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Much like any species, given enough time, will evolve into Crab
any immigrant from the Balkans, given enough time in the US, will reinvent Cincinnati Chili.

Going to celebrate this snow day by not checking my email and reading a physical book.

This is what life is all about, folks.

Everyone in this coffee shop has stopped working to watch a great blue heron fly around outside.

"Shelter me from having to live my life" is basically what techies want from genAI and it's just so sad.

Did you know that if you mull wine without any sugar it will taste bad?

Wild Faith Esquire Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that la...

Wild Faith by @swordsjew.bsky.social . If it's your area of expertise it reads as a bit of a survey, but I think it's very useful for reaching a broader audience. And his takes on American Christianity are consistently very good.

A rocky beach on the right and frothy blue waves on the right meet at a white lighthouse in the middle distance under a partly cloudy sky

Angular gray rocks overlook the Atlantic Ocean

A line of trees reflected in still lake water

Close up of dewy nettles

Maine

at the yapping Olympics (American Academy of Religion)

Can news stop happening until this conference is over and I can log back in full time? Thanks

Why are you attacking me specifically

I mean she really just keeps on giving

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And the way Elizabeth's headpiece mirrored them!

-you six months ago

i lOvE tHe cOLd i'Ll bE fInE iN mAinE

Can't tell if I like the new Haley Williams album or if it's just earworm after earworm slowly colonizing my brain like a cat giving me toxoplasmosis.

Moral problems and strategies for the survival of academia aside, why would you want to take precious time set aside for actually talking about the cool stuff we do and use it for this instead?

Why do so many humanities academics insist on pretending that AI is an interesting topic of conversation?

Incredible performances all around!

Oooooh 😆

I can't tell if this is about lazy sci-fi writing or lazy academic conference writing.

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Wooden steps lead up a tree to a rope swing over a river at sunset. Changing fall leaves are mirrored in the water.

Cauliflower is an underrated vegetable

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Not to lib out or anything, but it does somehow feel like it is actually possible to build good things.

Wait. Is this fucking dissertation chapter about me?

Reading a Catholic colleague's work and realizing she's building a case against things I've said to her in conversation.

Social media erupts with laughter, mockery over Kentucky official's obvious election reminder to residents Secretary of State Michael Adams reminded Kentucky voters that 2025 is an off-year with no state elections, even though some states are holding races.

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