Dawson Vosburg
@dawsonvosburg.bsky.social
sacramental evangelical | class struggle social democrat | sociology PhD candidate studying capitalism, race, and Christianity at Ohio State University
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I’d more say pie is the most consistently overrated dessert form to my preferences, as someone who’s not really into cooked fruit. and it looks simple but is in fact hard to not screw up on a technical level. ice cream is the only dessert that can improve or even contain basically all others
The dirty secret of pies is that they have the lowest ceiling potential of all sweets. Your best pie is merely fine. Your median pie is bad.
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I’d more say pie is the most consistently overrated dessert form to my preferences, as someone who’s not really into cooked fruit. and it looks simple but is in fact hard to not screw up on a technical level. ice cream is the only dessert that can improve or even contain basically all others
the thing about this sort of measure is that it gets at real problems. paying for private childcare is extremely expensive and it often puts a massive consumption burden on households with children younger than school age. but it’s very dumb to include it in a core, static consumption bundle
>i have a new poverty measure that proves everyone is poor
is it a new poverty measure or just re-defining the average as poor?
>i swear it's a good poverty measure sir
is it a new poverty measure or just re-defining the average as poor?
>i swear it's a good poverty measure sir
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
the thing about this sort of measure is that it gets at real problems. paying for private childcare is extremely expensive and it often puts a massive consumption burden on households with children younger than school age. but it’s very dumb to include it in a core, static consumption bundle
when I was 18 I made an album cover with no songs or band, and subsequently formed a band and wrote and recorded the music. honestly not a terrible way to work
Once again starting to write a book in the only sensible way, viz, by thinking up a title and then working backwards from there to design the cover, construct the page layout, and make some key choices about the typography. Eventually I will begin to fill in the content. I am a very rational person.
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
when I was 18 I made an album cover with no songs or band, and subsequently formed a band and wrote and recorded the music. honestly not a terrible way to work
I am an egalitarian: all human life is equal in value, which means society should be structured as a community of social equals and to the greatest extent possible create equal real access to the means to live a flourishing life
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I am an egalitarian: all human life is equal in value, which means society should be structured as a community of social equals and to the greatest extent possible create equal real access to the means to live a flourishing life
“prison abolition” in terms of like, “have something basically unrecognizable compared to american corrections” seems fine to me—the problem is just overdoing the language to sound radical. I think that’s where people started, and then negatively polarized themselves into much dumber positions
the thing about the prisonculture story is that she gives herself the simplest possible problem -- "a despised outsider in a society with no deviance immediately confesses to a murder and raises no justification" -- then whiffs the response by torturing the perpetrator and saves them by fiat.
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“prison abolition” in terms of like, “have something basically unrecognizable compared to american corrections” seems fine to me—the problem is just overdoing the language to sound radical. I think that’s where people started, and then negatively polarized themselves into much dumber positions
this is a common right wing canard: no one is genuinely egalitarian. or perhaps there are some, but they’re all rubes being fooled by sociopathic masterminds. twisted view of the world, that
November 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
this is a common right wing canard: no one is genuinely egalitarian. or perhaps there are some, but they’re all rubes being fooled by sociopathic masterminds. twisted view of the world, that
Some people need to be way more afraid of hell.
This just into the newsroom
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Some people need to be way more afraid of hell.
reddit atheists demonstrating a strong grasp of how ancient historical sources work
if you want to lose hope the replies to this post are a good way to do it
if you want to lose hope the replies to this post are a good way to do it
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
reddit atheists demonstrating a strong grasp of how ancient historical sources work
if you want to lose hope the replies to this post are a good way to do it
if you want to lose hope the replies to this post are a good way to do it
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@dawsonvosburg.bsky.social it's happening, again.
Quoting an adage that is not actually in the Bible to justify starving kids at home and abroad might be the essence of MAGA.
A movement of true idiots.
A movement of true idiots.
