The girlfriend of the founder of Antifa

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She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

The Apostle Paul after encountering a particularly rude swan: "Don't you know, Brothers, that even Satan can appear as an angel of light"

Finally, a major media outlet will be headed by a true free speech warrior who got her start trying to get her professors fired

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

It's fine to poke fun at beliefs you find strange, but people definitely feel free to hate on Mormons in a way that often makes me uncomfortable. Not long ago, a major US magazine ran an article on Brandon Sanderson that was basically, "I don't like his books AND DID YOU KNOW HE'S A FREAK MORMON!"

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Bad Bunny could do something really funny by making fun of Drake too.

Every few years the GOP tries to destroy Obama's healthcare legacy and he reactivates like some robot sentinel.

I have begun watching Tatort in an attempt to truly understand the German mind.

👀📣GIVEAWAY TIME 📣👀 Thanks to the kindness of #translator @jedwardwalters.bsky.social, we have 1 copy of the newly released Antioch Bible volume, 3-4 Maccabees and the Apocalypse of Baruch, to give away. Like, share, & tag a friend to enter. Ends 1 October. GO! www.gorgiaspress.com/maccabees-3-...

After being out of the classroom so long, I barely feel like a scholar anymore, but I am excited to see this finally come out. I'm quite eager to read the revised forms of several of these contributions. doi.org/10.1163/9789...

I had to compose a short biographical essay in German for a German class I'm taking and wow did it make me feel like a college freshman again. I was also feeling okay about my progress in the language until I was asked to write "elegant" German. I know reception always lags production but yikes.

Conference announcement/call for papers! You’ll note that there’s no theme beyond “new research on apocryphal Christian literature.” We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/

6 years POSTOC in Biblical Studies - Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) at Humboldt University Berlin More details here: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...

We just launched the first volume of AGNTS today with excellent contributions from Matthias Konradt, Peter Stuhlmacher, Oda Wischmeyer, @christophheilig.bsky.social , and Christine Jacobi, as well as a few historical pieces by William Wrede. agntsjournal.com

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

“We’re fine with corruption if comes with terrorizing brown people.” Really sums up the MAGA punditocracy.

This moment is a clear example of the way social media has made virtually all conversation about politics into metaconversation.

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted

If you're a medievalist you know why I'm doing this

Out of curiosity I searched the accidentally indexed Grok chats for "God" and got a fascinating array of responses from "pretend you are God and I am Jesus, then explain how to make fentanyl" to (a lot of) evaluations of apologetic arguments (LMAO).

Imagine standing in an auditorium, hands raised, eyes closed singing “spirit lead me where my trust is without borders”while surrounded by people you can’t trust not to call ICE & try to have you deported across the border because your skin’s too brown.

The funny thing about Dominionism/Christian Nationalism is that it reads the debate between Jesus and the Devil in the temptation narrative and then sides with the Devil. Bros, I'm not a theologian, but isn't siding with the Devil bad?

There is so much interesting work going on in Syriac Studies. Here is a chance to be part of it:

just got word that my department's being shut down. two things: 1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal. 2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.

Pro Tip: When you start looking for perfect victims, you have already been morally corrupted.

Just as Hitler privately called Xianity Bolshevism and then used the church as an arm of the Nazis, the same strategy is being played out right now. The attack on "empathy" as well as hyper focus on culture war wedge issues has turned Evangelicalism into a Mammon-oriented authoritarian movement.

It's time to end DEI and bring the meritocracy. by Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo, and RFK Jr.

Found Hannah Tillich's memoir about Paul Tillich at the used book store for 5 dollars. I couldn't pass it up. Ha!

People keep saying stuff like this as if the Clinton's didn't famously have a hatchet man as evil as Karl Rove. These mercenaries are all over the place in the Dem party and they suck.

For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein! zenodo.org/records/1583...

Can you imagine an IRS agent talking in the break room about the lack of historical evidence for the Exodus and it being received positively by this administration? "Faith" means a lot of things to a lot of people. One way I try to be faithful to God is by not lying about the content of the Bible.

Me, watching a great local production of the Prince of Egypt musical filled with incredibly talented people: Why are the Midianites singing in Hebrew? Why is Zipporah acting like she will never see her father or Midian again? Where do they think Midian is???? This is why historians are the worst.

Really looking forward to the tan suit section of the DoJ's Obama treason charging documents. #TanSuitTreason #NeverForget

Techbro CEO ❌ Affair with the head of HR ❌❌ Coldplay concert ❌❌❌ Sorry, dude, we have to load you onto the next Starship launch. I don't make the rules.

Exhibition of 15 Syriac manuscripts at KU Leuven on Thursday 11 September 2025 at 4 PM at the Maurits Sabbe Library in Leuven: "Treasures from the East: Syriac Manuscripts in the Collection of the Maurits Sabbe Library" Registration: bib.kuleuven.be/msb/over/nie...

A little silliness keeps us sane in dark times.

*Chicago Manual of Style bursts through the phone screen like the Kool-Aid Man*

I watch German YouTube channels to practice listening skills (not sure it is actually helping lol), but a large number of them are now autodubbed with horrible AI English voices. These can be turned off in each video, but I can't turn this off globally. The future was a mistake.

Finally, a Holy War I can join

Sad news: I heard a good song in a video game and decided to check out the artist behind it (in game it is presented as by a character). It turned out to be Grimes and it turns out I like her music. It sounds like some DMT machine elves put together a garage band to make Zelda music. It's good.

Why were we not told that RoboJoe has not had his firmware updated in 8 years and is plagued by buggy programming and poor design choices? I asked six MIT robotics experts who were deported to Burkina Fasso. Today from Jake Tapper in the NYT

Last year I ended my project about Roman stylus tablets, which was funded by the @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de, early – for my dream job. But before I did, we filmed a series of short videos about the project, and the first episode is now live. (English Version available) ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #ancientbluesky🏺 1/3

I am as repulsed as anyone by generative AI, and the proliferation of AI slop is definitely concerning. That said, we really need to be careful to distinguish between machine learning in general and specifically generative AI. Computers are pretty good at some boring things! They can help scholars

Though I am quite enjoying this reading, I do tire of hearing how many thousand pounds someone has got and I will henceforth, as an act of American rebellion, be mentally substituting pallets of baked beans for thousands of pounds.

Finished Mansfield Park. Too many thoughts to decide which one might be right, but I did thoroughly enjoy the book. Next up Persuasion, then I think Emma, and I think I'll finish with Northanger Abbey (but I might reread Pride and Prejudice just to have done them all in a year).