Chris Hubbs
@chrishubbs.com
Software nerd, musician, lay theologian, husband, dad. Iowan. Christian universalist. Episcopalian. LGBTQ ally. Cubs fan.
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Crucial Track for November 10, 2025: https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/cjhubbs/20251110
Not Sure by Fiction Family on Apple Music
Song · 2008 · Duration 3:06
music.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Crucial Track for November 10, 2025: https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/cjhubbs/20251110
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
It’s been a long time since I was in the market for some IEMs. I have a set of Shure SE215s for 8 years that I use every day at work. Wanted a set for home and tried Moondrop CHU IIs for < $25. Amazing clarity. Not as bass-heavy as the Shures, but impressive at the price.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
It’s been a long time since I was in the market for some IEMs. I have a set of Shure SE215s for 8 years that I use every day at work. Wanted a set for home and tried Moondrop CHU IIs for < $25. Amazing clarity. Not as bass-heavy as the Shures, but impressive at the price.
Spent 10 minutes trying to figure out if a software update had completely hosed up my TCL RokuTV. Turns out the remote control batteries were just dying and causing the remote to malfunction spectacularly.
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Spent 10 minutes trying to figure out if a software update had completely hosed up my TCL RokuTV. Turns out the remote control batteries were just dying and causing the remote to malfunction spectacularly.
2025 Reads: The Trees: A Novel by Percival Everett 📚
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
2025 Reads: The Trees: A Novel by Percival Everett 📚
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if the wrapper didn't split
you must acquit
you must acquit
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
if the wrapper didn't split
you must acquit
you must acquit
My decade-old Blue Yeti mic at my desk at home gave up the ghost. Yesterday a Shure MV7+ showed up. DANG does it sound good. But then I see on eBay that the granddaddy of them all, the Shure SM7B, regularly going for about $100. (Why so cheap?) So I ordered one to compare.
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My decade-old Blue Yeti mic at my desk at home gave up the ghost. Yesterday a Shure MV7+ showed up. DANG does it sound good. But then I see on eBay that the granddaddy of them all, the Shure SM7B, regularly going for about $100. (Why so cheap?) So I ordered one to compare.
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When, in fact, I am quite firmly persuaded that moving beyond the cis heterosexual paradigm is precisely what will free us; can show us that many of the “problems” they diagnose are non-problems and others can be addressed by means that are neither premodern nor neoliberal
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
When, in fact, I am quite firmly persuaded that moving beyond the cis heterosexual paradigm is precisely what will free us; can show us that many of the “problems” they diagnose are non-problems and others can be addressed by means that are neither premodern nor neoliberal
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None of the people in that conversation can offer answers that are true or useful or compassionate to the questions and concerns they’re attempting to address, because they are all locked into a cis and heterosexual paradigm of life and society and see LGBTQ people as evidence of the problem
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
None of the people in that conversation can offer answers that are true or useful or compassionate to the questions and concerns they’re attempting to address, because they are all locked into a cis and heterosexual paradigm of life and society and see LGBTQ people as evidence of the problem
I’ve spent a lifetime as an evangelical church musician, but this discussion of church music and musicians on the Jesuitical podcast is the most sensitive, nuanced, insightful conversation I’ve run across on the topic.
megaphone.link/AMMD47014…
megaphone.link/AMMD47014…
Latin chant or folk guitar: What should Catholics sing at Mass? by Jesuitical
megaphone.link
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I’ve spent a lifetime as an evangelical church musician, but this discussion of church music and musicians on the Jesuitical podcast is the most sensitive, nuanced, insightful conversation I’ve run across on the topic.
megaphone.link/AMMD47014…
megaphone.link/AMMD47014…
My wife just shuddered as a cold chill passed over her, and she doesn't even know why.
This ‘arachnid megacity’ may be largest spider’s web ever found
This ‘arachnid megacity’ may be largest spider’s web ever found
This ‘arachnid megacity’ may be largest spider’s web ever found
www.independent.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
My wife just shuddered as a cold chill passed over her, and she doesn't even know why.
