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Joe Chapman

@jreidchapman.bsky.social

palliative care chaplain • minister of word and sacrament in PC(USA) • poems in Best American Poetry and Boston Review • chronically ill • MUFC

326 Followers  |  138 Following  |  56 Posts  |  Joined: 23.09.2023  |  1.8657

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Okay, good! Yes, WE ARE SO BACK!!!

08.05.2025 22:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But he lived in Compton Heights! Or is this exactly what you’re talking about 😂

08.05.2025 22:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Should I be worried that I’m a pastor, a former poet, and have worked in a hospital

20.03.2025 22:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I did check myself but, against all odds, still found a way to wreck myself.

25.02.2025 23:03 — 👍 315    🔁 63    💬 13    📌 1

An Affleck’s Dozen

by Emma Bolden

21.02.2025 22:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In case you forgot a valentine for that special someone, we’ve got you covered! ❤️

14.02.2025 14:11 — 👍 23    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

YIKES.

The Maplewood one isn’t sooo bad

But I understand why everyone is crying 😂

03.02.2025 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m so glad you made it through the DMV line!

Um, which one did you go to??

03.02.2025 23:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"

Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"

OpenAI right now

29.01.2025 20:26 — 👍 44139    🔁 6362    💬 291    📌 176
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The PC(USA)'s Advocacy Committee for Women and Gender Justice has issued a statement of support for the Right Reverend Mariann Budde. #PCUSA #Advocacy

28.01.2025 21:45 — 👍 50    🔁 16    💬 7    📌 2

I like Bovon’s Hermeneia commentary! I’m not sure it’s the *most* scholarly but it surely has to be up there!

13.01.2025 19:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excellent!

What does it mean when the reverse is true, e.g. ETH struggling against the big teams but winning against weaker opposition?

13.01.2025 19:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social the composition this classic is crying out for a parallel

12.01.2025 20:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Whoa! I love “Coda”! The found/accidental line breaks are so innovative. There’s an energy to them; it seems to come from the fission between artifice and accident?

05.01.2025 11:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Opinion | I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit. Shareholders, not patient outcomes, tend to drive decisions at health insurance companies.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

18.12.2024 10:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I will miss him dearly. Since his back injury Rashford has struggled to meet the demands of a pressing system. Difficult injury + shift in modern tactics make it so he needs a system that protects him. Then he can be world-class again—and I think he knows this deep down.

17.12.2024 22:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

CC: Jonah

16.12.2024 17:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax

ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive

13.12.2024 21:11 — 👍 7816    🔁 2314    💬 101    📌 155

I went back there briefly too and that was all I saw! (Then it was Amad’s leaking the lineups, then it was Mount.)

I mean, I fell for it but then shook myself out of the clickbait stupor.

13.12.2024 22:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“…you cannot expect to live in a society where that rage goes nowhere”

13.12.2024 22:07 — 👍 96    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 3

Yeah, that is really tough: to be an extrovert and unable to leave your bed.

As an introvert, there’s a safety and richness to my inner life that can get punctured by others.

But it’s probably the opposite for you! You feel alive in the company of another human being.

11.12.2024 22:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I get that! I’m chronically ill and disabled too. But I am an extreme introvert! 😂

11.12.2024 22:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tell me a horror story in one skeet

11.12.2024 22:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My dad has dementia, and every time something changes about his condition we wait months for someone to see him. He has all the resources anyone would want and great insurance. There are great doctors and nurses, but the system they work in is broken everywhere we interact with it.

11.12.2024 16:53 — 👍 146    🔁 13    💬 8    📌 2
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Americans Spend More Years Sick Than Rest of World, Study Finds Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.

Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.

People in the US live with illness for 12.4 years on average – up from 10.9 years in 2000, according to a study published by the American Medical Association

11.12.2024 18:30 — 👍 6862    🔁 1826    💬 409    📌 243

Talk to me about how chronic pain has affected your politics and political life.

09.12.2024 22:33 — 👍 1401    🔁 259    💬 149    📌 103

Narrator: It was, in fact, not too late

08.12.2024 23:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Forget the title, the real race is whatever United and Spurs are competing for

08.12.2024 18:16 — 👍 142    🔁 12    💬 12    📌 2
Furio from the Sopranos, a handsome Italian man

Furio from the Sopranos, a handsome Italian man

Christopher Maltasanti from the Sopranos, a confused looking Italian American man

Christopher Maltasanti from the Sopranos, a confused looking Italian American man

Dalot’s body/Dalot’s brain

07.12.2024 21:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Breathtaking levels of cognitive dissonance

06.12.2024 20:54 — 👍 406    🔁 68    💬 15    📌 13

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