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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Honeslty miss the pre-digital age where "dun like that nobel prize lady she looks funny" or "men don't read lady books that's just biology" were the stupid things the weird man in the pub said and you could just move tables & ignore him vs. everyone falling over themselves to share and repeat him

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Buddy we need a lot more than you just “standing” with her. It’s time to fight and we’re not seeing it from the DNC.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12/10/2026

In 2029 Ilhan Omar will be in office as a valiant warrior and Donald Trump will either be dead as a disgraced coward, with every Republican in office distancing themselves, or alive as an even bigger quivering coward.

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Do you have any evidence that the results were distorted by what you claim is a lack of explanation for the withdrawal of “AI” assistance? That would indeed be a flaw, but that isn’t what’s described in what you’ve screenshot.

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Your logic would apply to video games then, maybe even Madden football, if it does simulated violence to the simulation of a person? I actually think hostility toward human-simulating-“AI” is healthy— maybe even necessary — for a healthy society.

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Helpfully clear statements for measuring Christian nationalist responses

Proposed Christian nationalism items

The federal government should declare the United States a Christian nation

The federal government should advocate Christian values for the benefit of Christians.

The federal government should enforce strict separation of church and state.

The success of the United States is part of God's plan

The federal government should allow Christian prayer in public schools

The federal government should allow the display of Christian symbols in public spaces

America holds a special place in God's plan.

If the United States moves away from our Christian foundations, we will not have a country anymore.

I consider founding documents like the Declaration of Independence and US
Constitution to be divinely inspired.

I consider being a Christian an important aspect of being truly American.
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Christians have a responsibility to gain control over national institutions like government, education, and the media.
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The Bible should be the foundation of our legal system.
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Paul Djupe @pauldjupe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Christian nationalism is seemingly everywhere, but there have been surprisingly few attempts to assess how it is measured; the few articles have sowed doubts (which is fine, of course). We took on this question with much more data than has been used to this point and found consistent results. 1/3

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How to Measure Christian Nationalism

By Paul A. Djupe, Brooklyn Walker, Anand E. Sokhey, Miles D. Williams, and Jacob R. Neiheisel Christian nationalism has taken the academic social science world by storm. This body of research has c…

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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 09/10/2026

Current* conditions near Duluth, MN:

Easterly view overlooking Bayfront Park, with a view of the Aerial Lift Bridge and Lake Superior beyond. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-10-09 08:18:13 CDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@DuluthHarborCam1 // Current Temp in Duluth: 48 F | 9 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: NNE at 7 mph | 11 kph // Humidity: 73%

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I read Obama’s leaked threat as more like poisoning the well than an honest disagreement within a coalition.

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Of course there are many factors, but how much damage has been done by the decrease in foreign student enrollment?

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Bring Me The News @bringmethenews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"The point is that we’re not even at the peak yet, and almost every single forecast has this El Niño strengthening to the point of breaking the records," writes Sven Sundgaard. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-weathe…

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Traitors to creation” may be a helpful conceptual frame especially for religious communities as we try to comprehend this moment

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Great shot! Getting close to the equinox

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Y’all know that headline was designed by fascists. Stop using that dumb/evil framing.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"We grieve the worlds we've known and what it felt like to live in them, and people are part of that. We grieve the fact that someone or something that accompanied us through the world will no longer accompany us through whatever comes next." organizingmythoughts.org/grief-is-not...

“We often misunderstand something fundamental when we imagine people are simply grieving a person they believed to be wholly good.

Often, they are grieving a kind of accompaniment.

They are grieving the way someone's music, art, words, performances, or ideas helped carry them through the world ... They are grieving a bedroom they sat in twenty-five years ago, listening to the same album over and over, or a book that knocked down walls when they were nineteen. They are grieving nights spent with friends they no longer know and conversations they can barely remember. They are grieving their own proximity to death, as marked by the disappearance of someone whose presence in the world always seemed continuous with their own, until it wasn't.” - Kelly Hayes

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love that people believe both: “Claude is so smart” and “I wrote this smart thing Claude produced”

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A poem by St Wendell Berry, especially poignant this season, “Enriching the Earth”

ENRICHING THE EARTH
To enrich the earth I have sowed clover and grass to grow and die. I have plowed in the seeds of winter grains and of various legumes, their growth to be plowed in to enrich the earth.
I have stirred into the ground the offal and the decay of the growth of past seasons and so mended the earth and made its yield increase.
All this serves the dark. I am slowly falling into the fund of things. And yet to serve the earth, not knowing what I serve, gives a wideness and a delight to the air, and my days do not wholly pass. It is the mind's service, for when the will fails so do the hands and one lives at the expense of life.
After death, willing or not, the body serves, entering the earth. And so what was heaviest and most mute is at last raised up into song.

