Ivan Plis
@ivanplis.bsky.social
Not into “fun facts.” Human editor and church guy in DC. Pronounce me: https://ipa-reader.com/?text=i%CB%88v%C9%91%CB%90n%20pl%C9%AAs
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· Mar 14
I just gave ivanplis.com some much-needed spring cleaning — after all, the @acesediting.bsky.social conference is coming! Take a look:
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147 - Communal Eating *
Without communal eating, no human group can hold together.
Without communal eating, no human group can hold together.
December 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
147 - Communal Eating *
Without communal eating, no human group can hold together.
Without communal eating, no human group can hold together.
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One of my minor conspiracy theories is that Big Shopping hates that Christmas continues after the presents part, and wants us all to forget about days 2-12 so we can focus on buying more stuff.
December 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
One of my minor conspiracy theories is that Big Shopping hates that Christmas continues after the presents part, and wants us all to forget about days 2-12 so we can focus on buying more stuff.
Great question from the group chat: What gift do you give somebody to celebrate their taking a vow of poverty?
December 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Great question from the group chat: What gift do you give somebody to celebrate their taking a vow of poverty?
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Liturgy six winged Seraph https://www.wikiart.org/en/natalia-goncharova/liturgy-six-winged-seraph
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Liturgy six winged Seraph https://www.wikiart.org/en/natalia-goncharova/liturgy-six-winged-seraph
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Mykola Pymonenko, Carolers, 1880s
December 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Mykola Pymonenko, Carolers, 1880s
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A kid I went to high school with got the nickname “Chops Bustable” cause someone thought it was really easy to bust his chops
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
A kid I went to high school with got the nickname “Chops Bustable” cause someone thought it was really easy to bust his chops
Merry Christmas, everybody.
5 - Lace of Country Streets
The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement.
The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement.
December 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Merry Christmas, everybody.
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5 - Lace of Country Streets
The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement.
The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement.
December 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
5 - Lace of Country Streets
The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement.
The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement.
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A cool thing about being Orthodox is that we venerate St. Nicholas with great seriousness because of “his countless miracles on behalf of the poor, the abandoned, of those suffering injustice and of all who call upon his fatherly protection”
For example…
For example…
December 23, 2025 at 1:39 AM
A cool thing about being Orthodox is that we venerate St. Nicholas with great seriousness because of “his countless miracles on behalf of the poor, the abandoned, of those suffering injustice and of all who call upon his fatherly protection”
For example…
For example…
@sirskeltal.bsky.social as a person who picked up all his vocal mannerisms from radio announcers, I think your voice as heard on TAL is groovy
December 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
@sirskeltal.bsky.social as a person who picked up all his vocal mannerisms from radio announcers, I think your voice as heard on TAL is groovy
Ezra Klein Episcopalian arc
KLEIN: “.. cruelty as the dominant culture repulses most people. .. Closed and cruel are on their way out. What comes next, I suspect, will present itself as open, friendly and assertively moral.”
@ezraklein.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...
@ezraklein.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...
December 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Ezra Klein Episcopalian arc
All the cool church people at coffee hour were jazzed to go watch the Amanda Seyfried Shakers musical today, and here’s one of them posting about it in a semiprofessional capacity!
I just saw the Testament of Ann Lee and it was in many ways a perfect film for me (including the surprise on screen singing of a dear friend). The audience response at parts was completely heartbreakin, though, because of the lack of historical empathy
December 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
All the cool church people at coffee hour were jazzed to go watch the Amanda Seyfried Shakers musical today, and here’s one of them posting about it in a semiprofessional capacity!
🤔
Consider the subtleness of the sea
December 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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hope Jacques Pépin is having a great day
December 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
hope Jacques Pépin is having a great day
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It's honestly going to be funny when these DOGE right wing carnivore diet style morons accidentally annihilate the US cattle industry, arguably the bastion of reactionary landed fascism in the vast majority of the United States
December 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It's honestly going to be funny when these DOGE right wing carnivore diet style morons accidentally annihilate the US cattle industry, arguably the bastion of reactionary landed fascism in the vast majority of the United States
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this is kind of like how Henry Kissinger dated a bunch of actresses and models in the 70s
Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?
December 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
this is kind of like how Henry Kissinger dated a bunch of actresses and models in the 70s
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I am far from the first person to point it out, but I think I will not be tuning in for a discussion of God sponsored by a bank.
December 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I am far from the first person to point it out, but I think I will not be tuning in for a discussion of God sponsored by a bank.
shake a hand shake a hand
December 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
shake a hand shake a hand
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"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
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It's astonishing that somehow we have whole swathes of the political class that have not managed to connect "everything seems like a scam now" to a useful political platform.
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It's astonishing that somehow we have whole swathes of the political class that have not managed to connect "everything seems like a scam now" to a useful political platform.
Half-convinced I should insist on showing my passport to the idle National Guard in Metro stations, unsolicited, out of spite.
New attack on immigrants: the Trump administration is demanding that Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices start drumming up “100-200 denaturalization cases per month.”
Normally a naturalized citizen cannot be stripped of citizenship unless they committed fraud on their application. 🎁
Normally a naturalized citizen cannot be stripped of citizenship unless they committed fraud on their application. 🎁
Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Half-convinced I should insist on showing my passport to the idle National Guard in Metro stations, unsolicited, out of spite.
This is what it comes down to: Do you believe all trans people are lying or deluded, or not?
"there is no such thing as a trans kid. It is the result of a mind virus"
December 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is what it comes down to: Do you believe all trans people are lying or deluded, or not?
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Fun fact: you can automatically generate esoteric texts by machine translating Arabic Wikipedia pages on grammatical terms.
December 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Fun fact: you can automatically generate esoteric texts by machine translating Arabic Wikipedia pages on grammatical terms.
I am 34 but on the other hand I am ineligible for the presidency
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I am 34 but on the other hand I am ineligible for the presidency
Mid-Advent reminder that @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social is a Christmas movie (once it is Christmastime, which of course it is not yet)
December 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Mid-Advent reminder that @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social is a Christmas movie (once it is Christmastime, which of course it is not yet)