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Shane Liesegang, SJ

@sjml.bsky.social

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🎭 theater kid turned 🎮 game dev turned ✝️ Jesuit [scholastic/deacon] past: skyrim, fallout, god of war, novitiate, philosophy/political econ, refugee aid (🇱🇧🇮🇶🇯🇴🇸🇾), theology, starfield, migrant care (🇵🇭) present: theology in Boston https://shaneliesegang.com

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · Feb 3

I'm increasingly skeptical that "another birdsite" is the answer but there's so many people I can only keep in touch with on the social, so here we are. My old feed was a mix of lefty politics, tech/games, and religion. Trying to find more of the same, but now with migration/refugee stuff thrown in.

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 1h

Sarah Jeong remains very smart and I wish this wasn't such an insightful breakdown of Where We Are™ but it sure is

Media really needs more analysis that actually *understands* the internet, as in what things are like for people who are immersed in it, because they're increasingly driving everything

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 22h

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

I am increasingly grateful that somehow my social feeds have only ever been Catholic-adjacent, because every time I get a glimpse of the mainline stuff there it is WILD (derogatory)

Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 2d

Catholic influencers logging on to vatican dot va this morning

Kombucha woman meme, but reversed. In the first box, above the "intrigued" face, is "Apostolic Exhortation 'Dilexi Te' of the Holy Father Leo XIV to All Christians..." And in the second box, above the "disgusted" face, is the rest of the title of the new document: "...on Love for the Poor"

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 2d

Long after this cruelty is over, we will remember those who welcomed it with open arms.

History will judge them in the same breath as those who tacitly approved of the leaders who encouraged the worst in humanity through history.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

modern life is my Korean friend sending me prayers from the tomb of a Jesuit in Mexico (Blessed [not yet Saint] Miguel Pro) while I am miles above the eastern seaboard

(my response is Pro’s final words of defiance to the firing squad executing him for violating the anti-Catholic laws of the time)

An Instagram text conversation, one with a picture of Miguel Pro’s tomb and the person saying “Prayed for you” and a response with praying hands and “¡Viva Cristo Rey!”

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Today, with Bishop Seitz and members of the immigrant community, Hope Border met Pope Leo and gave him messages and a video from those fearing Trump’s mass deportations. ‘The church cannot stay silent before injustice. You stand with me. And I stand with you’, the pope said.

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

Putting a Mr. Rogers movie on a plane selection should be illegal — I made did this once and my poor seatmate had to deal with me bawling

Thankfully for today’s seatmate I have learned that lesson

A movie selection for in-flight entertainment featuring, among other things “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

"The radical left controls the Democrat party"

Brother, I *wish*

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo: Migrants in America are "living witnesses of hope" who "have an intrinsic human dignity and are invited to participate fully in community life"

To the Participants in the 115th Annual Meeting of the Catholic Charities USA Network
I was pleased to learn of the 115th Annual Meeting of the Catholic Charities USA Network taking place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and I offer cordial greetings and good wishes to all those participating.
You are gathered together as the Church celebrates the Jubilee Year focused on the virtue of hope, which my venerable predecessor defined as
"the desire and expectation of good things to come, despite our not knowing what the future may bring" (Bull of Indiction of the Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025, 1).
Through your 168 diocesan Catholic Charities agencies, you become
"agents of hope" for the millions of people who approach the Church in the United States of America seeking compassion and care. Many of those whom you serve are among the most vulnerable, including migrants and refugees.
As they are not able to rely on their own resources and have to depend on God and the goodness of others, in many ways your ministry makes the Lord's providence concrete for them. Through providing food, shelter, medical care, legal assistance, and many other gestures of kindness, Catholic Charities affiliates across the United States show what Pope Francis often referred to as God's "style" of closeness, compassion, and tenderness.
While those affected by poverty and forced migration face difficult challenges, let us not forget that they can also be witnesses to hope not only through their trust in divine assistance, but also by their resilience in often...

having to overcome many obstacles on their journeys. In a special way, Catholic migrants and refugees have become missionaries of hope in many nations, including your own, by bringing with them a vibrant faith and the popular devotions that often re-energize the parishes who welcome them (cf. Message for the 11]th World Day of Migrants and Refugees).
It might be said that through assisting displaced persons to find their new homes in your country, you also act as bridge builders between nations, cultures and peoples. I encourage you, then, to continue helping the communities who receive these newly arrived brothers and sisters to be living witnesses of hope, recognizing that they have an intrinsic human dignity and are invited to participate fully in community life (cf. ibid.).
Dear friends, I express my heartfelt gratitude for all that you and those who work with your networks do each day to put into practice the Lord's admonition to see and serve him in the poor, hungry, homeless, and people in any kind of need (cf. Mt 25:31-46). May Christ continue to accompany you and give you his joy and peace.
With these sentiments, I entrust the Annual Meeting to the intercession of Mary, Mother of the Church, and I willingly impart my Apostolic Blessing to all in the Catholic Charities USA Network as a pledge of abundant heavenly graces.
From the Vatican, 4 October 2025

Leo PP XIV

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

yup and yup but damn would it have been a fascinating mess

Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 3d

Also recognizing that debate-club "technically correct" is not useful for the discourse in these times.

Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 3d

I deleted because I misread — I missed that they directly cited 1.1.1, which does make that a shorter leap, admittedly.

Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 3d

USAID cost about one penny of each tax dollar, and was the best thing the American people did, by far. I pray for the lives lost and worsened by our callousness. I pray for the hearts of those who enacted this with such glee and abandon.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 3d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 3d

more game-like simulations that don't feel the pressure to be "fun" plz

Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 3d

(from here)

Microlandia by explodi, importerexporter

Brutally honest city builder

explodi.itch.io

Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 3d

will this game be "fun"?

probably not

do I love that it exists, even in rudimentary work-in-progress form?

HECK YEAH

💀 If citizens get sick and there's no hospital capacity, they die.
💼 When they can't drive to work because there's no road or excessive traffic, they get fired.
📉 When companies don’t make ends meet, they go bankrupt, and everyone is fired.
🤑 When the supply of housing is scarce, landlords get greedy and increase rents.
👩‍❤️‍👩 Citizens fall in and out of love and can have children.
🚧 Roads cost thousands of dollars per kilometer, and it's a huge investment for the city.
💸 On the other hand, a housing building will be paid for by the private sector, and it’s virtually "free".
🥷 When citizens have no job for some time, they consider a career in the criminal underworld.
📈 Simulation mechanics are carefully modeled after publications like World Bank Open Data, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Equity Atlas, and others. You can check a detailed list of parameters used in the simulation here.
The objective is to build a good enough simulation so it can provide real insight into the social, economic, and environmental challenges of modern life. It still aims to be a fun game, but unlike other city builders, it doesn’t have the constraints of needing to be a simplistic product.

meme from The Onion where a creepy guy wearing a shirt that says "SICKOS" peers through a window saying "YES... HA HA HA... YES!"

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 4d

that said,

two astronauts looking at earth with one saying "so AI is just an amorphous label that gets applied to whatever new CS stuff is happening?" and the other, behind him holding a gun, says "always has been"

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 4d

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 4d

I haven't done Arduino stuff in forever but this still makes me sad

Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI

www.qualcomm.com

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