Rev. Michael Precht
@precht.bsky.social
Senior Pastor
Fairhope UMC
Dual citizen of Midtown Mobile and Utopia by the Bay
Fairhope UMC
Dual citizen of Midtown Mobile and Utopia by the Bay
I don’t know all the economic and demographic implications of my hearing an @billsimmons.bsky.social ad read on an @theresthistory.bsky.social podcast…
I’ll wait (and hope) for @conorsen.bsky.social to explain it to me.
I’ll wait (and hope) for @conorsen.bsky.social to explain it to me.
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I don’t know all the economic and demographic implications of my hearing an @billsimmons.bsky.social ad read on an @theresthistory.bsky.social podcast…
I’ll wait (and hope) for @conorsen.bsky.social to explain it to me.
I’ll wait (and hope) for @conorsen.bsky.social to explain it to me.
Reposted by Rev. Michael Precht
Y’all ever think about how He who comes despised shall reign / He that cannot die, be slain / Death by death its death shall gain?
September 18, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Y’all ever think about how He who comes despised shall reign / He that cannot die, be slain / Death by death its death shall gain?
Inspired by @minakimes.bsky.social and @billsimmons.bsky.social… two proposals for field goals:
Restore the old, old rule that kickers must play on the down immediately preceding the attempt.
No offensive timeouts or substitutions before the kick. Let the clock be part of the challenge.
Restore the old, old rule that kickers must play on the down immediately preceding the attempt.
No offensive timeouts or substitutions before the kick. Let the clock be part of the challenge.
September 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Inspired by @minakimes.bsky.social and @billsimmons.bsky.social… two proposals for field goals:
Restore the old, old rule that kickers must play on the down immediately preceding the attempt.
No offensive timeouts or substitutions before the kick. Let the clock be part of the challenge.
Restore the old, old rule that kickers must play on the down immediately preceding the attempt.
No offensive timeouts or substitutions before the kick. Let the clock be part of the challenge.
Brutal 4th quarter collapse by Furman today, and Paladin legend Billy Napier is getting roasted by the third-greatest living Gator, @edsbs.bsky.social
Is it basketball season yet?
Is it basketball season yet?
September 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Brutal 4th quarter collapse by Furman today, and Paladin legend Billy Napier is getting roasted by the third-greatest living Gator, @edsbs.bsky.social
Is it basketball season yet?
Is it basketball season yet?
Y’all remember when lime Skittle was replaced ***for eight years*** with a trash, overflavored green apple?
No matter how big a mistake you’ve made, and no matter how public, you can repent. The sooner you do, the sooner you’ll reach the day when no one remembers your former foolishness.
No matter how big a mistake you’ve made, and no matter how public, you can repent. The sooner you do, the sooner you’ll reach the day when no one remembers your former foolishness.
August 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Y’all remember when lime Skittle was replaced ***for eight years*** with a trash, overflavored green apple?
No matter how big a mistake you’ve made, and no matter how public, you can repent. The sooner you do, the sooner you’ll reach the day when no one remembers your former foolishness.
No matter how big a mistake you’ve made, and no matter how public, you can repent. The sooner you do, the sooner you’ll reach the day when no one remembers your former foolishness.
Reposted by Rev. Michael Precht
Baylor English professor Alan Jacobs does not want his students to use AI in his course.
blog.ayjay.org/a-word-to-my...
blog.ayjay.org/a-word-to-my...
a word to my students – The Homebound Symphony
blog.ayjay.org
August 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Baylor English professor Alan Jacobs does not want his students to use AI in his course.
blog.ayjay.org/a-word-to-my...
blog.ayjay.org/a-word-to-my...
I propose a new index for @conorsen.bsky.social
At full employment, service at local Chicks-fil-A was unprecedentedly bad. Bright-eyed, high sociability canidates all had better opportunities.
2 months now, the service has been *great,* like pre-pandemic levels.
I’m worried.
At full employment, service at local Chicks-fil-A was unprecedentedly bad. Bright-eyed, high sociability canidates all had better opportunities.
2 months now, the service has been *great,* like pre-pandemic levels.
I’m worried.
August 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I propose a new index for @conorsen.bsky.social
At full employment, service at local Chicks-fil-A was unprecedentedly bad. Bright-eyed, high sociability canidates all had better opportunities.
2 months now, the service has been *great,* like pre-pandemic levels.
I’m worried.
At full employment, service at local Chicks-fil-A was unprecedentedly bad. Bright-eyed, high sociability canidates all had better opportunities.
2 months now, the service has been *great,* like pre-pandemic levels.
I’m worried.
I routinely tell my brother (a Gator) that Spencer Hall is UF’s all-time greatest contribution to American culture. And that verdict gets ratified every single day on this app.
This is great but you gotta find a way to explain it to everyone and fortunately Bum Phillips already did
August 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I routinely tell my brother (a Gator) that Spencer Hall is UF’s all-time greatest contribution to American culture. And that verdict gets ratified every single day on this app.
