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Taylor Berglund
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Writer/editor. Reluctant scholar in the world of bad evangelical cinema. Duke Divinity alum. Gets way too excited about TV and movies. Always up to something. Micah 6:8. Opinions mine.
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
time to kick off the holiday season with a real Christmas movie.
Dev Patel as Gawain The GAWD Ralph Inneson as the Green Knight Alicia Vikander as Essel Gawain (Dev Patel) with his little fox buddy.
December 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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majorarschloch.bsky.social
Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.

Love all, help all.

Go Jackets.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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cheatlines.co
When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
Natalie Portman in Black Swan being menaced by a doppelganger in the mirror
December 21, 2023 at 10:09 PM
toberglund.bsky.social
I love this take. I'm sure there are holes in this that smarter people could identify, but to me, if you are chasing a purely *Christian* political worldview, this feels like the really natural endpoint (credit @sojo.net @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social)
sojo.net/articles/opi...
A Christian Plan to Help Billionaires
There is no logical reason for people to live like this. We should help them.
sojo.net
October 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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blipstress.bsky.social
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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dalassa.bsky.social
Screenshot of a tweet Nathan Goldwag @GoldwagN. Evangelicals love to go on Twitter and casually assert something that if written in 500 AD would've led to two Church Councils, a dozen dueling encyclicals, a major schism, three new heresies, and a religious war that lasted for centuries and cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
September 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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bicycleidiot.bsky.social
RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.
September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” said Katie Fallow, deputy litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University @katiefallow.bsky.social
scottnover.bsky.social Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · Sep 19
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
thinking once again of jon foreman’s answer when someone asked him if switchfoot is a christian band
be honest, this question grieves me because I feel that it represents a much bigger issue than simply a couple SF tunes. In true Socratic form, let me ask you a few questions: Does Lewis or Tolkien mention Christ in any of their fictional series? Are Bach's sonata's Christian? What is more Christ-like, feeding the poor, making furniture, cleaning bathrooms, or painting a sunset? There is a schism between the sacred and the secular in all of our modern minds. The view that a pastor is more 'Christian' than a girls volleyball coach is flawed and heretical. The stance that a worship leader is more spiritual than a janitor is condescending and flawed. These different callings and purposes further demonstrate God's sovereignty. Many songs are worthy of being written. Switchfoot will write some, Keith Green, Bach, and perhaps yourself have written others. Some of these songs are about redemption, others about the sunrise, others about nothing in particular: written for the simple joy of music. None of these songs has been born again, and to about the sunrise, others about nothing in particular: written for the simple joy of music. None of these songs has been born again, and to that end there is no such thing as Christian music. No. Christ didn't come and die for my songs, he came for me. Yes. My songs are a part of my life. But judging from scripture / can only conclude that our God is much more interested in how I treat the poor and the broken and the hungry than the personal pronouns / use when / sing. I am a believer. Many of these songs talk about this belief. An obligation to say this or do that does not sound like the glorious freedom that Christ died to afford me. I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that. We all have a different calling; Switchfoot is trying to be obedient to who we are called to be. We're not trying to be Audio A or U2 or POD or confine my lyrics to this box or that. We all have a different calling; Switchfoot is trying to be obedient to who we are called to be. We're not trying to be Audio A or U2 or POD or Bach: we're trying to be Switchfoot. You see, a song that has the words: 'Jesus Christ' is no more or less 'Christian' than an instrumental piece. (I've heard lots of people say Jesus Christ and they weren't talking about their redeemer.) You see, Jesus didn't die for any of my tunes. So there is no hierarchy of life or songs or occupation only obedience. We have a call to take up our cross and follow. We can be sure that these roads will be different for all of us. Just as you have one body and every part has a different function, so in Christ we who are many form one body and each of us belongs to all the others. Please be slow to judge 'brothers' who have a different calling."
August 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.
July 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
toberglund.bsky.social
Another reason why I continue to become the biggest AI hater
meakoopa.bsky.social Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · Jul 9
AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
HOLY BIBLE Holy Bible © @Holy_Bible1 Follow Matthew 18:19 MATTHEW 18:19 "He prayed for her, she prayed for him and God smiled knowing that their names are already written next to each other."
July 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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angelicabastien.bsky.social
I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...
Brad Pitt Is Fooling You
The F1 press tour has been a carefully attuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pitt’s alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
www.vulture.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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emilyyoshida.bsky.social
It is actually so pleasurable and INVOLVING to fill in the blanks and use your imagination as a viewer. It binds you to the material, makes you invested. and there are fewer and fewer mainstream entertainments that give you room to do that
May 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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emilyyoshida.bsky.social
This is also why people got obsessive over GOT I think. And why ANDOR feels like such good Star Wars. But 99% of exec notes ESPECIALLY for world buildy stuff demand that everything be airtight, explained, bulletproof before a greenlight is even a whisp of a percentage of a possibility
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · May 9
It gives the feeling that you really are witnessing a tiny little slice, a tiny episode, in what is a real, ongoing, vast universe, with its own history. It does this, again, by *not* explaining. By *not* showing. By leaving 95% of what it discusses & references to your imagination.
May 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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blueberrymill.bsky.social
There's something profoundly sad about some Christians, esp. clergy, saying "IF Jesus were here…" or "Jesus WOULD..." My point isn't a semantic gotcha, but that we Christians have to talk about Jesus like He's actually alive (because He is!) and not just a Good Moral Example locked in the past.
May 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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iamhectordiaz.com
someone get Dan Campbell a wider monitor
April 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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jordan-d-64.bsky.social
Same energy
April 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
It is simply a real mistake to let the evil heartless people in the world cause you to become more evil and heartless
April 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
chat, is there anything in christianity about forgiving the people who killed your son
April 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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amikebloomtype.bsky.social
If you need an indicator how brilliant this season of #SurvivorAU has been, the person on the bottom watched the rest of his tribe throw the challenge to hunt for an idol, angrily walked over, found the idol himself, and called them pricks 😂
March 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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jillkrajewski.bsky.social
[willem dafoe unprompted] now, this cookie monster. [toothy smile] what a creature, what a lust. it consumes him. [crosses legs] he’s really a tragic figure.
January 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM