Jacob W. Torbeck

Okay, but the 2024 Eucharistic revival convention, premised on and promoted as responding to a poor survey of Catholic beliefs just as poorly interpreted by clergy? With guests speakers who seem pretty cozy with accused sex offenders and right wing think tanks? I don’t know if I like that.

…and Girard for that matter.

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YouTube video by vlogbrothers Is this What’s Wrong with Me?

This video from @hankgreen.bsky.social hits hard. Everything he talks about has been swirling around in my head for a good year or so and it’s a lot.

But his advice at the end is spot on. Go buy Kathleen’s adventure at pizzamas.com. I just grabbed a shirt and the DM screen.

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I love this image.

Gorgeous serendipity:

Given that Albertus Magnus is among those consulted by Victor Frankenstein, we can surely make room for him.

I know that MtGsky is very happy about ninja turtles today, but I’m very happy about this #dragonquest closed beta!

Came here to say this. What a shame to see it go, an idea that was too good to live!

Jay’s childhood.dec coming soon to a commander table near you!

Eternal rest to a very, very kind woman who loved the university and the students in her care.

I hope someone loves you on purpose today. Says Skeletor yelling from the top of a castle he probably stole from someone.

Or hey, just a class on what words mean may be nice.

I’m in the midst of “just because you put the word ‘ethics’ in the name of the class doesn’t make it an ethics class, Coms dept… it needs ethics content!” Argument in senate. I’m the senate vice chair, so I think this will go my way… (hubris)

My colleague in the English dept and I were just talking about this song and how very pointed it seems if you’re at all familiar with Nashville. Just so good.

From the outside, those two officials are some of the best resisters out there rn.

Solid choices, here!

Just turning on Ghost and grading midterms to think about anything other than *gestures broadly*

(I mean, also, it is technically doing my job, but)

then perish 😀

The TLDR for the tldr.

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This is accurate

"meme" is short for memento mori

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

@mtgplowshare.bsky.social is my fave new find this year, and @trasgomorph.bsky.social is always a pleasure to read. Both are over at @hipstersofthecoast.com periodically

Loved him back when I just saw him on Instagram. Looking forward to this and very happy for him!

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

Kendrick Lamar and Thea Bowman: Mystics of resistance Using the medium of rap and the medium of theology, respectively, Kendrick Lamar and Sr. Thea Bowman have each ushered something new into the world: a piece of God incarnated in their own unique way.

I love this essay by @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social in @ncronline.bsky.social on two of my favorite prophets: Sr. Thea Bowman and Kendrick Lamar. I have been ruminating on Lamar's theological aesthetics with my graduate students this semester; this essay contributes productively to our grappling.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

"Let us begin again, for until now we have done nothing." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

A blessed feast day to Franciscans everywhere, and all who celebrate on this feast of Saint Francis!

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. Says Skeletor really trying hard to make room for some unimaginable shit.