Shane Liesegang, SJ
@sjml.bsky.social
🎭 theater kid turned 🎮 game dev turned ✝️ Jesuit [scholastic/deacon]
past: skyrim, fallout, god of war, novitiate, philosophy/political econ, refugee aid (🇱🇧🇮🇶🇯🇴🇸🇾), theology, starfield, migrant care (🇵🇭)
present: theology in Boston
https://shaneliesegang.com
past: skyrim, fallout, god of war, novitiate, philosophy/political econ, refugee aid (🇱🇧🇮🇶🇯🇴🇸🇾), theology, starfield, migrant care (🇵🇭)
present: theology in Boston
https://shaneliesegang.com
Headline roller coaster here of “awww BOOO yeah ok hope they find something wait WTF”
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Headline roller coaster here of “awww BOOO yeah ok hope they find something wait WTF”
was also reminded of the Jesuit connection to Blues Brothers tonight...
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
was also reminded of the Jesuit connection to Blues Brothers tonight...
these things are always simpler than they want you to think
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
these things are always simpler than they want you to think
I remember being very proud of having acclimated to living in the tropics last year, but wondered openly how I would fare coming back to Boston.
WELP today is the first day of real cold (34F) and I am a HUGE BABY ABOUT IT
WELP today is the first day of real cold (34F) and I am a HUGE BABY ABOUT IT
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I remember being very proud of having acclimated to living in the tropics last year, but wondered openly how I would fare coming back to Boston.
WELP today is the first day of real cold (34F) and I am a HUGE BABY ABOUT IT
WELP today is the first day of real cold (34F) and I am a HUGE BABY ABOUT IT
only a little ways into Pluribus but this is the kind of screen that basically guarantees I will want to watch the rest of it
![A bunch of cars parked outside the Very Large Array. subtitles say "[astronomers clamoring]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sbbklyrrb5xfb43mfhypi2f7/bafkreibrtfclubrq7t2bgepd7th5dobllapyqxj57hzkddmn4a4szmavdq@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
only a little ways into Pluribus but this is the kind of screen that basically guarantees I will want to watch the rest of it
Every city deserves to have a mayor who loves the city. It's weird how rare that is. Apart from all the wonky coalition building stuff people can work backwards to explain how he won, the impressive rise was because people were attracted to a genuine sense of "this guy actually knows and likes NYC."
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Every city deserves to have a mayor who loves the city. It's weird how rare that is. Apart from all the wonky coalition building stuff people can work backwards to explain how he won, the impressive rise was because people were attracted to a genuine sense of "this guy actually knows and likes NYC."
I want to share all y'all's hilarious takes with the group chat, but
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I want to share all y'all's hilarious takes with the group chat, but
Canon Law professor enjoyed my goofy footnote but also is about to ruin his weekend
November 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Canon Law professor enjoyed my goofy footnote but also is about to ruin his weekend
I just really like the trees in my little Jesuit community, y’all
(here’s that same one from the background, captured on my way back from our community mass this morning)
(here’s that same one from the background, captured on my way back from our community mass this morning)
November 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I just really like the trees in my little Jesuit community, y’all
(here’s that same one from the background, captured on my way back from our community mass this morning)
(here’s that same one from the background, captured on my way back from our community mass this morning)
My first thought was to set up the timelapse camera out of this window, but it’s in a bathroom so that would have been both weird and humid… would have been nice to also get the tree behind it tho. Alas!
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
My first thought was to set up the timelapse camera out of this window, but it’s in a bathroom so that would have been both weird and humid… would have been nice to also get the tree behind it tho. Alas!
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
November 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
I don't understand... is it modern?
October 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I don't understand... is it modern?
My favorite part of this aspect of him in art is how he is always pointing at Jesus (if there) and if not there just kind of points at heaven, but sometimes carries his own little miniature lamb around just so he can point at it
October 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
My favorite part of this aspect of him in art is how he is always pointing at Jesus (if there) and if not there just kind of points at heaven, but sometimes carries his own little miniature lamb around just so he can point at it
at last, @zachweinersmith.bsky.social has managed to sum up the entire history of philosophy.
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
at last, @zachweinersmith.bsky.social has managed to sum up the entire history of philosophy.
Worth recalling the natural law tradition that taking food if you're starving is not simply *allowed*, it is not even correct to call it stealing. In a just society nobody would starve, therefore any law which would allow starvation is by definition unjust and thus is no longer a law.
![I answer that, Things which are of human right cannot derogate from natural right or Divine right. Now according to the natural order established by Divine Providence, inferior things are ordained for the purpose of succoring man's needs by their means. Wherefore the division and appropriation of things which are based on human law, do not preclude the fact that man's needs have to be remedied by means of these very things. Hence whatever certain people have in superabundance is due, by natural law, to the purpose of succoring the poor. For this reason Ambrose [Loc. cit., Article 2, Objection 3] says, and his words are embodied in the Decretals (Dist. xlvii, can. Sicut ii): "It is the hungry man's bread that you withhold, the naked man's cloak that you store away, the money that you bury in the earth is the price of the poor man's ransom and freedom."
Since, however, there are many who are in need, while it is impossible for all to be succored by means of the same thing, each one is entrusted with the stewardship of his own things, so that out of them he may come to the aid of those who are in need. Nevertheless, if the need be so manifest and urgent, that it is evident that the present need must be remedied by whatever means be at hand (for instance when a person is in some imminent danger, and there is no other possible remedy), then it is lawful for a man to succor his own need by means of another's property, by taking it either openly or secretly: nor is this properly speaking theft or robbery.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sbbklyrrb5xfb43mfhypi2f7/bafkreicmurrqa5li6f7bbz2cxspz3lejapuq23gblfnst2lsflncrrfq74@jpeg)
October 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Worth recalling the natural law tradition that taking food if you're starving is not simply *allowed*, it is not even correct to call it stealing. In a just society nobody would starve, therefore any law which would allow starvation is by definition unjust and thus is no longer a law.
The Code of Canon Law fortunately does not speak on such matters, usually containing administrative stuff like this (c. 337 §3)
October 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The Code of Canon Law fortunately does not speak on such matters, usually containing administrative stuff like this (c. 337 §3)
look, most of the footnotes here are dry-as-heck citations of the Code of Canon Law so I gotta mix it up a little bit
October 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
look, most of the footnotes here are dry-as-heck citations of the Code of Canon Law so I gotta mix it up a little bit
Having fun outlining the limits of papal authority in the footnotes for my Canon Law midterm.
October 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Having fun outlining the limits of papal authority in the footnotes for my Canon Law midterm.
(one of the things I am lowkey proudest of)
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
(one of the things I am lowkey proudest of)
this time of year really justifying the existence of this camera. 🥹🍁🍂
October 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
this time of year really justifying the existence of this camera. 🥹🍁🍂
everything bagel seasoning atop an everything bagel — the heart of decadence
October 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
everything bagel seasoning atop an everything bagel — the heart of decadence
In fairness, I suppose, failure to receive this teaching is also 2000-ish years old. (Mark 10:17-22, NRSVue)
![## The Rich Man
17 As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18 Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. 19 You know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness. You shall not defraud. Honor your father and mother.’ ” 20 He said to him, “Teacher, I have kept all these since my youth.” 21 Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, “You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money[a] to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” <highlight>22 When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions.</highlight>](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sbbklyrrb5xfb43mfhypi2f7/bafkreif336o3sv3wi6t34or5gtnd6aetcqjekbsvn3reuhkusgd7qdy244@jpeg)
October 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In fairness, I suppose, failure to receive this teaching is also 2000-ish years old. (Mark 10:17-22, NRSVue)