“The people of Quebec demand to know why his right honorable Mr. Carney has not condemned the hateful words said by the member from Brampton East about Quebec’s most loved band, Les Rats d’Swompe” is fully something that either has or will be uttered during a question period in parliament

Sometimes I feel like Quebec does things just to bait the rest of Canada into making fun of them so they can make an issue out of it

This is what is so inspiring about Artemis vs. the recent proliferation of billionaire vanity rockets. Artemis is a mission of humans, exploring space to make Earth better, not to abandon it like an old plaything we’re bored with.

Former NASA civil servant here. I do think part of what is inspiring about Artemis is the fact that We the People are the ones that did it. I think these days it matters that government can still do great things.

This is likely true, but I don’t think I’ve ever experienced Orlando outside of the Disney bubble, and even at that it was 20 years ago. My Miami memories are much more recent

The probable actual worst is Sacramento, but it is such a soulless husk of a city that it does not even engender an emotion of “worst” or “best” within me. Sacramento simply is

I feel like Florida has many contenders, but Miami takes the cake. The land actively wants to be underwater (from the sea on one side and swamp on the other), it’s oppressively hot year round, and, particularly in the last decade, it’s really leaned in to being “Disney World for Bitcoin Bros”

The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia!

Oh wow! What a tiny place Indiana is many times. My brother lives in Huntington so I’m there every few months.

I know you’re a Hoosier, but I’m not sure if we’ve discussed that I am! I’m from Marion, about halfway between Indy and Fort Wayne

Owing in large part to our significant Amish population, the people of northern Indiana LOVE a bulk dry good. There are stores here with aisles of mysterious food powders as far as the eye can seel

But for those few moments, we sit with people who don’t know where God is. We are reminded that, when everything else is stripped away, what carries us through grief and doubt is one another, and hope that tomorrow does not have to be like yesterday.

We come, we sit, and we pray in front of a bare altar, stripped of its usual accoutrement. We spend time with the friends and family of Christ in their grief, as they wonder what comes next, how they go on from here. We have the benefit of hindsight, of knowing how the story ends.

But that simplicity is why I’ve grown to love it — it is nothing special. There is no grand organ piece to play or procession to make. There is no children’s program to run, no linens to have clean and pressed, no coffee to make, no microphone to turn on.

One can scarcely call it a liturgy—it’s a list of references to other places in the BCP and scripture that takes up less than a page. It takes 10 minutes on a slow day. Half a dozen people show up for it. In my parish it’s lay-led, in plain clothes. It’s the one service a year we don’t livestream.

The Great Vigil of Easter is always going to be That Girl™️ for me, but I realized this morning I think Holy Saturday may have become one of my favorite liturgies of Holy Week.

My favorite service of the year.

I JUST WANT MY BODY TO TELL ME WHAT IT NEEDS

Having acid reflux is like living through Fred Armisen's "straight to jail" bit. Fatty food? Heartburn. Lean food, but spicy? Heartburn. Undereat? Believe it or not, heartburn. Overeat? Also heartburn. Undereat/overeat.

Munchkin girl from Wicked who wanted the tea from Glinda asking “is it true you were [his] friend?”

A random servant girl to Peter two thousand years ago:

or could they go to Alexandria? Seems not too bad there. here, the freedom fighters won't back down. They provoke the occupiers and then they retaliate, and everyone suffers.

when you research 1st century Judea under Roman occupation you start to think thoughts like "the land remembers".

and then they have a long sad conversation about whether it's time to leave. Can the kids really thrive here? It is their country but this shit just isn't stopping and they're not political people. She has a cousin in Damascus who seems to be doing OK, and would take them in until they got set up.

*incredibly* humourless 'I researched this for a novel once':

yes, she would go "well they're doing that a lot. They crucified a thousand people on a single day last year. That's what they do, they crucify a bunch of people. Poor Josh. He was kind of an intense guy but he didn't deserve that."

I think about this a lot. The shock of the crucifixion isn't that it was such a grotesquely bespoke method of execution. It was that the state killed Jesus just like they killed everyone else.

No sleep, bus, liturgy, another liturgy, another liturgy, taxi, next day. No sleep, no fear.

The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday

holy smokes

Oh, they are a top tier mozz stick. I was just the combo of Arby’s and DoorDash that was really like… do I need to reevaluate my life choices

A light pink graphic with black and red text. The text reads "A message from Arby's" at the top, followed by the Arby's logo and a speech bubble icon. Below, it says "ARBY'S RESPONDED TO YOUR RECENT FEEDBACK" in large purple letters. To the right, "YOUR DOOR TO MORE" is in red. Further down, it reads "They wrote you this note:" followed by "Delighted you loved the Mozzarella Sticks, Evan, our most indulgent bite at Arby's. Your flavorful note means a lot.".

Sure, you've felt shame, but have you ever felt the shame of Arby's sending you an email through DoorDash to thank you for your positive review of mozzarella sticks?

We can send people to the moon, but not even the collective knowledge of the smartest people in the world can make Outlook something other than a pile of hot garbage

Today we sent people TO THE MOON! Me! You! Us! We the people funded a rocket ship to fling four people as far into the stars as any human being has ever been, something we could only do together. If we can do that, we can absolutely do daycare, healthcare, etc. It’s a matter of will, not can.