Conned by the guy in a trench coat selling you “genuine” watches at the gas station.

Friendly reminder to those preaching this Palm Sunday:

Donkeys are status symbols and riding into Jerusalem in this way is a royal and triumphant event. He might as well have rode in on a war horse.

One of the points of this story is that
God’s humility is not antithetical to his triumph.

I’m going insane.

Whoah. Is there a link?

Men will literally invade and kidnap foreign heads of state before going to therapy

Haha good. I was thinking more along the lines of a vision of Christian unity that erases individuality. It’s an unsettling picture of what some might want the afterlife to look like

Okay, I really hope you are serious because I was thinking something similar

@stuartweeks8.bsky.social !

Sounds like you’ve never tried it!

Did you know that there’s actually no law against putting cheese in your Yorkshire puddings?

You’d have to pay me a very small amount of money to try these

A picture of a Doritos bag of chips. The flavour, and you aren’t going to believe this, is “gingerbread”. Yes, that’s right. There is even a small image of a gingerbread man on the bag, just in case you thought it was a mistake.

Just in case any of you were wondering if this was truly the worst timeline:

*Commentary in the alt-text*

Meme. Painting of the wise men coming to see the baby Jesus. Mary, in a blue cloak, is holding the baby while Joseph stands behind her in brown clothes. Mary looks adoring, and Joe looks old. His hair is gray, and he's balding, & he looks like a man who'd need to worry about his young wife stepping out. There are a couple of women in the background who look like they're gossiping. The cow is looking on in the background, peering out of a cave and lowering over an empty manger with the sense of an animal that would like it's trough back, please. The whole right side of the scene is take up by the wise men and their massive entourage. One of the magi is bending to receive Jesus' infant blessing (which may smell like spit up). The others await their turn They're all super-wealthy; even their horse is gold-bedecked. But are they going to set the Holy Family up for life? Nope. They're gonna leave some party favors and jet. Kings, man. Meme text reads: "Anguilles we have heard on high!"

Have you ordered your Christmas eels yet? Don't delay!

Medieval kings often served eels at their Xmas feasts. In 1213, King John had 10,000 eels at his holiday party. His son, Henry, once ordered up 40,000!

So get on it! You don't want your party to be the First Nö-eel, do you?
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Idk if this is just a joke, but it would fascinating to know what texts they are reading

What I appreciate about your article is that I had never thought about where those maps came from, and how Jewish tradition did not value those passages in the same way as Christian tradition

Definitely. It is so easy for readers to mistake the borders drawn on a bible map and think they were the same kind of borders we have today.

Really excellent piece. Was this part of a larger project?

Universities buy all the latest tech but never employ the early career scholars who will actually use them.

Pretty sure we are in an episode of 30 Rock

a man in a suit and tie with the word the in orange ALT: a man in a suit and tie with the word the in orange

Probably a good thing I’m not going to my family’s for thanksgiving because my 2yo daughter has begun pronouncing “mommy and daddy” as “Mamdani”.

A perfect illustration of how a text’s genre/meaning can rapidly shift from drama to comedy to horror in the time it takes to read.

Same here

How* is it only Monday??

*late night lecture prep + early wake up because kiddo is ill

University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.

University of Nottingham is scrapping the course that trained the guy who created #TheTraitors theme music

Oops on the timing there, Nottingham!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very fitting to learn about Cheney’s death as I turn in edits for an article about using the Psalms during the Iraq War

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Wasn’t this also on a Sunday at 9am?

This and the second plane was the release of Cats! In theatres

Congrats!

Going to apply cause it actually meets the new skilled worker visa requirements