Reposted by Rev. Michael Precht
What a great, great farewell note
News: legendary Washington Post sports columnist @sallyjenx.bsky.social is leaving The Post.
July 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
What a great, great farewell note
What a series
Congrats @oalannoble.bsky.social
Congrats @oalannoble.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
What a series
Congrats @oalannoble.bsky.social
Congrats @oalannoble.bsky.social
My dad introduced me to this over the holidays, thanks to @artsulselva.bsky.social and @atticus59914029.bsky.social for the reminder.
Mar. 2, 2025
T I G H T R O P E
✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉
My Score: 2390
www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope
Mar. 2, 2025
T I G H T R O P E
✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉
My Score: 2390
www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope
Tightrope, a Daily Trivia Game | Britannica
A daily trivia game with 9 interesting questions. If you get three wrong…you lose. Question categories include science, arts, history, animals and math.
www.britannica.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My dad introduced me to this over the holidays, thanks to @artsulselva.bsky.social and @atticus59914029.bsky.social for the reminder.
Mar. 2, 2025
T I G H T R O P E
✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉
My Score: 2390
www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope
Mar. 2, 2025
T I G H T R O P E
✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉
My Score: 2390
www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope
Not a single mention of Baumol, smh.
I’m not an economics writer, but feels like this one needed @mattyglesias.bsky.social or @conorsen.bsky.social to chime in.
www.vox.com/money/241590...
I’m not an economics writer, but feels like this one needed @mattyglesias.bsky.social or @conorsen.bsky.social to chime in.
www.vox.com/money/241590...
The real reason it costs so much to go to a concert
We can’t just blame Ticketmaster and scalpers.
www.vox.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Not a single mention of Baumol, smh.
I’m not an economics writer, but feels like this one needed @mattyglesias.bsky.social or @conorsen.bsky.social to chime in.
www.vox.com/money/241590...
I’m not an economics writer, but feels like this one needed @mattyglesias.bsky.social or @conorsen.bsky.social to chime in.
www.vox.com/money/241590...
Reposted by Rev. Michael Precht
New Fox chyron is excellent.
Team names: huge.
Score: huge.
Logos: none. Colors say enough.
Needless chrome: none.
Timeouts remaining: prominent but not distracting.
Down and yards to go indicator: conveys which team has the ball.
Typography: classic, legible, bold, timeless.
Outstanding design.
Team names: huge.
Score: huge.
Logos: none. Colors say enough.
Needless chrome: none.
Timeouts remaining: prominent but not distracting.
Down and yards to go indicator: conveys which team has the ball.
Typography: classic, legible, bold, timeless.
Outstanding design.
February 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
New Fox chyron is excellent.
Team names: huge.
Score: huge.
Logos: none. Colors say enough.
Needless chrome: none.
Timeouts remaining: prominent but not distracting.
Down and yards to go indicator: conveys which team has the ball.
Typography: classic, legible, bold, timeless.
Outstanding design.
Team names: huge.
Score: huge.
Logos: none. Colors say enough.
Needless chrome: none.
Timeouts remaining: prominent but not distracting.
Down and yards to go indicator: conveys which team has the ball.
Typography: classic, legible, bold, timeless.
Outstanding design.
Reposted by Rev. Michael Precht
every hack you see online, your grandma already knows. she knows all the secret best ways to do everything. it's nanatechnology
February 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
every hack you see online, your grandma already knows. she knows all the secret best ways to do everything. it's nanatechnology
So far, the main effects of Apple Intelligence seem to be:
- Siri is **way** slower to “launch” on my 15 Pro Max
- Siri answers are worse (cf. @gruber.foo)
- Siri sometimes dials-a-friend to ChatGPT, which is genuinely helpful.
The glow is nice, too.
- Siri is **way** slower to “launch” on my 15 Pro Max
- Siri answers are worse (cf. @gruber.foo)
- Siri sometimes dials-a-friend to ChatGPT, which is genuinely helpful.
The glow is nice, too.
February 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
So far, the main effects of Apple Intelligence seem to be:
- Siri is **way** slower to “launch” on my 15 Pro Max
- Siri answers are worse (cf. @gruber.foo)
- Siri sometimes dials-a-friend to ChatGPT, which is genuinely helpful.
The glow is nice, too.
- Siri is **way** slower to “launch” on my 15 Pro Max
- Siri answers are worse (cf. @gruber.foo)
- Siri sometimes dials-a-friend to ChatGPT, which is genuinely helpful.
The glow is nice, too.
$cash app sends me an email, letting me know my account’s been inactive for 2 years… which is how I realized:
A) I have a Cash app account
B) it’s the only platform I got in early enough to use my (pretty uncommon) surname as my handle.
A) I have a Cash app account
B) it’s the only platform I got in early enough to use my (pretty uncommon) surname as my handle.
