Bill Eldridge

[Bill Eldridge @Bill_the_Geek]

Retweeting for two reasons:
1) Solidarity + aid for my Trans comrades.
2) The frank fact that these laws are the thin end of the anti-queer wedge and these are also the safe states for my cis ass and I damn well know it. Defend Trans rights like they're your own because they are.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

One of the most common questions I get from trans people and families is, "Where can I go to be safe?"

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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Do not be afraid to sow without immediately seeing the fruits. The sowing belongs to you; the growth belongs to God. No gesture carried out in the name of Christ is useless.

[Southern Catholic Worker @SouthernMarxist]

“The meaning of human life is not found in creating riches but fraternity; it is supported not by having but by being one with and compassionate with all creatures.”
- Leonardo Boff

[Bill Eldridge @Bill_the_Geek]

@KatinOxford To riff on O'Connor, even when you are not Lewis centered, you are Lewis haunted.

[Erin Risch Zoutendam @erin_zoutendam]

I'm not in the "no AI, not even once" category, but I'm profoundly skeptical of the way it's being adopted in large part because those advocating for it seem to be willing to sacrifice any long-term good, no matter how great, for any short-term gain, no matter how mean.

[Erin Risch Zoutendam @erin_zoutendam]

I don't want to get King Lear downloaded into my brain. I want to have it exactly the way I did—reading it for the first time on the floor of my shabby dorm room and then, upon reaching the end of the play, feeling very suddenly as if the ground had dropped out from beneath me.

[Erin Risch Zoutendam @erin_zoutendam]

I just feel so terribly...sad...about this kind of thing. I love every single day I spent becoming 'educated,' and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Perhaps everyone else had a different experience in school than I did.

[Bill Eldridge @Bill_the_Geek]

@AndeanHermedic I can't remember where I read this, or about whom, but, "He could not be bought at any price, but he could be rented quite cheaply."

[Bill Eldridge @Bill_the_Geek]

@OurLadyofAntifa It's the absolutely peak of the Silm. Like, don't get me wrong, it has a lot of other great high points, but this one edges out to claim the lead.

[Bill Eldridge @Bill_the_Geek]

@AndeanHermedic Ok but that does legitimately go hard.

[Bill Eldridge @Bill_the_Geek]

@benjamindcrosby Honestly, while I know perfectly well that it's sometimes necessary, I'm beginning to think there's no greater curse in Elvish, Entish, or the Tongues of Man than "deferred maintenance."

[Finch 🇵🇸🇪🇭 @FinchOWar]

A trans woman who authentically lives her faith in communion with Rome despite how the church has treated people like her has more faith in the end of her pinky finger than an entitled manchild schismatic has in his entire body

[Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick]

Even then, patriotism limits popular struggle and channels it into the reactionary form of the nation-state. As Marx said, “the workingmen have no country." Liberation transcends the nation and requires new forms of international organization, "from below and to the left." 3/3

[Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick]

I joke, but I’m also serious. Each of these were moments of potential in which American democracy was (imperfectly) reconfigured through popular struggle, in which masses of people fought for the ideals of liberty, democracy, and equality. 2/

[Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick]

As a Historian™, I say that there have been three (3) moments in American history in which it was acceptable to be patriotic: during and after the Revolution, Civil War through Reconstruction, and New Deal through WWII. 1/

[Bill Eldridge @Bill_the_Geek]

@benjamindcrosby One gets the impression God is getting increasingly exasperated with our inability to take a hint.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The need for greater cooperation amongst Christians in the face of today’s challenges - peace, the proper use of new technologies and care for creation - stems from the Gospel of Jesus Christ itself. Our responsibility for the life and dignity of every human being, especially the youngest and most needy, is the criterion that will determine our present and eternal destiny (Mt 25:31–46). #ChristianUnity

[Bill Eldridge @Bill_the_Geek]

@TheModernist_CA ...I say this as someone who is not an American football fan, but...*who* the heck is calling it boring? Like, yes, I am bored when I watch it, because I do not enjoy it - is that what they mean???

[Fr Christopher Poore @HappyThurifer]

I feel in sympathy with every Christian of every sort—except when they start hating one another.

Blessed Evelyn Underhill

[Southern Catholic Worker @SouthernMarxist]

“Who built the seven gates of Thebes?
The books are filled with names of kings.
Was it kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone?"
-Bertolt Brecht "A Worker Reads History"

[Catherine of Abingdon @CatherineJCMcK]

One of the greatest posts of all time