Matt
@gatesong.bsky.social
Priest in the Episcopal Diocese of the Great Lakes. Wife guy. Aging hipster. God, indie rock, Star ____, and (Seattle) soccer. he/him
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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This is very good. I like to remind people that headlines in the 80s would (regularly!) talk about people who drank lattes or ate sushi as exotic, self-indulgent yuppies with obscure tastes. Media constantly made fun of “haute cuisine” meals with tiny portions because fine dining was bad.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is very good. I like to remind people that headlines in the 80s would (regularly!) talk about people who drank lattes or ate sushi as exotic, self-indulgent yuppies with obscure tastes. Media constantly made fun of “haute cuisine” meals with tiny portions because fine dining was bad.
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He will come like last leaf’s fall.
One night when the November wind
has flayed the trees to the bone, and earth
wakes choking on the mould,
the soft shroud’s folding.
One night when the November wind
has flayed the trees to the bone, and earth
wakes choking on the mould,
the soft shroud’s folding.
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
He will come like last leaf’s fall.
One night when the November wind
has flayed the trees to the bone, and earth
wakes choking on the mould,
the soft shroud’s folding.
One night when the November wind
has flayed the trees to the bone, and earth
wakes choking on the mould,
the soft shroud’s folding.
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"Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world is full of enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved.
Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath, but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion."
Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath, but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion."
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world is full of enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved.
Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath, but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion."
Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath, but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion."
When Jesus fed the 5000 there were 12 baskets left over, yeah?
Where did the baskets come from? ⚓
Where did the baskets come from? ⚓
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
When Jesus fed the 5000 there were 12 baskets left over, yeah?
Where did the baskets come from? ⚓
Where did the baskets come from? ⚓
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Guess I'm a REAL Episcopal priest now ⚓
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Guess I'm a REAL Episcopal priest now ⚓
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I’m not sure I’ll bring myself to watch this new documentary Thoughts and Prayers on HBO about the active shooter preparedness industry.
But just this clip shows how twisted we’ve let our society get. What we’ve done to our kids. It’s absolutely unacceptable.
Gun reform, NOW!
But just this clip shows how twisted we’ve let our society get. What we’ve done to our kids. It’s absolutely unacceptable.
Gun reform, NOW!
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I’m not sure I’ll bring myself to watch this new documentary Thoughts and Prayers on HBO about the active shooter preparedness industry.
But just this clip shows how twisted we’ve let our society get. What we’ve done to our kids. It’s absolutely unacceptable.
Gun reform, NOW!
But just this clip shows how twisted we’ve let our society get. What we’ve done to our kids. It’s absolutely unacceptable.
Gun reform, NOW!
That guy's on a mission from God
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
That guy's on a mission from God
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I am playing D&D with five friends via Zoom and we’re all in our fifties and my young teen self knowing this would be happening would be so happy and satisfied.
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I am playing D&D with five friends via Zoom and we’re all in our fifties and my young teen self knowing this would be happening would be so happy and satisfied.
Cheap grace is extremely tempting, but reconciliation requires repentance and amendment of life. It does no one any good to blindly and naively "forgive."
Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Cheap grace is extremely tempting, but reconciliation requires repentance and amendment of life. It does no one any good to blindly and naively "forgive."
WHAT
TIL Edmund Fitzgerald, namesake of the ship lost with all hands in a Lake Superior storm in November 1975, had a great uncle Edmond Fitzgerald who also had a ship named after him, the Edmond Fitzgerald, which was lost with all hands in a Lake Erie storm in November 1883
How the Fitzgerald Sank Twice
An excerpt
greatlakespeopleandplaces.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
WHAT
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Wow CPG really doesn't sugarcoat things huh ⚓
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Wow CPG really doesn't sugarcoat things huh ⚓
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Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels
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Before you ask, no, I don’t think we should make an AI Jesus. I think 1. That’s some idolatry nonsense and 2. That sounds like how you start a robot war. Good grief.
November 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Before you ask, no, I don’t think we should make an AI Jesus. I think 1. That’s some idolatry nonsense and 2. That sounds like how you start a robot war. Good grief.
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Evergreen post
Yikes
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Evergreen post
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Seeing everyone as a brother or sister is part of Christianity, pope says
www.usccb.org/news/2025/se...
www.usccb.org/news/2025/se...
Seeing everyone as a brother or sister is part of Christianity, pope says
Continuing a series of talks for the Jubilee Year about Jesus being the source of Christian hope, Pope Leo XIV spoke about the hope and peace that come from ...
www.usccb.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Seeing everyone as a brother or sister is part of Christianity, pope says
www.usccb.org/news/2025/se...
www.usccb.org/news/2025/se...
And now I'm 40, which is weirder
Today is the last day of my 30s, which is weird
November 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
And now I'm 40, which is weirder
Today is the last day of my 30s, which is weird
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Today is the last day of my 30s, which is weird
Again. On our watch.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Again. On our watch.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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The challenge of the priesthood is that there are just so many types of things one ought to be doing, and if you take your eye off the ball in one area, it begins to fall apart.
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The challenge of the priesthood is that there are just so many types of things one ought to be doing, and if you take your eye off the ball in one area, it begins to fall apart.
Am I still on the hook after the sun explodes
ok but how about a 50 billion year mortgage
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Am I still on the hook after the sun explodes
Yes, that is how time works
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Yes, that is how time works