Duncan King ⚓️

Member of the hillbilly diaspora, TEC high churchman, big ol’ BCP/liturgy nerd. Mariners + UW Huskies beisbol believer.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

One of my favorite Deng anecdotes.

[Duncan King ⚓️ @DuncanJoshKing]

@nic_lucc Congratulations! It’s a parish I’ve really wanted to visit for a while now

[Duncan King ⚓️ @DuncanJoshKing]

@johnddavidson …what? Episcopalians also have a commendation for the dying, holy unction/anointing of the dying, and viaticum/communion for the dying. We affirm the real presence and our Prayerbook for the Armed Forces include all these prayers for chaplains to administer.

[la exocet 🚀 @pampaIIIpelis]

La fragata Libertad anoche, en la tormenta que azoto New York .
Habia llegado el dia anterior junto a otros buques miticos , como la Vepucci Italiana para participar del #Sail2026Parade

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[DJ BBQ @stepheniscowboy]

green knight film where gawain chops off the green knight's head and the guy dies and everyone's like gawain is crazy man we gotta stop hanging out with him

[Duncan King ⚓️ @DuncanJoshKing]

@ElijahForCA @EDG_Eat Are there many resources on the Swedish Rite in English?

In college I took a tour of a blue lodge in Seattle that had a full set of Swedish Rite regalia donated by one of the city’s many Swedish immigrants, it really captured the imagination.

[Ghosts of DC @GhostsofDC]

In 1791, a free Black astronomer laid down at Jones Point to fix the first corner of Washington by starlight. 36 of the 40 stones he and Ellicott planted are still in the ground. Here's where to find them.

https://t.co/PpbmFPHn20

[The Living Church @Livng_Church]

The new location in Oakwood, Georgia, will have 75 percent more space than the archives' interim facility in Austin, Texas.

https://t.co/I8gwkn1obs

[MLB @MLB]

Norwegian fans are having a great time in the bleachers at Citi Field 🇳🇴

#FIFAWorldCup #Football #Norway

[Susan Ego @siuansanche10]

The type of shit you start saying to a co-worker you normally want to murder three hours after everyone was suppose to go home

[alex @dogslovecranmer]

i am convinced of women’s ordination because i was raised on sacraments from a woman priest and ive never seen an argument i consider sufficient to overcome the personal experience of my reception of Christ’s body and blood from her

[David Austin Walsh @DavidAstinWalsh]

Honestly the best trend in American microbrewing over the past five years or so has been the embrace of German- and Czech-style beers over IPAs.

[LeCanard (Commissions open!) @iniemohk]

"Come and see, the Seal Pup of the Master, who takes away the wrongdoings of the Universe!"

[Duncan King ⚓️ @DuncanJoshKing]

@airmalespecial @theodoresomes That’s incredible! A very blursed object, indeed

[Duncan King ⚓️ @DuncanJoshKing]

@SumerianEunuch Kind of a tiki-esque feller, by my reckoning

[Duncan King ⚓️ @DuncanJoshKing]

@killadvertisers @kisstheblade_ Yup, the business school dorms are in McNutt!

[James Wharton @jameswharton]

The battalion's Fijian choir sung during the service - get a load of this⬇️⬇️