in honor of holy week, here’s the objective best tumblr post

I have to assume Netanyahu is doing not just a tit-for-tat against the Pope, but, given what Christians are remembering during Holy Week, actively trying to inflame Christian antisemitism. It is incumbent on Christians not to give in to that temptation.

I will say whoever picked these photos really cooked. They have the Mulder and Scully vibes

Tolkien was a devout Catholic!! The most serious sin is the sin of despair—which he knows very well can be overcome through dogged determination: keep your hand on the plough. (Which is the most hobbity virtue.) The problem isn't how you feel, it's what you choose to do.

I was today years old when I realized that we use the word "installed" because CHURCH STALLS. 🤯

I'm sorry, WHAT?? www.schools.nyc.gov/about-us/vis... I was already considering private school for my kid, but...wow, absolutely no chance am I allowing my child to attend a school where she will be encouraged to use GenAI for brainstorming (!!!!) This is totally inappropriate.

Some folks on Anglican Twitter may actually not know that I am an OG Harry Potter fan. What do I mean by OG? I had a fanfic on the first page of Harry Potter fic on ffn. I was the webmaster for the first ever Harry Potter fan convention.

the funny thing about this is that it is true, in that you can carry infinite amounts of breastmilk through

Gotta be humbling having a billionaire villain create the Metaverse from your hit novel, "Please Don't Create the Metaverse"

I realized that I needed to become a priest, and I couldn't do that under false pretenses. Something had to give.

I got to preach at Trans Day of Visibility at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. I think it worked out. I'm so grateful to Dean Varghese and Bishop Heyd (and the rest of Dio NY) for standing in solidarity with trans folks. ⚓️

please stop the clergy AI discourse I want to get off

Thanks be to God!

My church is on the same block as the Little Shop Around the Corner in "You've Got Mail" and nearby is a place called Muffins Cafe, and a coffee-bean shop called the Sensuous Bean, both of which are locations where time stopped in the year 1995. I love them

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SO the NYT thought it was cool to profile the indie media project relaunching the Gourmet brand here: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b... BUT they've now FIRED @nzle.bsky.social for it. So subscribe to Gourmet, hire Nozlee, and as ever the NYT can get in the sea.

God has not given me many crosses to bear in life but one of them is very poetic-justice: Whenever I wear my cassock and/or clergy cloak on the street (which happens more than you'd think), people yell HARRY POTTER at me 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I need a really all black big boat n tote or something because it is really funny looking to be riding the subway in my cassock and cloak hauling a FreshDirect bag full of liturgical stuff 😬

I am going to have to write an email that expresses a desire to be referred to as "Fr. Klink" (if other clergy are also referred to by last name) pray for me and my extremely comical surname

x-files, alt.tv.x-files but I am not sure if it was on the newsgroup or archived at gossamer, 11 ("should Flourish have been watching the x-files at age 11? should Flourish have been allowed to be on use net at 11?" IDK! it worked out fine!!)

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

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I did this independently of @evanurquhart.bsky.social a few weeks ago. Everyone I know who binds and has the means is doing it. And here's the thing, if you don't know: binders are a medical necessity for transmasc folks who wish to avoid surgery

just got permission to preach John Chrysostom on Easter Vigil for the third year running and I am THRILLED because he HITS

you're getting conned every time you repost a bad faith opinion by a random user just to dunk on it, they're conning you!!

"Fix your hearts or die" is, I might argue, a Christian statement: if we do not fix our hearts, if God does not give us a clean heart with which to love our neighbor, we are doomed to the death that Christ has defeated.

I want to note that the music selections in figure skating this Olympics have been so unhinged that in recapping it to @elizabethminkel.bsky.social I FORGOT ABOUT MINIONS GUY

I'm kind of mad that parenthood has taken horror movies away from me. I loved THE WITCH when it first came out and I now cannot watch it. It is probably healthy and good to not be able to tolerate some kinds of bad, but some horror is great art and I regret the loss

The 7-fjells-tur! Even though we only made it over 5 mountains, that's not so bad for less than a year postpartum - and it got me excited about future long hikes. I'm doing the Great Saunter around Manhattan this year.

Absalom Jones was and is a legend of Black History, Episcopal history and American history. His legacy will never be erased. Born enslaved, he was a co-conspirator in helping form what we now know as the “Black Church”. St. Thomas African Episcopal Church in Philly is his church.

omg it was a candlemas story

It is very flip to say "POPE AGREES: BUTLERIAN JIHAD NOW" but...it isn't...untrue? (Reading this nuanced take from the Vatican made my day.) www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

"The real question here isn’t why Heated Rivalry is a hit—it’s why this kind of romance series is so rare in the first place." The great @gavia.bsky.social returns to Fansplaining with an incisive piece on Heated Rivalry, romance publishing, and the TV industry. Read or listen to an audio version:

You couldn't pay me to click on an article by a TERF in the NYTimes about Harry Potter, but I'll note that Gen Z seems to be largely responsible for the fact that ~10% of the top 100 ships on AO3 last year were HP, so perhaps let's not take the suggestion that they're rejecting it at face value.

video is out there. I watched it. I do not advise watching it. the description Will has here is correct. I would describe "being shot five times while 2-3 people hold you down" as an execution congrats, ICE. you found the bridge and you sprinted across.

TRANS // FIGURED: a spiritual retreat for rest, renewal, & resilience of trans, nonbinary, and two-spirit Episcopalians, ages 21+, lay & ordained WHEN: March 16-19, 2026 WHERE: Diocese of California COST: Suggested donation $100. Meals & lodging provided. LINK: dfms.formstack.com/forms/transf... ⚓️

🎉 THE BIG NEWS IS HERE 🎉 This spring, Fansplaining will relaunch as a full weekly publication, featuring reporting, analysis, criticism, personal essays, and much more, all under our longtime strapline: “By, for, and about fandom.” Check out our full announcement (in written and audio form):

Let's celebrate the Feast of the Ass like our medieval forebears: by remembering that the Holy Family were refugees, that the lowliest contribute lots, & bymaking fun of people in power! (I won't say "hee haw" instead of "ite missa est" today but only cause my congregation is not terminally online)

I know this is hijacking a fun post with a serious point, but: the Feast of the Flight into Egypt is a commemoration of the fact that Jesus and his parents fled to Egypt as refugees, which should be more often remembered, particularly by those who say they want to defend the West’s Christian values.

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

Given the current horrors, I need to leaven things a little by reporting that the herd has a new member whose arrival I forgot to announce: Balaam (thanks to @acblume.bsky.social)

Again to post about something other than the horrors I need everyone to know that @somafm.com has a "classic groove salad" channel so that you can EXACTLY RECREATE the experience of being a teenager on a bondi blue iMac listening to chill music in the middle of the night in 2002

Fandom is not in fact "the new religion"!! This is an excruciatingly basic take!! Fandom moralism has roots in US Protestant moralism and black-and-white thinking because of the outsize influence that US fans and media have, not because it is anything like actual religious practice!!

It was a DELIGHT to record a Fansplaining episode again!!!

I will never, never, never stop being angry about Aaron's death. Never.

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,