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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 10h

"If Michaelmas Day be bright and clear there will be two winters in the year" Well I VERY MUCH hope NOT, because today was gorgeous but I have been promised a mild winter thanks to a powerful El Niño. (It's fine: the Christ child beats St. Michael.)

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A better link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozXJ... "Voici le cri de toute ma vie: le Christ t’appelle par ton nom. Personne n’est trop abîmé pour être aimé." 😭

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Saints Come to Life with the Pope: Joan of Arc Arrives on Horseback at the Vigil Alongside Louis IX

YouTube video by ROME REPORTS in English

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If anyone needs me I'll be watching this pageant reenacting the history of the Church in France over and over and over again (PLEASE if any of you find a video source that isn't Twitter let me know). (I love this I love this I love this.) x.com/CatholicSat/...

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Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) on X

This is just incredible. The Pope is absolutely loving this. At the Prayer Vigil with the young people of France, they reenact the incredible history of the Church of France, from the arrival of Laza...

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Chicago World Series watched by Chicago pope. We deserve this.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Great things happen in Chicago." 1. NBC reporter, quit shaking the pope's hand! Are you trying to shake it off? 2. Look at how happy the pope is about baseball. Wild, folks.

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Pope asked whether he had anything to do with White Sox making the playoffs

YouTube video by NBC Chicago

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I may have overstated things in saying "We don't discourage cremation anymore." The Catholic Church still encourages burial. But there's no general impediment to cremation:

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I remain very strongly of the opinion that no one should be beatified until they've been dead at least a century, but man, Fulton Sheen's beatification really separates the weirdos (complimentary) who vibe off a saint's jawbone from the normies (judgmental) who think it's weird to hang out w/ bones.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ok folks i just this instant figured out that nathan fielder is NOT nathan fillion; i have been so, SO confused for the past couple weeks.

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jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the third esnake

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I try not to pick fights with groups I am not a part of—better to look at one’s own sphere of influence than to play the “O God thank you for not making me like THOSE people” game—but there is so much absurdity here.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People on LinkedIn post as though they’re participating in an obligatory message board for a college class.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Friends, how do I become an entirely different person so that I am capable of doing good writing WITHOUT the panic of an immanent deadline?

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't generally enjoy when people walking their dogs assume I want to interact with the dogs—I'm not anti-dog, but there is much about affluent white dog-owner culture I do not enjoy—but I met the FLUFFIEST, sweetest dog today. His name is Boba. I would have been happy to cuddle with Boba all day.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have had a barometric pressure headache since yesterday, and I do not enjoy the experience.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is one of the best single-post stories ever, it will stick in my brain for years.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m sure everybody’s noticed but just a reminder, between now and the election the vibes are gonna be real off around here. they won’t get better after either but from now to the election they will also be off

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Guys it was close but prudence won.

a meme based on the Facebook "Marked safe from (blank) Today," reading:

Marked Safe From

Frustration-posting a [TRUE AND ACCURATE] take that would not benefit me

Today

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I listened to a podcast earlier this week where someone quoted the bible & attributed it to the psalms, and I said, Huh, I think that’s Isaiah. The disproportionate sense of satisfaction I derive from being correct about this speaks to a) the LOW threshold for biblical literacy among Catholics &

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My least favorite part of living in the Midwest—and the thing that ABRUPTLY reminds me that is indeed where Chicago is located—is how often people here touch me.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Apparently the entire city of Chicago decided to turn the heat on today, and this decision was neither needed nor wise.

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

unfortunately we gave it to computer nerds instead of public transit nerds we could have had high speed rail and cute urban trolleys, but instead we’re all captives of the libidinous death drive of one large group chat here I am using “group chat” euphemistically

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Gaudium et Spes @gaudiumetspesbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is inhuman for public authority to fall back on dictatorial systems or totalitarian methods which violate the rights of the person or social groups. —Gaudium et Spes §75

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“I know someone who knew Pope Bob in the 90s and they knew he would be pope one day!” OK that’s lovely and I mean ZERO disrespect but I cannot emphasize enough how little it takes to get your friends to think you’ll be pope one day. Basically: be the most Catholic non-asshole they know.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I know I’m pretty well over the bug I’ve had this week, because I have the energy to be anxious about being behind at work.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gibson is smart and accomplished, so I mean this as no knock on him, but it always bewilders me when people write about Catholics in US politics and make no mention of Pelosi or Biden. Tim Kaine talked constantly about his time in JVC during the 2016 election!

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Opinion | JD Vance, Here’s a Catholic Politician You Should Get to Know (Gift Article)

Andy Burnham is in some ways a throwback to U.S. Catholic politicians of past decades. He might be a signpost for the future.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Couldn’t quite work in Nightcrawler but it was something like “there was a priest in the school who would just come out of nowhere and frighten the life out of you”

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Look I am the first to admit that I find third orders very confusing (please do not take this as an invitation to explain them to me), but: wikipedia, my friend, “he joined a lay order but left before being ordained” is not something that makes sense.

At age 13, he joined the prep seminary of the Servites, a Roman Catholic lay order, where he studied philosophy and music. However, he left the order 13 years later, rather than becoming an ordained priest.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When you’re sick and have body aches, it’s VERY nice to have a cat aggressively kneading your leg, but also very sad the cat cannot understand “Could you do the other leg, too?”

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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 14/09/2026

Call this girl the silmarillion because she has too many appendices

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If anyone needs me: sorry, I just watched the Brandi Carlile / Alanis Morissette “Uninvited” video and now I’m dead.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It is a weird feature of the online left that people are convinced it is best to have aesthetics so perfectly aligned with moral premonition that one never likes anything that will ever be boycotted or opposed rather than recognizing it demands more of us to boycott something we do like or use.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me: The algorithm doesn’t KNOW ME. I am a unique person, willed and created by GOD, and cannot be reduced to 0s and 1s! The algorithm: (see attached) Me: …OK the algorithm knows me a little.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Look if you are a minister of any sort and you want people to email you with personal matters, you need an email address that is not office@domain.org.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Writing an email that does not need to be more than 2 sentences and yet is the most painful thing I've done in months. Hellllllllpppppp.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have a burning need to read the "Machines of Loving Grace" pamphlet.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Evolution does not serve my cat well: If I have any sort of fresh baked good, he goes FERAL. He smells the fat; his furry little brain SCREAMS at him that he must eat it. I give him a tiny piece. He realizes cats don’t like danishes. He becomes convinced I’m hoarding the good shit.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

They made sad beige toys for children, from the popular short form internet video series “Don’t make sad beige toys for sad beige children, by Werner Herzog” youtu.be/KqnBkwDuYI0?...

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Best of Sad Beige Werner Herzog

YouTube video by Sad Beige

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is absolutely how Dante would have presented Charlie Kirk in the Inferno.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🧵on the legacy of 9/11 This thread has some pain, some dark thoughts, but hopefully some insight. Danny's mom drove by school while we were at recess. Mom asked her to swing by. Sitting in her minivan, she called me over to tell me my uncle was alright. Why wouldn't my uncle be okay?

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As a Philadelphian who was living in Indiana in 2001, I saw & was infuriated by this dynamic back then.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“We’ve always chosen pain instead of each other” is, I think, a deeply unhelpful—and perhaps even harmful—way of framing the reality that harm has always been part of human history, and that the US has a particular and bloody history of violence wielded to secure and maintain power.

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