Jessie
@jessc37.bsky.social
Minister/chocolatier/tea-drinker/Eyre-head
Some ideas around things to give up for 💜Lent💜 that don’t involve food!
(Because, in our culture, most of us have a fundamentally disordered relationship with food—one that can compromise the way practices like fasting actually function in our spiritual lives... 🧵1/12
(Because, in our culture, most of us have a fundamentally disordered relationship with food—one that can compromise the way practices like fasting actually function in our spiritual lives... 🧵1/12
March 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Some ideas around things to give up for 💜Lent💜 that don’t involve food!
(Because, in our culture, most of us have a fundamentally disordered relationship with food—one that can compromise the way practices like fasting actually function in our spiritual lives... 🧵1/12
(Because, in our culture, most of us have a fundamentally disordered relationship with food—one that can compromise the way practices like fasting actually function in our spiritual lives... 🧵1/12
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"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.
February 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.
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For some reason, I keep thinking about how the Emperor Tiberius (the emperor who crucified Jesus) renamed the Sea of Galilee "Lake Tiberias" after himself as part of his brutal repression of the Jews.
Renaming things is a powerful form of colonization and oppression of subject populations.
Renaming things is a powerful form of colonization and oppression of subject populations.
February 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
For some reason, I keep thinking about how the Emperor Tiberius (the emperor who crucified Jesus) renamed the Sea of Galilee "Lake Tiberias" after himself as part of his brutal repression of the Jews.
Renaming things is a powerful form of colonization and oppression of subject populations.
Renaming things is a powerful form of colonization and oppression of subject populations.
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This is how you sleepwalk into an impunity crisis, hundreds of missed opportunities to take a moral stand.
Here is a quote from St. Augustine that is apropos here
Here is a quote from St. Augustine that is apropos here
February 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is how you sleepwalk into an impunity crisis, hundreds of missed opportunities to take a moral stand.
Here is a quote from St. Augustine that is apropos here
Here is a quote from St. Augustine that is apropos here
They called our teachers & librarians “groomers,” and then appointed Secretary of Education connected to at least two sex scandals (one involving minors, the other involving human trafficking). 🧵1/18
February 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
They called our teachers & librarians “groomers,” and then appointed Secretary of Education connected to at least two sex scandals (one involving minors, the other involving human trafficking). 🧵1/18
Poor people need support. Rich people need accountability. Just about every religious tradition teaches this.
Yet we're living under a regime hell-bent on doing the exact opposite.
Yet we're living under a regime hell-bent on doing the exact opposite.
February 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Poor people need support. Rich people need accountability. Just about every religious tradition teaches this.
Yet we're living under a regime hell-bent on doing the exact opposite.
Yet we're living under a regime hell-bent on doing the exact opposite.
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This is the correct response to all popular music, beginning the day you turn forty. I too hope the young people had, and will continue to have fun.
my rural local news put up a post asking what people thought of the halftime show and this little old white lady commented “I didn’t get it but I’m old. I hope the young people had fun. I liked his pants and his jacket. 💕”
February 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is the correct response to all popular music, beginning the day you turn forty. I too hope the young people had, and will continue to have fun.
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Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.
January 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.
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Democrats moved more swiftly to undermine to college students protesting genocide than Trump’s second administration.
They don’t even have a communication strategy in place! Which is wild because comms is the only lever they have to pull until at least midterms.
They don’t even have a communication strategy in place! Which is wild because comms is the only lever they have to pull until at least midterms.
“We’re obviously in a bit of disarray,” a Democratic senator told Semafor. “I don’t think people are really completely sure about what lesson is to be learned in this election.”
“Give us a little time,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin also said. “This is brand new.”
“Give us a little time,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin also said. “This is brand new.”
January 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Democrats moved more swiftly to undermine to college students protesting genocide than Trump’s second administration.
They don’t even have a communication strategy in place! Which is wild because comms is the only lever they have to pull until at least midterms.
They don’t even have a communication strategy in place! Which is wild because comms is the only lever they have to pull until at least midterms.
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These clips should be shared at least as many times as the one with the Nazi salute. There should be at least as much discourse about this. Cowardice is contagious, but courage can be, too.
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
These clips should be shared at least as many times as the one with the Nazi salute. There should be at least as much discourse about this. Cowardice is contagious, but courage can be, too.
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Priest: Please be kind to people
Trump: Wow, you're being so mean to me right now. Also your church sucks
Trump: Wow, you're being so mean to me right now. Also your church sucks
January 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Priest: Please be kind to people
Trump: Wow, you're being so mean to me right now. Also your church sucks
Trump: Wow, you're being so mean to me right now. Also your church sucks
TLDR: A man who just released a bunch of *convicted* murderers has some Big Feelings about a preacher because she talked about the Bible (her job) and not hypothetical murderers (not her job).
(Also, I think you got to him, Rev! Keep it up!! ✊🙌)
(Also, I think you got to him, Rev! Keep it up!! ✊🙌)
January 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
TLDR: A man who just released a bunch of *convicted* murderers has some Big Feelings about a preacher because she talked about the Bible (her job) and not hypothetical murderers (not her job).
(Also, I think you got to him, Rev! Keep it up!! ✊🙌)
(Also, I think you got to him, Rev! Keep it up!! ✊🙌)
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Maybe The Episcopal Church will be able to do this. May God grant it. ⚓
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde being the kind of leader that no Democrat in Washington apparently wants to be right now.
January 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Maybe The Episcopal Church will be able to do this. May God grant it. ⚓
As an American who moved to Canada awhile back (for reasons that had nothing to do with politics) and who has been getting a LOT of questions lately about moving to Canada, I wanted to offer some thoughts. 🧵1/12
January 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
As an American who moved to Canada awhile back (for reasons that had nothing to do with politics) and who has been getting a LOT of questions lately about moving to Canada, I wanted to offer some thoughts. 🧵1/12
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Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
November 19, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
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Jarvis: His generals called him fascist. Joe Scarborough called him fascist, and now the fascist is in charge and it is journalism's job to cover it that way, not to back off and say okay, well that's it, we lost. Let the fascism happen. No
November 19, 2024 at 3:40 AM
Jarvis: His generals called him fascist. Joe Scarborough called him fascist, and now the fascist is in charge and it is journalism's job to cover it that way, not to back off and say okay, well that's it, we lost. Let the fascism happen. No