One thing I’ll say for the Belgians is that at least they know how to count above 60 like normal people.

I am shocked that one of the most corrupt politicians in history and one of the most corrupt international organizations in history have colluded to be corrupt together.

England expects that every man will do his duty 🦁🦁🦁

This is what I have to look forward to this evening 🤣

45 years ago today, also on a Friday #LestWeForget

My working definition of “Protestant” has always been “Western Christian independent of the Papacy” so I’m pleased to welcome the Society of St. Pius X into the Protestant fold 🤗 ⚓️

It was fun to watch Spain and Austria compete over something besides who had the most inbred Habsburgs - another contest that Spain won! 🇪🇸 #WorldCup

They keep trying so hard to make “FIFA World Cup” happen - but we all just want to watch football without being constantly reminded of the fantastically corrupt syndicate that manages it. It’s just the “World Cup.” #WorldCup

Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 is currently playing Norway 🇳🇴 In another universe, Ireland 🇮🇪 is playing Iceland 🇮🇸

As both Democrats and Republicans are losing their shot over the stupid term “democratic socialism,” I propose an alternative slogan that gets the main idea across without confusing connotations: “BE LIKE DENMARK!”

Awkward that both the Office and Eucharist Gospels feature sons at enmity with fathers today 😬 ⚓️

“Just remember that after Christ was crucified on the cross, and all his men had gone home, it was women who stayed with him to the bitter end, and it was women who first heralded the news of his resurrection - so just put that in your pulpit and smoke it.” Designing Women S2 E20 ⚓️

Who else sang the Stanford/Williams marathon today? ⚓️

Not feeling Pentecost today. I’ve been burned out at my parish for years. All of my friends have drifted away and now the rector I love is leaving for good for the literal opposite point on the globe. I’m just so tired. ⚓️

499 years ago, 189 Swiss Guards fought off mutinous soldiers of Emperor Charles V to save the Pope; 147 of them died. They’re remembered in a total banger by Sabaton. The sack of Rome made the Pope wary of pissing off the Emperor again, such as giving an annulment to his aunt’s English husband… ⚓️

I like serving at Requiems because they are a kindness that cannot be repaid in this life. But also, they are an acknowledgment and a defiance of death. A Requiem Mass is basically middle finger to the Reaper ⚓️

On this feast of St Philip and James, the latter apostle is mentioned in TEC’s Office and Eucharist lectionaries together a total of exactly zero times! The less said about James the Less the better, I guess! ⚓️

Travelers cross a forbidden threshhold. They meet incomprehensible amoral beings who deceive and seduce them into pleasure and ritual that blur the lines of identity and consent. They are returned to the world irrevocably changed: Rocky Horror is a modern version of an encounter with the Fae.

I’m not going to say that I butchered the plainchant this evening. I’ll just say that I inadvertently invented a psalm tone that has never before existed in all of Christendom! ⚓️

Interesting that the most traction I’ve ever gotten on this site was a gym selfie that apparently revealed more about my anatomy than I intended. That’s what I use X for!

At my local pub a few months ago, I introduced myself to a guy who misheard “Daniel” because there was a lot of noise and he thought I said “Janet.” Now, every time I see him he calls me “Janet.” At least no one calls out “Slut!” Yet 😉

We support the incoming PM of Hungary for… reasons

This pin was gifted to us by the most recent Clerk of His Majesty’s Chapel Royal ⚓️

Magyar has won in Magyarország 🇭🇺 🎉

Low Sunday is offers us the rare opportunity simply to sit in the nave. I didn’t #touchpews because technically we don’t have pews ⚓️

Chess is something I feel like I’m supposed to enjoy as a pretentious former gifted kid, but I’m just not good at it. I know how the pieces move, but the strategy is just too abstract for me. Also, I’m only good for one or maybe two power ballads, MAX.

How in this Year of God’s Wrath Two Thousand and Twenty-six are people STILL doing the Side A/Side B thing? ⚓️

It was 14 years ago today, Easter Sunday in 2012, that I attended an Episcopal church for the first time. Somehow they have not yet been able to get rid of me 😉 ⚓️

📅 Mark your calendars: 29 April will be the 10th anniversary of the Beech Marten Incident at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. I wonder how the folks in the timeline we shunted off from are doing.

People have been looking at the moon for as long as we’ve been people, so it’s amazing that we’re now seeing parts of it that no other people before us ever did. Except maybe some abductees 👽

Jesus like us went from womb to tomb. Unlike us, he did not go from sperm to worm 😉 ⚓️

It’s impossible for me to be sad in the Triduum. For me, it’s the destruction of the Death Star, the fall of Barad-Dûr, the charge of the Winged Hussars, and D-Day all rolled into one and multiplied by infinity. ⚓️

Is it “fire - Messi-er” or “fi-uh - Messiah?” 🤔 ⚓️

“She’s an Arminian, Blanche.” “Why”s that funny?” “You’re not surprised?” “Of course not. I’ve never met any personally, but isn’t Cher one?” “Not Armenian, Blanche! ARMINIAN!” 😜 ⚓️

I don’t like this reboot of #battlestargalactica

Thank God Justin took the fish mitre with him ⚓️

The Society in a nutshell: “Women can receive and confer cooties, but not Holy Orders.”

We don’t talk about anything after God Emperor, and there are NO PREQUELS.

Given that Dune Messiah actually prominently features a cryptic dwarf, that should have been the book for David Lynch to adapt.

My only comment on this year’s Oscars is that they should have cast Anne Hathaway in Hamnet.

Reza Pahlavi would be better than the Islamic Republic, but that’s not really saying much.

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

This is an example of why people believe in stuff like the Mandela Effect: Despite being a reasonably well-informed man who was an adult aware of current events during the debacle of the Global War on Terror, I do not remember learning the phrase “dignified transfer” until the other day.

When I’m feeling down, I’ll pour myself a glass of wine and watch the first 20 minutes of episode 10 of season 6 of Game of Thrones ⛪️ 🔥 🍷

I’m working on my resumé, but I’m not sure how to frame it for my dream job of “Younger son of a Marquess.”

Who knows not Love, let him assay, And taste that juice, which on the crosse a pike Did set again abroach; then let him say If ever he did taste the like. Love in that liquor sweet and most divine, Which my God feels as bloud; but I, as wine ⚓️

I do not need to see anything more about the USA men’s hockey team unless and until they go full Heated Rivalry.

If I were Emperor of the Gays, I would outlaw Grindr and all its offspring and force men to actually meet somewhere in person to find someone to hook up with.