post-pastoral
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may the space between us be a garden for new tomorrows 🌃 || they/he/dia || somewhere in my 20s || intermittent arting || queer socialist christianing
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We're so excited for TOMORROW ❤️🔥 Join us at 4:00 PM ET for a virtual conversation on crip wisdom, critique, and how to survive techno-hellscapes between @beza.bsky.social, @christateston.bsky.social, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & The Cyborg Jillian Weise
Join us on Thursday, OCTOBER 16th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET over Zoom for a conversation about How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes 🔥💻🌐
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We're so excited for TOMORROW ❤️🔥 Join us at 4:00 PM ET for a virtual conversation on crip wisdom, critique, and how to survive techno-hellscapes between @beza.bsky.social, @christateston.bsky.social, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & The Cyborg Jillian Weise
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the AI girlfriend dystopia stuff is boring. What you're really not ready for is the AI *boyfriend* apocalypse
July 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
the AI girlfriend dystopia stuff is boring. What you're really not ready for is the AI *boyfriend* apocalypse
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After months of reading, playing, and debating RPGs the 2025 ENNIES nominees are here.
ennie-awards.com/2025-nominees/
Congrats to this year’s nominees and the countless others who didn’t get nominated but were just as deserving. As always, there were more winners than seats this year.
ennie-awards.com/2025-nominees/
Congrats to this year’s nominees and the countless others who didn’t get nominated but were just as deserving. As always, there were more winners than seats this year.
2025 Nominees – ENNIE Awards
ennie-awards.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
After months of reading, playing, and debating RPGs the 2025 ENNIES nominees are here.
ennie-awards.com/2025-nominees/
Congrats to this year’s nominees and the countless others who didn’t get nominated but were just as deserving. As always, there were more winners than seats this year.
ennie-awards.com/2025-nominees/
Congrats to this year’s nominees and the countless others who didn’t get nominated but were just as deserving. As always, there were more winners than seats this year.
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Ok so since the Discourse (tm) about world building has morphed into a Discourse (tm) about magic systems I'm going to share one of my weirdest essays:
simonmcneil.com/2023/04/06/m...
simonmcneil.com/2023/04/06/m...
Magic and Lawlessness
I have an almost irrational distaste for "hard" magic systems in literature. This is not because of any particular aversion to stories getting metaphysical. I have absolutely no problem there but it i...
simonmcneil.com
August 29, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Ok so since the Discourse (tm) about world building has morphed into a Discourse (tm) about magic systems I'm going to share one of my weirdest essays:
simonmcneil.com/2023/04/06/m...
simonmcneil.com/2023/04/06/m...
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New York is now the world’s newest socialist republic.
And it all stems from years of working class organizing.
This moment doesn’t come without thousands of people spending millions of hours building the capacity for political transformation.
www.jphilll.com/p/the-social...
And it all stems from years of working class organizing.
This moment doesn’t come without thousands of people spending millions of hours building the capacity for political transformation.
www.jphilll.com/p/the-social...
The Socialist Republic of NYC
Zohran Mandani, DSA, and a historic victory
www.jphilll.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New York is now the world’s newest socialist republic.
And it all stems from years of working class organizing.
This moment doesn’t come without thousands of people spending millions of hours building the capacity for political transformation.
www.jphilll.com/p/the-social...
And it all stems from years of working class organizing.
This moment doesn’t come without thousands of people spending millions of hours building the capacity for political transformation.
www.jphilll.com/p/the-social...
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Most modern anarchist theory I read is either (a) rehashing old anarchist ideas in modern language, (b) combining old anarchism with something else eg modern feminism, or (c) some of the worst edgy/pretentious rubbish I've ever read. I really want to find something good that's genuinely new.
May 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Most modern anarchist theory I read is either (a) rehashing old anarchist ideas in modern language, (b) combining old anarchism with something else eg modern feminism, or (c) some of the worst edgy/pretentious rubbish I've ever read. I really want to find something good that's genuinely new.
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Mount Olympus sketches for a project that didn’t make it
May 31, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Mount Olympus sketches for a project that didn’t make it
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Over the moon to finally be reading @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's "Is a River Alive?"
Feel like I've just sat down and already a hundred pages have disappeared. Temporarily tearing myself away so I can visit my own local river.
Feel like I've just sat down and already a hundred pages have disappeared. Temporarily tearing myself away so I can visit my own local river.
May 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Over the moon to finally be reading @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's "Is a River Alive?"
Feel like I've just sat down and already a hundred pages have disappeared. Temporarily tearing myself away so I can visit my own local river.
Feel like I've just sat down and already a hundred pages have disappeared. Temporarily tearing myself away so I can visit my own local river.
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When I was nine years old, my family was “baptized in the Holy Spirit.”
That’s what we called it, anyway. One night my parents prayed at their kitchen table with some bookstore owners they'd gotten to know in town, and the next morning—after 20 years of smoking—they quit, cold turkey.
That’s what we called it, anyway. One night my parents prayed at their kitchen table with some bookstore owners they'd gotten to know in town, and the next morning—after 20 years of smoking—they quit, cold turkey.
May 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
When I was nine years old, my family was “baptized in the Holy Spirit.”
That’s what we called it, anyway. One night my parents prayed at their kitchen table with some bookstore owners they'd gotten to know in town, and the next morning—after 20 years of smoking—they quit, cold turkey.
