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RevRachelK

@thenerdypriest.bsky.social

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Episcopal Priest and College Chaplain I read books, watch too much TV, and think Jesus is pretty cool. Love wins ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · Aug 4

I have a book! It’s available for preorder! Faith and Fandom: 60 Second Sprints of Spiritual Guidance for Nerds (and Normies)

Faith and Fandom: 60 Second Sprints of Spiritual Guidance for Nerds (and "Normies")

60 Second Sprints of Spiritual Guidance for Nerds (and "Normies")

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Leah Schnelbach @leahschnelbach.bsky.social · 5d

You know what's great?

Getting to publish an essay as insightful and heartening as this exploration of Serenity, the information economy, and sustainable change from @thenerdypriest.bsky.social.

reactormag.com/serenity-and...

Serenity and the Myth of "Getting Out the Signal" - Reactor

We want to believe that knowledge will change the world for the better, but it's not always that simple.

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for the opportunity to write this!

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 6d

Make it stop!

RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for sharing!

RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 7d

If our current political moment teaches us anything, the idea of just “getting out the signal” is naive at best.

Anyways, I have some thoughts on Serenity 20 years on and Reactor Magazine has published them! Check it out

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 7d

20 years after Serenity, @thenerdypriest.bsky.social wrestles with a core premise of science fiction stories. When the world is at stake, is "getting out the truth" really enough?

reactormag.com/serenity-and...

Serenity and the Myth of "Getting Out the Signal" - Reactor

We want to believe that knowledge will change the world for the better, but it's not always that simple.

reactormag.com

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 9d

Leeman.

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 16d

This kind of person who beatifies Kirk by devaluing, dehumanizing, and demonizing everyone seen as insufficient and other is the kind of person who will come after you next. This is fascism and it attacks the heart of the innate goodness of Creation.

Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 17d

“What do YOU HAVE? You have NOTHING, you are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are hatred, YOU ARE NOTHING. You can build nothing, produce nothing, create nothing."

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 16d

It really is as simple as basic respect and decency

Sojourners @sojo.net · 16d

"Still, our duty to respond to social vulnerability with urgent care far exceeds our ability to relate to the experiences of others."
sojo.net/articles/cis...

Cis Christians Don’t Need to Understand Trans People to Care for Them

We just need to know that they’re living with boots on their necks and that one of those boots is ours.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18d

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 18d

LMAO WUT

Oklahoma Republicans propose all state colleges must have Charlie Kirk statue

Schools would be required to build memorial plaza and describe slain activist as civil rights leader or face fines

www.theguardian.com

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 18d

It really shouldn’t be that hard.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19d

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 19d

We are truly lost as a society

Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 20d

can't stop thinking of how little kids died in chapel, praying on the first day of fall term, but somehow Charlie Kirk--a man who accepted school shootings as the guarantor of unconstrained gun access--is the martyr. may God have mercy on the innocent; Charlie Kirk was not of them.

RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 20d

I am a priest and I approve this message

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20d

This is the way.

Micah @rincewind.run · 20d

the list of conditions that qualify you is fairly extensive, but may I suggest a simpler route: lying

seriously, I just checked the “I’m eligible” box online when scheduling and the pharmacist didn’t ask me shit, they just gave me the shot

Sean Meredith @seanmeredith.bsky.social · 20d

How are under-65s getting COVID boosters? I want one!

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 20d

Semi-regular reminder that your local public librarian has more of a spine and a stronger moral compass than an executive at ABC or CBS.

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 20d

In these troubled times, the memes bring us comfort?

👻2007 Irish Outsider👻 @irishoutsider.bsky.social · 20d

KARL ROVE?!
Karl Rove figured it out?!

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Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 21d

Apparently a hot take (but one that is rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ):

Fascism is bad. 🔥 🔥 🔥

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21d

The 800 articles I wrote explaining why I couldn’t vote Democrat because of free speech helped elect Trump and thus helped end free speech in America. I have no regrets.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21d

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21d

the problem with media corporations negotiating with fascists is that the negotiation is never over.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21d

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21d

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’

The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.

www.vulture.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21d

Finally, an excuse to reprint the op-ed we run 6 times per week

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21d

and the Pulitzer Prize for sophistry goes to …

NYT headline:

OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
Barnard President: Now Is the Time for Colleges to Host Difficult Speakers
Sept. 17, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 23d

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23d

This is the mugshot of a literal political prisoner, arrested, thrown in jail, then expelled from a public university, for yelling at Charlie Kirk supporters

Texas Tech student expelled after video showing Charlie Kirk rant on campus

An 18-year-old Texas Tech University student is no longer enrolled at the university after a video appearing to show her mocking the death of Charlie Kirk went viral.

www.fox4news.com

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Stephan Krosecz @stephank.bsky.social · 23d

To all centrists: They don't plan to compromise with you. They want to subjugate you.

They're saying it out loud. There's no gray area here.

The ONLY way to stop them is to refuse to submit.

They talk tough, but they rely on your compliance. Don't hand them power over you.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23d

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

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