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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

bad news: child made a mess a dinner good news: he said, in Spanish, that he was making a mess

c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

thinking of a rhyme to discourage parishes from using AI in their bulletins and flyers: "every time you use AI, you make the Holy Father cry."

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Manly Diaper Bags annoy me. oh the millennial beige bag isn't manly enough for you? you need to make it look like an army backpack? the fake leather bag that matches your work briefcase is too feminine? you need tactical gear to tote around your daughter's diapers and pacifiers? grow up

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one parenting difficulty I did not anticipate is the lack of Lord of the Rings adaptations for young children. sorry, son, once you're through the Hobbit graphic novel, you gotta learn to read and make pictures in your brain if you want more of the story

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

maybe it's because I have a 3 year old boy but this is so funny to me

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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops @usccbofficial.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy Birthday, Holy Father!

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

facts don't care about your feelings, and neither do 3 year olds

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I mean, aside from the fact this is illegal, is this not a slippery slope to *gasp* socialism

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

my cats will eat any random crap off the floor but HEAVEN FORBID their food is not in their dish

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There already is a Catholic Batman and his name is Daredevil.

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

3 year old: "hey! in the Hobbit, Thorin made them breakfast! he made pancakes!" me: "hmm, I don't remember that part!" 3 year old: "he DID. chocolate chip pancakes! it was his birthday."

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

maybe I'm misremembering but I feel like a lot more places were closed on Labor Day when I was a kid

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yep, leave me behind….. #BookSky

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Luxury potato bear. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

black and white photo of a beautiful longhaired white and tabby cat sitting up on a table covered in an intricately patterned rug. It seems to have a bow around its neck but it's hard to see due to the length of the cat's fur.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 31/08/2026

Still cracking up over the idea of a movie asking "What if Scrooge had a point," because A) he didn't and B) it's not as if we haven't already had the entire run of DuckTales to explore this question

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

finally applied for PSLF 🎉 who knows what will happen because of my useless degrees though 🎉

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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are grateful Wendell Berry shared some of his final poems with us. They were published in our last winter issue with illustrations by Stephen Crotts: www.plough.com/articles/six...

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

everyone talks about how no one is having kids any more but we're always the only ones at the zoo with one kid lol

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

being very strong (drinking more coffee even though it's making my tummy hurt)

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I totally think it's important to pray the rosary but the weirdness of Fatima Apologists makes me not want to (sorry, Mama)

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

my husband does not respect my culture. he objects to our son saying "melk" and "Meijer's."

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

one of my colleagues does not use the Oxford comma and it genuinely pisses me off

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Haunted Hannah 👻 🍂🎃 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you are a man with a profession that puts you anywhere in the public eye or in a position of authority over anyone, and you have a baby, i firmly believe it is your duty to take paternity leave. Be a good example.

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

press 🅱️ to wish my Large Son a happy birthday

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

if it did any good, I would remind my 2nd gen Italian-American dad of this fact

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

love when people get mad that I didn't respond to an email for work on a Sunday

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

congrats to all the moms who post photos of themselves still in the hospital hours after giving birth. that will literally never be me.

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

daycare has been really good for my child, except when he brings home obnoxious habits from classmates. the latest is grunting instead of speaking words.

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

toddler, looking at one of our wedding photos: "Dada! you got married?!"

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

when I get back on my ADHD meds in like a decade I will be unstoppable

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy Fourth. On this day, I like to revisit Frederick Douglass’ “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July,” and in particular, this video NPR produced a few years back of portions of the speech being read by Douglass’ descendants. youtu.be/NBe5qbnkqoM?...

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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

also I don't understand emails. I sent you an email. it is in my sent box. but you cannot find it in any of your mailboxes. it is not in spam. where did it go??

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

we planned a lot of outdoor activities at my MIL's so naturally my toddler will be stuck inside all weekend because of heat and thunderstorms

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Kevin the Pikachu @kap3692.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

the feminine urge to pick up curbside furniture

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

me: I am going to put all my crochet hooks together so they're easy to find when I start another project me, a short time later: where the *bleep* are all my crochet hooks

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

ate some tangy cheesecake last night and still thinking about it

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

every year I say I'm going to use up my vacation days well in advance of June 30 and every year it never happens

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I really judge parents who give their newborns screens to entertain them in public, sorry not sorry

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John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Everest, probably. I don’t do well with heights

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The “pasta alla forma” in its original recipe of creamed pasta in a wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano seasoned for at least 24 months, whose surface is set on fire with grappa before the preparation. [📹 vera.vettorato] Original post

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

breaking news: person on the internet without children says parenting is "not that hard"

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

need a bumper sticker that says "sorry for my driving, I'm getting my toddler a snack"

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

telling a room of both men and women that your dress has pockets is an amusing experience, because all the women are like HELL YEAH and the men are mystified at the whole exchange

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

now every Catholic with a platform has an opinion about AI and I simply do not care

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

sorry but if your header image is AI generated I'm never reading your substack

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