Sunflowers: just the thing for a satisfying annual garden. (Protected them from vermin until they’ve germinated.) They grow satisfyingly quickly, and pollinators love them, too!

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

feast on our tax dollars, shithole red states

"My father, an early and prominent computer scientist, passed away more than two years ago. Since then I’ve been trying to make sense of how rapidly the world that helped make him, and in turn the one he helped shape, is unraveling." 1/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

Celebrating Father’s Day at Valley Forge by stage-whispering to Father Rector that a wasp had flown onto the ciborium mid-Consecration and that it needed to be removed before the Cel touched it ⚓️

Happy Pride to the tenor section of all choirs

I mean, I *like* Ascension Day. I just wish there were ways to keep it that don’t dynamite… the only evening this week in which it isn’t pouring… with a 90-minute liturgy.

A little purr floating your way 🐈‍⬛🤍

La Hambina wants to give you a hug.

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

WHITE SMOKE

Young priest! there's no need to feel down there's a Country! That's inside of a town you can Go there! Now ol Frank's underground and you choose a new guy (bom bom bom bom bom) It's fun to vote for a P O P E

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

“Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”

I have in general become way less tolerant of ‘crunchy’ bullshit since ascension of people like RFK jr. to actual power. Sorry but the obnoxious Reddit science and logic guys were right, you should be scorned for believing objectively wrong things about consequential issues.

Dear god let this man cook.

On this National Historical Marker Day, a reminder that the text on historical markers is only as good as the sources cited. Quite a bit of this unofficial marker is, quite frankly, inspired fiction, the product of fishy secondary sources, or faulty memory.

Saw this yesterday, thinking about it a lot

On the one hand, 1700 really is a bit too early for the Great Vigil. On the other hand…

Fulfilled is all that David told In true prophetic song of old, Amidst the nations, God, saith he, Hath reigned and triumphed from the tree. #goodfriday at #valleyforge

“Watch ye, and pray…”

WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

I did not make this and don't know who did, all the same - lmao

Today was the centenary of the Tri-State Tornado. Pray for the souls of the departed.

I’m crying, this is so funny WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

A couple of bonus pictures of St. Paul’s, Troy NY to brighten your Wednesday.

Low-key, a prominent American Evangelical positing this as the Golden Rule makes a lot of sense for what they actually believe.

Visited my undergraduate parish, St Paul’s, Troy NY, this past weekend. Built in 1828 to a Gothick design by Ithiel Town, it was gut-renovated in the 1890s by Tiffany Studios.

Might mess around and do some designs for a Lenten Array set for Valley Forge (though, alas, we’d be unlikely to deploy them right just now)

In surveying the *uggo* part of the church after Mass, I seem to have created a unique variety of cognitohazard.

Translation committees seem to forget that these texts aren't just puzzles to be solved. They are read, yes, but also memorized, adored, shared, and proclaimed. Changing things like "swaddling cloth" to "bands of cloth" or "In the beginning when God created" to "When God began to create" 1/

Obligatory Preacher post here.

burning the palms > what we do with the ashes thereafter (in blatant violation of the Gospel, mind you!)

Kings do well in New York, right George?

I'm beginning to understand now why Dante set "traitor to your country" in the ninth circle of Hell.

worried about 30-50 feral hogs when they should have been worried about one feral Boer

Not to doom on main, but the American mainline is simply not prepared for what happens if a corrupt gov revokes our 501c3 status. 1/

Found a “Litany for Refugees” composed by the late Dean Sayre for the National Cathedral in the early 1950s. Might be worth a tune-up?

In this house we stan Kodachrome.

Sometimes I'll just make thumbnail graphics for YouTube videos that don't exist.

You know what radicalised me? Discovering that there is ONE gun shop in Mexico. One Single Shop. The cartel guns? They're smuggled in from the USA.

JD Vance's bad theology take primarily comes out of a horrendous reading of Augustine and St Thomas (Aquinas)