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My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

For anyone who needs it today: Mishnaic Skeletor.

Yep, 110%

Okay well this is idolatry dead-on. “Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God” (CCC 2113).

the correct take.

Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."

The bishop's conscience is broken.

“I am disheartened that the President chose to write such disparaging words about the Holy Father. Pope Leo is not his rival; nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls.” - Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, President, USCCB

This is Canon Law, actually

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

It’s bugging me that the picture isn’t showing up on the link so here it is again! www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2026/04/can-...

I’ll just say it’s unusual and maybe fishy that Vatican officials would give this scoop to the Free Press and not Catholic media outlets that have regular coverage of this sort of thing.

Claude is down :/ so I’m just running my sink

Waiting for the story buildup to an interplanar town/gown conflict.

This is my experience also… mostly. It helped with external motivation. It didn’t fix my adhd.

so @josie.zone has asked me in passing to discuss the impact Star Wars has had on my faith, and I thought it would be neat to copy over a thread i wrote about this on Twitter a lifetime ago. Nearly a decade, even, since it was right after ep 8.

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

1. How many of your ship’s planks did you replace since your last insurance payment? 2. How many of your ship’s planks did you replace since you first took out your insurance policy? 3. Have all the planks of your ship been replaced? buff.ly/yZoe2Ke

Happy Destruction of the Ring Day + Feast of the Annunciation which are, of course, not coincidentally on the same day

The Conquest of the Holy Land story has done untold damage over the centuries-- including now, as it's used to justify the intensification of the West Bank's ethnic cleansing. But what if we've been reading it wrong all along? Proud to share a brilliant new take from @ddelgadovive.bsky.social:

We were just talking about Don at MTN. Eternal rest to him and consolation to everyone whose life he touched.

This is before coffee. After coffee I became a 4/4 professor with fiying and vigilance. #mtn2026

Chilling at the Airport for another 50 minutes until boarding. AMA?

“Search your camera role for hell” Also a lot of results…

if i’m extra hostile about the chronicle piece today, it’s because these same folks patronize students like me when pushing rigid careerism — as if poor kids shouldn’t get to pursue their niche interests; we (should) care only about money. and i just resent that shit so much.

Today in Dr. Torbeck’s theology class: samurai champloo

This is how it’s done.

Ongoing now: www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Easy way to make me happy and keep me busy for hours? Give me Little cardboard rectangles with pictures of heroes and monsters. 30 years of proven effectiveness. #dragonquest #carddass

We must imagine the itsy bitsy spider happy.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Independent religious, human rights & legal-aid organizations should have regular access to federal immigrant detention centers, including & especially those privately operated. Humane conditions & treatment need to be verified. Assertions that everything is fine are not enough.

For real, though, Awake transports me to a happy place like few albums do. It's back on again to set the morning vibe.

I was working late in my office tonight, listening to Tycho on my speakers, door open, when suddenly the motion sensor activated lights came on. A student getting out of a club meeting popped their head in as they passed. "Nice." I didn't think I cared what students thought, but I'm chuffed.

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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Cardinal Cupich will celebrate an outdoor Ash Wednesday Mass and procession in solidarity with immigrant families…a judge ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to grant the Christian advocacy group access to the Broadview detention center near Chicago. religionnews.com/2026/02/13/j...

"When they talk about the criminal, they're talking about all people of color, all immigrants." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/news/catholi...