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B.J. Hutto

@bjhutto.bsky.social
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Baptist pastor in Jacksonville, FL Wofford | Duke Div | Aberdeen (PhD, Ethics) Descendant of a pirate but not a very good one.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 5h
Trump still claiming he’ll pay Americans if Republicans win the mid-terms, which if done would blow a more than one trillion dollar hole in a national debt that’s already becoming very difficult to finance.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13h
who is ready for the Red Deer People's Republic post-referendum
A Globe and Mail investigation has found that Republican political operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to assist the separatist campaign in its bid to leave Canada, while harbouring their own aspirations for the province to secede.

The Globe also found that when Alberta separatist leaders went to Washington to meet with the U.S. State Department, they offered up key assets from the province’s resource portfolio, including access to fresh water and royalties on crude oil, in exchange for help transitioning to independence.

Through interviews with The Globe on both sides of the border, people involved in politics, the corporate sector and Alberta’s pursuit of separatism have described persistent efforts by figures in the U.S. administration and conservative political establishment to support groups seeking American expansionism and independence for Alberta.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 13h
that's bait.
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Pope Leo XIV
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of
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Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13h
The reason we need more religious studies education is because the "New York Times" can just allow someone to say in an interview that wokeness is like the Old Testament, which supposedly has no forgiveness, and the assertion goes unchallenged.
"I mean, you happen to be right. And by the way, I’m not being dismissive of you. I’m just saying that my friends have tested me more than yours, and maybe I’ve tested them. I’m not religious, but I’m a Christian, and God forgives. That’s what it’s all about. The problem with quote, unquote, wokeness — and don’t get me wrong, it is great that marginalized people have a voice; it is great to advocate for anybody that feels marginalized — but the problem is we’re in the Old Testament right now, and the Old Testament has no forgiveness. The Old Testament didn’t work, so they had to write a remix called the New Testament.

There’s been discussion lately about how the Woke 1.0 era, which refers to the immediate post-George Floyd era, was “crazy.” Do you see that moment in time as just “crazy?” Was there anything redeeming about it? I think I just answered. Again, it’s great to help those that need help. We need more of that. The problem is when you institutionalize it. My half a joke: The Salem witch hunts — I’m sure the first three witches they caught were actually witches. But then you open up a witch office, and now you gotta start lying because you got overhead. You gotta justify the witch hunters’ pensions and [expletive]. I’m glad that all of this stuff happened, it needed to happen, and because it happened, maybe I’ve heard some voices that I probably wouldn’t have heard otherwise."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026
Trump in Alabama talking about Talarico: "He's a VAGEN. And all of a sudden he's going to barbecues, but what they don't show you is that after every barbecue he walks to the back of a tent and he throws up…He likes lettuce. Give him a little piece of lettuce, he's happy."
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My kid challenged me, a 90s kid, to a game of Tecmo Super Bowl. It didn’t go well for him. He quit at the half.
I beat him 30-0 in the first half
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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My religion is a very cool ancient death cult.
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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pete Hegseth is continuing his Misuse the Bible Tour. Once again, Isaiah 6:8 is not about military recruitment: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-co...
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A little known fact about the CARS universe, is that post-World War 2 many Volkswagens, BMWs and Mercedes fled to Cargentina to avoid the Nuremberg Time Trials
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Episcopalian, Lutheran, and Catholic Bishops ask Tennessee Gov to commute death sentence of Christa Pike: “Such an act does not deny justice. It declares that justice need not become vengeance and that the State of Tennessee can choose restraint, human dignity, and mercy.” dioet.org/2026/10/01/b...
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Bishops of Tennessee Issue Letter to Governor Lee on Attempted Christa Pike Execution | The Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee
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B.J. Hutto @bjhutto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a good insight
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/10/2026
Latvian officials claim Russia and Belarus are facilitating an elaborate scheme to illegally funnel migrants from the Middle East and Africa across the border into Latvia and other NATO and EU countries. They say Russia’s goal in Latvia is to stir up tensions ahead of parliamentary elections.
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A Front Line at the Border: How Russia Uses Migrants as Weapons Against Europe
The scheme is part of Russia’s larger strategy for sowing discord in the West, if more subtle than other recent operations blamed on the Kremlin.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 02/10/2026
Anthropic executives thought maybe the Pope and the Catholic Church in general hadn't thought too much about it and could be convinced by their presentation that AI was alive. Sometimes religious illiteracy bites you in the butt. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
But the moral mission that Anthropic and the Vatican shared — human flourishing in the age of A.I. — had developed a deep fault line along the question of consciousness.

Just days before arriving at the Vatican in May, Mr. Olah and other speakers saw a full advance copy of the encyclical text for the first time.

