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John Graeber

@jbgraeber.bsky.social

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Earnest af with a dash of snark. #plutotruther. Writer, reader, sailor. Probably eating Taco Bell in a parking lot.

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John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 3d

10yo just handed me a piece of paper, let me hold it for a few seconds and then, when I said, "What am I looking at here?" said:

"Is that pee on it?"

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 6d

One day you're young and carefree and the next you're like, "shit, is that a Speckle-Feathered Grosbeak!?"

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 6d

Earlier today 13yo was narrating her science lesson and she said "they figured out the Earth is about four and a half billion years old. But that was 20 years ago so now it's four and a half billion and twenty years old."

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 6d

Sure, climbing Everest is hard, but have you ever tried to get a Project Manager to cancel a meeting?

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 7d

I remember talking to a Marine years back and making an extremely ill advised crack about him "killing people for a living."

He physically recoiled, like I'd struck him. I really don't think this is how most soldiers view what they do for a living.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 7d

Random 14th Century Italian: There's a special place in hell for people like that.

Dante: Hold my beer.

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 8d

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 8d

We got a new kitten and have been teaching the dog that the kitten is for friendship not for eating.

Last night the kitten climbed into the dogs food bowl, and dog was like:

a bald man wearing a plaid shirt and a black vest

ALT: a bald man wearing a plaid shirt and a black vest

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John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 8d

When we make home made biscuits, my kids have a hierarchy they compete for:

1st cutting is preferable to 2nd. But the scraps leftover after 2nd cutting, and shaped into a rough circle, reign supreme.

They have christened this Scrap Biscuit: Lord of the Biscuits.

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 9d

It's from Alan Jacobs book about the Book of Common Prayer.

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 9d

Another characteristic of Scots, is giving zero s**ts about the feelings of their English overlords. They were happy to ordain Sam a bishop without the Oath.

So Sam returned home to the United States an Episcopal, instead of an Anglican, bishop.

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 9d

The English church regarded the Scot’s version of Anglicanism as “an unavoidable oddity, as was true with so much else in Scotland.”

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 9d

The Scots, as they are wont to do, had taken some liberties with their version of Anglicanism, like preferring a presbyterian form of governance. But other Scots still preferred the bishop system, also known as the “episcopate.” These Scots became known as Episcopalians.

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 9d

But here’s the rub, ordination in England (going back to Henry VIII) requires swearing an Oath of Supremacy to the English monarch. Not cool for a citizen of the newly minted US.

So Seabury did what any American in England does when the Brits get a bit haughty, he went to Scotland.

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 9d

Anglicans in the newly formed United States had no bishops, and thus no system of governance. They decided Seabury should be their bishop, but the only way to become a bishop is to be ordained by a bishop.

So Samuel Seabury had to go where the bishops were, namely England. Awkward.

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 9d

Prior to July 4, 1776, Anglicans in the colonies were under the authority of the Diocese of London. Obviously after the Revolutionary War this became a problem.

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 9d

Ever wondered why Episcopalians only exist in the United States?

In 1783 an Anglican priest named Samuel Seabury in the newly independent United States was in a pickle.

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 11d

That shit is gonna look so seasonal.

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 13d

I think I'm becoming a birder

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 15d

So is the rapture on like Greenwich Mean Time or what

a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers

ALT: a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers

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John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 15d

Schrödinger's Cat is when you get a "bi-weekly" meeting invite and you don't know if it's every other week or twice a week, and for a horrifying moment before you open it - it's both.

two men in suits and ties are standing next to each other in a room .

ALT: two men in suits and ties are standing next to each other in a room .

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John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 15d

I worry about this but moreso catching the person in front of me's hair on fire.

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 15d

I love these people who think "oooh, I like this imagery in the Bible of taking up the cross of Christ, but imma make it easier." Kinda missing the point dude.

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 18d

😂 it's good to have a brand

John Graeber @jbgraeber.bsky.social · 18d

Reminds me of this classic