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Blacque Jacque Shellacque

@bornwithatail.bsky.social

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 3h

Incredible business opportunity here

Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 3h

My search for inflatable loon costume sadly came up empty.

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 4h

SKATRIOTS ARE IN CONTROL

ska kids skanking

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 5h

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 5h

Tsar Nicholas II

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 5h

when I see The Yearling in The Yearling

Leonardo DiCaprio playing Rick Dalton in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. He is holding a cigarette and a beer can in his right hand and pointing at a TV screen with his left hand.

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Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 7h

The most reliable way to distinguish Protestant denominations is to ask if their clergy dress like businessmen, rappers, homeless people, or wizards.

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 7h

The aesthetics of evangelical pastors (suit & tie/“whacky youth pastor”) have rendered Americans incapable of seeing anyone in a clerical collar as anything other than Roman Catholic.

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 7h

The aesthetics of evangelical pastors (suit & tie/“whacky youth pastor”) have rendered Americans incapable of seeing anyone in a clerical collar as anything other than Roman Catholic.

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 8h

I’m joining the war for Freedom… against Freedom!

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Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social · 9h

A Bruce Springsteen cover band that does ska versions of Bruce songs called nebraSKA.

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 10h

“we can do this hard way or the easy way”

Pope Leo holding a black baseball bat, with a slight grin

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 10h

I’m glad they gave the Medal of Honor to an upstanding public servant like The Wallet Inspector and not a two-bit crook like The Hamburglar

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

SOMETHING TOO METAL FOR BLUESKY

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

Our guy’s going to be doing the Superbowl Shuffle in a throwback Refrigerator Perry jersey within a week

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

they’re gonna hear this track and go AWOL youtu.be/oqrtoFWglMY?...

Serengeti "Dennehy"

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

Incorruptibility of Saints? It’s more common than you might think!

Photographing the Real Bodies of Incorrupt Saints

The Italian nun grimaced at my camera, reviewing the photo that she had just snapped of me. We had to take another, she explained. The shriveled corpse to my...

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Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

THIS DELIGHTFUL MELANGE OF AUTUMNAL FRAGRANCES HATH NO JURISDICTION IN THIS REALM

FALL POTPOURRI MY DUDES

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the Chicago Way

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

ok, but what about a nice potpourri?

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

⚓️ are any of you Narthex weirdos (complimentary) watching Task? I need to discuss

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

actually you need to yell HEY LEAVE ENOUGH ROOM FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT and then wedge them apart. People love that!

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

5% odds that they’re going to announce that air traffic control will be done by Grok

Blacque Jacque Shellacque @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 1d

It comes for us all at some point