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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 3h

I trust my eyes and ears more than that medical report. That’s for sure.

Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 3h

I just think we have no idea of his health either way. But if they are covering it 100% would be “Doctor’s Plot” time because they are always one moment away from “The Jews did it!”

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 4h

There is now an epistemology that raises don’t know shit people to shit knowers if they simply reject the shit knowingness of the original people who know shit.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 5h

I’d go a step further but that it’s training evangelicals to see “sexual sin” as mistake that you just move on from. Which gets transferred to abuse and assault. It is treated the same way as “I looked at porn”.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 10h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 5h

This is beautiful

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 10h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 5h

Oh I feel this. I have such a chronic “there’s a book for that” problem.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 7h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 7h

It’s just posturing and signaling said the the man with a straw cowboy hat, chains with a cross on them, massive red lenses goggles, a throwback Detroit Tigers jacket, and a mustache posing in front of a Bald Eagle flag.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 7h

Because the meaning in that second sense is based on a context where both speaker and audience likely mean “studied and then took/built on” when they see “studied”.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 7h

Like most things it’s quite complicated and nuanced and someone can say something that is both true and untrue depending on the context. That’s what happened with what I replied to. Did the Nazis study Jim Crow laws? Yes.

If I say that on social media with the context only being US segregation? No

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 8h

It’s like I see almost daily examples. And I’m not Jewish so I can’t imagine how common and oppressive it is.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 8h

Some great thoughts on the Christian to atheistic supremacy pipeline.

CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 8h

one way I see it is

in evangelicalism I was given excuses for the lack of introspection, thousands? of years of them, and then when I stepped out of evangelicalism I still did what I had been raised to do.. seek out *atheist* leaders and use THEIR excuses

but that felt just as hollow eventually..

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 9h

If anyone can counter with a pollywog pun I’ll die.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 9h

Exquisite.

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 9h

My comments might be a tad polarizing.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 10h

A dash of 1930s German schooling with a helping of 1970s Democratic political campaigning and voila!

Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 10h

Wow. Not surprised at all. Congrats on your journey. Though in some ways I guess you’ve always been there.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 10h

Unhinged.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 11h

Exactly. But you can get a sense of who is at a stage but introspective and who is at a stage and so confident that they’ll reject any criticism.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 11h

Oh I’m not. I even thought “how can I make it clear I’m not calling them out?”

I clearly failed. Apologies. Sincerely.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 11h

Noem is everywhere, evidently.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 11h

Macron called tech support and they just keep asking if he’s tried turning it off and back on again.

CNN @cnn.com · 11h

French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu to his post, despite accepting his resignation Monday following the collapse of his overnight government. https://cnn.it/48k2NOp

Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 11h

Perfect encapsulation of exvangelical or Christian-centric cultural anti-deism? I think so.

Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 11h

Deconstruct just enough to drop g-d but not the presumption of inherent superiority.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 11h

Deconstruct just enough to drop g-d but not the presumption of inherent superiority.

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Ryan Abt (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 11h

Yep. And you know what I do when a community has problems with supremacist thinking within that community? I let THEM deal with it. Cuz I’m a white dude and we have NOT dealt with our own crap.

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