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Wow - the same principle that helped establish the theory continental drift also can spot a fake made of the earth

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 31/08/2026

Today's Daily Cartoon, by Ellen Liebenthal.

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thanks for bumping this - just listened: lots of insights & cautions for those of us in religious communities

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Buddy I hang out with a lot of progressive rabbis so we’re done here

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If US Muslims said that it was important always to support ISIS, do you think that would endanger their mosques in the US?

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Seems like you’re trying but still gross to identify the cyclist as the primary actor (“he hit”) rather than the person who committed the violation. You even used a passive construction with no identified actor to describe the actual violation (“a just-opened door”)

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That you didn’t know (& don’t seem to care?) abt the context makes me wonder if you’re interested in understanding this or trying to spread an emotionally flooded racist panic on the interwebs. Hope you can find some emotional space to think w/ Jewish folks in synagogues wrestling w/ this question

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do you know that he was answering a question from a non-Zionist Jewish listener who was asking for talking points when in conversation with people in their synagogue? That context was *deliberately* hidden in the rage-bait quote, and it profoundly changes the meaning.

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Highway 61 (re)visited this morning pedestrians have right of way ✊🐻

Gorgy black bear crossing Highway 61 south of Two Harbors MN this morning

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Some of the post-WWII philosophers pointed out that power "deployed tastefully and with caution" was also a way of masking & normalizing the moral abominations of war

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Part of me wonders if all the marketing puff about super-intelligent AIs is an attempt to make us feel like we’re living in the future and are the protagonists of a sci-fi drama, so we don’t notice that 2026 is actually pretty rubbish and not futuristic at all

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If Al Gore in “Inconvenient Truth”had mocked up that video as a glimpse of the future I can only imagine the extra ridicule & scorn

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

use "billionaire" as a slur, use "zionist" as an objective and critical descriptor. Do not use "Jewish" as a negative descriptor, bro. That's got a deeply evil history that's very much still alive.

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dude you’re telling on yourself with that comparison

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“…the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based ‘veracity engine for real-time analysis’ (‘Vera’ for short), which runs on every tweet…” 🤢

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is a great piece. The role of gender in building, overbuilding, and cementing car culture in America is underdiscussed.

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

BREAKING: Enbridge’s aging Line 5 pipeline is spilling natural gas liquids in northern Wisconsin. The rupture occurred just east of the Bad River Reservation near Lake Superior on August 25, 2026. According to Enbridge, an unoccupied semi-truck rolled into an excavation site and struck the pipeline.

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(My congregation is keeping the feast on the 20th, near the September equinox)

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Multiple ecumenical leapfrog moves in what many of us hope will be a shared ecumenical feast. The protestants have responded to a Catholic invite (that originated with the Orthodox in the 1980s) and now have moved ahead with a lectionary for a Feast of Creation (!) www.feastofcreation.com

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Feast of Creation

April 2026 update: The "Feast of Creation in Christ" was officially adopted by the Revised Common Lectionary, for celebrations to begin on 6th September 2026 (first Sunday of September). See lection...

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Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP Dolly Parton ❤️ Here's a lovely Dolly story: We worked together on "Transamerica." She told me that the bible passage that used to puzzle her the most was, "the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men." She said, "How the heck do you sin against the Holy Ghost, and-

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My therapist explicitly prescribed eyerolls to me and it was legitimately lifechanging

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 25/08/2026

That means *we have to set the strong social expectation first.* You must vaccinate to enroll. And then tell the story with it: to protect each other, and ourselves. The science is for people who want to understand how we know, not persuading people who reject the premise

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yep, it’s pretty interesting, and wild that the original context was not investigated as otherwise-responsible people shared the snipped quote

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ha! Katz? Bc no reporters, media critics, or academics were doing it or doing it publicly? But maybe you mean Piker? In that case, an anti-genocide Jewish person asked him. Both seem reasonable. Regardless: our evidence-based guild is failing this moment by sharing misleading ragebait

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Benjamin Stewart @bstewdlh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Piker may want us to talk abt him, but the recent round of discourse was launched by non-innocent actors & it’s been disappointing to see the academic community get played by misleadingly-removed-from-context quotes, sharing ragebait w/o scholarly curiosity or skepticism

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