human, something that remains even as the memory of white garments and golden artifice fades."

#PopeFrancis #outsiders #humanity
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Remembering Pope Francis, Timothy Snyder recalls a day in January 2018 when he was invited to a gathering with Francis at St. Sophia Ukranian Greek Catholic church in Rome. What struck him then was that Francis made the rest of those gathered in the church wait to meet him before he first went and greeted a group of disabled persons, one by one:

#PopeFrancis #outsiders #humanity
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"In one of his final public appearances leading the stations of the cross on Good Friday, Francis made clear his disdain for the leaders and cultures that refuse to lend a helping hand to society’s most vulnerable.

'Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers,' he said. 'Theirs is the construction site of Hell.'”

#PopeFrancis #Trump #Vance #immigrants #outsiders #humanity #Gaza
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"Two days before he passed, he met with Vice President JD Vance—a meeting that until the last minute seemed unlikley not just because of the Pope’s poor health but because of his clear discomfort with the Trump administration’s agenda."

#PopeFrancis #Trump #Vance #immigrants #outsiders #humanity #Gaza
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"It’s the context in which his passing happened that makes it feel far more profound. Pope Francis’s compassion for immigrants came as governments across the world (and now most forcefully in the United States) have turned against them. His calls for ending war (indeed, his last public plea was to stop the violence in Gaza) came as regional conflicts have broken out with regularity."

~ Joe Perticone

#PopeFrancis #immigrants #outsiders #humanity #Gaza
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/a-pope-who-preached-decency-in-indecent-times-francis