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Jon Coutts

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Film lover and lifelong fan of #LFC and the #Canucks. Scottish-Canadian theologian writing a book on Bonhoeffer. 🎬 http://letterboxd.com/joncoutts ✍️ http://thissideofsunday.blogspot.com

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 6m

How did they fail to call this "Two Jürgens study Bonhoeffer"?

Book cover: R.H. Fuller edited "Two Studies in the Theology of Bonhoeffer", one by Jürgen Moltmann and the other by Jürgen Weissbach

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 33m

I'm going to cry aren't I?

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 14h

Turned the Mariners game on in the 7th and have nearly watched a whole game since then

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh.

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 1d

Oof

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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 1d

Once again I want to mention how stupid it is that Sportsnet blacks out so many out-of-region broadcasts.

Canadians often move to other provinces but take their loyalties with them.

Just because I moved doesn't mean I should have to pay thru the nose to see my team.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 1d

honestly, having a game on every day was really good for me this summer

Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 1d

Yep

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 2d

In all seriousness maybe The Other Journal?

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 2d

My inbox? ; )

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Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 3d

Just in case people at home aren't paying attention, what we're watching here is the "primitive accumulation" stage of capitalism, wherein capitalist enclose (i.e., steal) resources while loudly insisting they should be given both state subsidies and legal protections to do so.

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hatch @imhatch.bsky.social · 3d

go jays

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 4d

Wild that the "disquieting" scenario in MacIntyre's After Virtue is actually happening right now, to popular acclaim

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah and there's a version of command ethics that lands closer to the latter than the former

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 4d

There really oughtta be two unisex washrooms: one for handwashers and the other for those men that can't be bothered

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 5d

I’m sick of how if somebody is rich enough their stupidity is our problem. That’s not fair to actual people

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 6d

Hop on facebook to scroll 22 ads for a picture of muffins a friend made three days ago

Hop on bluesky for a live feed of liberalism flaming out

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 6d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 6d

the "kid drowning while mom helps other kid" meme. The Mom is labeled "white evangelicals explaining the gospel," and she's focused on the kid labeled "the crucifixion." The kid drowning is "The resurrection." The forgotten skeleton at the bottom of the pool is "liberation."

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 7d

This line up is not working

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 7d

There could be a whole documentary analyzing the fouls called for Grealish but not for Salah

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 10d

Who stands to benefit from the gutting of Canada Post?

The billionaire class.

If Mark Carney were really serious about nation-building, Dru OJa Jay writes how the post office could become an engine for green energy, public banking, and better services. breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...

Canada Post faces two futures—a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine ⋆ The Breach

The Liberal government is dismantling Canada Post for the billionaire class, while ignoring bold proposals from postal workers to reinvent the public service

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 7d

It wasn’t naivety, it was shareholder greed.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 7d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 7d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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