#TheMoreYouKnow M*A*S*H s05e06 ("The Nurses") passes the Bechdel test. It first aired on October 19, 1976.

Rubio and Vance are both somehow simultaneously the front runners AND the candidates least likely to be elected

lol it only took @newyorker.com a decade to figure it out

A team of academics looked into the environmental & climate claims of the meat & dairy industry from 2021-2024, to try to determine what percentage of those claims qualified as "greenwashing." The good news: it wasn't 100%! The bad news: it was, uh, 98%.

with zero sarcasm this is good government and we should do this immediately

Two things can be true: Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

Weird Christian friends: What’s a good *ecumenical* resource for officiating weddings? Looking for something that approaches the topic similarly to how Lynch & Long’s ‘The Good Funeral’ approaches funerals. ⚓️

Reading Return of the King, and honestly, Denethor gazing into a palantir until it drives him to despair and madness is an eerily timely metaphor.

ain’t it the truth folks

Weird Christian friends: What’s a good *ecumenical* resource for officiating weddings? Looking for something that approaches the topic similarly to how Lynch & Long’s ‘The Good Funeral’ approaches funerals. ⚓️

I’m so unbelievably proud to be part of this unprecedented collection of essays. What an honor it is to play even the smallest part in helping to shift the prevailing winds of a discipline! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Really, why shouldn’t we appropriate this as an icon?

When 900 years old *you* reach, look as good you’ll not, hm?

I keep getting Liven ads on YouTube that feature the exact same script, the same audio, and the same general concept (a man on a stage participating in some kind of panel discussion), but with different actors speaking the same audio lines.

Today I learned about this guy #TIL

My general sense is that people resort to quibbling over terminology when they lack the will or the power to enact real change. I may not be willing or able to end homelessness, but at least I can sneer with superiority at folks who say “homeless people” instead of “people experiencing homelessness”

Hell yeah, dude

I mean, this is obviously going to be the topic of a major encyclical in the very near future, right? Probably not going to have to wait long for a more in-depth treatment

It's harder to measure but I feel like RFK Jnr shutting down funding for MRNA research is actually up there with DOGE cuts and this latest Iranian war as a contender for Most Evil Things Trump II has done. Accounted properly, this regime is really wracking up 20th-century-dictator kill counts imo.

This is single handedly the funniest scene from any Star Trek

My problem is that I lack the imagination to roleplay as anything other than a lawful good. No matter how crazy of an idea that I start with when I build a character, they always end up as a paladin. Every single time.

Oh come on @theguardian.com, no need to over analyze this. It's about one thing: the Pope criticized him. There's nothing deeper or religious about it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

April 18, 193 CE: In Roman Egypt, a farmer named Melas writes a letter to a centurion named Ammonios Paternos about being assaulted by a cousin, Phanesis, while attempting to load χόρτος (hay) in a family plot (P. Mich. 3 175) He wanted the centurion to *cough* bale him out. papyri.info/hgv/11981

It’s hard to know how to talk about this stuff, but the gap between the Bible training you get in a top MDiv program and what you’d need for general mastery of the field is considerably wider than the gap between what you might have as a lay-trained pastor and an MDiv graduate.

Pope: [moral critique of illegal war] President: I am Jesus. Thr pope is gay Media: they are feuding😳

Shield the joyous.

Y’all watch tv in hotels? I usually sleep

Failure to compile a list of the disappeared combined with tribunals in addition to reparations will constitute a failure of whatever comes after this administration, mark my words.

Love seeing religion represented in video games, especially with good humor

This is what a cultural cocktail of religio-political zealotry and basic biblical illiteracy gets you

It’s okay, if you just hit “Try again” three times, spin around in a circle, throw some salt over your shoulder, and spit on the ground twice, this app works just fine

Massive Attack. And Tom Waits. I mean just holy shit y'all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVTV...

I wonder how it feels to be so wrong on doctrine that multiple authorities within the Church clarify exactly how and where you’re wrong Not wonder in an “I’d like to experience that feeling” way though

This is a really thoughtful critique that sums up a lot of my own feelings about the trajectory of From Software’s game design. Elden Ring was a lot of fun, but for me their games have gotten progressively less enjoyable since their first Dark Souls entry youtu.be/8dlt7THiE08?...

The crazy thing about eating beef is that you can just…not do that

I don’t think eating meat is going to look great to our great great grandchildren but I especially don’t think eating beef is going to look great to same. also this is the true third rail of the culture war and any progressivism that pushes for it is DOA for the foreseeable future

For all that some people fret about church attendance declining, I'm not sure they realize that organizational membership/affiliation in general has been declining.

In 2012 my wife and I went to Israel with a tour group. One of the other travelers got separated from the group and was missing for three days. We were informed that his body had been discovered just as we were about to enter the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans. After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company. Now, the states have won.

we just really don't know much and I'd like us to act with that humility more often

shall be cast into the lake of fire

I actually wrote about this for Review & Expositor back when I was in seminary. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

No matter how insufferable you might be, at least you didn’t godsplain to the pope

This is something I struggled with when I was going through the ordination discernment process in the Episcopal Church. Not that I’m a mouthy arrogant white dude (I already knew that part), but that the small-e episcopal system is an authoritarian power structure that resists input from the laity

Years ago I was skeptical of the idea of rape culture. But then we elected a rapist and the billionaire Epstein people all rape and then a lot of members of Congress rape too and I think perhaps it's a culture of rape.

Babe wake up, a new music video by The Beths just dropped youtu.be/qrQ65x1D8mE?...

Now that I am Undead, I have come to this great land, the birthplace of Lord Gwyn, to seek my very own sun!

I’ve seen something similar to this with a lot of my irl friends, most of whom would describe themselves as liberal: Recycling goes to the garbage dump anyway, so we might as well not do it. EVs are just as bad for the environment as the oil industry, so we might as well not drive them. Etc, etc

Just watched a glowing video review of this game in which you play a new dad whose main weapon is…your kid store.steampowered.com/app/524250/D...