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Jay Knight ♞
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Memphis. Dad. Software Engineer. Orthodox Christian ☦. Violin. Amateur Radio Operator.
"A lifeless corpse, he heard Thy voice; and at once he rose from the dead, filled with the breath of life and glorifying Thee, O Lord. Lazarus already stank; but, receiving the command of Thy life-giving voice, O my Savior, he arose from the tomb...."
April 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Visualizing the prolonged multi-day stretch of severe weather, widespread flooding, and late-season snowstorm in a single loop:
April 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted."

Thanks @hankgreen.bsky.social @ceriley.bsky.social @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social for all the facts. Looking forward to the new podcast that's just all "Gauntlet" all the time.
March 19, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Christ did not talk about the deserving poor. He did not come to save those who deserved to be saved. He died for each one, even for the very worst. The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor. — Dorothy Day
March 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Cuts in NIH research grants will have a lasting negative impact on science and medicine in the U.S. Grants will continue to fund specific research costs, but essential infrastructure like labs, advanced equipment and support staff are crucial for groundbreaking work.
February 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
(1/2) "We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag....
February 1, 2025 at 5:27 AM
"Reagan believed that a weaker government would mean greater individual liberty for Americans. Trump believes that a weaker government will be less able to prevent him from consolidating power and dominating American life."
The Forest and the Trees
Judging like presidents alike.
thedispatch.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Mister Rogers never misses
January 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Coming home from a family Christmas party in Arkansas, we saw the GaoJing 1-02 (Superview 1-02) Chinese imaging satellite satellite re-entering and burning up in the atmosphere. Quite the sight. Captured from Slovak, AR.
December 22, 2024 at 6:37 AM
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.

Yäj: a small desk tray that can hold a single pen and a pad of post-it notes.
Mhäras, a line of pillowcase covers that look like they were designed by the animators of The Beatles Yellow Submarine films but colored by Pottery Barn’s design team.
Lavёp, an elegant side table the perfect size and shape for a microwave oven and, inexplicably, nothing else
November 29, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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New #JWST image just dropped 🔭🐡🧪
November 23, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Yes please.
The Commissioner of Major League Baseball says the organization wants to recapture local TV rights in order to shift more games to national broadcast and streaming platforms after their current TV rights deals expire in 2028.
Major League Baseball wants to shift more games to streaming TV
Major League Baseball is preparing to create new national packages that are intended for streaming distribution.
thedesk.net
November 21, 2024 at 5:17 PM
I switched my handle to be my domain name yesterday, and my old handle is already a porn account. That's not ideal. I should have registered it as an alt right after I made the switch.
November 15, 2024 at 11:09 PM
"The story of the Nativity is utterly shrouded in the cloak of weakness... Christ is incarnate as an unborn child in a world where infant mortality would have been astronomical by our modern standards... The God of the universe, to use modern scientific terminology, becomes a Zygote."
The Wisdom of Man and the Foolishness of God - Glory to God For All Things
The Feast of the Nativity, known sometimes in Orthodoxy as “the Winter Pascha,” is one of the great examples in the story of our salvation where the “foolishness of God” defeats the wisdom of man. It ...
glory2godforallthings.com
November 15, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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Bluesky has gotten LOUD! That's not a bad thing, but I've been here a year and a half and I'm getting used to the changes.

Here's a feed I love. It finds the quieter posters from your follows to display only.

These are often your friends or deliberate follows. Give it a try!
November 15, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Polar Tree Lake at Meeman-Shelby Forest. #nature #autumn #cabin
November 11, 2024 at 12:29 PM