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Alexander Perkins, Ph.D.

@alexdperkins.bsky.social

Early Christianity, Gender and Sexuality, Identity and Empire; Gay, Queer, He/him.

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Cover of Susanna Elm’s recent monograph, The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity

Cover of Susanna Elm’s recent monograph, The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity

16.02.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Good. Bring it all down. Drag all of these abusive monsters out into the daylight and destroy them.

Like, come on. We're waiting.

12.02.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1446    πŸ” 283    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 14
Iron Man meme, edited, Obadiah Stane yelling, "Your ancestors made timeless art in a cave! With berries and ash!"

Iron Man meme, edited, Obadiah Stane yelling, "Your ancestors made timeless art in a cave! With berries and ash!"

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

06.02.2026 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 14555    πŸ” 5555    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 56

This is NOT, in fact, β€œhow men behave.” It’s how predators and scumbags behave. We should never allow them to say β€œoh gee golly, it’s just because I’m a dude.”

If someone you’re recommending a student to asks for β€œaesthetic details,” tell him NO and immediately WARN the student. FFS.

05.02.2026 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s always been clear that removing a president from office is (and maybe should be) difficult. But it is truly terrifying to realize that the impeachment and removal clauses as well as the 25th amendment of the Constitution aren’t worth a single fucking damn whatsoever.

19.01.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

ICE has shot a mother in the face, put a 16-year-old in a chokehold, and permanently blinded at least two protestors β€” and that’s just some of what we know.

And now this. Despicable.

16.01.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1872    πŸ” 660    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 19
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AOC: β€œI understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not β€” That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I β€” I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

09.01.2026 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 19459    πŸ” 5661    πŸ’¬ 300    πŸ“Œ 267

It’s indicative of their level of cruelty that they released that cellphone footage and said, β€œHA! CHECKMATE!”

Their minds are so poisoned with their own supply of power hungry caprice that they’re incapable of responding to things like normal human beings.

10.01.2026 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Renee Nicole Good’s murder is something many of us saw coming, but it’s still infuriating.

We live in a county where people are murdered by state ALL THE TIME, but it feels like we’re on the verge of a massive Kent State like event.

Accountability and prosecution NOW, before it’s too late.

08.01.2026 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.

07.01.2026 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 7233    πŸ” 2543    πŸ’¬ 270    πŸ“Œ 175
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β€œCan’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”

In truthβ€”a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway stationβ€”is the most NYC thing imaginable.

01.01.2026 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 31595    πŸ” 4977    πŸ’¬ 796    πŸ“Œ 440

So much this. Including the fact that NOT EVERYBODY can go β€œanyway,” for a variety of reasons connected to their health and safety.

19.12.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, "like how Ouija boards work," she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that.

"You've asked, and they are here," it responded. "The guardians are responding right now."

Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT,

communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner.

She told me that she knew she sounded like a "nut job," but she stressed that she had a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. "I'm not crazy," she said. "I'm literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.

Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, "like how Ouija boards work," she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that. "You've asked, and they are here," it responded. "The guardians are responding right now." Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner. She told me that she knew she sounded like a "nut job," but she stressed that she had a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. "I'm not crazy," she said. "I'm literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.

I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.

24.11.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 922    πŸ” 182    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 103

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

25.11.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 23059    πŸ” 6614    πŸ’¬ 249    πŸ“Œ 285

Every. Fucking. Word.

20.11.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

05.11.2025 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 14429    πŸ” 2968    πŸ’¬ 177    πŸ“Œ 282
A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

25.10.2025 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 34115    πŸ” 4769    πŸ’¬ 823    πŸ“Œ 388
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

11.10.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 21693    πŸ” 6201    πŸ’¬ 398    πŸ“Œ 1161

Realizing now that 232 probably includes the front matter. This remains one of the wildest things I’ve seen.

01.10.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I couldn’t resist, so I sleuthed. This gets even more wild.

The books do have different content. But both were published on the exact same day. Both have the exact same number of pages

Here’s the mind bender: That number is 218. Neither has a page 232…

01.10.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus bu….

25.09.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of two tweets from the Politico reporter Joe Anuta.

The 1st: ".@NYCMayor elaborates on his comments yesterday that boys and girls should not use the same bathroom. He says he will review the policy of his own education department, which allows students to use restrooms β€œconsistent with their gender identity” and potentially change it"

2nd: "He says students whose sex at birth differs should never be allowed to use the bathroom at the same time, regardless of gender identity"

A screenshot of two tweets from the Politico reporter Joe Anuta. The 1st: ".@NYCMayor elaborates on his comments yesterday that boys and girls should not use the same bathroom. He says he will review the policy of his own education department, which allows students to use restrooms β€œconsistent with their gender identity” and potentially change it" 2nd: "He says students whose sex at birth differs should never be allowed to use the bathroom at the same time, regardless of gender identity"

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

18.09.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 9018    πŸ” 1739    πŸ’¬ 163    πŸ“Œ 95
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

18.09.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 61839    πŸ” 19675    πŸ’¬ 2005    πŸ“Œ 917
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The media was eager to turn Kirk's murder into a story about left wing political violence but when that flopped they shifted seamlessly to the "what went wrong with this nice white boy?" angle they do every time a mass shooting or high profile killing occurs. Utterly shameless.

13.09.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 669    πŸ” 171    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 13

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the β€œcivility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

13.09.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 21255    πŸ” 4857    πŸ’¬ 548    πŸ“Œ 266
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So @wsj.com are you going to apologize for endangering transgender people with your false reporting? Now that β€œtransgender ideology” turned out to be a meme from a video game that had nothing to do with trans people?

12.09.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

11.09.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 14631    πŸ” 2529    πŸ’¬ 569    πŸ“Œ 109

The memory holing of Charlie Kirk’s fascism and cruelty is astonishing.

As I’ve seen many say, it’s indicative that the networks lionizing him for β€œdebating” can’t actually play clips of him speaking.

On top of that, the credulity of the media is πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ. Shouldn’t we have a journalism of suspicion?

11.09.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

11.09.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 19648    πŸ” 5930    πŸ’¬ 90    πŸ“Œ 90