Next thing you know they’ll put Episcopal Church and Coexist stickers on, and drive around with a big dog in the front seat.

*throws a copy of City of God at the screen*

YOUR FATHER WHO SEES IN SECRET 💥🔥☄️

Girl why is your hinge sounding like something off of LinkedIn

So I did the noon Ash Wednesday service and then started feeling TERRIBLE. Gonna sit out the 7 PM service, which is just so frustrating to me. Would like to be 100 percent better now, pls.

I see that today's main character dirty deleted.

Can you guess the author without google? It’s not who you expect!

2026 basically

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

Setting this reminder was perhaps my most brilliant move ever

I’m sure this is a fine podcast but, 🧼 📦, I hate that so much of the mainline is allergic to the idea of giving something up for Lent. We don’t need to be clever or subversive or “read against the grain” always! It’s actually good to give things up and practice discipline! ⚓️

i had a cold brew coffee before the pancake supper because I was tired and needed to be animated and charming. So of course now I’m just twitching and posting all night. I’m probably going to be making the same mistake until mandatory retirement.

Concelebrating Shrove Tuesday and Lunar New Year (scallion pancakes)

It’s Fasnacht Day in Lancaster County, PA. Fasnachts in the morning and pancakes tonight. ⚓️

TIL that before Gov. Abigail Spanberger joined the CIA, she was a Postal Inspector, which I suspect is actually where her impeccable energy comes from. Postal Inspectors are apex predators.

not often but I think about baked ziti once a week

revive the all worst takes of the past year right before everyone logs off for lent

Bay Area friends, my husband is doing a Lecture on Tap next month if it’s of interest! www.eventbrite.com/e/lectures-o...

anchovies are false herrings

as I mentioned earlier today...

This is a fascinating look at an often-unexplored part of church history. Thank you @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social !

“unapologetic in our heritage“ is monstrous grammar to go with the monstrous content

crying aloud: it's not just for inhabitants of zion anymore

this is a straightforward recipe for legal lynching, just like it was the last time these laws existed in the South

This is the cat who notably waged public war on Larry and entered Number 10 to kill him. The police put him out.

Pepperdine is, uh, not exactly a fortress of Woke.

twist at the end: the students who pay for their decision with the ultimate sacrifice are the ones who stay and finish their PhD program

I finished in 5 years but I'd still consider it. (Also I was a baby priest in grad school, so I might have had some extra leverage over a haunted house, possibly.)

[flirting] *you're

Sorry, just gonna listen to this on repeat and sob. m.youtube.com/watch?v=jaWD...

Jersey Dudes Rock.

may have just scolded the lady next to me on this flight for leaving her trash in the seat right before we deplaned. “i don’t think you should leave your trash.” “who cares what you think” [observes she has a copy of the new york times in her hands]

Not now, eighteenth century cold virus!

NIMBY, but make it antifascist

"i want to return to the period before the enlightement" no you don't, you want mississippi with medieval buildings

Annual reminder if God forbid you are thinking about it, giving up coffee for Lent is presuming to choose a penance for everyone around you.

From Meanwhile in Philly cc: @bridgetemob.bsky.social

Live your life in such a way that you don’t fear the people you’re paid to serve

I will publish a book arguing this is true. debate will rage in the lrb and paris review about what I mean ("he challenges us to imagine a world animated by a different understanding of reality", "redraws boundaries marking modernity"). I will write in to say it was like they were going to the shops

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

American healthcare is such a racket

it‘s true, come hang out with me!

When I was an undergrad, the bathrooms in the Physics building were labeled “Men” and “Maids.” Oh and there was a separate “Faculty” bathroom that was obviously also a men’s room. This was in 1990 BTW

it me

99 Luftballoons... 🎵

cool that DoD and FAA are beefing by proxy through anonymous statements in news reports, I am sure that's great for aviation safety

From more than a decade of experience as a parish priest I can tell you that people act out in toxic ways precisely when they feel most powerless, and that is what’s happening on this website.