Incredibly gross to ask; incredibly rude not to listen.
07.03.2026 06:51
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Incredibly gross to ask; incredibly rude not to listen.
me as the adult version of my 12-year-old self: NO ELVIE IT’S THE GOSPEL
me as the person who has the job i have: um ACTUALLY i would prefer everyone be seated by the conclusion of the musical prelude???
the PENITENTIAL ACT is where you measure lateness?!?
w o w
broke: cradle catholics want to serve the poor | those initiated as adults want to repeal the 19th
bespoke: cradle catholics say you’ve just got to get there in time to hear the gospel | adult initiates say you should probably be there for all of mass?
Lolllll especially this year; we have 51 people being baptized or received into the Church.
But I am, ah, professionally in charge of a lot of things, so… if I am not there 3-4 hours before the start, some people would Very Much notice!
"Hey, hi, yeah, I'm just going to skip the most important liturgy of the year? Sorry, my friend had an extra ticket to a play."
I'm sure my boss, my team, and also Jesus would be cool with that.
A friend asked if I was interested in going to a play on April 4th.
"April 4th...," I thought. "April 4th. WHY is my brain firing off an entire battalion of red flags right now? Huh. I don't know; let me get back to you."
Guys. April 4th is Holy Saturday.
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fountain pens are so nice, though
“at least three. don’t play games with me, kid.”
4 ≥ 3.
checks out.
✨ the duality of woman
i am very seriously considering getting a second tattoo (which for various reasons would be my last, so i want to be Certain before i do it.)
(it took me over 10 years to go from “one day i will get a linework tattoo of judith holding a sword & holofernes’ head” on my arm to actually doing it)
🎶 i like to oace oace oace
groan toe and froathed oat molk 🎶
“was the grink there?”
Just tried to ask for an “oaced matcha latte” a total of five times. Each time I recognized that I was combining “iced” and “oat” and re-started, and each time the word that came out of my mouth was “oaced.”
I am generally seen as A Very Skilled Public Speaker.
AMA.
I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.
No one has ever worked a $40,000 job with a mound of student debt and decided not to respond by violating human rights. It’s a totally unreasonable thing to ask of anyone.
I mean, he's a rabbi; he's got to be used to 800 questions!
Yeah, Christianity has too much cultural influence for supersessionism & antiJudaism not to leak into spaces that are not Christian! Similar to how many totally secular people think “OT God = angry & mean; NT God = loving and justice-oriented.”
Distinguishing between love of enemies and bourgeois deference to authority & status quo requires constant, ongoing discernment. And the woman who wrote this ABSOLUTELY has done more, concretely, for migrants than I have—but there’s also some over-identification of love & niceness.
Yes, absolutely. Flipping tables isn’t a go-to image for me—there’s something more complicated about the Second Temple going on there & I worry about mapping “Jesus : Temple :: Justice : Oppression” esp for what it subtly communicates about Jewish worship—but the underlying point, absolutely.
We need a better handle on what "dehumanization" is and is not.
Christ calls us to love our enemies; denying that is denying the gospel (a different question from "how should the left view the right?"), but... with REAL respect for the religious sister who wrote it: America has an article saying we shouldn't laugh at the ICE agent slipping & falling, and...
“America First,” but also “Yeah I guess you should be worried that our unjust illegal war might kill you at home.” Shrug!
I do not know how to move past this.
Over 100 children have been killed at a school. The actual real lives are the most important thing, & I hesitate to post anything that contributes to “but what about AMERICANS?!”
and yet the POTUS saying “I guess” people should worry about strikes on US soil, and “some people will die” is shocking.
screenshot from Click to Pray reading Is a world without nuclear weapons possible? In 2017, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was signed by more than 80 countries. None of the countries that currently possesses nuclear weapons signed it. Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network
Something tells me the prompts for prayer on the $80 celebrity-backed Thiel-funded prayer app don’t QUITE resemble the ones on the Vatican’s free Click to Pray app.
* I am not a Midwesterner and will not comment beyond my competency, but: rhetorically, when a public person in the US says "Midwestern values," they don't mean "Chicago values."
Mostly posting this bc I'm fascinated by "[Location] Values" rhetoric. "People work hard, they love their families"--we're used to hearing that described as "small town values," or maybe "Midwest* values."
But the addition of "they appreciate the international flavor of the city"...
"It's not just the fact that he is from Chicago, but his life in some way was formed by the culture of Chicago where people work hard. They love their families. They appreciate the international flavor of the city itself. For instance, we celebrate Mass in 26 languages in Chicago."
If I tell you something in confidence & then you tell a journalist and it shows up in the newspaper, it’s not the journalist I’m mad at!