So just to be clear, every member of our military has to waste work hours doing PT every day, whether their job is physically strenuous or not, because Trump didn't like his pew pew parade? Did I get that right?

The rapture happened. You just suck.

For when you need an analogy between a critical hypothesis on the the gospels and a basic theorem from calculus (which has to happen at least twice a week): jeftripp.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/q...

What does Odysseus mean by time "ticking" thousands of years before mechanical clocks exactly? "The time display on my phone is accelerating rapidly, Telemachus!" #christophernolan #odyssey

Guys, just let Trump pretend he did a war thing. Then we don't need a super dumb war because his bone spurs are aching.

The SP had to make exceptions for other forms of gender-affirming care because most of such care on minors, including hormone therapy and surgeries, is for cis boys, not for trans kids.

Every time I start Disney+, I'm reminded of a beat up Ford Fiesta we had to pump the gas and roll a bit to get going.

Update on automated source detected: 98% of verses in John and Romans assigned accurately, with most of the rest HB citations or transitional verses. Next step: a mix of John and Matthew

Republicans are testing the waters on challenging Trump with this plane deal. We should reward them, not punish them. As we call to tell them their budget sucks, we should compliment them if they've openly questioned this corruption

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

It's not just that they're wrong on the science. Imagine hating autistic kids so much that if there's even a 1 in billion chance vaccines cause autism, it's worth killing some children. Anti-vax is a new Molech.

Still noodling with a sorce-detection algorithm using a big mix of John and Romans as a test run. Looking good, I think. #bible #biblesky

Softballing algorithmic source detection by mixing Romans and GJohn. So far 100% success, and John 8 & 14 the most Johnish/least Pauline, Rom 13 & 16 most Pauline / least Johnny (also, I'm trying to avoid "Johannine").

The Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting brings 10,000 scholars together. International members are afraid to travel to the US, and a Bible-study group is gathering information on how best to keep its members out of inaccessible detention centers. This is where we are. #academicsky

Who tf is #morganwallen and why does he get invited to #SNL every two weeks just to be a dick?

So, uh, who's with me going on strike from paying federal taxes this year since I don't want to fund a fascist administration and it doesn't want to fund auditors?

At the end of the day, Trump and Musk's fascist tactics can be broken into two categories: bogeymen and Trojan horses. Learn how to recognize them so we can fight back against them at The Big Picture.

Phrases like, "As we discussed in a forthcoming article" are why no one likes academics. #academicsky

Just so we're clear, T complaining about protests on college campuses is a (hypocritical, anti-free speech) pretext to defend higher ed in general.

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Again, thought it was a good time to return to this talk as attacks on non-binary people increase. Here i discuss non-binary elements in the depiction of God in the Hebrew Bible. #Bible #transrights Part 2/3 m.youtube.com/watch?v=88pe...

With some self-identified Christians getting ballsy attacking trans people, I thought it might be worth returning to this talk on how people understood gender in the biblical world #transrights #Bible Part 1/3 m.youtube.com/watch?v=S2aw...

I beg of Republicans, read a book.

Noodling around with a machine-learning technique to detect sources in texts using a mix of John 1-5 and Romans 1-3. It was able to separate John 1-2, 4-5 as a distinct cluster - and it's like come back with the cool kids, John 3 Anyway, baby steps

“No that’s not acceptable, but I didn’t see it,” Sen. Tuberville told ABC about violent Jan. 6 rioters after they were pardoned. “I don’t believe it because I didn’t see it. Now, if I see it, I would believe it, but I didn’t see in that video.” I mean, his name is Tommy (John 20)

On Trump's satanic attack on a Christian daring to ask for mercy and supporting that attack with lies about the poor and needy: m.youtube.com/watch?v=IB8P...

THE BIBLE doesn't exist. There are more than half a dozen BibleS read today by millions of Jewish and Christian readers each. Not different versions. Different content. To talk about "the Bible" is already in some sense to take a sectarian side.

Correlation of Matthew's and Luke's sequencing of Markan elements vs the sequencing of double tradition material, often identified with a lost source called Q.

I once wanted to open a chapter on sayings in John about Jesus's various advents with something snappy. I wrote: Jesus does a lot of coming in John--he has come, he does come, and he will come again. I still regret deleting it.

Thanks to Neotestamentica for publishing my follow-up article on arguments from order applied to the question of whether the Gospels of Matthew and Luke used a sayings source, Q! muse.jhu.edu/article/947414

A friend saw this footnote in a draft of a paper I'm writing and said, matter-of-factly, "This is why you're not smiling."