February 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
$cash app sends me an email, letting me know my account’s been inactive for 2 years… which is how I realized:
A) I have a Cash app account
B) it’s the only platform I got in early enough to use my (pretty uncommon) surname as my handle.
A) I have a Cash app account
B) it’s the only platform I got in early enough to use my (pretty uncommon) surname as my handle.
It feels like we are five years into a slow trend of cars actually looking good again. It was a real wasteland starting in about 2006.
January 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It feels like we are five years into a slow trend of cars actually looking good again. It was a real wasteland starting in about 2006.
Agreed. *And*
For me, the hardness of writing is not the effort but the sacrifice, the isolation and time denied to neighbors & loved ones.
Coding, writing, correspondence, creating — the work of our age is increasingly social in its ends, but isolating in its means. (1/2)
For me, the hardness of writing is not the effort but the sacrifice, the isolation and time denied to neighbors & loved ones.
Coding, writing, correspondence, creating — the work of our age is increasingly social in its ends, but isolating in its means. (1/2)
Pardon the French but can I get an amen?
"If you don't want to work your ass off, you have no business trying to write well." -- Stephen King
"If you don't want to work your ass off, you have no business trying to write well." -- Stephen King
January 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Agreed. *And*
For me, the hardness of writing is not the effort but the sacrifice, the isolation and time denied to neighbors & loved ones.
Coding, writing, correspondence, creating — the work of our age is increasingly social in its ends, but isolating in its means. (1/2)
For me, the hardness of writing is not the effort but the sacrifice, the isolation and time denied to neighbors & loved ones.
Coding, writing, correspondence, creating — the work of our age is increasingly social in its ends, but isolating in its means. (1/2)
Reposted by Rev. Michael Precht
A Sunday Prayer:
O Holy Spirit, open my eyes this day to perceive how you are at work all around me—healing, rescuing, restoring, reconciling—so that I might participate in your good purposes for this world that you so love. I pray this in the name of the One who makes dead bones live. Amen.
O Holy Spirit, open my eyes this day to perceive how you are at work all around me—healing, rescuing, restoring, reconciling—so that I might participate in your good purposes for this world that you so love. I pray this in the name of the One who makes dead bones live. Amen.
January 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A Sunday Prayer:
O Holy Spirit, open my eyes this day to perceive how you are at work all around me—healing, rescuing, restoring, reconciling—so that I might participate in your good purposes for this world that you so love. I pray this in the name of the One who makes dead bones live. Amen.
O Holy Spirit, open my eyes this day to perceive how you are at work all around me—healing, rescuing, restoring, reconciling—so that I might participate in your good purposes for this world that you so love. I pray this in the name of the One who makes dead bones live. Amen.
Reposted by Rev. Michael Precht
Let's do some theology today. Let's pray.
January 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Let's do some theology today. Let's pray.
Roll tide
January 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Roll tide
Reposted by Rev. Michael Precht
Jimmy Carter outlived one of his obituary writers:
December 29, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Jimmy Carter outlived one of his obituary writers:
Fun article… makes me think of a way to fix the NBA cup & all-star games.
Make em “vintage rules.” E.g. eliminate the corner 3 in regular play, but keep it for Cup finals. Make oddball tournaments a showcase for comparing modern players with the olden days.
www.theringer.com/2024/12/24/s...
Make em “vintage rules.” E.g. eliminate the corner 3 in regular play, but keep it for Cup finals. Make oddball tournaments a showcase for comparing modern players with the olden days.
www.theringer.com/2024/12/24/s...
The Big Four Sports Leagues’ Players Have Gotten Too Good
And a suspiciously exclusive press release says their commissioners could be ready to make major changes
www.theringer.com
December 24, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Fun article… makes me think of a way to fix the NBA cup & all-star games.
Make em “vintage rules.” E.g. eliminate the corner 3 in regular play, but keep it for Cup finals. Make oddball tournaments a showcase for comparing modern players with the olden days.
www.theringer.com/2024/12/24/s...
Make em “vintage rules.” E.g. eliminate the corner 3 in regular play, but keep it for Cup finals. Make oddball tournaments a showcase for comparing modern players with the olden days.
www.theringer.com/2024/12/24/s...
Reposted by Rev. Michael Precht
College sports have so many layers of terrible, malicious leadership that I wanna be clear I am not positing them as a better system in any way, but it always throws me for a loop to be reminded that pro fans have to deal with owners who cannot be run out of town. Buddy we can run anyone outta town.
one of the many joys of being a sports fan is rubbernecking at stories like this that you get at a regular drip that establish team owners as some of the most incompetent people ever born. i always think back to marge schott owning an mlb team for many years and not knowing about time zones
December 19, 2024 at 5:38 PM
College sports have so many layers of terrible, malicious leadership that I wanna be clear I am not positing them as a better system in any way, but it always throws me for a loop to be reminded that pro fans have to deal with owners who cannot be run out of town. Buddy we can run anyone outta town.