Ben Menghini
@benghini.bsky.social
🧀 Workin' on my Night Cheese 🧀 | PhD in Theology from Emmanuel College/University of Toronto | he/him
The smash cut from defending my dissertation at the height of my academic achievement to pricing mark ups at Old Navy is quite jarring, and a little too on-the-nose as a contemporary allegory.
February 15, 2026 at 6:38 PM
The smash cut from defending my dissertation at the height of my academic achievement to pricing mark ups at Old Navy is quite jarring, and a little too on-the-nose as a contemporary allegory.
Yesterday I defended my dissertation and I am excited to share that I passed without revisions! This was truly a high point in my academic career and such a fun experience engaging deeply with brilliant scholars over my work.
February 13, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Yesterday I defended my dissertation and I am excited to share that I passed without revisions! This was truly a high point in my academic career and such a fun experience engaging deeply with brilliant scholars over my work.
It's the night before my dissertation defense. I'm in Toronto. I forgot my dress shirt and jacket at home. ADHD gets in its final jab.
February 12, 2026 at 3:45 AM
It's the night before my dissertation defense. I'm in Toronto. I forgot my dress shirt and jacket at home. ADHD gets in its final jab.
How is Toronto this bad at snow removal?
February 12, 2026 at 2:53 AM
How is Toronto this bad at snow removal?
Overhead (softly): fuck. gosh dammit.
February 8, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Overhead (softly): fuck. gosh dammit.
Will aggressively pushing content you don't follow finally do Facebook in? Because I'm finding it absolutely unusable these days.
February 5, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Will aggressively pushing content you don't follow finally do Facebook in? Because I'm finding it absolutely unusable these days.
Every day I do dishes.
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Every day I do dishes.
"nothing but parables in every bristling inch
of the out-of-sight unspoken never-to-be-known pure
sense-startling untranslatable there of the world as we find it"
—Eamon Grennan, World Word
of the out-of-sight unspoken never-to-be-known pure
sense-startling untranslatable there of the world as we find it"
—Eamon Grennan, World Word
February 5, 2026 at 12:12 AM
"nothing but parables in every bristling inch
of the out-of-sight unspoken never-to-be-known pure
sense-startling untranslatable there of the world as we find it"
—Eamon Grennan, World Word
of the out-of-sight unspoken never-to-be-known pure
sense-startling untranslatable there of the world as we find it"
—Eamon Grennan, World Word
Reposted by Ben Menghini
Five classes in college:
- EDU 101
- US International Relations
- Ethics
- World Religions
- Theological Method
- EDU 101
- US International Relations
- Ethics
- World Religions
- Theological Method
This’ll be fun.
Jazz Band
Corporate Finance
Microeconomic Development
Business Policy, Ethics, and Strategy Planning
Employment Law
Jazz Band
Corporate Finance
Microeconomic Development
Business Policy, Ethics, and Strategy Planning
Employment Law
Some that have really stuck with me:
-apocalyptic literature
-holocaust narratives
-philosophy and myth
-constructive theology (my intro to milbank, hart, etc)
-psychology of religion
-apocalyptic literature
-holocaust narratives
-philosophy and myth
-constructive theology (my intro to milbank, hart, etc)
-psychology of religion
January 31, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Five classes in college:
- EDU 101
- US International Relations
- Ethics
- World Religions
- Theological Method
- EDU 101
- US International Relations
- Ethics
- World Religions
- Theological Method
Mitch & Mickey - A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow
YouTube video by mayhew7
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 7:44 PM
The Syndicate symposium for @hannareichel.bsky.social After Method is out!
After Method | Syndicate
syndicate.network
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
The Syndicate symposium for @hannareichel.bsky.social After Method is out!
Six years of doctoral work and Judith Butler just tweets it out (publishes it 20 years ago).
January 28, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Six years of doctoral work and Judith Butler just tweets it out (publishes it 20 years ago).
There's something beautiful about pastors praying in the cold, their prayers rising as steam, intercessions collecting on their mustaches as frost.
As clergy pray, arrests begin
January 23, 2026 at 10:33 PM
There's something beautiful about pastors praying in the cold, their prayers rising as steam, intercessions collecting on their mustaches as frost.
Overall I love Baldur's Gate 3, but my primary complaint has to be the number of encounters that culminate in "pass a very specific skill check or slaughter a group of otherwise innocent bystanders."
January 23, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Overall I love Baldur's Gate 3, but my primary complaint has to be the number of encounters that culminate in "pass a very specific skill check or slaughter a group of otherwise innocent bystanders."
Reposted by Ben Menghini
the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will
January 22, 2026 at 4:27 PM
the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will
I just don't think AI images and statistics can have a place in liberative work...
January 20, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I just don't think AI images and statistics can have a place in liberative work...
Reposted by Ben Menghini
The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!"
The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 3:52 AM
The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!"
The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
Snuck in an anniversary lunch.
January 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Snuck in an anniversary lunch.
I got tricked into explaining my dissertation to a stranger in the sauna and got light headed from the talking and almost passed out. I consider this practice for my defense.
January 9, 2026 at 1:37 AM
I got tricked into explaining my dissertation to a stranger in the sauna and got light headed from the talking and almost passed out. I consider this practice for my defense.
we're all just waiting for the day they announce it on the news, "it's going to be okay, things will start to get better now."
January 7, 2026 at 2:01 AM
we're all just waiting for the day they announce it on the news, "it's going to be okay, things will start to get better now."
A week and a half of back pain and I just accidentally figured out how to release it by lifting my shoulder.
January 2, 2026 at 7:23 PM
A week and a half of back pain and I just accidentally figured out how to release it by lifting my shoulder.
I managed to dodge illness this holiday season, but have unfortunately acquired two separate back injuries.
December 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I managed to dodge illness this holiday season, but have unfortunately acquired two separate back injuries.
I know everyone wants to be a gender-ambiguous tiefling and its tipping the scales, but why couldn't we get Aasimars for BG3?
December 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I know everyone wants to be a gender-ambiguous tiefling and its tipping the scales, but why couldn't we get Aasimars for BG3?
A woman in a "faith over fear" t-shirt screaming at a Starbucks employee on Christmas morning.
December 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A woman in a "faith over fear" t-shirt screaming at a Starbucks employee on Christmas morning.