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If anybody on ⚓ wants to use the sequence hymn I wrote for this Sunday let me know. I have it in just the melody for our bulletin, in SATB for choir, and in an organ arrangement.

Most BlueSky users are the MY of their friend group

The Lac d'Annecy

The Lac d'Annecy, 1896 #artbots #cezanne
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/13236

"The phrase 'Christ is King' becomes a way to manipulate and dominate others, rather than a call to humble service."

~Henri Nouwen

Surprise: the teacher had entered the wrong date and cancelled the sub posting five minutes after I got there.

Valley of the Seine - 1909
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103269

I have a Mac, so, naturally, half my applications are not responding at any given moment

Social media should come with an anti-virality option, where you can insist that your post be algorithmically down ranked. Going viral is genuinely horrible

Origenist Obama: “Uhh, let me be sphere.”

This makes musical sense to me

What is the book on?

Have you considered the Biblical interpretation. That the time refers to Matthew 2:17 the murder of the innocents where every child (but Jesus who escaped to Egypt) is killed. Once I realized this I think the themes felt more coherent with the plot and less like an afterthought

Well we are probably going on strike next Monday so I might have another week off lol

First day substitute teaching is tomorrow RIP summer 2025 you were a real one

Anyways I would consider myself highly conversant and I have never read even a word of Goethe, Puskin, Rimbaud, or Hölderlin and that's always been okay. Not that they are worthless or I shouldn't read them, but you can get by.

Indeed, Krister Stendahl, author of Paul Among Jews and Gentiles, is bare minimum for holding a conversation

In Sunday school today we learned that God made the world, and our craft is these clip crocodiles:

Some of our churches are so dead in spirit that we cannot imagine the faith that is in a place like this

Don McLean's American Pie is the closest white people have ever come to approximating Kendrick Lamar

This Podcast Is Supported By: The Ritz Carlton Yacht Collection

This is so relatable

Lombard's House - 1931
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104339

Zohran Mamdani is very useful because his success throws into stark contrast the formal rules of decision-making (political parties, primaries) Americans are indoctrinated into believing runs things and the opaque informal networks of power that actually run things

Derek Jarman’s Blue is now on Tubi

Snow Effect, The Road to Louveciennes - 1869 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7313

כן גל קור

I have to haul my groceries up to my apartment now

There are 28 people before me in line at the Costco Food Court

It is eighty seven degrees out

Spring Plowing

Spring Plowing 1916 #artbots #munch
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25754