@keakealani.bsky.social appreciate you! miss your excellent thoughts on the subreddit but totally respect taking a break. your words were important to me joining up a year and a half ago and now i have a sense of family and community i had never experienced before. thank you

ISO feel-good/not-too-gritty #books or #audiobooks (audio preferred, available through library would be a bonus). Any recommendations?

Having been forced to use Microsoft products, the one thing I’ll never get over is the lack of a shortcut for copy-pasting just styles (not text itself). This seems so basic in 2025. Why does it not exist??

One of our “useful splurges” is having an auto hot water dispenser that just keeps water hot throughout the day for hot beverages. Usually we fill it up at night and set it to be hot by the time we wake up. Forgot last night, and for the first time in a while, actually have to wait for coffee/tea!

Today is one of those days where I learned (again, and again, and again) that I am, indeed, a fallen human. It’s never easy to know you’ve hurt someone, but I thank my God for infinite grace and mercy, and I pray that those I hurt may know God’s love even in my own failing.

Will there ever be a Christ the King Sunday (it’s a real day, fight me) where I don’t spend it very angry that Americans use it as more anti monarchical propaganda to justify the fact that *they invaded our country to force us to stop having the monarch we wanted and elected*?

Is it really too much to ask that there be more than one vegetarian/low meat option? (Also none at all that are vegan afaik)

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

(CW; dental trauma & body stuff) At home recovering from more dental surgery. The most broken tooth was extracted and a bone graft placed. There has been some bleeding, apparently because the bone was also somewhat fractured and the extraction basically knocked that bone and caused it to bleed too.

Grateful to Via Media for making space for my reflections on how the very ordinary stuff of parish life is undermined by the church's unwillingness to fully embrace LGBTQIA+ folks. Policies discussed in the abstract have a real impact on real people, which too often gets forgotten.

I think this is one of the best conversations I've had on All Things Necessary yet! The Rev. Deacon Erin Keakealani Richardson Severin ( @keakealani.bsky.social ) joins me to talk about Reddit chaplaincy and digital evangelism! ⚓

Ugh episcopal Reddit is being weird again :/

I swear every day feels like “Trump becoming commie to own the libs” is more and more true. Unfortunately, he’s a tankie.

Mega-niche programming shout-out: early Baroque-ish Christmassy things for not more than SSATB (or SSATTB at a pinch) plus instruments (quartet) which involve, or /could/ involve recorders? I have the Messe de Minuit, obviously...

Why does this wedding announcement feel episcopal coded ⚓️

*believes in the Virgin Birth harder*

See also, a wild misunderstanding of what kind of help churches are supposed to be doing?

I get ordained to the priesthood in less than two months. Which is absolutely wild to think about. And yet I simply cannot wait at this point.

So I guess I better tell my bsky fam too. On Monday night I took a spill on my electric scooter (combo of a very bad snap decision and stressing out over an unfamiliar route) and head-over-handlebars fell on the sidewalk mouth first. Lost a tooth, badly chipped two others, and some minor abrasions

The gratification that comes when I make a liturgical comment and the rector is like “yep 100% agree, good thought”. I live for that serotonin hit I’m telling you.

upload yourself into the sun: boring, useless, you will burn up upload yourself into the Son: thrilling, eternal, theosis

Nothing like demonstrating my ADHD prowess than writing three separate sermons at the same time (?)

I am pretty sure someone got a picture of me parading a newly baptized baby down the aisles. I need some congratulations - I do not, as a rule, hold babies. Very much prefer 4+ years old lol

They were gonna canonize a patron saint of procrastination…but nobody has gotten around to it yet. 🕯️

Interestingly, the colors I was originally waffling between (white and green) aren’t mentioned at all by commenters. I’m not sure if that says more about the vagueness of color-based theology, or my bad taste.

Does anyone have opinions on what the liturgical color would be for a commemoration of Veterans Day/Armistice Day? ⚓️

I cannot begin to express how deeply, deeply upsetting it is when I am asked to indicate my race, and am not allowed to select multiple options. And declining just means I get less representation, bc let’s be real, monoracial people don’t decline. Just people like me. 😡😡😡

The state of my desk, like the state of my brain, suggests that I will NOT in fact be managing to get my shit together.

This post *did* remind me to review all of the names I’m supposed to read out loud for my portion of the necrology, which is now telling me I know diction rules for too many languages and not sure if people use original language pronunciations or English-accented pronunciations of their names….

Every time I see a BCP pastoral service and people go “wow that was so beautiful” I’m like yeeeeep the BCP comes in clutch every time! ⚓️

This is the sort of thing I mean when I say we have too much democracy here

But also, being an 18 year old moron deserves a lot more patience than being a 60 year old mark.

Someone on Reddit thinks the episcopal church needs a “rebrand” 🤢

My entry into true bougie-dom is the auto hot water heater we have now and like, it’s such a game changer to be able to make tea any time during the day with the press of a button. Just absolutely madlad stuff.

I’m reading the draft booklet for diocesan convention and like. Would it be too much to ask to just run a spell check? This thing is riddled with typos.

my main criticism of the aca is that of course those regulatory changes were great (ending preexisting conditions, namely), but ultimately it just funneled more money to the insurance industry making it an even bigger leviathan in the way of single payer, let alone nationalized healthcare.

2086 AP US History Document Based Question Evaluate the extent to which social media transformed American political movements in the early 21st century. Document 1:

re: no kings being a "party not a protest," ...the one i went to had longtime city community organizers speaking, an entire tent dedicated to jury duty info, multiple labor unions turning out in force, and the speaker of the house is currently getting his panties in a wad about it on national TV

Oh, okay. I complain about the bus system and THAT BUS DROPPED ME OFF AT THW WRONG STOP omg

also in #publictransit woes, the delaware transit info system is SO MUCH WORSE than Hawaiʻi :( Like, there doesn't seem to be any way to just get a real-time updated list of expected buses for a given stop in time order, or to refresh the app in general to track buses.

This is the first time I’ll ever be registered to vote in a state other than Hawaiʻi. It also means I have to do a party affiliation for the first time. Wild.

This sounds like something I’d say.

This is so real. I mean, take antivax propaganda. That had almost died, but then RFK exists and now everyone’s countering it, but all people hear is “vaccines are controversial and there are two sides to this issue” and like, NO THERE AREN’T!

BCP is so woke all it can talk about is pronouns

I don’t have any super hot takes on the current disk horse, except to say that I think if we really believe in a God who is just and who is in solidarity with LGBT+ people, we *have* to lean on the idea that God will find something to do about GAFCON, and that’s not necessarily for us to decide.

Most clergy-pilled day? Filling in the liturgical dates in my 2026 calendar while reading about CPG benefits for the plan I re-enrolled in?

Having one of those days where I feel like I’m a useless waste of space and not getting anything done. :/

The entirety of Scripture goes out of its way to make the point that Israel came from unsettled nomads and that Christians are always resident aliens in the world; there is no group we should have more affinity with than those without citizenship in a particular polity.

Lmao at people on Reddit accusing my kidney diseased ass of being ableist for telling someone they should attempt to receive communion. SMH.

Guys I’m on a train, it’s so awesome! Living in the future up here. (Amtrak northeast regional to New York)