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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1h

related bit: nothing funnier than a large, muscular man who owns a small dog

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1h

there’s pretty much no subset of the church I trust more than American nuns over 50

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 9h

TBH, I went into this profession believing there would be a lot more overlap between "reading books" and "being an English professor" than there actually is. Sending emails, managing spreadsheets, handing tissues to weeping people: yes. Reading books, or substantial portions thereof, not so much.

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 8h

a pair I really like

@chloe.longname 💰🐍 #snakepeople

John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 15h

Those poor dodos! (I took the same class lol)

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 15h

Made an orange chiffon cake!

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

I'm rolling the dice on my dahlias and leaving them uncovered! But we're only getting to 36...

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

I have been singing "snake people eating steaks at the steeple"🎶🐍 for like three hours

John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

follow it up with this actual version made by a music producer

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TikTok video by Brett Domino

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Lmk if you want the slow and reverbed version

John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

ok, I am an old person and out of touch. This video is now several months old, but I had not yet experienced the absurdist joy that is the TikTok "snake people" song. And if you haven't, you should watch it

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TikTok video by chloe.longname

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Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

also....surely Tylenol has a giant, tempting, ripe lawsuit here?

Trump Doubles Down On Dubious Claims Tylenol Causes Autism: ‘There’s Something Going On'

John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

looking forward to "I did my own research" conspiracists landing on "circumcision causes autism"

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d

He also said there are “two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it’s highly likely it’s because they’re given Tylenol,” to which Trump replied “there’s a tremendous amount of proof or evidence,” without giving examples.

Trump also made the dubious claim there is “no autism” among Amish people.

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Nora Demleitner @norademleitner.bsky.social · 1d

Why is it legitimate for the President to post official policy on social media? (I have the same question about government departments using Twitter as the sole communications medium.) We fail to understand how far this is a change from using official gvt websites.

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 1d

Any Truth Social post that concludes with "Thank you for your attention to this matter," is the highest of laws, as the framers intended.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 1d

Right from the start Judge Graber says she has questions for both counsels:

(1) What document authorizes the action? Is it the President's memo?

McArthur: cites the June memo, Trump's Truth Social post (!!), and a DHS memo, and "further posts on social media" in October.

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 1d

nothing like watching a presentation about ed tech tools to radicalize you against them

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

hahaha this fact always enrages me

John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

"Eve is at a breaking point. Alone with her two children in Massachusetts while her husband pursues his music career in New York City," is this a thinly veiled fictional version of you, Adam Zucker, pursuing your music career in New York City?!?!

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

Also, church leaders have been REALLY unified in their interpretation of Catholic social teaching. The basic gist: the US has a right to secure its borders and it's ok to deport criminals. BUT it's not ok to deport people whose only crime was coming to the US illegally looking for a better life.

John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

What do I want the church to do? If it comes to it, they need to start excommunicating the architects of this policy, starting w/ Vance. I also would like a little more direct action (as would Dorothy Day), tho I doubt we are going to see priests on the front lines of protests. But I can hope...

John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

and you can tell that a ton of bishops/parish priests are subsequently feeling emboldened to speak out, it's not just upper-level church leaders. The church is PISSED (as it should be), not least because these raids are overwhelming targeted specifically at Catholics.

John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d

this has been....Archbishop Watch! Since late summer the American archbishops have gotten more directly critical and less conciliatory (and I want to single out Wenski, Archbishop of Miami, who is EXTREMELY conservative and has been relentlessly critical about 'Alligator Alcatraz') +