Joe
@reverenddoctorjoe.bsky.social
Neither a Reverend nor a doctor, actually.
Absurdist and deeply passionate student of the music of life. Fascinated by #deeptime, #mythology, #sciencefiction, #nature, and #craftbeer.
(He/him) | Pagan ΘΔ 🐺
Absurdist and deeply passionate student of the music of life. Fascinated by #deeptime, #mythology, #sciencefiction, #nature, and #craftbeer.
(He/him) | Pagan ΘΔ 🐺
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If your church is turning away people who show up to your doors in good faith, you don't have a church. You have a very expensive book club with scarcely any wine.
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If your church is turning away people who show up to your doors in good faith, you don't have a church. You have a very expensive book club with scarcely any wine.
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Truth
The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.
November 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Truth
Patton could have framed it better but this is maximally lame.
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Patton could have framed it better but this is maximally lame.
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I think that most archaeology and history students are aware of "The Motel of Mysteries", a 1979 satirical book made by David Macaulay, set in the far future, in which an amateur archaeologist finds a preserved american motel room, but without any other context believes it to be a burial chamber.
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I think that most archaeology and history students are aware of "The Motel of Mysteries", a 1979 satirical book made by David Macaulay, set in the far future, in which an amateur archaeologist finds a preserved american motel room, but without any other context believes it to be a burial chamber.
When you use the BioShock games as a parenting guide.
Shitty parenting from the Silicon Valley set. Never occurred to me to tell my math gifted son that he could be an asshole since he was good with numbers.
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
When you use the BioShock games as a parenting guide.
Imagine being so completely removed from reality that you believe the solution to commercial vacancies is turning the neighborhood into a militarized zone.
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Imagine being so completely removed from reality that you believe the solution to commercial vacancies is turning the neighborhood into a militarized zone.
New essay on my blog.
I wanted to write about AI, and in particular, the misuse of AI as a teaching tool in classroom education.
elusivethought.beehiiv.com/p/signal-to-...
#AI #currentevents #philosophy
I wanted to write about AI, and in particular, the misuse of AI as a teaching tool in classroom education.
elusivethought.beehiiv.com/p/signal-to-...
#AI #currentevents #philosophy
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
New essay on my blog.
I wanted to write about AI, and in particular, the misuse of AI as a teaching tool in classroom education.
elusivethought.beehiiv.com/p/signal-to-...
#AI #currentevents #philosophy
I wanted to write about AI, and in particular, the misuse of AI as a teaching tool in classroom education.
elusivethought.beehiiv.com/p/signal-to-...
#AI #currentevents #philosophy
Supermax - Love Machine (HQ Audio)
YouTube video by Happy Charlie
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November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Scifi in my childhood: AGI becomes self-aware, launches missiles to extinct humanity it consider inferior.
Overhyped AI marketing now: AI launches missiles because DOGE asks it to find cost-effective measures for heating government buildings, and accidentally gave it control of every missile silo.
Overhyped AI marketing now: AI launches missiles because DOGE asks it to find cost-effective measures for heating government buildings, and accidentally gave it control of every missile silo.
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Scifi in my childhood: AGI becomes self-aware, launches missiles to extinct humanity it consider inferior.
Overhyped AI marketing now: AI launches missiles because DOGE asks it to find cost-effective measures for heating government buildings, and accidentally gave it control of every missile silo.
Overhyped AI marketing now: AI launches missiles because DOGE asks it to find cost-effective measures for heating government buildings, and accidentally gave it control of every missile silo.
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Introducing a new economic chart where I have included lines for the scenarios "wizard uses magic to solve everything ever no downsides" and "the sun grows big muscle arms and punches earth into rubble"
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Introducing a new economic chart where I have included lines for the scenarios "wizard uses magic to solve everything ever no downsides" and "the sun grows big muscle arms and punches earth into rubble"
Stripping stories of context is itself a form of disinformation.
I know I've said this before, but from advertorials to false equivalence the media really needs to own up to its role in warping the climate issue. www.thenation.com/article/envi...
