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Girl same

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Which way, O sinner

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I’d bet money conservatives acting like they’ve never heard of KL had something to say about his Nobel at the time.

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“Last Bulwark” Worth asking: before what? Many of us know the answer. But not enough of us.

submitted 21 days ago • 48 comments

Ah ok, well, glad we know now, I guess.

submitted 30 days ago • 149 comments

Shoutout to the unsung heroes, students eschewing AI and turning in nothing. Losing credit but not dignity 🫡

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I need the Houston forecast to hold. I need snow. My son and I need to make snowballs.

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hey bro are you okay i noticed your leitmotif is playing in minor key and down tempo

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

The boy, angry that I never told him pickles are cucumbers: “You’re supposed to tell me… THE WHOLE WORLD!”

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Gifted the boy his first rosary. Coincided with our children’s Bible reading of the crucifixion, resurrection, Pentecost. He asked how to become a Christian. He’s baptized: I said what’s left is to ask Jesus to live in your heart. He asked, rolled over, fell asleep. ⚓️

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Pleased to report to fellow Amazon haters and Hobbit grievers that War of the Rohirrim sounds, feels, and looks (character animation notwithstanding) like Middle Earth.

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One New Year’s res involves coming to terms with the fact that I have attempted to diversify my wardrobe, have attempted colors and textures, and simply do not enjoy playing with what matches. No intuition for it, endless capacity for doubt. It’s scarecrow Johnny Cash time.

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every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger”

submitted 63 days ago • 607 comments

In the EO B-plot ghost-Luke toils through an aerial tollhouse fraught with phantom Palpatines towards theosis (noetic union with Liam Neeson)

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As I walk through The Valley of the Shadow of Death, I can’t help thinking this was a really bad idea

submitted 71 days ago • 21 comments

The boy (7yo) has been getting sweeter to me, and I think it’s because we’ve figured out the cornerstone of our relationship, which is: he asks me stuff, and I tell him.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Clarence John Laughlin, The Masks Grow to Us, 1942

submitted 77 days ago • 5 comments

I’m raising my son to understand that killing is always wrong, even when unavoidable, even when protecting the innocent. Most will disagree, but I think that’s Christian. Nevertheless: when the rich no longer fear God, can one be forgiven for making them fear something?

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Frankenstein is actually the name of the book.

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I do think Orthodoxy offers something to men, so God bless them. I don’t think priests emphasizing the point bodes well for their spiritual formation. It is not in the secular or religious sense of the word a masculine religion, just rigorous. Why gender rigor?

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kids were screaming because the elf on the shelf didn't move last night and I panicked and said he died

submitted 85 days ago • 11 comments

Book club is a few weeks into Borges and I’d forgotten how much I love “Emma Zunz”, specifically, though of all his stories it’s probably the one about which I have the least to say. It hurts different.

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Compelling claim (I have been comatose since 2016).

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Abbott Elementary S3E1 has the district up in the school’s business. Wife just asked why the teachers seem cold, stressed, aloof. I am currently pulling a baseball bat out of the TV.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

One thing I'm really enjoying about BlueSky so far is it seems to automatically negate the sin nature and depravity of its users, causing them to appear as posting Angels of Light who mere mortals may be tempted to bow down to and worship. You can't get that on X!

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

At 100 followers I will return these books to the library.

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Everything about that Vanity Fair article—organization, tone, all of it—suggests its author feels that by making Britt a muse of his own he can approximate or become Cormac McCarthy.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Book club on Borges has reached his essay on Kafka and Kierkegaard, two authors whom (despite prolonged if pedestrian interest in existential lit and theology) I have less than no interest in ever reading again.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

My friends, I bring you the Inclusive Orthodox starter pack (if you'd like to be added, let me know—to be added you need to affirm the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds w/o crossing your fingers and affirm the full inclusion of women and LGBTQ+ folks in the full life of the church). 🕯️

submitted 102 days ago • 73 comments

Kids just about came to blows over the trolley problem.

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Louise Glück

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I am not here to argue that diehard is a Christmas movie, I am here to argue that the polar express is a horror movie

submitted 104 days ago • 795 comments