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I have that piece queued up for this afternoon!

Elizabeth Bruenig on Vance’s “very Christian concept”:

"In fact, the tendency of humankind to be self-serving & deceitful is part of what makes me believe that Christianity is at its purest & most beautiful when it... https://micro.andrewbelfield.com/2025/02/09/elizabeth-bruenig-on-vances-very.html

The Death of St. Francis

The Death of St. Francis https://www.wikiart.org/en/giotto/the-death-of-st-francis-1325

Two parked vehicles in front of a colorful wall with large text promoting live music this weekend.

Seattle, 2019

Nativity. Birth of Jesus

Nativity. Birth of Jesus https://www.wikiart.org/en/giotto/nativity-birth-of-jesus

Felted wool Francis of Assisi Christmas ornament

elaborate penwork decoration including a very large initial "P" (Puer) in red penwork with some black.

Season’s greetings to all.

(From Stanford MSS M1778 searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8659479)

The Mr. Bones B-story of Happy Birthday, Mr. Duvet is simply too good.

I cannot be made to care about Superman. Sorry, just won't do it.

Butlerian jihad can't come soon enough

Toronto’s CN tower

Orange Crush

Pop Song 89

Dead Letter Office at Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto

The Cloisters Collection, 1977

Pilgrim's Badge https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/472007

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

you're as cuddly as a cactus
you're as charming as an eel
and i cannot compete with you jolene

Scholastic Humor Database Scholastic Humor Database omnis homo est risibilis, et omne risibile est homo every human can laugh, and everything that can laugh is human —John Buridan, Summulae de Praedicabilibus (2.5.2) pratum ...

Could scholastics be funny? Boaz Schuman thinks so and is collecting jokes in scholastic works. Here's what he has found so far - he welcomes more suggestions!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Rogers Fund,1934

Chapel from Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/479486

I love the blues in this

Should I sit through the closing credits? Yes.

“And I never talk.”

Honorable mention to what I think is the most “me” sketch (inspired by @viktorfrankly.bsky.social)

post your fav pokémon, wrong answers only

Saint Francis in Prayer

Saint Francis in Prayer https://www.wikiart.org/en/caravaggio/saint-francis-in-prayer

El Salvador to try former president in 1989 killing of Jesuits, companions A judge in El Salvador ruled Nov. 18 that the country's former president, and 10 others, will stand trial for the wartime killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter in 1...

A judge in El Salvador ruled Nov. 18 that the country's former president, and 10 others, will stand trial for the wartime killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter in 1989.

Here's mine, anyway.

Someone please start one of those “introduce yourself with your 4 favorite whatever” but make it I Think You Should Leave sketches

We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review – a culture warrior out of his depth The popular psychologist’s blinkered reading of the Bible does his cause no favours

Thank God for Rowan Williams.

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

I am now prepared to admit that until fairly recently I thought bluesky was pronounced "bloo-skee." I thought this from the first time I saw the word, and I did not realize my mistake until after I'd been on bluesky for a few days.