Just watched a hockey forward block a 90mph shot off his knee, and am thinking about how sometimes when I wake up one of my knees will hurt because it’s been slept on by the other knee.

I find it very endearing when students, trying to use impressive vocabulary in their exams, mistakenly coin new verbs instead. (I am 100% sure I did the same.)

A parent teacher conference with a good teacher is an incredible gift. It helps me perceive my own child more fully through the lens of the love another has for them. God bless the teachers out there doing it right.

Once we see a few video reviews as egregiously bad as the missed calls they’re meant to redress, I don’t know how everyone isn’t radicalized into total abolition of the technology.

Sam Altman: the least imaginative person in the world

Watching my students write, and write, and write, their final exam essays, and am worried about how conscientious I've inspired them to be this semester...

If possession is 9/10 of the law, digestion has to be the other 1/10. Free this man now! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Giving students the potential essay questions for their (in class, handwritten) final in advance is, I think, quite a good way to make using AI still a lot of work.

Google security has jumped all the sharks. A robot would be *much* better at discerning this insanity than I am.

This is my PawPaw. He’s 96 yo. He wears his NashSevereWx hat everywhere goes just so when you guys tell him you follow us, he can tell you he’s NashSevereWx’s PawPaw. 🤣 He’s one of my favorite human beings I’ve ever known.

As my kids grow deeper in the joy of riding the bikes, I grieve having to teach them certain types of vehicles/behaviors to watch out for. Pointing out specific vehicles neighborhood vehicles—"that person is not looking out for you." (Neighborly shame has been mildly effective at mitigating this)

“You have heard it said, ‘don’t bring a knife to a gun fight,‘ but I say to you, don’t even bring a spoon.”

Peter Dinklage taking over a role from Natasha Lyonne sounds like a fake headline for April Fools day, but I am so happy to know it's real. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Is this what the kids are doing instead of ska?

The BBC describing Elon Musk as living modestly because he has no bed to offer to a guest

Today, at a different event for people to get free food, we had 50% more guests than usual. I've heard similar from other nearby organizations. Time to get creative, in ways we haven't had to be since accounting for the onset of a pandemic in 2020. (The need now is even greater than it was then.)

Everybody tomorrow talking about the hero you’d never expect. Bowen Bryam in the fifth round of the shootout

The sheriff "did not specify how many people had complained to him about the post, only saying there were “multiple people.”" It took me about than a year pastoring in Tennessee to learn that this means, literally zero people.

Had a full morning of chatting, joking, praying, and lifting at our church food distribution. I am thankful because I love these people and joy abounded. But my goodness there are so many in need. ~15% more guests than ever before, ~30% more than usual. Lord, cast down the mighty. Lift up the lowly

NYTimes: so how does this affect the dems’ chances in the midterms? Revelation:

Lazy Susan? Lazy??!? The woman invented the wheel just for food. Susan was a genius.

“You’ve gotta be squeaky clean on antisemitism“ is another phrase that’s going to writhe around moaning in my head for a while. The full on horse-race-ification of political discourse is distorting our moral sensibilities, redirecting them to places where they do no good.

The day of that big protest in DC in 05, the national mall was also hosting the national book fair and I guess the way I'd describe No Kings is that it contains all the kinds of people who were at the anti-war rally that day PLUS all the book fair attendees. I think that's good for us, probably?

Some birds are magicians, and not enough people know that

My youngest did an amazing and joyful thing today. We are now a full family of bike riders, with no training wheels required!

If we could spend most of the murder money on caring for life instead, that would be a good thing.

Nebuchadnezzar would have thrown his phone through a tv when chatgpt spat out irrelevant details about Freud instead of describing his own dream to him like he asked.

When my dad was a mail carrier, he carried dog biscuits to improve interactions with dogs on the route.

The White House continuing to turn faith inside out in their complaints about DJT being "passed over" for the Nobel peace prize: "there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will." Meanwhile, the Nobel committee:

Thankful for Calvin using all the authority he had to exhort his church (and his readers) to resist the urge to "try to cover our stinginess under the shadow of prudence."

the specific language of “break bread with” and “visit him in prison” is so striking to me, used in condemnation this way

Amidst the insanity of the powerful in the world, I popped a photo of this beauty into my ppt today, and when I told my students it won the bird election they broke into applause.

Some moral experts have called it wrong for domestic abusers to claim that only they deserve peace because they do what it takes to protect their people.

It costs millions of dollars to prepare just one nearby government facility for shutdown, and this is our second time this year. Anyway my kid’s school needs everyone to really give their all to another fundraiser to buy a few new balls for the gym.

New Zealand's annual bird election has crowned the karearea, or New Zealand falcon, as Bird of the Year.

Back to the Future II only has 57 on Metacritic, in case you need to know why people distrust the elites.

Saw this ginormous beauty of a sweet potato at the farmers’ market today and had to get it. Nearly one full dogmatics long!

If I had the power to order hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to make them hear me give a speech on the “sabbath ethic,” I bet people would speak to the Washington Post about it. Glowingly.

When students really do the thing—when they engage their minds and work hard and delve deeply and add insights to a class and truly learn—it’s just the best.

The 9yr old just discovered Hann Montana tonight (which I also had never seen). Nobody thinks any of my comments are funny. But I still think her grandma’s name *should be* Helena. And 30 seconds into my first glimpse of the show, Hannah Mondoubtfire was pretty solid.

Lies are exhausting for everyone involved

Weep with those who weep. a watchword if you need it

It is not possible to be pro-life and to seek the eradication of autism.

Your rusty old tyranny of the expert has a lot of miles on it at this point. Can I introduce to a shiny new, tyranny of the non-expert?

The love of wealth and the capacity for grief exist in an inverse relationship. The impossible growth of the former has reduced the already marginalized latter to near invisibility in our present public life.

Baseball is such a perfect alternative to all the other good sports because it’s the only one where you can read your theology book without missing a thing.

I don’t know about y’all, but we heard the ding dang sermon on the mount in worship this morning.

So many happenings. So many takes. So many reasons to be mad and so many griefs too grievous to bear. Trying to step back and reflect and all I can think is that we’ve been digging so furiously for so long that we’ve forgotten that was Hell we found several levels back.

the county doing its part to address the loneliness epidemic