Christopher Walsh
@deflatermaus.bsky.social
PhD candidate & book historian studying text, memory, & heritage @Rutgers. Interests include Chinese history, East Asian languages, religious and theological book & print culture. Anglo-Catholic Episcopal layman.
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welcome to all the new followers and sorry in advance for all my very bad posts
you rangggg....?
I don’t think I can last this entire live broadcast of the Vienna State Opera’s Die Fledermaus (or as iphone spellcheck renders it: “Deflator Mouse” so accurate). It’s just barely tolerable Viennese kitsch, like it’s been newly exhumed from the 1950s. I know, Jonas Kaufmann, tradition, etc….
December 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
you rangggg....?
born in the wrong time (too late to receive a formal 子 style name from my elders by which I am referred to in polite society)
December 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
born in the wrong time (too late to receive a formal 子 style name from my elders by which I am referred to in polite society)
my pronouns are 殿/下, please take note
Also 他 is gender-neutral unless you’re still using the gross Europeanizing neologism 她 for some reason. It’s 2025, get with the program
No thanks to CNN for marginalizing Cantonese in this article about Chinese gender pronouns:
🙄 Set in Hong Kong but first mention of Cantonese is 25 paragraphs in
🙄 Dismisses it as "an informal and colloquial language"
🙄 Writes 他 five times but refuses to write 佢 (Canto)
www.cnn.com/2025/12/25/c...
🙄 Set in Hong Kong but first mention of Cantonese is 25 paragraphs in
🙄 Dismisses it as "an informal and colloquial language"
🙄 Writes 他 five times but refuses to write 佢 (Canto)
www.cnn.com/2025/12/25/c...
December 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
my pronouns are 殿/下, please take note
Can’t argue with that!
December 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Can’t argue with that!
Youse is just a couple of
December 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Youse is just a couple of
“You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.”
December 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.”
"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
for all people make fun of falun gong, it's wild how much this is basically the same thing as shen yun
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
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In Space, No One Can Listen to the Children of the Night or What Music They Make
December 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
In Space, No One Can Listen to the Children of the Night or What Music They Make
Highly recommend this! I took several paleography and codicology courses through IES early in my PhD and they were excellent!
I know no-one wants to think about next term right now, but please remind students to book their places on the Latin palaeography online short courses at beginner or intermediate level taking place in February 👇 #MedievalSky 📖🧑💻👩💻👨🏽💻👩🏻💻🧑🏿💻🧑💻 📚
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Introduction to Latin Palaeography
ies.sas.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Highly recommend this! I took several paleography and codicology courses through IES early in my PhD and they were excellent!
"yamatologues" feels like some kind of internet pejorative
December 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"yamatologues" feels like some kind of internet pejorative
Summa Toyotalogica
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Summa Toyotalogica
Gotta wonder what Barthes thought of ramen. “Here the pasta is removed from the meaning we traditionally ascribe to noodles, which is Italianness”
December 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Gotta wonder what Barthes thought of ramen. “Here the pasta is removed from the meaning we traditionally ascribe to noodles, which is Italianness”
This is a crazy coincidence because just a few days ago I was at a shrine where they shot some of this film
December 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This is a crazy coincidence because just a few days ago I was at a shrine where they shot some of this film
the APA bishop deposed because of the Calvin Robinson saga (now in charge of a "non-geographic traditional Anglican diocese") is now posting about the guns he owns and being a "pro-gun bishop." A far cry from the days of Archbishop George Abbot.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
the APA bishop deposed because of the Calvin Robinson saga (now in charge of a "non-geographic traditional Anglican diocese") is now posting about the guns he owns and being a "pro-gun bishop." A far cry from the days of Archbishop George Abbot.
a trait I am very proud of having developed is an ability to start writing a comment on Reddit and then deleting it before I post.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
a trait I am very proud of having developed is an ability to start writing a comment on Reddit and then deleting it before I post.
A few thoughts from me about Christ's Kingdom.
See the King desired for ages
Reflections on Christ the King
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A few thoughts from me about Christ's Kingdom.
Reposted by Christopher Walsh
天朝物產豐盈，無所不有，原不藉外夷貨物以通有無
China is making trade impossible – Robin Harding in FT: ‘There is nothing that China wants to import, nothing it does not believe it can make better and cheaper, nothing for which it wants to rely on foreigners a single day longer than it has to.’ www.ft.com/content/f294...
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
天朝物產豐盈，無所不有，原不藉外夷貨物以通有無
🎶 One breaaaad, one bodddddyyy, one Lord of Allllll 🎶
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
🎶 One breaaaad, one bodddddyyy, one Lord of Allllll 🎶
ok but try telling the Eastern Orthodox that the Body Wash proceeds from the Shampoo AND from the Conditioner and see where that gets you
14yo: if St Patrick was alive today, he’d probably try to explain the Trinity through men’s products that are like shampoo, conditioner, and body wash. It’s three in one and the only thing you need in the shower! Just like Jesus!
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
ok but try telling the Eastern Orthodox that the Body Wash proceeds from the Shampoo AND from the Conditioner and see where that gets you
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"They are saying there is a specter, folks. Do you know that word? It's a very old fashioned word. It's a ghost. Anyway, this specter is haunting America. And it turns out the specter is called communism. Can you believe that? It's communism."
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"They are saying there is a specter, folks. Do you know that word? It's a very old fashioned word. It's a ghost. Anyway, this specter is haunting America. And it turns out the specter is called communism. Can you believe that? It's communism."
I'm an Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian and not Orthodox but my anecdotal addition is there is interest in organized religion in general - my own priest has said he's talked to Gen Z folks who have said "I want a religion that asks something of me." There is a hunger for structure and meaning!
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Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'm an Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian and not Orthodox but my anecdotal addition is there is interest in organized religion in general - my own priest has said he's talked to Gen Z folks who have said "I want a religion that asks something of me." There is a hunger for structure and meaning!
time well spent
reflect on same-sex relationships
November 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
time well spent
I love this! I have been praying for a truly pocket-sized prayer book resource and this looks like it fits the bill!
We’re glad to share a new product: The Booklet of Common Prayer! It’s a passport-sized collection of prayers to take with you — fitting in your pocket, it has everything for daily prayer, seven days a week. Take the BCP (at least some of it) with you! shop.forwardmovement.org/product/2700 📕
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I love this! I have been praying for a truly pocket-sized prayer book resource and this looks like it fits the bill!
every line in this article is hilariously crazy! the last NINE popes were "globalist traitors?" Pius XI and XII??? It is so funny to watch lay Catholics become functional protestants when the Pope does something they don't like
“Pope Leo Is a Tool of Our Enemies”: Homan Leads MAGA Attacks as Hayworth, Others Pile On
It’s the latest MAGA attack on Pope Leo’s pro-immigrant stance. Disgraced border chief Tom Homan — caught taking a $50,000 bribe in a Cava takeout bag — led the charge against Leo and the bishops.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
every line in this article is hilariously crazy! the last NINE popes were "globalist traitors?" Pius XI and XII??? It is so funny to watch lay Catholics become functional protestants when the Pope does something they don't like