Gnocchic Apocryphon

He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite, Charlie Brown

*terrible fake Russian accent*
"In post-liberal theology, the Bible reads YOU!"
"In post-liberal theology, the hymns sing YOU!"
"In post-liberal theology, the Eucharist makes YOU!"

Zoomer who is slightly to the right of Lyndon Banes “If it’s in ‘Nam, hit it with a bomb” Johnson: Haha, I guess you can say I’m basically a communist.

this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”

Bonny by Prefab Sprout Live in Munich 1985

again I point you to 'predator trophy hunter theory.' the Yautja are mostly just Guys and the predators we see are the equivalent of guys who pay tens of thousands of dollars to go kill some poor animal in Africa.

if possible we should elect a lesbian. i would like there to be zero more dick-related scandals of any kind after this

by popular acclaim we are currently about nine months into richard milhous nixon's 5th term & his 3rd from beyond the grave

Holy shit

HUH

These Fragments I Looking back at yourself shifting

Forgor to post this when I dropped it. open.substack.com/pub/gnocchic...

The Last Enemy Is Death: Prophetic Visions, AI Slop, and How the Politics of Immortality Could Shape Our Future How mystics and transhumanists force the dead to speak on behalf of their politics.

"The intent might be spiritual revelation but the effect is something like necromancy mixed with a carnival act." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...

the two going views of the world future, summarized in meme form

Look there's literally only one correct answer

Do not get fucking Bayesian on me bro. I don’t wanna hear shit about priors or hurdles. I swear to god, dude.

The west coast is truly another country

Bluesky feed is like

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No thank you. I will not being doing civil-military relations anymore. I will be doing synthpop-hyperpop relations. Much more contentious and violent.

It’s amusing and horrifying that Frodo was such a dick even by Chimp standards that the scientists seriously considered doing regime change to get rid of him

Sickos meme, but make it marin luther

A longstanding take of mine is that for a certain type of person gender essentialism a sort of crutch in their personal imaginary, the last thing that the world can't take from them, and so the idea of any sort of fluidity is an existential threat.

I’m ambivalent to the extent Gamergate had on a macrohistorical level in itself rather than being one of many semi-random reactionary spasms, but imagine being an editor who rubber-stamped a review of some rando indie game cuz w/e and now Africans don’t get AIDS meds and IKEA is illegal. Whoops.

What was today?

I wrote about microblogging and did a little Christian moralism here gnocchiccodices.substack.com/p/real-life-...

Yes, I'm one of them.

Sometimes I smoke cigars as if they're cigarettes, and it hurts real bad the next morning.

honestly 2020-era Sohrab and John Milbank should be treated as postliberal dril tweets

New post about Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, cavemen, and God! open.substack.com/pub/gnocchic...

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I feel like there’s gotta be a world out there where Eric Adams is maybe 2% less corrupt or better at hiding it, and winds up being Democrat Donald Trump

Welcome to Vichy America After the Fall

For several reasons I don’t think European fascism is necessarily the best analogy for 2025 (I agree with @grayathena.bsky.social that redemption/end of reconstruction is a better fit) but thir has stuck with me for six months for a reason. “Regime of national humiliation” seems about right.