B.J. Hutto
@bjhutto.bsky.social
Baptist pastor in Jacksonville, FL
Wofford | Duke Div | Aberdeen (PhD, Ethics)
Descendant of a pirate but not a very good one.
Wofford | Duke Div | Aberdeen (PhD, Ethics)
Descendant of a pirate but not a very good one.
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Senator Rand Paul remains principled and clear eyed on this set of issues.
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Senator Rand Paul remains principled and clear eyed on this set of issues.
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In today's surprising news: Bad actions have appropriate consequences
Campbell's fires executive who was recorded saying company's products are for 'poor people'
The Campbell’s Co. said Wednesday it has fired an executive who was recorded making racist comments and mocking the company’s products and customers.
apnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In today's surprising news: Bad actions have appropriate consequences
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Y’all wanna see a 5-loss ACC champion?
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Y’all wanna see a 5-loss ACC champion?
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CHAOS REIGNS
as a Chaos Enthusiast I would like to point out that we are now one result away from 7-5 Duke making the ACC championship game (Cal > SMU)
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 AM
CHAOS REIGNS
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Marty Smith has been standing southernly in front of the same blue Ole Miss backdrop for like 16 straight hours. Announcement imminent
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Marty Smith has been standing southernly in front of the same blue Ole Miss backdrop for like 16 straight hours. Announcement imminent
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if you're bored waiting for the Iron Bowl to get underway, may I recommend watching Dave Doeren put cigarettes out on Bill Belichick's forehead
November 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
if you're bored waiting for the Iron Bowl to get underway, may I recommend watching Dave Doeren put cigarettes out on Bill Belichick's forehead
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Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
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I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer
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top notch mascottin'
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
top notch mascottin'
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Following yesterday’s story about Australia’s success tackling cervical cancer with the HPV vaccine, here’s the latest research on how vaccines can help prevent dementia, heart disease and some cancers.
The common vaccines that can prevent chronic disease or some cancers
In addition to cancer, a growing body of research has shown that vaccines can reduce the risk of developing dementia and heart conditions.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Following yesterday’s story about Australia’s success tackling cervical cancer with the HPV vaccine, here’s the latest research on how vaccines can help prevent dementia, heart disease and some cancers.
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Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
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BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.
Playwright Tom Stoppard who won Academy Award for screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love" has died
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.
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NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
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Like most historians, I'm pretty immune to both doomerism and utopianism. But I have to admit, it takes a lot of effort for me to resist the allure of doomerism when I contemplate the future impacts of LLMs. What they seek to replace are the very things that make us human--thinking and expression.
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Like most historians, I'm pretty immune to both doomerism and utopianism. But I have to admit, it takes a lot of effort for me to resist the allure of doomerism when I contemplate the future impacts of LLMs. What they seek to replace are the very things that make us human--thinking and expression.
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When I joined Twitter in 2014, this was the 2nd tweet I posted.
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate." --Henry David Thoreau
Part of me thought it was cool, but another part was skeptical
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate." --Henry David Thoreau
Part of me thought it was cool, but another part was skeptical
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
When I joined Twitter in 2014, this was the 2nd tweet I posted.
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate." --Henry David Thoreau
Part of me thought it was cool, but another part was skeptical
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate." --Henry David Thoreau
Part of me thought it was cool, but another part was skeptical
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This bleak (but unfortunately compelling) thread makes me think that the individual human mind/psyche is just ill-suited to being plugged into machines that allow everyone everywhere to be simultaneously talking about everything that has ever happened or could have happened at any time in any place.
This is not a "students today" post--it's more "this is a new form of dysfunction" that doesn't look exactly like it's been in previous decades. It's more than just "first-year chaos." It's an across-the-board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and *connect* with others.
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This bleak (but unfortunately compelling) thread makes me think that the individual human mind/psyche is just ill-suited to being plugged into machines that allow everyone everywhere to be simultaneously talking about everything that has ever happened or could have happened at any time in any place.
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"Life goes on. A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms, enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy?"
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"Life goes on. A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms, enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy?"
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Set aside how you feel about 12 step programs, this bit from the AA Big Book is a faithful evocation of many folks' experience with trying to get sober by not being able to physically get at the drug. (Excuse the "Eskimo" reference, it was a different time)
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Set aside how you feel about 12 step programs, this bit from the AA Big Book is a faithful evocation of many folks' experience with trying to get sober by not being able to physically get at the drug. (Excuse the "Eskimo" reference, it was a different time)
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And, just a side note, but disrupting the supply chain for addictive drugs does nothing to decrease demand. Addicts have run individual experiments on this countless times, trying to get sober by limiting their own access to their favorite drug. Ask a sober person if that worked for them.
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
And, just a side note, but disrupting the supply chain for addictive drugs does nothing to decrease demand. Addicts have run individual experiments on this countless times, trying to get sober by limiting their own access to their favorite drug. Ask a sober person if that worked for them.
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And I swear, once again, this is not dunking on kids. We are seeing this at all levels--even grad students. AI + social media has had a profound impact on how we think and process our world, and we can't stop to reflect on it, because billionaires keep hurling addictive tech at us.
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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This essay has already generated more hate mail than anything else I've written from the Star Tribune. Which is, I think, telling ... though I'm not sure of what.
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This essay has already generated more hate mail than anything else I've written from the Star Tribune. Which is, I think, telling ... though I'm not sure of what.
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wait hold up WHO is swatting indiana politicians over their refusal to redistrict and WHERE are the federal authorities
“the FBI did not respond to CNN’s request for comment on its role in the investigation”
“the FBI did not respond to CNN’s request for comment on its role in the investigation”
Indiana’s governor and at least 8 lawmakers have been swatted or threatened as state Republicans face redistricting pressure | CNN Politics
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said he and his family are among the Republicans targeted in a wave of threats against state officeholders this week as President Donald Trump pressures Hoosier State lawmakers...
www.cnn.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
wait hold up WHO is swatting indiana politicians over their refusal to redistrict and WHERE are the federal authorities
“the FBI did not respond to CNN’s request for comment on its role in the investigation”
“the FBI did not respond to CNN’s request for comment on its role in the investigation”
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in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook
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The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...