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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile

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Churchman, draughtsman, aesthete, pedant. Often tiresome, sometimes insufferable, never dull. open.substack.com/pub/askwallace/p/…

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man, guess we got so distracted by winning in Iran that we let a little data breach happen and so I get a nice letter from the DoD telling me that they’re ensuring my data is safe and…oh wait, no, just offering a year of contracted credit monitoring Who knew DOGEing the smart people was a bad thing
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Chris Arrison @murderwizard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Ms . Penny Oaken @skywitchy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How to explain Aella to "the normies" / Your Mother Raised homeschooled in a puritanical cult, escaped it; embraced sexuality; discovered that being overtly sexually frank & quirky on the Internet makes young women "popular" ... & was never taught to understand how she was actually viewed by them
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Apparently, this mistranslation slithered into the NRSV; the editors of the NRSVUE didn’t see any particular need for biological accuracy.
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The Rev. Keakealani @keakealani.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
More irreverently, the NRSVue translated the snakes as being poisonous, not venomous - in other words, deadly if you lick them, not deadly if they bite you. The reason the bronze serpent worked was because it distracted the israelites from their serpent-licking hobby.
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wrote a bit about the proposed “Season of Creation,” and the, ah, resources which have been prepared for it: askwallace.substack.com/p/considerin...
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Considering "Creation Season"
A candid look at the rationale behind and resources for the Church's hottest new holidays (as authorized for use by the local canonical authority).
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Roses are red Poems should scan Happy 12th anniversary to this headline which says
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Police warned angry goat on roof 'only respects one man'
A routine patrol took an unexpected turn for a police in Gresham, Oregon, when they spotted a goat stuck on a roof.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just dawned on me that we lost two officers of the Red October in a month
Tim Curry saying “you’ll receive the order of Lenin for this, Captain!Sam Neill saying “I would have liked to have seen Montana”
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Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Some people are insisting that choosing to ride a bike without a helmet only affects you so it’s nobody’s business and let me tell you as a woman helping care for her quadriplegic father who broke his neck in a fall: Shut the fuck up and wear the helmet, you squalling, selfish children.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
That was me, it was March of 2020, and it’s only gotten more accurate in the last six years
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Corvids hang upside down hanging on to a branch ornithologists view this acrobatic behaviour as a relaxed way for the intelligent corvids to test their balance, strength, and coordination. This acrobatic behaviour builds muscle, and improves agility which they use for reaching for food.
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Twilight in a city churchyard. ⚓️
The garden of St. Clement’s, Philadelphia, at dusk. A red brownstone church in Romanesque style surrounded by horticulture and verdure.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Things I learned this evening. TJ “Stonewall” Jackson’s sister Laura split with her brother over the Civil War, AND when she found out he’d died in 1863 said she “would rather know that he was dead than to have him a leader in the rebel army” DAYUM
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Wesley Evans @wesleyevans.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Please never ever feed communion to birds! Even if your theology somehow allows it, human bread is bad for birds! Don’t give bread to birds at all actually! Wildlife has their own diet which needs to be respected as much as their environment does. ⚓️
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
i personally think polymarket and all companies like it should be regulated out of existence and their assets seized by the state
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I really hate to bash entities I’m not affiliated with, but today I visited a cathedral, possibly closed, that is in a frankly embarrassing state of disrepair, and I’m lowkey tempted to write their bishop to the effect of “um wtf”. #narthex
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It was truly inspiring to visit Ralph Adams Cram’s family chapel today, where he, his wife, and much of his family await the Last Great Day beneath a canopy of towering pines. #narthex ⚓️ (1/2)
Facade of the Chapel of St Elizabeth of Hungary, a simple building with a rose window covered in flowering plants.Two gravestones visible in front of a small masonry chapel, all framed by pine trees that seemingly converge in the heavens.Gravestone: Ralph Adams Cram, Architect. Dec. 16, 1863 - Sep. 22, 1942 
Requiem aeternam dona ei Domine et lux perpetua luceat eis.Gravestone: 
Elizabeth Carrington Read Cram
June 10, 1873 - Sep. 30, 1943
Fac eam Domine de morte transire ad vitam
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If I was a young person being told that the best our economic system can ever offer me is working longer and longer hours to live with more and more roommates and eat worse and worse food, I might start getting this crazy idea that we need a new economic system.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hi it’s International Cat Day Today
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
moon eye
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/08/2026
I swear to God, part of the problem of literacy is that we make kids read SO MANY books like this. Of course they’re going to associate reading with misery! We put them in a Skinner box and shock them when they read, what did people THINK would happen?
