A world where everyone has a world class education and loving parents is going to be a better world but it’s not going to be a world free from greed, selfishness, or even violence.

penal substitutionary atonement, but for technical debt is anyone looking into this?

You can’t take the sky from me, but it does not follow that you should give me additional sky.

People forget, it’s not about the stabbing, but rather the co-conspirators we make along the way. #IdesOfMarch

I appreciated the nuance here, and also the explanation that sometimes you can clock an autistic woman because she seems “like a woman wearing a woman suit” (me)

I do think it’s helpful to think of the CAT-Q as a measure of how much energy I expend attempting to mask, not how effective my masking is

I am confident in my social masking ability* *terms and conditions may apply, offer void where unavailable, results not guaranteed

One repaired telephone lines for Southwestern Bell, and later a driver of cars between dealerships. The other was a journalist, Methodist pastor, and journalism professor (but not all at once).

yeah, I'm about that FIRE lifestyle – my joints often Fail Independently and cause me to Retire from physical activity Early

It's probably fine that the executive branch of our government is Oops! All Wormtongues

“Farewell, John Piper” - surely someone, right?

how it’s been

So, I’ve been reading this guy named Origen and let me introduce you to this cool allegorical reading of Joshua I just discovered.

Feel as though tonight some of us had as near a direct experience of "two hours" itself as it's possible to have

I have been thinking of this story for days

I need people who comment on tv about law to enunciate that second t in "statutes" and be consistent. my psyche cannot otherwise deal with what my imagination does with all the rogue statues doin stuff

Try this One Weird Trick* to cut through medical system bureaucracy and get that time-sensitive appointment you need! *weeping while pacing the lobby until it disturbs the admin enough to call for a nurse who knows where the Secret Appointment Availability is hidden

I should go to sleep, but instead I’m thinking about a secondhand copy of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek that @martynwendell.bsky.social used to own, annotated by someone who was trying to impose the structure of an entirely different genre of writing upon Annie Dillard.

The Muppets and Margarita

tfw there is infinite hope but not for us

January 20, 2017 to January 20, 2021 was basically one long, sustained panic attack

Jon and Maddie are somehow reading out my medical history on a podcast

Petition to replace "If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism" to "If you've met one person with autism, you've increased your sample size by n + 1, if you do this enough times you can notice a lot of common patterns"

This is evil.

These heights are made for wuthering And that’s just what they’ll do

Oh oh now do the reverse

Superb owl on a super bowl

it’s true that manic consumer culture buying sprees probably point to a gnawing fear of engaging the spirit, whose demands are rigorous and whose rewards would require us to acknowledge our eternal indwelling self-worth, but on the other hand did you see how much cool stuff I have

You fool, he is flirting back! It is just that he, like many interesting and sensitive men of a particular persuasion think that flirting is sharing fun facts about airplanes.

possibly the best definition of Anglicanism I’ve ever seen

don’t mind me I’m just “living in the moment” (never having any idea who anybody is and shedding near-term memory like a lizard losing its tail)

Literal lol at the idea of AI being better than humans at “interpreting religious mythologies,” as if that were an exact science with concrete yes or no answers and not an extremely fraught field fraught with literally millennia of debate hahahaha can you imagine

Religious education, the Depression, Russians. My great-grandfather brought his wife and kids over while he attended seminary in the late 1920’s. While he was a student, the stock markets crashed and Russia had bombed their house back in Finland.

This would be a good time to bring back something of xenia

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

I brought an unappreciated level of autistic AP English student “what are the full implications of this symbol?” to a Purpose Driven Life-style rebranding. One of many “quit thinking about it so much, you’re too in your head, just get on board” moments from my youth group adults

I made myself unpopular at church in high school when they named the youth group building The Lighthouse, and I kept pointing out that a)we were in a landlocked county b)lighthouses are made to warn ships to stay away, not come closer

Never mind, mystery virus has overridden new doctor plans. I guess that gives me more revision time for the “family history” portion of the set.

Preparing to meet a new doctor tomorrow, which means fine tuning my presentation of my medical history like it’s a tight 5

In real life, it’s just good to meet a wide variety people and have them meet you, and have real conversations where you might change their mind. But online, you’re just being influenced. It’s not a two way conversation.

Something interesting I learned from this piece is that the Auschwitz museum maintains a presence on every major social platform except one:

This is a really beautiful reflection on the way Auschwitz is preserving small items—toothbrushes, shoes, artworks—in the hopes they can tell stories when the last Holocaust survivors are gone.

If you don’t yet know about #SeumasU and the classes offered by @jeltzz.bsky.social there is, IMHO, no better way out there to improve your Ancient Greek and Latin! thepatrologist.com

RIP Captain Georg Von Trapp, you would have loved using whistles to fight fascists

I really appreciated this inclusion in the Prayers of the People at @advocatewheaton.bsky.social last night

they should start singing John Brown's Body before sports games

it's really convenient that ICE is supplying smoke to make this look like an 18th century battleground

"Indeed, the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart."

Gotta know about it and rage about it and write letters and send money, and also coregulate with stir-crazy elementary school kids who need calm parents in order to be safe.