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PhD candidate & book historian studying text, memory, & heritage @Rutgers. 🌈. Interests include Chinese history, East Asian languages, religious and theological book & print culture. Episcopal layman. Ritualist “in the modern sense of the word.”
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Ps. 121:2, "My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth."

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this is, frankly, terminal, metastatic Reaganism: all of these types came of age in the 80s, and even the more moderate Republicans of the aughts were deeply suspicious of government funding anything because they all finished college in the 70s and 80s and got dosed with supply-side economics

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but my Brothers? Righteous.

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My light orchestra? Electric.

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had to endure Fox News broadcasting nonsense into the YMCA gym locker room today, came close to ruining my entire day

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Still trying to wrap my head fully around Thai’s positional vowel structure, which should feel as intuitive as Hangul - ป bpor bplaa and ู sara uu becomes ปู bpuu, crab, which is easy, but when the vowel comes before the consonant like in เนื้อ my brain goes blank

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I would be holding all my virtual meetings in the digital reconstruction of the lost Buraku-in of the 8th Heian Imperial palace. Why not?

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if journalism is supposed to be one of the institutions that safeguards a free society then journalists should be opponents of autocratic takeovers, brian.

submitted 16 days ago • 193 comments

a 21st century Roland Freisler in the making

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

If I found out my priests were using AI to do pastoral care or write sermons I would raise it with the wardens and even consider changing churches, that's how much I hate the idea of using AI in a church setting.

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Happy v-day from the legend himself

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Got to do some fun research at the Grolier Club Library yesterday - fun exhibits on Twain and “Imaginary Books” for the public too!

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what sort of feelings does an actor have when they get a role in a workplace harassment training series?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

these are fundamentally just not serious people

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Pope Francis 🤝 Mozi

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"submit to Rome - wait wait no not like that!"

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阿本 coming out of the closet and almost immediately post thirst traps in his forties is, frankly, inspiring

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submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

My pronouns are 本/王

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Things suck but this $2 thrift find from the Heavenly Cooks of All Saints Episcopal Church in Sedgefield, NC is good. Enjoy their Simnel Cake recipe and guidance on what you need to feed 25! ⚓️

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Could someone explain what this means? I’m not seeing it being reported anywhere in the news. about.usps.com/newsroom/ser...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Sharing this from Rt. Rev. Jonathan H. Folts, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota. “One of our own priests was targeted at his home—so let no one say, ‘it can’t happen here.’ It can. It has. It is. And rest assured, we will not remain silent or passive in responding.” My heart aches.

submitted 28 days ago • 107 comments

I'm leading the session on Tommy from Aquino this Sunday - come join us at 1 E. 29th Street in Manhattan!

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