ON the one hand, I absolutely feel the urge to make fun of these schismatic dudes ON the other hand, I'm basically allergic to making fun of liturgy, because it's so easy to do and it's SO mean to people for whom these acts are important parts of prayer. And that goes all directions.

In general I think members of other churches should stay out of other churches’s divisions, but in this instance precisely bc I’m an Anglican I will observe that deciding an Ecumenical Council doesn’t count is a great way to ensure you’re out of Communion with the Pope. fsspx.news/en/news/how-...

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

Many many people are tired of Cory Doctorow and fair enough but also basically the man is right arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

zines are not a crime

All discernment is subjective because it’s about subjects. I’m sorry. I know it’s easy to just hate subjectivism and relativism but eventually you start to forget that Christian life is expressed in witness, which means doing stuff, and just not any stuff, which means you have to think about it.

the Norway Hiking Experience

(who is the most famous fictional Knicks fan? their dry spell was already a joke on TXF!)

Get me back to New York.

my big pet peeve today: that every version of "this land is your land" they play for kids is bowlderized. it's like when you hear a hymn and they leave out the banging verses about the eschaton

an unexpected occasion of mercy is cause for joy and reflection. people sometimes like to detail, in response, the gruesome crimes of people the state seeks to execute, but it doesn't matter what anyone did: state sanctioned execution is barbaric, no less so than any crime it seeks to punish.

I don't wanna thoooo

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different topic: the vampire lestat. I enjoyed it immensely, I also have notes, but also also, go read the first page of the novel: they definitely got the tone shift on the nose lol.

some food things are way worse in Norway (never eat a Norwegian taco if you can avoid it) but some things are way better and one of them is cottage cheese. it actually tastes like the thing you can make in your own kitchen!! God bless.

I'm working on a story on this as well, but the takeaway out of this is that Mamdani's direct-care clinic will apparently ban trans youth from getting care, will only provide it to adults. This is because of fear of loss of federal funding. This is DIRECTLY the capitulation reason NYU/Sinai gave.

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I am losing my mind: I saw a Devil Wears Prada 2 take on here which was like "this is bleak, why are we supposed to be rooting for Miranda, who is rich" - and now I cannot find it?? It may have been on someone's newsletter. Anyone know what I was looking at?

🗃️ You’re mad that Nolan’s Odyssey includes people of color. I’m mad that Nolan’s Odyssey doesn’t include the insanely tacky rainbow of colors that were used to paint everything in Ancient Greece. We are not the same.

As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. How much more do we need to spend before we're certain that god isn't lurking in the word-guessing program? 22/

Them: Hey; what’s up? Me: Jesus #AscensionDay ⚓️

my beloved child is very much in the OH NO NOW IT'S LOUD phase (favorite phrase: "WHAT'S THAT!!!!" ideally shouted into my ear at an extremely high pitch as I carry her on my back like her own personal tauntaun beast) (yes I do love it)

today is a good day for me being excited because...oh man..."Dance No More" is reminding me of why I was so, so obsessed with Harry Styles (and maybe I will be again??) I liked the songs on this album just fine but wow queer-acting-straight-guy charisma!

I don't remember the last time I went from "no idea this was happening" to "INCANDESCENTLY EXCITED." Nintendo really hitting the millennial nostalgia button in the best way

I cannot express how thrilled I am, and how thrilled my RC friends are, to see our churches walking and praying side by side. We need not agree on everything to agree on Christ and him crucified.

If you heard someone screaming in Union Square five minutes ago this is why www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c7J...

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As a person who, at one point, considered converting to Roman Catholicism and did not because I could not submit to the Pope: WHY WOULD YOU CONVERT TO ROMAN CATHOLICISM IF YOU WERE NOT PREPARED TO SUBMIT TO THE POPE??

OK #Narthex: Do you post your sermons online, in text format, in a blog or other feed? If you do, link me to 'em, I'd love to add you to my feed reader!

Months ago I wrote something about AI use for religious professionals and never posted it cause I didn't want to shove it on FB; I finally spun up a personal site with more than just HTML and now I can share it: www.flourishklink.com/posts/aiforp...

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