“oh, I see there’s a sportsball thing happening.” you’re not witty and nobody likes you.

for every type of fetish account I block, ten more just like it show up in the Discover tab. there is an algorithm, but it doesn’t seem to learn.

Anyway I need to go languish by the seaside for several months due to my neurasthenia

“I’ve been burned before.” LMAO

oh my gawd. Mr. B just informed me that his family did not watch The Muppet Show I am absolutely appalled

I am searching for "medieval" in the Epstein files. Nothing of note yet. Some "stay at this medieval place," some "time to go medieval on my uncle" (from two people not JE), amusing numbers of times when "medieval" is a typo for "medical."

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So, remember that Episcopal bishop in New Hampshire that told priests to get their wills in order because “we are entering a new era of martyrdom"? I ran across historical precedent for that today. It's from a radio transcript @rns.org produced about a Lutheran bishop in Denmark… …in 1943.

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social it seems you have had A Day, so I wanted to make sure you saw this

where is the crime?!

Yes but this is why the book is great.

Oi Hollywood/BBC/Netflix/etc, we still haven't got that big budget 10 hour long episodes historically accurate tv drama series about the Black Death. Only one of the biggest most dramatic events in history ever... Come on, do your thing. Must have Sean Bean in it though.

in brighter news, maybe soon the sun will let out a big belch and incinerate us all!

in possibly related news, I may have ordered works by Gregory of Tours, Jordanes, Cassiodorus, and Isidore of Seville today. don't ask, don't tell

i see Western Civilization is in the news again

not sure why the Discover algorithm keeps showing me weather forecasts for Gibraltar, but I’m not mad about it

Cher is the auntie who isn’t quite sure what’s going on at the moment but is happy that the young people are happy

i just adore Sabrina Carpenter. she is such a little cutie.

because, this is not some minor thing -- it's the defining political question of our era it also was never a close call -- if you got it wrong, you were denying some incredibly obvious facts about the world. unless you've done some self-reflection you almost certainly still are

Well articulated. For me, it's great if you're intelligent. It's super if you're experienced. It's wonderful if you have skills. But what's your judgment like?

glad to see this sweet little guy back home. also, I need to know more about that spectacular piece of art in the background of this photo. is that a painting? a repro / print?

Arriving at the church for first Eucharist this morning and glanced up through the churchyard to see this (almost) full Snow Moon shining through the trees, just before setting. A blessing from St. Brigid on her feast day.

The priest at my church got beat up at an anti-ICE protest on the peninsula this week, and when he showed up for Mass today with a black eye all the church ladies swooned like they had seen a Backstreet Boy.

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

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.

I think it’s really important when you get something wrong that you fix it. We are in an age of parasocial journalism where everyone is talking into tiny microphones. People have their faves and they trust what those faves say. If you get something wrong, fix it. It makes you more credible.

this story is amazing

GRADUATE STUDENT AT THE CAMPFIRE, FLASHLIGHT UNDER THEIR CHIN: if you exclaim three times about the intertwined networks of power revealed in the epstein files then C. Wright Mills will ride down from heaven on his motorcycle to explain American society to you

Can’t do the quadrivium without music or the trivium without literature.

started my morning with hymns playing on loop while I worked on a little embroidery project I bought to pass the time while recovering from hip replacement surgery might just start every day that way

It’s a bad week for great comedic actors. RIP, Lamont. www.bet.com/article/naxh...

It's something women are doing, so of course our "allies" are going to criticize us for made-up reasons. It's like all the people nominally on the left who decided making fun of the women's march was a good use of their time, instead of actually opposing Trump 1.0. Absolutely useless individuals.

In other words, the liberal arts has provided an all-you-can-eat, buffet style approach to education while the “skills-based,” careerist approach that now seeks to replace it is more like being force-fed spoonfuls of tepid gruel.

I didn’t ask for the Alexa-plus update, but it got foisted on me anyhow. Wanna see how well Alexa does with its handy dandy AI “enhancement”? Here ya go. tl;dr — they are forcing AI on us because it is hot steaming garbage and enshittifies everything. the AI bubble cannot burst soon enough.

watching Ponies on Peacock. it’s entertaining enough.

for no reason recalling this

I'm so sick of these people just doing whatever hateful and illegal thing they want to do.

o7

I find it all part of a broader symptom in the US of thinking "anything that makes lots of money is good and pure and anything that doesn't is useless." The best things in life aren't quantifiable, especially not in dollars.

The U.S. has successfully convinced its people that “the humanities are frivolous and STEM is Important and Real” is basically a law of nature: this is absolute nonsense that we should stop putting up with.

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

this is why when people even joke about me attacking one of the many politics people I see out and about, I will at best ignore you and will likely block you, even if it's someone I also don't like. In Capitol Hill, we all live under the specter of this violence daily www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

I agree that it’s high fucking time that we stopped acting like we need to grovel and constantly justify the existence of some of our most incredibly elemental and ancient human pursuits.

god help

I understand and can get behind how hard everyone leaned into the idea that "writing is just another craft you can practice" pero like... be honest there's some woowoo....

a phd

got 30 minutes into Weapons, decided it is too scary. stopped the film.

guess Bovino got kicked out of the Christmas Adventurers club

well, well.

okay, I’m off the clock now so can comment on current events on my own time…