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Glen’s opining about Eurovision is the reason I started watching Eurovision. (Well, that and my homosexuality.) I always look forward to his annual best-of list.

Eurovision can make you have to say some real Duolingo-ass sentences, like “The Irish woman sang a dance pop hit about a Russian space dog.”

“What’s even more important than optimism is duty: duty to work and stewardship of work and of the world. I take a long view. … How is this gonna resonate ten, 20, 30 years from now? Long after I’m dead? I’m thinking of my work beyond myself.” www.vulture.com/article/sufj...

It is time

BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

My superpower in real life is that no matter the conversation topic I'll eventually find a way to wrap it back to Ronald Reagan being evil

Today is officially the day spring ended and sweaty szn began in Indiana

Yes. Anyone who grew up in any conservative religious context — but especially conservative Christian colleges — is very familiar with the energy behind the current nationwide crackdown.

I know I'm 9 years late to the party, but the UK television show Crashing? Really great. Peak mid-aughts bisexual chaos courtesy of Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Jonathan Bailey plays his best type of character, hot asshole who's actually a big softie. Plus it's only six 30-minute episodes.

Every other day I find out that someone I went to (Christian) college with is a right winger and on all the other days I find out someone else I went to college with is gay

Learning about journalism in the 70s-80s feels like learning about an alien planet. Like, what do you MEAN the LA Times of all places had a full-time reporter dedicated to covering one rebel group in Nicaragua?

Shout out to whoever invented those single-serve containers of shelf-stable half-and-half. Really doing the Lord's work for people who want to drink tea at their desk (me)

If anyone at HBO is listening: I would watch a full series run of Baby Billy’s Bible Bonkers

One thing about me is that I am gonna buy the mall pretzel. Mall. Airport. Ballpark. Wherever those delicious twists and their artificial butter are, I’ll be there

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

FUN BEING IN YOUR THIRTIES FACT: your bald spot can get a “sunburn” from your being seated too close to a propane patio heater. No particular reason I know this.

As we flew into Chicago, the Italian child sitting next to me on this plane turned to their mother and said “This is Chicago? Why is everything square? The roads, the houses…“

"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]