Adam Harward

Man, Du Bois had some bangers, but for me, it doesn't get much better than his scathing indictment of the "Christianity" of the United States.

Certainly this was all true of the nation in his lifetime. But in my lifetime, his criticisms have never felt so true of the nation right now.

The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something

We are the bad guys. Evangelicals enthusiastically voted for the bad guys to be the bad guys. They can say "we didn't vote for war on Venezuela", but they voted to be the bad guys, and this is what bad guys do.

“Fewer than half of Americans now say religion is an important part of their daily lives, a 17 percentage point drop since 2015, which ranks among the largest declines in the world, according to a new Gallup poll”

“When you’re a star they let you do it”

Cut costs by replacing executives with AI.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

The worst part of living on the east coast is the sports schedules. Some west coast basketball games don’t start until 11.

The tax return of the king

A Ray Bradbury quote: “You have to inject yourself with a little fantasy every day in order not to die of reality.”

#IfYouHaventGot a little fantasy…

This!

Conservative American Christians' "Thoughts and prayers" while doing nothing to support real gun control is the new "Keep warm and well fed." It is religious faith without works, and as James 2:16 rightly says, "It's dead."

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Same! I’m 6’6.” I’m terrible if I ever have to describe how tall someone else is. My go-to answer is “well they are shorter than me.“

One thing they don't tell you is that grief accumulates in a bottle in your soul a drop at a time until one day you wake up so sad you don't think you can get out of bed. Then you've got to listen to a bunch of sad music and cry till it's empty enough to carry on anyway.

9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place. This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

This is…bleak. There is no bottom. I hate this.

I teach 5th and 6th grade, and I guess that’s kind of where my sense of humor lives.

This is also perfect for LotR, either collectively or individually:

The Lord of the Butthole
The Fellowship of the Butthole
The Two Buttholes
The Butthole of the King
(Almost went with The Return of the Butthole)

Ruin a book’s title by replacing one word with butthole.

The Old Man and the Butthole

Ocean’s 11: Basher nervously covers his crotch with one hand before activating an EMP.

My ballot for NY Times best movies of the 21st century. My picks: Children of men Interstellar The Royal tenenbaums No country for old men The social network Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind Mad Max: Fury Road LotR: Fellowship of the Ring Spider-man: into the spiderverse Arrival

My ballot:

a man in a red and blue spiderman costume is standing in front of a glass door . Alt: Spider-man being awkward.

Counterpoint: this is where super heroes come from.

Sign the Petition Stop the Township of Toms River, NJ from Seizing Christ Episcopal Church

This church tried to start a shelter for unhoused people, and now the city is trying to use eminent domain to turn the church into a pickle ball court. People are more important than pickle ball. Sign the petition to save the church.

The jump from “there are some places that you should not bring an infant” to “there are no places where you should bring an infant”

But he’s not. He goes to work. He just plays with his kids when he’s home.

Buying two books from the Bennington Bookshop.

Grabbed two books from the awesome Bennington Bookshop in Vermont!

Big Short 2: The Shortening

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.