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
@dawsonvosburg.bsky.social it's happening, again.
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babe wake up, dawson paper just dropped
New from me +friends!
When my colleagues and I decided not to grade our course assignments, I was certain it would blow up in my face. But it didn't! We studied how our students responded—and discussed what we found on the Teaching Sociology podcast.
sagesociology.libsyn.com/teaching-soc...
When my colleagues and I decided not to grade our course assignments, I was certain it would blow up in my face. But it didn't! We studied how our students responded—and discussed what we found on the Teaching Sociology podcast.
sagesociology.libsyn.com/teaching-soc...
Sage Sociology: Teaching Sociology - Free to Learn: Ungrading in Sociology Courses
Authors Alex M. Kempler, Sam Mitchell, and Dawson P. R. Vosburg discuss the article, "," published in the October 2025 issue of Teaching Sociology.
sagesociology.libsyn.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
babe wake up, dawson paper just dropped
Reposted by Dawson Vosburg
Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
October 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
New from me +friends!
When my colleagues and I decided not to grade our course assignments, I was certain it would blow up in my face. But it didn't! We studied how our students responded—and discussed what we found on the Teaching Sociology podcast.
sagesociology.libsyn.com/teaching-soc...
When my colleagues and I decided not to grade our course assignments, I was certain it would blow up in my face. But it didn't! We studied how our students responded—and discussed what we found on the Teaching Sociology podcast.
sagesociology.libsyn.com/teaching-soc...
Sage Sociology: Teaching Sociology - Free to Learn: Ungrading in Sociology Courses
Authors Alex M. Kempler, Sam Mitchell, and Dawson P. R. Vosburg discuss the article, "," published in the October 2025 issue of Teaching Sociology.
sagesociology.libsyn.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
New from me +friends!
When my colleagues and I decided not to grade our course assignments, I was certain it would blow up in my face. But it didn't! We studied how our students responded—and discussed what we found on the Teaching Sociology podcast.
sagesociology.libsyn.com/teaching-soc...
When my colleagues and I decided not to grade our course assignments, I was certain it would blow up in my face. But it didn't! We studied how our students responded—and discussed what we found on the Teaching Sociology podcast.
sagesociology.libsyn.com/teaching-soc...
I remain incensed that a whole class of Christian and other centrist social critics spent years telling us that actually anti-racism had gone Too Far. Not because I think all solutions offered to racism were good, but because those critics were really saying “it’s not really as bad as all that.”
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I remain incensed that a whole class of Christian and other centrist social critics spent years telling us that actually anti-racism had gone Too Far. Not because I think all solutions offered to racism were good, but because those critics were really saying “it’s not really as bad as all that.”
I also got a writeup by @friendlyatheist.com, who read the paper pretty soon after it was published! Grateful and humbled to see this much engagement with my work beyond the academy.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I also got a writeup by @friendlyatheist.com, who read the paper pretty soon after it was published! Grateful and humbled to see this much engagement with my work beyond the academy.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
I didn't think a writeup of my academic work would be the thing related to me that got 12k upvotes on reddit?!
October 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I didn't think a writeup of my academic work would be the thing related to me that got 12k upvotes on reddit?!
Reposted by Dawson Vosburg
Dawson Vosburg, a Ph.D. candidate at The Ohio State University, recently published a fascinating paper in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion trying to understand how conservative Christians twist the Bible to downplay economic inequality. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“I Thank God We're Rich”: Justifying Economic Inequality in an Evangelical Congregation
Christianity has been the inspiration for a variety of responses to economic inequality in the United States and beyond. However, evangelicalism has been associated in the literature with consistent ...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Dawson Vosburg, a Ph.D. candidate at The Ohio State University, recently published a fascinating paper in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion trying to understand how conservative Christians twist the Bible to downplay economic inequality. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Dawson Vosburg
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
if you're looking for a leisurely Saturday watch, why not make it about Christian socialism!
