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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's something about this rhetoric about love and truth, or the first two commandments that never sits quite right with me. It's not that I really disagree, it's just that it always seems to be missing something. I'm not sure how to express it, but I'm going to try. #ldsconf

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trying to remember if I've ever seen an apostle speak directly to the young children in #ldsconf. It's usually a member of the primary presidency, but I do feel like I've seen it before. Just can't remember when.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not sure a story about a strict border official turning someone away for a damaged passport as a metaphor for the role of covenants and ordinances in salvation is the best choice for the moment. #ldsconf

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yesterday, a Mormon church leader spoke about the immorality of gambling. I would focus on the immorality of gambling companies, and the deep harm that gambling--especially online sportsbook--does to people, but I fully agree and appreciate him speaking to the moment. #ldsconf

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Easy Money - By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog

In the mid-1980s, my dad came home with his first CD player and two CDs: Neil Diamond's The Jazz Singer and Billy Joel's An Innocent Man. Our

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A couple thoughts about the music at #ldsconf. So far i's been a pretty even split between the new hymns and the most familiar, most traditional hymns from the old book. The ones the choir has been singing for decades. As a ward music coordinator, I relate to this.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thinking about this idea Sister Chibota discussed that seeing people as children of God helps you look past labels, I can't help but remember Pete Hegseth's recent bigoted screed about the labels he finds threatening and how people who he applies them to aren't welcome in the military. #ldsconf

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ve posted a lot today but one more thing. I recently met a nurse named Danno. Like Hawaii Five-0. She’s very cool but she looks just like a Danno. It doesn’t matter which series you’re thinking of. Either Danno fits. I just thought that was kind of awesome.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In my photography class I used to do a day where we looked at how photography has influenced presidential politics, and how much cell phone cameras and the internet/social media have changed that. One thing we always talked about was how during Trump’s first campaign he was constantly depicted…

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Walked into a room the other day that had "THINK LIKE AN OWNER" in big vinyl letters on the wall. It also had a poster of Elon Musk. This checks out.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Contrary to appearances, I'm not a big Halloween guy. I don't enjoy horror, and the general aesthetic of creepiness turns me off. But I do love seeing all my neighbors and having that community connection, so every year we build this big ol' photo booth and do free portraits for anyone who comes by.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My Song in the Night is one of my favorite of the new hymns. Glad to hear it featured in #ldsconf.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s October so it’s time to build Yor’s Minroud, our Halloween photo set. I’ll post the transformation as it occurs over the next few weeks. Here’s the “before.”

Some kids sweeping leaves in an empty driveway that has some theatrical flats stacked on one side.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every #ldsconf I think about the last time (>15 years ago) that I applied to work for the church AV department. I would have been one of the people setting up and running lights, sound, and stuff for these events. They told the guy who referred me I was a "solid candidate," but I didn't get the job.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My wife reminded me of the time when we were both missionaries in AZ and an announcement went out mission-wide that missionaries should not buy lottery tickets. Those kinds of announcements come from somewhere. #ldsconf

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean, most businesses rely on their customers losing money, but I guess the point is that gambling offers nothing in return for that loss. #ldsconf

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not qualified to tell the church what to do with its money, but if I were in charge, one thing I would do is stop charging for temple clothing and try to remove any other monetary barriers to saving ordinances. #ldsconf

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of my students confused me this week saying she would be gone Thursday and Friday for General Conference in Salt Lake City, but #ldsconf is on Saturday and Sunday. Turns out her church, Universalist Pentecostal, had a general conference this week too.

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love that Anthropocene aggressively trying to seduce the Pope into giving it billions of dollars of free marketing and trying to leverage the Church’s massive audience is turning out like this.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thinking about the time someone thought it was a compliment to tell me their friend had mistaken my voiceover in a video for an AI voice.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gotta admit, this is a twist I didn’t see coming.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today in Come, Follow Me relevance. I mean, we did Isaiah 5 last week, but we can still bring it up in Sunday school this week, right?