That’s what we called it, anyway. One night my parents prayed at their kitchen table with some bookstore owners they'd gotten to know in town, and the next morning—after 20 years of smoking—they quit, cold turkey.
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"How would you describe your mental health at the moment?"
"Well, I thought the gently spinning empty yogurt pot in the sink, trapped by the spray and current of the tap water hitting the teaspoon was somehow profoundly beautiful and felt the need to record this for posterity"
"Well, I thought the gently spinning empty yogurt pot in the sink, trapped by the spray and current of the tap water hitting the teaspoon was somehow profoundly beautiful and felt the need to record this for posterity"
April 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"How would you describe your mental health at the moment?"
"Well, I thought the gently spinning empty yogurt pot in the sink, trapped by the spray and current of the tap water hitting the teaspoon was somehow profoundly beautiful and felt the need to record this for posterity"
"Well, I thought the gently spinning empty yogurt pot in the sink, trapped by the spray and current of the tap water hitting the teaspoon was somehow profoundly beautiful and felt the need to record this for posterity"
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Colonialism is a plague, capitalism is a pandemic. These systems are anti-life. ... We are the antibodies. ~ Klee Benally.
Newsletter from the Nii'kinaaganaa Foundation. Meet two organizers whose work we support. Be the antibody.
payyourrent.ca/anybody-can-...
Newsletter from the Nii'kinaaganaa Foundation. Meet two organizers whose work we support. Be the antibody.
payyourrent.ca/anybody-can-...
Anybody Can Be an Antibody
Gratitude time!
Miigwech to new subscribers Camilla, Lindsay, and Reilly! And for a one-time donation from Micheal. Along with everyone else who supports our work, we couldn't do it without you.
For...
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March 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Colonialism is a plague, capitalism is a pandemic. These systems are anti-life. ... We are the antibodies. ~ Klee Benally.
Newsletter from the Nii'kinaaganaa Foundation. Meet two organizers whose work we support. Be the antibody.
payyourrent.ca/anybody-can-...
Newsletter from the Nii'kinaaganaa Foundation. Meet two organizers whose work we support. Be the antibody.
payyourrent.ca/anybody-can-...
Yes! And I only recently realized is that if you follow this observation, you'll also find no penal substitutionary atonement in Luke's gospel (since Luke-Acts is a composite work)!
e.g. Luke leaves out the saying about Jesus' life as a ransom found in Matthew 20:28 and Mark 10:45
e.g. Luke leaves out the saying about Jesus' life as a ransom found in Matthew 20:28 and Mark 10:45
One of my favorite classes is having students make observations via guided ?s on the gospel speeches in Acts. Here's my final slide I'm priming them for. Altho many r shook, they can't "unsee" what they just observed. I've found this way (*usually*) generates curiosity rather than defensiveness.
![Picture of my PowerPoint slide with the title/caption at the bottom: "(Re-)Calibrating the Gospel to the Apostlic Witness". It features two memes side by side of icons of the apostles Peter and Paul facing each other. On the left the text says:
Imagine a gospel with no threat of hell.
[italicized] You don't have to.
You can see Peter & Paul preach it in ACTS. [italicized] every. [italicized] single. [italicized] time.
One the right it has the same text except "threat of hell" is scratched out and "penal subsitutionary atonement" is written above it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wtkhqvsjjzy2frqoy5sacwbg/bafkreia7ll3wvkw4fr2fbug74nqwobynpuw22r45w5wup2gjbcmjccok2i@jpeg)
March 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Yes! And I only recently realized is that if you follow this observation, you'll also find no penal substitutionary atonement in Luke's gospel (since Luke-Acts is a composite work)!
e.g. Luke leaves out the saying about Jesus' life as a ransom found in Matthew 20:28 and Mark 10:45
e.g. Luke leaves out the saying about Jesus' life as a ransom found in Matthew 20:28 and Mark 10:45
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I suspect most of Christianity is a reaction formation based on our resentment towards Jesus.
March 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I suspect most of Christianity is a reaction formation based on our resentment towards Jesus.
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lady of the imps
March 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
lady of the imps
Love this framing.
The common idea is that self-denial for Jesus’ disciples is a good end in itself (suggesting that human agency must be eliminated).
God gives us Jesus’ narrow way to liberate us from sin’s grasp (which leads us to a single place - death), for futures of endless possibility.
The common idea is that self-denial for Jesus’ disciples is a good end in itself (suggesting that human agency must be eliminated).
God gives us Jesus’ narrow way to liberate us from sin’s grasp (which leads us to a single place - death), for futures of endless possibility.
Good morning, beloved.
In a world with increasingly limited options, liberation is—in part—the ability to choose your own adventure.
Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.
In a world with increasingly limited options, liberation is—in part—the ability to choose your own adventure.
Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.
March 8, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Love this framing.
The common idea is that self-denial for Jesus’ disciples is a good end in itself (suggesting that human agency must be eliminated).
God gives us Jesus’ narrow way to liberate us from sin’s grasp (which leads us to a single place - death), for futures of endless possibility.
The common idea is that self-denial for Jesus’ disciples is a good end in itself (suggesting that human agency must be eliminated).
God gives us Jesus’ narrow way to liberate us from sin’s grasp (which leads us to a single place - death), for futures of endless possibility.