Christian anti-socialists make a lot of bad arguments and don't even seem to know the core critique of capitalism. This time they came for @malcolmbfoley.bsky.social and that made me upset enough to spend too much time making a long video about how bad those arguments are.
youtu.be/kkRQe3cRxlI
youtu.be/kkRQe3cRxlI
Does socialism FORCE you to sin?
YouTube video by Dawson Vosburg
youtu.be
October 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
if you're looking for a leisurely Saturday watch, why not make it about Christian socialism!
Christian anti-socialists make a lot of bad arguments and don't even seem to know the core critique of capitalism. This time they came for @malcolmbfoley.bsky.social and that made me upset enough to spend too much time making a long video about how bad those arguments are.
youtu.be/kkRQe3cRxlI
youtu.be/kkRQe3cRxlI
Does socialism FORCE you to sin?
YouTube video by Dawson Vosburg
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Christian anti-socialists make a lot of bad arguments and don't even seem to know the core critique of capitalism. This time they came for @malcolmbfoley.bsky.social and that made me upset enough to spend too much time making a long video about how bad those arguments are.
youtu.be/kkRQe3cRxlI
youtu.be/kkRQe3cRxlI
all the pop girlie music has me asking where the piano rock girl pop went. we had such a wealth of it 20 years ago. who is the sara bareilles, the ingrid michelson of this era? is alicia keys even a phenomenon that could happen today?
October 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
all the pop girlie music has me asking where the piano rock girl pop went. we had such a wealth of it 20 years ago. who is the sara bareilles, the ingrid michelson of this era? is alicia keys even a phenomenon that could happen today?
I don’t agree with people that “ai” is useless. it’s very helpful if you want to transcribe things, if you want to modify punctuation/capitalization without tedium, cutting out subjects from the background in photos and videos, stuff like that. but those are not exactly economy-transforming gains
I believe some AI bets will pay off, I do not think the payoff will be a net gain across the aggregate of firms. The amount of productivity gain would have to be unimaginable.
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
October 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I don’t agree with people that “ai” is useless. it’s very helpful if you want to transcribe things, if you want to modify punctuation/capitalization without tedium, cutting out subjects from the background in photos and videos, stuff like that. but those are not exactly economy-transforming gains
got recommended a t-shirt that looks really quality and exactly what I've been looking for, made in Canada. they say on their website that their stuff is under USMCA but it feels hard to trust that this will not happen to me if I try to buy from them!
this is like half of r/ups now
October 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
got recommended a t-shirt that looks really quality and exactly what I've been looking for, made in Canada. they say on their website that their stuff is under USMCA but it feels hard to trust that this will not happen to me if I try to buy from them!
It’s very hard to metabolize the anger generated in me over the last 9 months. I feel so ill watching this. I feel furious that people call this a Christian politics. Difficult to just keep on with daily life when I know this is the state of things and it’s not really registering.
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
It’s very hard to metabolize the anger generated in me over the last 9 months. I feel so ill watching this. I feel furious that people call this a Christian politics. Difficult to just keep on with daily life when I know this is the state of things and it’s not really registering.
"I don't have to attend every fight I'm invited to" is important (and difficult) for me to internalize—I often feel guilty withholding a strongly held belief, but I think it's often because I've correctly judged that voicing it will have high cost and little value
but it isn’t so.
I won’t say I believe something that I don’t. but I don’t have to attend every fight I’m invited to, and the truth is neither changed nor harmed by our choosing gentleness, kindness, and prudence
I won’t say I believe something that I don’t. but I don’t have to attend every fight I’m invited to, and the truth is neither changed nor harmed by our choosing gentleness, kindness, and prudence
October 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"I don't have to attend every fight I'm invited to" is important (and difficult) for me to internalize—I often feel guilty withholding a strongly held belief, but I think it's often because I've correctly judged that voicing it will have high cost and little value