Ben Menghini
@benghini.bsky.social
🧀 Workin' on my Night Cheese 🧀 | PhD candidate in Theology at Emmanuel College/University of Toronto | he/him
Do we have a category for things that arise as a response to climate change, fail to actually solve problems, and make life more difficult for everyday people/shoulder us with responsibility? Im thinking of things like paper straws.
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Do we have a category for things that arise as a response to climate change, fail to actually solve problems, and make life more difficult for everyday people/shoulder us with responsibility? Im thinking of things like paper straws.
Me: do you take card? I only have America dollars
Canadian shopkeep: then you're rich!
Me: but I'm poor in spirit
Shopkeep: but american dollars feel nice, so gritty and dirty
Canadian shopkeep: then you're rich!
Me: but I'm poor in spirit
Shopkeep: but american dollars feel nice, so gritty and dirty
November 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Me: do you take card? I only have America dollars
Canadian shopkeep: then you're rich!
Me: but I'm poor in spirit
Shopkeep: but american dollars feel nice, so gritty and dirty
Canadian shopkeep: then you're rich!
Me: but I'm poor in spirit
Shopkeep: but american dollars feel nice, so gritty and dirty
Why does Toronto have so much Detroit style pizza?
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Why does Toronto have so much Detroit style pizza?
I gave a paper today in which I argued that postliberal theology is often defined negatively (what it is against) by its critics. Naturally, I was asked during the Q&A for a positive definition of postliberal theology. This is something I've written about previously. Obviously, I drew a total blank.
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I gave a paper today in which I argued that postliberal theology is often defined negatively (what it is against) by its critics. Naturally, I was asked during the Q&A for a positive definition of postliberal theology. This is something I've written about previously. Obviously, I drew a total blank.
My writing load for the next week just doubled. Oops.
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
My writing load for the next week just doubled. Oops.
By way of a type of intellectual apostolic succession, am I now lapsed?
Wow, big time bummer to see people who educated me falling for very obvious AI slop on Facebook.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
By way of a type of intellectual apostolic succession, am I now lapsed?
Wow, big time bummer to see people who educated me falling for very obvious AI slop on Facebook.
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Wow, big time bummer to see people who educated me falling for very obvious AI slop on Facebook.
Finally got the furnace working again just as the snow is starting to melt.
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Finally got the furnace working again just as the snow is starting to melt.
Working retail during the holidays again
a man is flying through the air on a staircase
ALT: a man is flying through the air on a staircase
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November 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Working retail during the holidays again
Man, this day with very little going on really managed to catch me across the chin with a left hook.
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Man, this day with very little going on really managed to catch me across the chin with a left hook.
During many late nights of dissertation writing I was accompanied by Brothertiger's livestreams. Here is one of my favorites that I've listened to dozens of times.
Livestream - 073
YouTube video by Brothertiger
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November 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
During many late nights of dissertation writing I was accompanied by Brothertiger's livestreams. Here is one of my favorites that I've listened to dozens of times.
Reposted by Ben Menghini
final project guidelines for both grad and undergrad seminars:
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
final project guidelines for both grad and undergrad seminars:
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
The time to turn this pile of notes and half-baked ideas into two conference papers is running out.
October 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The time to turn this pile of notes and half-baked ideas into two conference papers is running out.
Reposted by Ben Menghini
Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold
Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold
WASHINGTON—Praising the process as yet another miracle of biology that modern medicine chooses to ignore, a gray-lipped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at a press conference Wednesday during which he tout...
theonion.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold
Editorial pet peeve: if an author writes their own introduction it should have numerical pagination, if an editor, translator, or scholar writes the introduction is should be in Roman numerals.
October 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Editorial pet peeve: if an author writes their own introduction it should have numerical pagination, if an editor, translator, or scholar writes the introduction is should be in Roman numerals.
Non-zero chance the East Wing is being destroyed so Melania doesn't have to decorate it for Christmas.
October 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Non-zero chance the East Wing is being destroyed so Melania doesn't have to decorate it for Christmas.
Dissertation submitted for defense.
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Dissertation submitted for defense.
"Formatting your dissertation is easy, just drop the text into the template."
Bullshit.
Bullshit.
October 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"Formatting your dissertation is easy, just drop the text into the template."
Bullshit.
Bullshit.
Good god, why doesn't The Practice of Everyday Life have an index?
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good god, why doesn't The Practice of Everyday Life have an index?
The BBEG in the new Critical Role campaign is... academic bureaucracy, boards of trustee, and the donor class?
October 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The BBEG in the new Critical Role campaign is... academic bureaucracy, boards of trustee, and the donor class?
~24 hours from dissertation submission and I'm back on the juice (Mr. Pibb)
October 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM
~24 hours from dissertation submission and I'm back on the juice (Mr. Pibb)
Me at my dissertation defense:
"We're saving Christianity. We're saving God!"
"We're saving Christianity. We're saving God!"
October 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Me at my dissertation defense:
"We're saving Christianity. We're saving God!"
"We're saving Christianity. We're saving God!"
Is that Colonel Lockjaw?
Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.
October 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Is that Colonel Lockjaw?
Why am I seeing so many guys at the gym carrying floss sticks in their mouths? Is this a thing now?
October 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Why am I seeing so many guys at the gym carrying floss sticks in their mouths? Is this a thing now?