The smash cut from defending my dissertation at the height of my academic achievement to pricing mark ups at Old Navy is quite jarring, and a little too on-the-nose as a contemporary allegory.
15.02.2026 18:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@benghini.bsky.social
๐ง Workin' on my Night Cheese ๐ง | PhD in Theology from Emmanuel College/University of Toronto | he/him
The smash cut from defending my dissertation at the height of my academic achievement to pricing mark ups at Old Navy is quite jarring, and a little too on-the-nose as a contemporary allegory.
15.02.2026 18:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I feel the same way. And so often in a crowded space with the mask below the nose, or wearing one alone in a car. Like, was the information environment that bad for 5 years that people who really need masks didn't learn how to use them effectively?
15.02.2026 18:25 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm so grateful to my committee: Tom Reynolds, Simon Coleman, Willie Jennings, and Valentina Napolitano, and especially my supervisor Natalie Wigg-Stevenson.
And the biggest thank you to Blakeley for all her support, and making it possible for me to finish this process.
I'm so happy to be Ph.Done!
Yesterday I defended my dissertation and I am excited to share that I passed without revisions! This was truly a high point in my academic career and such a fun experience engaging deeply with brilliant scholars over my work.
13.02.2026 14:34 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 0For a second there Natalie and I thought we might be able to ask you to serve as an examiner!
12.02.2026 04:57 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A selfie in grey slacks, a white shirt, and a blue overshirt jacket
what could have been
12.02.2026 04:27 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It's the night before my dissertation defense. I'm in Toronto. I forgot my dress shirt and jacket at home. ADHD gets in its final jab.
12.02.2026 03:45 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0How is Toronto this bad at snow removal?
12.02.2026 02:53 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Overhead (softly): fuck. gosh dammit.
08.02.2026 21:37 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Think About Me is one of my summer jams!
07.02.2026 19:28 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Angsty teenage Ben really connected with the Lindsey songs, especially I Know I'm Not Wrong. Adult Ben made Brown Eyes one of his all time most played songs.
07.02.2026 19:25 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I once had a minor viral tweet that said "what is your favorite FM album, and why is it Tusk?"
07.02.2026 18:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Will aggressively pushing content you don't follow finally do Facebook in? Because I'm finding it absolutely unusable these days.
05.02.2026 23:39 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Every day I do dishes.
05.02.2026 02:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"nothing but parables in every bristling inch
of the out-of-sight unspoken never-to-be-known pure
sense-startling untranslatable there of the world as we find it"
โEamon Grennan, World Word
Five classes in college:
- EDU 101
- US International Relations
- Ethics
- World Religions
- Theological Method
The Syndicate symposium for @hannareichel.bsky.social After Method is out!
28.01.2026 23:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"To know the limits of acknowledgment is to know even this fact in a limited way; as a result, it is to experience the very limits of knowing. This can, by the way, constitute a disposition of humility and generosity alike: I will need to be forgiven for what I cannot have fully known, and I will be under a similar obligation to offer forgiveness to others, who are also constituted in partial opacity to themselves." Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself
Six years of doctoral work and Judith Butler just tweets it out (publishes it 20 years ago).
28.01.2026 06:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Oh mommy!"
27.01.2026 01:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0For what it's worth, all of the organizing work I know of in Wisconsin and Missouri is either led by, or structurally supported by clergy and faith organizations.
23.01.2026 22:37 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0There's something beautiful about pastors praying in the cold, their prayers rising as steam, intercessions collecting on their mustaches as frost.
23.01.2026 22:33 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Overall I love Baldur's Gate 3, but my primary complaint has to be the number of encounters that culminate in "pass a very specific skill check or slaughter a group of otherwise innocent bystanders."
23.01.2026 18:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Wow, blast from the past
23.01.2026 03:22 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will
22.01.2026 16:27 โ ๐ 5456 ๐ 988 ๐ฌ 16 ๐ 28I just don't think AI images and statistics can have a place in liberative work...
20.01.2026 18:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!"
The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
Snuck in an anniversary lunch.
10.01.2026 18:32 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I got tricked into explaining my dissertation to a stranger in the sauna and got light headed from the talking and almost passed out. I consider this practice for my defense.
09.01.2026 01:37 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0