Brigid

That sounds lovely. Where can we find your books?

I'm getting a bunch of YouTube recs for "how to get into classic literature" or more generally bemoaning the lack of a literary canon and friends, that is so disconcerting. Please, world, do not give us Trad Readers. Haven't we suffered enough?

If you're against ICE when it's being used as intended from a republican admin but not against ICE when it's being used as intended from a democrat admin, then you're not actually pro-immigration. You're just someone who dislikes Trump and doesn't want to think about the humanity of others too hard

I am so tired of ppl living in other countries asking why aren't Americans doing anything.

It’s shit like this that makes me think the GOP doesn’t care about winning elections and they’re just not planning on having them. Because no one who thinks they have to win elections does this.

a young boy in a blue shirt says how is phd going Alt: a young boy in a blue shirt with brown hair is asked by a white woman with a microphone a question & boy smiles rhen covers face & cries. White text at top says “how is phd going?” & at bottom “Great!

I again made my 500 words for #DissertationWriting.

#PhDLife

I am, nonetheless, very much not a happy camper at this moment, quire the fucking opposite.

[shrill screaming resumes]

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

I am simply not fucking okay with yet another liberal plea to sacrifice the lives of trans people on the same day we find the Trump regime caused another one of our sister's death and is blaming us for 42 million people losing SNAP benefits.

Explaining to 2014 me that the gamergate guys somehow came out ascendant and that Brianna Wu is now an influential figure in that faction.

And not me with a BDAG on my lap at 20 past 3 quibbling with the translators over Luke's use of para in v. 14, because I'll be damned if I'm going to tell my auntie's church - in October! - that hyping yourself up for tithing is worse than selling out your own people and then being penitent over it.

Apparently "Resolved, that this 115th Convention of the Diocese of Olympia affirm there is to be no use of Large Language Models in the creation of sermons, prayers, liturgies, or in the offering of pastoral care in the Diocese of Olympia; and be it further" was both not clear enough (enforceable?)

The irony of a professed Christian who deadnames trans people but insists on calling Saul of Tarsus "Paul"

Americans need to reconcile that this is pretty much what the Obama-era drone strikes were. Any time a prior administration abused its power and it was greeted by a shrug because “we’re the good guys” - this is why you shouldn’t do that.

Whomst among us Gen-Xers hasn't?

These are the merely the first set of people on Fifth Avenue that they've decided to shoot.

Finding it very difficult to have a charitable word for tax collectors in a world with ICE snatching people off the streets.

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I get so, SO tired of this.

No, none of this is legal. NONE of it is legal, but what’s becoming INCREASINGLY clear is that IT DOESNT FUCKING MATTER.

What the FUCK does it matter if it’s legal? They’re doing it, and nobody’s stopping it, so WHAT IS THE DISTINCTION? God DAMMIT, y’all.

Mayor Johnson is cooking

Ugh. ⚓️.

Is anyone else not really fussed about gafcon leaving the Communion? They’ve always wanted to claim some ownership over what orthodoxy means, and that’s just not a good way to stay in community together. It’s always been so paternalistic, which I guess has always been the point. Ciao, I guess 🤷‍♀️

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Meme of Gritty with “The Episcopal Church Welcomes You” written on you

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

we renounce Satan

Congrats to the manufacturers of inflatable frog suits on their unexpected windfall.

Had a lovely time at St. Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis yesterday. The liturgy was gorgeous, and the church building is simply breathtaking. I couldn't keep my eyes off of the wooden reredos or the stained glass ⚓

Aaron Boone, if you're feeling guilty about 2003 and you really want to make it up to Boston, go ahead and pull this kid after 100 pitches. You'd be doing them such a solid.

Bluesky is awesome, and I wonder if we were living in more precedented times if I'd be able to hang out here more. As it is, my HR goes up by about 10% after 5 minutes on here, so I have to do this thing very lightly.

Just saying, but Stephen was asked to bus tables and wound up preaching a sermon so hot it got him stoned, so... 🤷‍♀️

Is there a running list of names of the disappeared that churches can be praying for? 🕯️