UnexpectedDiscworld: Discworld, but unexpected A place for references to Terry Pratchett's Discworld, but in places you wouldn't expect to find them.

Add this to the list of things i didn't know i needed:

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Podcasts are nice and all, but have you tried commuting playing a mix you cultivated and burned specifically for driving 20 years ago?

Also, i love driving an old car that actually has useful technology. Like a cd player.

Thanks friend! I’ll be fine. I’m just whining because all these obscene trees are just out there, committing severe acts of PDA as if that’s just fine, and meanwhile my body is reacting like it’s the 1980s and im one of those moral majority dudes

i’m looking at 3 holy week services coming up and i’m not preaching for any of then.

Although, given my ongoing pollen induced pounding headache, they’d probably get into the spirit of the week if i did

i’ll miss the rest of it due to parenting, but hearing Kelly Brown Douglas and Edgardo Colon-Emerie and their colleagues felt, for me, like going back to church for the first time in a long time. 2/2

had the privilege of attending the first in person academic, well, anything I’ve done since before the pandemic - the Steelman Lecture at Wake Forest, a symposium on “The Future (s) of Liberation Theology.”
1/2

Teaching the book of Revelation these days is wild.

not that it normally isn’t, but you know

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent ​strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reach...

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No, Trump & Hegseth aren’t gonna start the Second Coming #maklelan3167 YouTube video by Dan McClellan

But, you don’t have to take my word for it (du du duuu du)

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Your friendly neighborhood pastor here to remind you that the rapture is not, in fact, a Biblical doctrine.

It’s more or less a 19th century Anglo-American invention

Justifying war through a blatantly false reading and heretical misuse of the text of Revelation isn’t a great look, my siblings in Christ.

Another Gulf war, huh?

i hate that the early 90s and 00s are back in style

Once again, the actions of Scouting are shameful and in violation of the Oath and Law.

Once again, my Eagle has become a badge of shame.

Thanks, fascists.

These robot bastards can pry the em dash from my cold, dead hands

Fairly certain i’ve spent more time thinking about HVAC systems in the 15 months i’ve served as a pastor here than in the 7 1/2 years i was an intern architect.

The fundamental choice has not been as stark since World War II: democracy and freedom, or dictatorship and tyranny.

Trump and his sycophants are siding with the latter. The rest of us must loudly, proudly, and boldly proclaim our allegiance to the former.

May God, and one day the world, forgive us our sins.

My continuing ed week:

Epiphany.

May your year be bright.

You know, assuming we get to have one.

Just saw Wake Up Dead Man.

Loved it.

Also, that song gets me every time.

Saw a tiger poop yesterday.

Pretty apt conclusion for 2025.

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:

Four pounds of back bacon
Three French Toasts
Two turtlenecks.

And a beer. In a tree.

i feel so behind this Advent, what with 3 services barreling down at me between now and Xmas.

i haven’t even watched Christmas Vacation yet.

Is Generative AI Rewiring Our Brains? Here's How It Happens Emerging research is looking at the impact AI use has on our brains and whether it is just making us lazy or rewiring our neural pathways. Here's what the studies say.

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i have no words as evil has yet again struck from Brown to Bondi.

Lord, in your mercy

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From the Art community on Reddit: Nativity, Topsy (me), spray paint on abandoned building, 2025 Explore this post and more from the Art community

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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.

Have any of you ever made a liturgical banner in worship before?

If so, what materials did you use? How did it go? Anything you would do differently in retrospect?

Asking for a future me

Ted Jennings on Advent - Homebrewed Christianity Unfiltered YouTube video by Sogo Media TV

A good annual reminder. Miss you, Ted

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i just read the comments.

i genuinely feel sorry for a lot of people.