Mr. Olah was so alarmed by the pope’s strong position against A.I. consciousness that he proposed pulling Anthropic out of the event, even at that late juncture, according to a Vatican organizer.

In the end, Mr. Olah and Anthropic decided to go forward with the appearance. Mr. Olah wanted to support the event despite his disagreements, but felt a responsibility to be honest about his concerns, according to a person familiar with his thinking. Organizers at the Vatican encouraged Mr. Olah to speak his conscience.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"They cant be assimiliated if I'm still racist against them" puts the entire onus of judging 'assimilation' on the feelings of a majority rather than the actual actions of the minority which, ofc, allows the majority to deny them that in perpetuity should they want to—which is exactly the point
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intracranial aneurysm (spooky, scary) @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love that there’s like five replies to the weird softcore porn political ad that are like “hey that’s voter fraud”
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Dave Convery @zomda.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We’re brack, britches
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
for millennia you would spend your life dreaming of an audience with the pope and today, through the miracle of technology, Jesus Returns Movie can talk to him with the press of a button and he uses it to say “has his excellency considered the Minions”
What about the Minions? Hundreds of humans working together to bring Entertainment to life... Does the Church Approve of that? Or is that a NO-GO?
Cartoons, Stop-Motion Animation, CGi... they're ALL in the same category. (Now, add Ai Films to it.) They're NOT traditional movies, they are something else... simply PURE entertainment. The Church now DECIDES what
TOOL Creative HUMANS are using?

and there’s a gif of two minions hula dancing in grass skirts that fall down and show their undies.
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You can’t get loans if you don’t choose a career organized around earning money is… very, very stupid. And discriminatory? How does this guidance even stay in place without litigation? Real question; sarcastic responses not requested.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Academician Prokhor Zakharov @shake1n1bake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Using a time machine to bring the early church Esperanto. History unaffected as I am immediately stoned to death.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’ve just discovered this particular delight from yesterday and honestly what a lovely example of people containing multitudes.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/10/2026
Randy Spivey, one of Christa Pike’s lawyers, said that Pike remained in critical condition on Thursday after a botched execution attempt the night before. nyti.ms/46StlV9
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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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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Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Storm Duck Limited" is my boutique outdoor clothing line
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i can't believe this is a legit and not-vandalized page
President (also commonly called Asshole,[1] Scum,[1] or Capitalism[1])
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(it's a card game) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preside...
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‘Fast & Furious’ TV Series Greenlit At Peacock - set to premiere in 2028 deadline.com/2026/10/fast...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Once again, everything is gender studies.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tl;dr:
Ecclesiastes 1:9-11
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 01/10/2026
The link in the post below is super cool
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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B.J. Hutto @bjhutto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is like when Henry VIII dug up Thomas Beckett just to yell at him
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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Amen
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"check out this nasty thing I found on X" no and you should go set a timer for 10 minutes and look at a tree until your phone beeps
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 01/10/2026
The United States is not a nation “whose God is the Lord.” It is a nation whose Constitution protects Christians, atheists, and everyone else equally. The Pentagon answers to the Constitution, not the Book of Psalms.
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Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church @habchurch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This Sunday, October 4, is World Communion Sunday at HAB, a day that reminds us of the connection we share with Christians around the world. Come as you are. There’s a place for everyone at HAB.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
for weeks, christa’s lawyers have argued that tennessee’s lethal injection process is so unreliable that it constitutes torture. they were right. last night, the state tried and failed to execute her, and had to rush to the hospital to save the life they were trying to kill. second time this year.
washingtonpost.com
Tennessee once again botches execution; governor orders outside review
Christa Pike, who was convicted in a brutal 1995 killing, continued breathing after she was given two doses of lethal injection drugs, her lawyers said.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Superintendent: SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THERE'S
A MEMO THAT MAKES CLEAR IT IS LAWFUL FOR YOU TO JUST KILL PEOPLE IF YOU THINK THERE ARE DRUGS ON THE SAME BOAT?

Principal Skinner: yes

superintendent: May I see it?

Principal: no
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finrodsauronverynsfwprivatefolderdonotlook @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thiel's "Evil is Good" Theology explained. w/ @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/BkpFTzk...
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B.J. Hutto @bjhutto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shameful
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Joey Tribbiani: Could I Be Wearing Any More Clothes?
ALT: Joey Tribbiani: Could I Be Wearing Any More Clothes?
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spoke to a class a Columbia earlier about press freedom and anticipated having to explain what Gawker was but it did not occur to me for even two minutes that I would also have to explain who Hulk Hogan was
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And when you try to explain this to people who don’t know what gawker is (understandable) and also don’t know who hulk hogan is and some of them don’t know who peter thiel is… it sounds like I made it all up!
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Because it sounds insane!
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