The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
www.thenation.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Stripping stories of context is itself a form of disinformation.
Critical thinking skills. We need them yesterday, for today and the future.
In Finland they’ve been taught how to spot fake news as part of a critical thinking curriculum since 2014 including how to spot a doctored photo, check for inconsistencies as well as countering misinformation that sows division. We are more than 10 years behind on this.
School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Critical thinking skills. We need them yesterday, for today and the future.
Blancmange - Blind Vision (Official Video)
YouTube video by Blancmange
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November 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Today's brew day is an American IPA, brewed with Simcoe, Amarillo, and Mosaic hops. Adding dried blueberry and culinary lavender to the boil and ferment.
November 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Today's brew day is an American IPA, brewed with Simcoe, Amarillo, and Mosaic hops. Adding dried blueberry and culinary lavender to the boil and ferment.
If the basis of your life doesn't follow the teachings and actions of Christ, don't call yourself a "Devout Christian."
It's really that simple.
It's really that simple.
The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If the basis of your life doesn't follow the teachings and actions of Christ, don't call yourself a "Devout Christian."
It's really that simple.
It's really that simple.
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 AM
October 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Sci-fi authors: This is an invention I imagined that ends world hunger by synthesizing food on the spot.
Tech startup: We invented this smart dumpster that automatically calls the police if it detects anyone rummaging through unsold products that were discarded.
Tech startup: We invented this smart dumpster that automatically calls the police if it detects anyone rummaging through unsold products that were discarded.
October 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sci-fi authors: This is an invention I imagined that ends world hunger by synthesizing food on the spot.
Tech startup: We invented this smart dumpster that automatically calls the police if it detects anyone rummaging through unsold products that were discarded.
Tech startup: We invented this smart dumpster that automatically calls the police if it detects anyone rummaging through unsold products that were discarded.
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A new report finds corporations like Kroger and McDonald's are using digital loyalty programs to track your data and potentially charge you more.
It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR
It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR
The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Robert Reich
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October 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A new report finds corporations like Kroger and McDonald's are using digital loyalty programs to track your data and potentially charge you more.
It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR
It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR
So the plan is to demolish a national landmark, and replace it with Groverhaus, isn't it?
He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
So the plan is to demolish a national landmark, and replace it with Groverhaus, isn't it?
I guess it either melts your brains or tells you a series of overly sexed out stories.
I am smoking a strain of weed called LOC-NAR, what a world
October 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I guess it either melts your brains or tells you a series of overly sexed out stories.
Was rewatching John Carpenter's scifi classic THEY LIVE (1989) the other night.
This scene, *damn.*
This scene, *damn.*
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Was rewatching John Carpenter's scifi classic THEY LIVE (1989) the other night.
This scene, *damn.*
This scene, *damn.*
Shi - 死, performing outside in Haynie's Corner, Evansville, IN. (10/17/2025)
October 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Shi - 死, performing outside in Haynie's Corner, Evansville, IN. (10/17/2025)
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Are you insane yet? Good.
“When you're not riding the edge, you feel twitchy because you know that the lull doesn't mean things are better, it means you're not aware yet of what's going wrong. And the system or the partner always, always obliges with a new crisis.” www.issendai.com/psychology/s...
“When you're not riding the edge, you feel twitchy because you know that the lull doesn't mean things are better, it means you're not aware yet of what's going wrong. And the system or the partner always, always obliges with a new crisis.” www.issendai.com/psychology/s...
Sick Systems: How to Keep Someone With You Forever | Issendai.com
How do you keep a lover or employee bound to you? You create a sick system.
www.issendai.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Are you insane yet? Good.
“When you're not riding the edge, you feel twitchy because you know that the lull doesn't mean things are better, it means you're not aware yet of what's going wrong. And the system or the partner always, always obliges with a new crisis.” www.issendai.com/psychology/s...
“When you're not riding the edge, you feel twitchy because you know that the lull doesn't mean things are better, it means you're not aware yet of what's going wrong. And the system or the partner always, always obliges with a new crisis.” www.issendai.com/psychology/s...
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this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press