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Kath 🍁🍂🎃🍂🍁

@kathnotkathy.bsky.social

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Episcopalian prophesying on behalf of the radically inclusive Kingdom of God. Southern Queer. Disabled & Neurodivergent. Married with pets. Avid reader. Big fan of the horror genre. I ruin Thanksgiving, but I make the house party.

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Kath 🍁🍂🎃🍂🍁 @kathnotkathy.bsky.social · Feb 13

I guess I should do an ✨intro✨ and pin it to the top! I am gaining more followers than I expected to (and some of you are even real people, I think!) So, here's all the relevant information about me and my posting habits 🧵:

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 6h

UPDATE:

After WIRED reported on the spike in people joining the 'Leucovorin for Autism' group on Facebook, Meta deleted the group.

A source confirmed to me that the decision was taken to delete the group for "promoting prescription drugs"

www.wired.com/story/chaos-...

Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr.’s Autism ‘Cure’

A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

www.wired.com

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The Visual Commentary on Scripture @thevcs.bsky.social · 5h

This week we take a closer look at #Acts of the Apostles 19.

Norman Lewis was a 20th-century American artist and political activist who contributed to Abstract Expressionism. Click here to read about Lewis's painting 'Ritual':

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NORMAN LEWIS
Ritual, 1962, Oil on canvas, 130.2 x 161.9 cm, Private Collection; ©️ Estate of Norman Lewis; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5h

Happy Monday and a gentle reminder to those dealing with chronic illness to watch out for the October Slide.

This time of year can cause flare ups, increased symptoms and unexpected hits to your baseline.

It’s best to go slow. Be gentle. And know that you’re not alone.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 14h

As we all know, real activists who achieve real things talk about doing federal crimes on public social media all the time

(do not trust anyone who talks about how cool doing federal crimes is on public social media)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 1d

There is a massive irony in Christians (or people of any religious faith) failing to accept the plausibility of a grass roots movement upending the established power structure when that is literally how *every* major religion pops onto the scene.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 1d

Exactly. The entire conservative Christian life and worldview — especially for their men — are governed by institutionalized daddy issues. So they can’t imagine any conflict outside of the idea that somebody else’s daddy is trying to attack their daddy.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

As Vought sees it: The "natural"/divinely ordained order manifests in sharp hierarchies of race, gender, religion, and wealth; this "natural" order was enshrined in the nation's founding; therefore any attempt at leveling hierarchies is unnatural, un-American, and fundamentally illegitimate.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Kath 🍁🍂🎃🍂🍁 @kathnotkathy.bsky.social · 11h

🙏 beautiful

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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 22h

Today is the one year anniversary of my mom's death.

These beautiful pulpit flowers were placed in her memory and honor.

I almost didnt go to mass because I was just so anxious about my heightened emotions, but it was very much worth it, as it is every Sunday.

🕯 #touchpews

a beautiful wooden pulpit with saints carved into it. In front of the pulpit are pretty flowers.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 21h

It was a very good decision to go #touchpews at a Rite I service across town. I was rewarded with a Palestrina Mass setting and plenty of mental space to listen and reflect. It's a long time since I heard the Summary of the Law in church. ⚓

My hand on the back of a polished dark wood pew, with a Hymnal 1982 just visible underneath. Choir in red cassocks is rehearsing out of focus in the chancel in the background.

Me, with light blue gauze scarf and roundish glasses, somewhat backlit by church lamps.

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 21h

Great bit of Thiel lore was that as the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding, he sent out a company wide email (Thiel Capital) musing that this may be the start of the Biblical apocalypse, and that everyone receiving the email should spend time with their families and read the Bible

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Kath 🍁🍂🎃🍂🍁 @kathnotkathy.bsky.social · 21h

Awesome! A storied pew!

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Cody⁺ @cebm.bsky.social · 21h

I #touchedpews today at St John’s, Lafayette Square. Specifically I touched Mr. Lincoln’s pew. 🕯️

Sign with the description of the Lincoln Pew.

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Mizzy Blundell-Straw MP 🌹 @mizzyblundellstraw.bsky.social · 1d

The emotional labour of thinking

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Kath 🍁🍂🎃🍂🍁 @kathnotkathy.bsky.social · 23h

I simply can't imagine wanting to do that, but as I understand it the ultra wealthy are always chasing the high of novelties mo ey can buy. Also no one is ever telling them their idea is stupid, because they want some of that money.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

it's really funny how often people react to posts of mine that piss them off by assuming I am too stupid to make or understand jokes and so I must be serious and they should react accordingly. do you dumbasses think I actually think there is a dungeon under the white house

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Kath 🍁🍂🎃🍂🍁 @kathnotkathy.bsky.social · 23h

I feel as if my brain is neurodivergent in such a way, by the grace of God, that I am naturally immune to so much of what is currently destroying the minds of the Elites™️ because I hate Chat GPT & most groupchats.

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 1d

“Having followers is the same as being rich” is such a chronically online take

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I voted to hire the first plumber and she lost to the sociopath. how is this my fault

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d

Wrong analogy.

This would be like if the plumber spent a solid year warning you not to hire a *different* plumber because he's a sociopath who would deliberately break open the water main & flood your house, but you chose to do so anyway *and* gave the other plumber an exclusive 4-year contract.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

this is your fucking job that you're being paid to do. Imagine asking your plumber to stop your dishwasher from flooding your apartment and he's like "well what exactly do you want me to do?" The specifics are your part dog idk!

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Kath 🍁🍂🎃🍂🍁 @kathnotkathy.bsky.social · 23h

I am home sick from church today, let me see your pews. #TouchPews ⚓

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

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Kath 🍁🍂🎃🍂🍁 @kathnotkathy.bsky.social · 23h

📣 YOU ARE AUTONOMOUS! I DO NOT CONTOL YOU. NO WOMAN ON THE INTERNET CONTROLS YOU. If you fail to do something to positively change the course of our fall of Rome that's on YOU. Women do not possess a magic wand that makes you happy or sad. Take responsibility for yourself.