Evie Hemphill

😂 Short legs receives many treats hahaha

Artie dog on his morning patrol

She make me sit and no treat?

BWorks' first 11 Earn-A-Computer graduates of the year stand inside the nonprofit's computer lab along with their lead teacher, Mr. Tom, at the end of six weeks of commitment.

Give it up for our first Earn-A-Computer grads of 2026! 🎓

Mr. Tom and Mr. Erik led this great crew through six Tuesday evening sessions, and tonight each student chose a refurbished Linux computer to take home to keep!

Sound like fun? We still have March spots: form.jotform.com/260185403855...

Overheard at @stlbworks.bsky.social this evening: "Oooh, that's a good question! Coco asks, 'Should you use the same password for everything?'" 😅

I love that I often can hear our Earn-A-Computer teachers' energetic remarks and guidance bubbling through the walls and floorboards at our headquarters.

We're excited to be bringing our free Earn-A-Bike classes back to Granite City this spring! It's a lot of fun, a lot of learning and each successful graduate gets to take home a bike, helmet, lock and light set! Learn more and register at form.jotform.com/253275849171...

Goshen Coffee morning

Every accusation is a confession

Another happier shot: When Uncle Bill was still with us, before he (a hang-gliding coach in Kitty Hawk) had a fatal accident with a tree when I was about 10. 💔 Here he is reading to my little brother at the Selma parsonage, amidst his own struggles with faith. My little brother sent it to me today.

Thanks so much for writing.

I have cried a lot this weekend, and apologized to still-faithful family for losing my sh*t about racist pastor SAM KETCHAM. Here's a photo of me and my brother from happier times in the Selma parsonage in the 1980s. MLK was there in the sixties. Why do I still cry about the RPCNA. But I do.

Indeed, neighbor

We've got some more Earn-A-Bike and Earn-A-Computer spots that just opened up for classes starting in March! Our first alumni ride of 2026 is now open for registration as well. Learn more and register at www.bworks.org/classes/ and spread the word! Our in-depth programs serve kids ages 8 to 17. 💙

Today has been weird and good and also not so good but Joe is still pulling up clips of Alysa Liu on ice and the podium ceremony with her dad weeping .... 😭💙😭

Dear church of my youth: excommunicating that one racist pastor isn’t enough in 2026 In 2009, I asked to remove my membership from the RPCNA, the denomination in which I was born and raised, full of people I loved and who loved me. I did not do so lightly or quickly or easily, but …

My very long ago, totally ordinary crisis of faith and church exit (and near excommunication) came howling back into my mind in recent days. Here's why. I overstayed my welcome at Sacred Grounds Cafe this morning typing it up, and awkwardly cried while I sipped my coffee refills.

Me: WHY ARE THEY SKIING UPHILL
Joe: It's called skimo
Me: WHY

Alysa Liu celebrating figure skating gold

ICONIC

Alysa Liu! 😍

Eleven BWorks Earn-A-Bike students and two teachers make silly faces in front of BWorks' headquarters during their group photo on Day 6 of their six-session class on bike safety and basic maintenance skills.

After the rain earlier in the day, it's turned into a beautiful evening for our first Earn-A-Bike graduation ride of 2026! These rock-star students and teachers are capping off six weeks of commitment, learning and fun, and we're so proud of them.

I'm finally getting my letters to the senators done (you have until just noon!!) and I'm typing fast and my "please oppose this bill" accidentally came out as "please oppose this bile"

An average, tiring, worthwhile @stlbworks.bsky.social Wednesday 🌞🚲🌏💙✊️

Well tomorrow this same bill is going to try for the senate since they had no traction with the house and so many of you sent in letters of opposition! Please help again!

To unnecessarily deport a sick baby and his entire family is heinous. My staff and I are in contact with Juan’s family.

These people are the evil I was warned of in Sunday school by the very same people who now very much support this evil.

The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up:

- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components

with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.

Tomorrow you may see James David Vance or some other purported Catholic from this administration with ashes on their forehead, it’s important to remember that it’s all just for show.

I can't www.yahoo.com/news/article...

"But I also know that using generative AI robs them of experiences and practices that I find valuable. (In this way I am the parent who earnestly claims, 'I’m not mad; I’m just disappointed.')" 4/4

"I understand the incentive structure that leads some students to use it. I understand that students live in a world and attend a university that both treat generative AI as a fait accompli, and that they are terrified of being left behind by an increasingly cruel and cutthroat world. ..." 3/X

I want to sit with this part in particular, and hope others will too:

"I spent a lot of time settling on the word 'gloom' here. I think it works to capture that I am not, say, offended by students using AI or even that it angers me in some way. ..." 2/X