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A friend pointed out to me that people's "social scripts" used to come from fiction (novels, TV, movies) written by professional storytellers, and now they come from reality TV and short form video content, where the words largely come from attention-seeking amateurs. It has made us worse.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Compiling a list of Things of Record that my dad and I have never made a statement on lest this ironclad logic be used in the future to disprove our existence.

A Bluesky post reading “It is recorded in Egyptian and Roman documents that they practiced abortion. Not once did Jesus Christ say the practice was a sin. So either God and Jesus were ok with it or neither existed.”

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Being reminded today that Diana Wynne Jones is just the best.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 24/09/2026

Ebook preorders are now available for my lit fic (satire/absurdist?) novella 11 bookmarks, which publishes Oct. 13. More details (and a print version) soon. But you can now preorder on Kobo, Kindle, Nook, and Apple Books: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/elev...

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11 bookmarks, novella | WHM

A lit fic novella with absurd elements by Wm Henry Morris

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 24/09/2026

You might respond, "but what if there was some error in the LLM that generated that reference entry? That's a mistake, not fraud." That possibility is immaterial to the commission of fraud. By affixing your name to that citation, you are taking responsibility for its truthfulness.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

*stand-in for the good post I thought of while driving and immediately forgot*

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

While I’m complaining about technology, why does it seem like a nearly impossible ask to get quality audio components and quality video components in the same device? *sigh* I understand part of the reason, but not all of it. Still frustrating though.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Where, oh where is a USB-B cable when you need one? My various boxes of old cables yielded all manner of other USBs, plus various HDMIs, DVIs, RCAs, TRSs, power supplies, and even multiple flavors of FireWire, to make an incomplete list, but not a single USB-B. Ended up having to borrow one.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My wife and most of my kids have been out of town for a couple days. Today, even though I was laughing and telling funny stories in class, a student commented that I looked sad. I'm glad they're coming home today.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just watched Tokyo Drifter with my two oldest. I didn't expect it to be so... expressionistic. I found myself wondering about its relationship to anime and manga. It came out in 66, which is about the same time anime started emerging as something culturally distinct, based on a 5 minute search.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mine is that George Lucas can retroactively change his movies as much as he wants, and it’s, like, fine. Even if nobody enjoys the changes. He has the right to make a bad movie. And however you feel about it is… also fine.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OK, LDS/Mormon friends, I need help. Years ago I saw a church musical production that had a song in it that I really liked, but I have never been able to find any evidence that it existed. I thought I knew the production, but I can't find it. Here is how I remember the lyrics:

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Matthew 13:12 applies among other things to self respect which you can choose to make from scratch. If you do that God will give you more. If you don’t do that then things get worse

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m happy because we’re singing one of my wishlist hymns today.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Spent 11 hours today designing a t-shirt.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 19/09/2026

The photo: www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Against a black backdrop of outer space, a crescent Earth near the bottom of the frame and a smaller crescent Moon near the top.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Another round of parent teacher conferences in the books, and again I'm begging parents to understand that berating your kids in front of their teachers doesn't make you look like good parents, and doesn't help the kid actually improve.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m at a Chinese restaurant with my wife and there’s an elderly gentleman across from me wearing knickerbockers and stockings. It’s pretty iconic.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey teachers, how many hours has it been since you’ve taught critical thinking? As for the rest, a little of that same thinking will reveal that either a) they ARE taught in schools but may not be the names of classes or b) there are good reasons why public school isn’t the best setting for it.

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In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com · 16/09/2026

PROTECT THE CHAMBER ORGAN. l1nk.dev/chamberorgan The priceless chamber organ is under threat. Tourists are approaching with cameras, sticky fingers, and an insatiable desire to touch things they have been specifically asked not to touch. As the Lay Clerk on duty, you must defend the organ.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Completely tangential, but every time I see the name Gordon Monson I think, “man, that’s the most Mormon name I’ve seen since Brigham Sunday” (a real person I know). Plenty of people have one name that feels more Mormon, but a first/last combination? I don’t know many.

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Adam K. K. Figueira @akkfigueira.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Everybody here is so into trends, but I was not opening for Ed Sheeran before it was cool.

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