@bubbanoze
IT admin & academic adjacent. Fishing, humanities, academic study of religion, cats, technology, tacos, Alabama/SEC football, photography. Takes stuff apart, puts it back together. Proliferates entities beyond necessity.
Feel like this reality -- tremendous Trump support among contemporary churchachrist / #churchofchrist, is not more candidly acknowledged by some. @rns.org @yonat.bsky.social #AmericanReligion #ReligionNews #ChurchesOfChrist
Lots of questions on the research and data. But
Burge has a Substack with lots of material on American Xy & demographics:
www.graphsaboutreligion.com
Ryan Burge's FB post on the percentage of support for Trump by majority-white American Christian denominations. Churches of Christ weigh in at 73%.
Ryan Burge's FB post on the percentage of support for Trump by majority-white American Christian denominations. Churches of Christ weigh in at 73%. @ryanburge.bsky.social
#churchofchrist #churchachrist #restorationmovement
"Schrödinger’s War."
@sundaedivine.lol
#AI #Sycophancy
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight? [...]
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait till their judgment day comes, yeah
I should add he's in no danger. He loves the bags until he thinks they're attacking him and then he doesn't understand how to get out of them. And then there's all kinds of drama while he runs around the house trying to rid himself of the bag that's clinging to him.
Orange cat with the handle of a bag around his neck. Typically suggests he'll soon panic and frantically run around the house trying to rid himself of said bag.
This will not end well for Sunny:
@ibogost.com Ian -- what camera are you using now for your computer-based video?
Assisting with a video camera upgrade -- looking beyond consumer webcams. Hardware recommended: Sony ZV-E10 w/Sigma 16mm f/1.4. Somewhat pricey. Is this overkill? Seeking professional-quality, portrait-grade Bokeh/depth of field, etc. Thoughts? #webcam #streaming #videography #YouTube
Writing it thinking. Pass it on.
#writingisthinking #ai #writing #humanities
our book is about systems of power—& especially religion
we say repeatedly that religion is what people do
the good & bad & everything
enough white Christian Americans are doing fascism that that is the whole game now
so study up
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757650...
Entire thread by @ronanfarrow.bsky.social is worth reading.
"AI systems are built to function in ways that degrade and are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions... In short, current AI systems are a death sentence for civic institutions, and we should treat them as such."
Hartzog, Woodrow, and Jessica Silbey. “How AI Destroys Institutions.” UC Law Journal 77 (January 2026). scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scho....
"[T]heir theory of power is that they have it all and no one else matters, which is a stupid theory of power. Political power is relational; it's in the ability to get and keep support, alliances, connections, to be at the heart of the kind of systems... they keep destroying." #RebeccaSolnit
One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
"Epstein won favor and friendships by acting as a kind of superconcierge. | His transactional amorality actually seemed to add to his appeal to people who were convinced that the rules didn’t apply to them." #epstein #epsteinfiles @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Addendum: "If the masked agents keep their identities secret, they are secret police."
"Analogies are arguments." And “a hit dog will holler.” @lollardfish.bsky.social on comparing what's happening in Minnesota to the Holocaust and Nazi Germany.
Study history.
Every act of state brutality you tolerate when it’s used against “the others” will eventually be used against you.
Once violence is normalized, the circle of “others” keeps widening.
No matter what—you’ll find yourself inside it, in time.
Please share. 💔
"Where's the gun?"
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."
Post See new posts Conversation Ted Cruz @tedcruz Violence is always unacceptable. Even when passions run high. Anyone engaged in violence—especially against law enforcement—should be fully prosecuted. God bless the Capitol Police and the honorable men & women of law enforcement who show great courage keeping all of us safe. 11:47 AM · Jan 6, 2021
Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan Stop the violence. Support Capitol Police. 12:02 PM · Jan 6, 2021
Graham said, “Count me out. Enough is enough.” Graham called Biden the “legitimate president of the United States,” and told colleagues definitively that “it is over” and the Biden-Harris administration would begin on January 20th. Earlier Wednesday, supporters of Trump breached the U.S. Capitol, forcing a lockdown of the lawmakers and staff inside. Trump has claimed widespread voter fraud to explain away his defeat to President-elect Joe Biden, though election officials have said there wasn’t any. Graham said that “if you’re a conservative,” the idea that Vice President Mike Pence could reverse the results of the election, as President Donald Trump had urged him to do, was “the most offensive concept in the world.”
“There’s no question — none — that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. No question about it. The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president,” McConnell said. “The leader of the free world cannot spend weeks thundering that shadowy forces are stealing our country and then feign surprise when people believe him and do reckless things.”
I know this feels impossible now, but I swear, on January 6 itself, there was a pretty broad bipartisan consensus that storming the Capitol to find and kill lawmakers was bad, and that Trump was responsible for inciting his followers to try it