Crucial Track for November 5, 2025: https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/cjhubbs/20251105
Wait For It by Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" on Apple Music
Song · 2015 · Duration 3:13
music.apple.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Crucial Track for November 5, 2025: https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/cjhubbs/20251105
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Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”
Planned to work remotely today but the VPN doesn’t want to let me login. This remote work might be short-lived.
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Planned to work remotely today but the VPN doesn’t want to let me login. This remote work might be short-lived.
I am still nostalgic for a PoBoy I got from Mother's in New Orleans circa September 2007. Served with "debris" and au jus.
It is national sandwich day. The best sandwich I ever had was a ham sandwich from a deli in Sydney, Australia in December 1999. Almost 26 years and no other has come close.
November 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I am still nostalgic for a PoBoy I got from Mother's in New Orleans circa September 2007. Served with "debris" and au jus.
2025 Reads: The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey 📚
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
2025 Reads: The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey 📚
When you put it *that* way…
You know, honestly, I think it's charming that the RCIA GOP politician funded mainly by a technobro oligarch with low-key monarchist vibes is reviving the ancient Catholic* Prince tradition of obviously seeking a new wife who is more politically expedient despite already having a wife and child(ren)
November 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
When you put it *that* way…
This morning at church for All Saints we wrote names of departed beloved we wanted to remember.
I wrote:
Dad
Bob
Lloyd & Marge
GFM
RHE
Father Thomas
Rich
Just a few of the great cloud of witnesses. We who remain press on.
I wrote:
Dad
Bob
Lloyd & Marge
GFM
RHE
Father Thomas
Rich
Just a few of the great cloud of witnesses. We who remain press on.
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This morning at church for All Saints we wrote names of departed beloved we wanted to remember.
I wrote:
Dad
Bob
Lloyd & Marge
GFM
RHE
Father Thomas
Rich
Just a few of the great cloud of witnesses. We who remain press on.
I wrote:
Dad
Bob
Lloyd & Marge
GFM
RHE
Father Thomas
Rich
Just a few of the great cloud of witnesses. We who remain press on.
Against the Machine: Paul Kingsnorth’s dangerous, unjustified dream: https://chrishubbs.com/2025/11/02/against-the-machine-paul-kingsnorths/
November 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Against the Machine: Paul Kingsnorth’s dangerous, unjustified dream: https://chrishubbs.com/2025/11/02/against-the-machine-paul-kingsnorths/
Was really pulling for the Blue Jays but they just couldn’t get a hit when they needed one. Congrats to the Dodgers for hanging in there.
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Was really pulling for the Blue Jays but they just couldn’t get a hit when they needed one. Congrats to the Dodgers for hanging in there.
2025 Reads: Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth 📚
Oh man, a lot of thoughts. Really disappointed by the second half of the book. Blog post will have to wait until tomorrow.
Oh man, a lot of thoughts. Really disappointed by the second half of the book. Blog post will have to wait until tomorrow.
November 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
2025 Reads: Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth 📚
Oh man, a lot of thoughts. Really disappointed by the second half of the book. Blog post will have to wait until tomorrow.
Oh man, a lot of thoughts. Really disappointed by the second half of the book. Blog post will have to wait until tomorrow.
Bonkers ending. Indefensible to get doubled off and not get George Springer to the plate.
November 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Bonkers ending. Indefensible to get doubled off and not get George Springer to the plate.
Well, cancelled my YouTubeTV subscription. Activated Hulu+LiveTV. A minor hassle needing to create a new HuluDisneyEspn account; upside is I get the introductory rate for a few months!
November 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Well, cancelled my YouTubeTV subscription. Activated Hulu+LiveTV. A minor hassle needing to create a new HuluDisneyEspn account; upside is I get the introductory rate for a few months!
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God's pronouns are The/They
October 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
God's pronouns are The/They