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Skittles @skittlesmom.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Silhouette of Eagle Harbor Lighthouse with some wild fire haziness.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I believe this 100%. The moral injury of the period, the grief from not just the too and so many deaths but the kinds of lives we had before, the laying bare of disposability, the non covid deaths it sped, the institutional strain, the collective fear and distrust, the prioritization of work anyway
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My painting BREAKWATER LIGHT
An acrylic painting of a lighthouse at sunset in Two Harbors, Minnesota.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 30/07/2026
My secret, Cap, is that I'm *always* angry about old books. For instance, here's a tiny slice of the millions of books 1931-1986 that have no commercial value, that are digitized, but that we're unable to use in large-scale research because they are illegal to share or display.
a tiny random fraction of books in HathiTrust 1931-1980 in English that include the word "philosophy" somewhere in metadata
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
me trying to clear overgrown gardens
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
And, for that matter, deliver us from the presumption of knowing what inwardly and outwardly motivates one’s presence at the Holy Mysteries.
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In which I explore a half-century-old assessment framework for the spiritual health of the parish church (link in replies)
“Treasures from Old Journals, Part 1: The Viable Parish”
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
And what have we heard from PECUSA? 🦗🦗🦗 ⚓️
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The DioPA Historian has digitized the last of our Convention Journals. Fascinating to review contemporary materials against the recollections and inherited knowledge. ⚓️
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I just saw a stunning 19th C. vintage brooch crafted using a method that has been lost to time, because it turns out not all knowledge is forever, and winnowing down a workforce to increase profits will inevitably lead to an unrecoverable loss of skill.
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Every Noun, Pumpkin Spiced @pumpkinspicenoun.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Pumpkin Spice Bishop Of Rome
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David Johnston @dljohnston.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A friendly note for anyone preaching Romans 8 this coming Sunday: "Abba" does not mean "daddy." Stay safe out there! ⚓ Receipt: www.jstor.org/stable/23962...
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'ABBĀ IS N'T 'DADDY' | JSTOR
James Barr, 'ABBĀ IS N'T 'DADDY', The Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1, APRIL 1988
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My painting TOWERING STORM
An acrylic painting of a giant towering rain cloud over a small building on the open plains.
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Ross @trusty.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Mbappé said Gambling Abolition
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/07/2026
Literally shut this entire industry down.
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
When the sky over the ancestral church goes all Windows Screensaver 🤩
Puffy cumulus clouds over a brick church with a white steeple, set in the middle of a cemetery full of gravestones.
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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I am a member of the House of Bishops theology committee on AI and I approve this message I also just bought 5 stickers
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Quite an unusual visitor passed by the Chapel today. Rather a Big Boy, in fact!
UP 4014, a large steam locomotive, approaches on a hot, hazy afternoon. An American flag s visible on the foredeck. In the lower left corner, a man is photographing it.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Reckon it’s about that time of year
Opening credits to the 1993 movie “Gettysburg”
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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
R. Graciously hear us, O Christ; graciously hear us, O Lord Christ.
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Carillon season returns to Valley Forge.
A gothic revival stone belfry with an American flag dangling limply from its jackstaff, on a backdrop of puffy evening clouds.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
163 years ago, Harry Heth was having a very bad not good morning
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol
From mid-2022 to early 2025, the egg producers communicated with each other to coordinate bidding activity on a widely used pricing service, according to a complaint filed in a federal court in Iowa.
The complaint details instances of executives for the companies calling and texting each other in an effort to push prices higher.
Under the settlement, the state DOJ says the three companies must end their price coordination, adopt compliance measures and cooperate with
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Wow holy shit www.them.us/story/daught...
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Daughters of the American Revolution Live Up to Their Name by Rejecting Ban on Trans Women
“Transgender Americans are patriots, family members, volunteers, historians, and descendants of Revolutionary War ancestors just like anyone else.”
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⚓️ Parish Nuisance in Exile @askwallace.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
If the Semiquincentennial is a flop - well, the responsibility ultimately falls in an office whose present occupant is incapable of being a symbol of anything greater than himself.
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