Travis Smith McKee

Comic. “Measure [Twice], cut [Once]” -Carpenty Proverb. [Scatter plot with number of measurements on y axis and number of cuts on x axis. Points in a descending line on graph: surveyor, surgeon, good carpenter, careless carpenter, really bad carpenter, serial killer]

Measure Twice, Cut Once

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Counterpoint: naw.

Never feel sorry for being vulnerable enough with someone to show emotion. If they teased or took advantage of that and pretended to be a safe space, that says a HELL of a lot about THEM. NOT YOU.

Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism. Inside The Project 2025 Organization's Proposal. On Thursday evening, news emerged that individuals within and outside of Trump administration were pushing to cast trans activists as domestic terrorists. Then, Project 2025 dropped its proposal.

A word to my progressive Christian friends (especially pastors):

This hasn't happened yet but it's 100% where they want to go. So I am begging you to decide now what you will do if supporting trans people becomes legally grey.

Think through these questions...
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

This is a weird way to end cancel culture!

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

Good thread here

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Alexander Campbell was born in Northern Ireland 237 years ago today. He & his father had a passion for Christian simplicity they called “Restorationism,” but was meant to be a form of “mere Christianity” which they borrowed from Richard Baxter, who called for it long before C.S. Lewis…
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Yep. And I’m about to return to the weekly work of this.

It’s on us to proclaim it, but also to live it out in relationship. That’s the harder part, I find.

YouTube video by twenty one pilots Twenty One Pilots - City Walls (Official Video)

There’s a million things happening RIGHT NOW… and I’ve been digging deep into this video and new album. I think it’s a good morning to pop in the headphones and go play disc golf.

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An impulsive liar very obviously lied again and we’re going full CSI on his signature like he hasn’t been impulsively lying for literally decades.

I’ve seen that on a website Google ad rotation. By the time I calmed down from seeing it and thought to screenshot it, it went away.

I figured it was that small.
I worked an election in Cheney area that had 3 people on the ballot for an off year, and it felt like just that many voted in it!

What is that one extremely blue dot around Wellington? I wanna know folks in that precinct!

Ooof….

The Eagle's Travis Heying captured this image near 45th Street North and 135th Street West as a thunderstorm moved into the Wichita area Wednesday night. #KSwx

Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.

Sea Level

xkcd.com/3135/

Boom.

Framing of this Q notwithstanding, note that Trump focuses on "Democrats" here.

But among Abrego's supporters in Baltimore today were a slate of ordained clergy, who spoke at length in his defense (it was most of the rally program).

Genuinely curious how Trump would respond if asked about them.

KMUW announces retirement of long-time Wichita journalist KMUW News Director Tom Shine will retire in December.

KMUW announces retirement of long-time Wichita journalist
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This is Tuffy. He is the only example of taking up the whole sidewalk that is not only justifiable, but encouraged. 14/10 (IG: mypittuffy)

yes.

For the past year plus, I’ve been sharing this sermon and I’ve been impressed with the impact it’s had each time. I trust past me, even if I have a lot more to add into what he said.

Yeah, this is an odd metaphor, but as one of my favorite musicians Derek Webb says, I trust the man who wrote those old songs even though I am a different person than the one who wrote them.

But I got some great feedback, and people were into it, grooved with the songs and appreciated the lyrics. Sung the hooks back to me over lunch.

Today’s sermon was like a musician’s setlist.

I’ve played this set 12 times now… very strange and I’ll never get used to it. I played a new song before the closer. It was a familiar action, but something about it felt off to me, to my sensibilities…