happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

i post this every year because men soaking in toxic masculinity are all “why can’t we get women” and Tom Holland dances in drag and lands one of the hottest women on the planet, maybe there’s a lesson here guys

You know the rule.

I don't think I've seen them around bluesky recently, but made me think of @arnoldfribergmademe.gay

The conservative LDS community is SO CLOSE to figuring out that the entire rest of the religious right hates them and would put them into camps if it had the opportunity, but they apparently aren't there yet.

I think smoke from the theater means we have new Book of Mormon historicity apologetics.

Obligatory with the DN byline ... "Which Brad Wilcox?" Bradley R. Wilcox is LDS, a prof at BYU, and served in the General YM Presidency until Aug 2025. W. Bradford Wilcox is catholic, a prof at UVA, and director of National Marriage Project.

With respect (and not to single out this specific person, this a common sentiment), no. Whiteness in America has gotten us to this moment, and those of us who are white have to recognize we are tied up in its power dynamic. Acknowledge it rather than trying to (sorry) performatively opt out of it.

Make a meme and post it.

Post (another) meme you made.

Leviticus 4 (part of this week's #ComeFollowMe) presents the legal precedent that if it is found out that the Anointed High Priest and/or local leader(s) unintentionally led the Covenant People into sin, when it is made known, a formal act of acknowledgement and atonement is made by the High Priest.

The President of the High Priesthood of the Church being the one to personally acknowledge wrong & sinful teaching from predecessors that led to members sinning against others can have a powerful healing effect. So, wish this would have been published under the name of the President of the Church.

I know President Oaks likes precedent. May the principles in the above selection all Latter-day Saints are being asked to read this week temper his personal reticence for the Presiding High Priest to be responsible to directly name and claim "unintentional sin" sourced from that Office in the past.

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Last in a ranking of US Secretaries of Agriculture.

Has anyone else been noticing an uptick in members sharing about their struggles with (for lack of a better term) CES letter topics? I'm not talking about sharing online, or among friends. No, I'm talking from the pulpit in sacrament meeting or in class during the 2nd hour of church.

Latino Latter-day Saints lament church’s silence on President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Really interesting point from @joshmcelwee.org here. "The unity or division of the Church should not revolve around sexual matters," (Pope Leo said). "I believe there are much greater and more important issues such as justice, equality... that would all take ​priority before that particular issue."

I don't have holy envy. Please don't print in the newspaper that I have holy envy. (actually, do print it and put it on the desk of every member of the 1st Pres. and Q12.)

You don't have to share a fake video of Sleepy Don, you can share a real one.

The first photo here is fake. A still from the same moment shows that Trump's head wasn't drooping like that. Also, he'd just adjusted his tie, which is why the guy two to the left of RFK is looking at him. Actual still at right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ctx...

Also, if you look at it rhetorically, the names of the male roles are titles that reflect their status and personhood. The YW are all definitions of what service they provide. They are tools, not people.

Some (if not all) of the original lost BOM manuscript pages are still extant somewhere.

I want to hear your favorite Mormon/Mormon-related conspiracies you 100% believe.

I used to get annoyed when coworkers would just send me a meeting invite with no context and no heads up ... I still do somewhat. More annoying than that is when I ask a coworker to send me a meeting invite, only to have them not do that, and then try to call me at odd times when I can't answer.

Just make the iPhone 4 again, in its original size, with a better camera. Then also make a record player for no apparent reason.

Factor in the deference to the presiding authority and the need for everything to be done with unanimous consent in the First Presidency and Q12 and I think it's pretty clear why it took 6-1/2 years to rename the YW classes ...

I know my wife likes Star Trek. She watched Voyager and DS9 growing up. I watched reruns of TNG. I've seen most of the series/movies too. I can even make a decent reference now and then. I wouldn't consider myself a Trekkie. I've never bought merch. I don't go to conferences. Neither does my wife.

Listen, I know that we have Good Messages of Peace. I just wish we would from time to time directly and specifically join them with the words of others, and particularly to pointing out, "yes, as well as being General, this talk should definitely be applied to this specific Thing Happening."

Elijah, giving a talk in Israel, choosing to allow for plausible deniability that he's really talking about the atrocities of Ahab in his talk "Maybe We Should All Do Good Things", but still hoping Ahab's fans "Get It".

This should have said "October 2001"

Okay but what if instead of seeing the doctor so often this last year Trump has actually been having visions of Jesus and didn’t realize it?

How much money do we estimate the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has now? Are we up to $300 billion yet? Scott has changed entire fields with $19 billion over 5 years. The church could make that look like pennies.

Not sure if #3 is about the football team or a country's stockpile of weapons.

I just think threats of Genocide should rank pretty high on potential "significant moral consequences."

Americans can't grasp that America has human beings

Mood.

At some point, Americans might have to wrestle with the fact that other places have human beings too

Do you know how EXTREMELY FUCKED UP SHIT HAS TO BE for me to be reposting Tucker Carlson positively???

You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.

Latter-day Saint Temple Liturgy has Literal Satan present his goals and plans in these words: "Then with that enmity I will take the treasures of the earth, and I will buy up armies and navies, false priests who oppress and tyrants who destroy, and I will reign with blood and horror on this earth!"

Watching Democratic members of Congress post this morning is giving me whiplash. How are they so bad at this!? You've got Chris Murphy out here talking about moral relativism (and Sunday calling for Trump's cabinet to start talking to lawyers about the 25th) rather than calling for impeachment.

"...and the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones ... but they were Foreign Children and it didn't really matter." - MAGA

telling my kids this is the Centre Pompidou

TIL we have a satellite nearly 4 lunar distances away from Earth taking pictures. This GIF of the Moon transiting Earth is pretty cool. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Sp...

Looked for a new wallet over the weekend for the first time in probably 20 years. Back then I went to Macys, and they had plenty to choose from. Very few options to choose from now. Went to a few different stores and resolved to search online.

If I were in Congress, I would spend Easter calling other Congress members about impeachment...

There was a change in yesterday's Solemn Assembly during #genconf from the most recent previous versions of it: Area 70s stood with the General Authority 70s and Presiding Bishopric. Previously, in 2018 and 2008, Area 70s stood with ordained patriarchs, high priests, and elders.