Steph

Smells-and-bells Presbyterian. Here for church nerdery, misc. nerdery, fat liberation, dismantling amatonormativity. Advent fan. @ssmarymagdalene board. 🖤🤍💜

[Steph @EristicEnigma]

What people call "doom-scrolling" could, much of the time, be better described as "feeling-less-alone-scrolling"

[Nic ⚓️ @nic_lucc]

Even King Solomon would choose the bear over the man

[Steph @EristicEnigma]

@gavinortlund Paging @benjamindcrosby

(Also, yes I would! What's less clear is whether I would ever have a critical mass of other people who would be willing to play it with me assembled in the same place.)

[Steph @EristicEnigma]

@LShalott My moral fiber is dubious at best, but I miss that a lot, too.

[Steph @EristicEnigma]

@sarahjoykillam @PhilipPort13102 Hi! Presbyterian elder here. I'm excited to hear your dad is showing some interest in checking out a church! Anything particular you want to know? (And, for context, what's your own denominational background?)

[Steph @EristicEnigma]

Preparing for my Memorial Day Weekend roadtrip by taking the snow shovel, rock salt, and kitty litter out of the trunk of my car. So if we get a freak blizzard this week, it's my fault.

[Steph @EristicEnigma]

Tonight I drove my white Prius to the home of a friend whose own white Prius was parked in her driveway, where we were joined by folks who arrived in a third white Prius. I'm glad my car was able to socialize with its friends this evening, too.

[Steph @EristicEnigma]

Tonight I had the joy of accompanying my godson to Baby's First Maundy Thursday Service. I even got to take him up to have his feet washed, which he LOVED! When we got back to the pew, his mom put his socks back on, and he spent the rest of the service pulling them off again

[Steph @EristicEnigma]

@dvdpeters I guffawed!

[Steph @EristicEnigma]

Can anyone point me to good examples of policies regarding use of church* social media accounts? Or resources about best practices?

*congregation, denominational body, church-adjacent organization, etc. would all be of interest!

[Steph @EristicEnigma]

@benjamindcrosby Happy anniversary! Your ordination was a blessing to witness!

[Sophia Benoit @1followernodad]

mine is finding out too late that I got bit by a rabid bat

[Steph @EristicEnigma]

I've heard this, too. The robots can pry my em dashes out of my cold, dead hands.

[the human anachronism™️ @FullAsMuchHeart]

Just saw someone saying using the em-dash is a sign of something being written by AI, because real people rarely use it. This is terrible news for everyone like me who has an unhealthy emotional attachment to the em-dash.

[Steph @EristicEnigma]

@hutchleah Fit-testing my mask and adopting a consistent routine of pairing it with mask tape helped me to trust my N95 a lot more and did wonders for my anxiety.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.

Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

[ÐEATHCỘRE ĐOGGY (Raccoon) @SAMOYEDCORE]

i've seen a lot of violently reactionary and fascistic things in reply sections here recently but none chill me to my bones harder about what's to come than the genre of reply of "What is going on?! Why is this all happening now??!!!" in response to disasters/sudden bad events

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

I mean, at the end of the day, a majority of disabled people spent 5 years warning people that fascism takes hold because of the eugenics of pandemics and we were all told “not everything is eugenics,” so…

[Josiah Hawthorne @JosiahHawthorne]

Today, I introduced a resolution to fully condemn the distorted prophecy that was preached at King Ahab by Micaiah son of Imlah.

I urge Congress to act quickly on this resolution to show King Ahab that the prophecy given is not reflective of the prophet community at large.

[Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal]

A music teacher in Gaza turns the haunting sound of Israeli drones into a lesson, using it to teach children the music scale. In the face of unimaginable adversity, this is how Palestinians continue to teach the world the meaning of life and resilience.
Source: mohand_ash (IG)

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Thanks to everyone's incredible advocacy, we were able to stave off a mask ban in New York State in 2024.

However, the NY State Legislature is back in session on January 8, and they will try to get a mask ban passed for 2025.

Please take action: https://t.co/gkxOxh0oYl