Reposted by Francis EphraimThe Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day. Today we celebrate the life of a man who saved billions by not believing a computer. May we all learn this valuable lesson. 215167
Reposted by Francis EphraimSteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 160191343863
Reposted by Francis EphraimDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 11/09/2026NYT really struggling with اضافة 2164
Francis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I went to the grocery store to buy some extra sharp cheddar the other day. The guy in front of me grabs sharp cheddar—and what can I do? One-up him in silence? Say something? What could I say without the implication that the man can't handle his cheddar? 120
Reposted by Francis EphraimFrancis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 16/09/2023I have met a literal archon of Constantinople at a clergy-laity conference and he taught me a greek swear word 1356
Reposted by Francis EphraimFrancis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 13/12/2023Cut myself on the Guinness can trying to break it open to eat the plastic ball :( 182
Reposted by Francis EphraimFrancis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 22/03/2024(misreading the situation and assuming that King Lear is setting up a joke) I don't know, why SHOULD a horse, a dog, a rat have life? 042
Reposted by Francis EphraimFrancis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 08/10/2025calling their burial grounds "elephant graveyards" instead of "elephant cemeteries" implies the existence of elephant church 051
Francis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026the so-called "rough breathing marks" in Greek are calligraphic flourishes which northern/western europeans, unaccustomed to beauty as an end of itself, incorrectly assumed to have a phonetic purpose. 050
Reposted by Francis EphraimFr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff. — John Steinbeck 021
Francis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Sorting through my google docs, I found the sestina I wrote back in college. (the assignment was just for an epistolary poem) 100
Francis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Last week, my mother told me her friend's 13-year-old grandson is into books and I recognized a rare chance. 110
Reposted by Francis EphraimJordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026A non-zero percentage of the religion problems of our day is that both the religious and the formerly-religious have never developed a mature understanding of the faith and base all their opinions on what they learned in 3rd grade Sunday school 310523
Reposted by Francis EphraimKeanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/08/2026kinda chic to be obsessed with your appearance… your appearance before the judgment seat of Christ. are you ready? are you dressed for that??? 171
Reposted by Francis Ephraim🎃Vita💀Breva🪦 @vitabreva.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Gambling is really the sin of our age and we need a Temperance movement to confront it. 2225
Francis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026spending the afternoon drinking lacroix and playing durak with my wife on the patio 120
Reposted by Francis EphraimSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was once asked what the greatest challenge for a statesman was. He famously replied: ‘Events, dear boy, events.' 510613
Francis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The employee handbook at work specifically forbids wallet chains. I feel like if you're thinking of buying a chain wallet, and the employee handbook from your job factors into the decision, you might not be cut out for the chain wallet lifestyle 031
Reposted by Francis Ephraimthicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 28/06/2026this is going to be an absolute mess and I’m pumped. it will have to have subtitles bc Middle English is largely unintelligible to us. but, even funnier, pronunciation at this time is a nightmare French was still a court language and so they’d have various dialectical French accents layered on top 391087217
Reposted by Francis Ephraimaaron @aarbypls.bsky.social · 19/06/2026*sniff* i just wish gene wolfe was alive to see this bro 1156
Reposted by Francis EphraimHarrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social · 09/06/2026a taste for the mainstream has to be learned, but babies are into harsh noise from day one 37524
Reposted by Francis Ephraimarr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs. 437153854208
Francis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026@drunkorsonwelles.bsky.social the brother-in-law isn't impressed 120
Reposted by Francis Ephraimkobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026from the context of my lived experience i know what this sign is saying. but i think linguistically it is interestingly ambiguous 4324
Reposted by Francis Ephraimthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 05/05/2026on the one hand it’s clear that “The Odyssey” will continue the long tradition of projecting modern ideals of character and value onto an ancient text whose ideas about these things are in fact quite different. on the other hand, lol you guys don’t even know that’s Odysseus, he’s gonna kill you all 1168057
Francis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Once when I was a barista, I had a customer demand that I list out for him the most profound spiritual experiences I've ever had 030
Reposted by Francis Ephraimustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026How NPR journalists feel pronouncing Arabic names hypercorrectly while delivering war propaganda 0232
Reposted by Francis EphraimFr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 20/04/2026… Christian countries who keep the greater part of the universe in the iron grip of slavery. In these latter years they have covered the world in a dark cloud of apocalyptic fire: ‘the heavens & earth', now…reserved for fire in the day of judgement & perdition of ungodly men. — St. Sophrony of Essex 031
Reposted by Francis EphraimFr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 20/04/2026...Kingdoms pretending to the name of ‘Christian’, and their peoples, have worn the mask of piety, while ‘denying the power thereof.’ (cf. II Tim iii:5) They have lived, and live, like heathens. Strange as it may be, it is precisely the Christian countries who keep t... (more)— St. Sophrony of Essex 021
Reposted by Francis EphraimFr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Ours is sometimes called the post-Christian age. But I personally, from what I know of the history of the world and of Christianity, am convinced that Christianity in its true dimensions has never yet been properly grasped by the great mass of people. Kingdoms prete... (more) — St. Sophrony of Essex 231
Francis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 11/03/2026They should make toothpaste that's actually minty. I can handle it 151
Francis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I'm engaged, I got engaged in January, sorry for not keeping all of you up to date 5110
Reposted by Francis EphraimOut of Context Biffo the Bear @oocbiffo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Beano #2502, June 30, 1990 1111723
Francis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 24/02/2026"Anglo-american culture is the bulwark of civilization?" Buddy we barely have songs that start slow and get faster 010
Reposted by Francis EphraimMalcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026St Cuthbert’s Church, Crayke, North #Yorkshire “St Cuthbert” window (2020) #HelenWhittaker The detail shows the Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters who were reputed to have warmed & dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating & praying whilst standing in the sea. #StainedGlassSunday 1129189
Reposted by Francis EphraimFr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer. — St. Athanasius of Alexandria 0132
Reposted by Francis EphraimFr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. — St. Augustine 072
Reposted by Francis Ephraimthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/01/2026losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death? 357171554025
Reposted by Francis Ephraimthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 28/12/2025ran across this while looking for an old pic a friend asked me for. soundcheck at Grace Cathedral a while back. What I'm saying at the end is "I had to do that, thank you" to somebody from the venue who has kindly filmed me. enjoy! 525015
Francis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 28/12/2025When I was a child I wanted a prehensile tail and opposable toes, but child Francis was possibly over-optimistic about their potential utility, considering he couldn't use regular monkey bars 140
Reposted by Francis EphraimFrancis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 19/08/2023Yeah you can come over and listen to my compilation CD of old time radio organ stings, but I warn you that you'll be wasting both of our afternoons if you don't pay attention 051
Reposted by Francis EphraimFrancis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 31/10/20233D printers are either owned by people who fantasize about committing horrific violence, or insufferable nerds who want to print an endless stream of little toys for themselves—and we should incarcerate both of those groups if at all possible 031
Reposted by Francis EphraimFrancis Ephraim @attnfrancis.bsky.social · 19/11/2023*looking at my watch* well look at that, it's cast yourself into the abyss of Christ's mercy o'clock 2101
