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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lilo. Those whiskers… 😸😸😸

Lilo, white/brown, green eyes, plush fur and exquisite whiskers. On our very messy dining table.

Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“What does a coin tell us about who we are?” —Richard E. Spalding, Feasting on the Word A4, on Matthew 22:15-22. Commentary is fifteen years old, but this bit hits different than it did back then…

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Game’s about to start in LA, and…

Weather Underground app summary of current conditions in Los Angeles, featuring a temperature of 103°.

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So Atlanta’s gonna play at LA on Saturday at 1:00. Wonder what the weather will be like?

Screenshot from the Weather Underground app showing forecast temperature of 100° at game time on Saturday.

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rainy day on the river (and on the coffeehouse windows).

Mississippi River seen from across the street at Milltown Coffee in Moline, IL on a rainy afternoon (as the raindrops on the window suggest).

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ve actually gotten to enjoy a lot of the local MiLB team’s season this year, usually managing to squeeze in at least one night per home week to catch a game. And I got to see them win game one of the league championship series tonight, which will be the last home game of the season. Woohoo!

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Never lived in a town that hosted a Labor Day parade before.

15th Avenue in East Moline, IL, with people waiting for the Labor Day parade to start.

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Lilo, the Cat of Exquisite and Well-Balanced Whiskers

Lilo showing off her whiskers on a very messy dining room table.

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Not a great pic, but two deer (out of a total of four we saw) grazing, apparently, in a defunct play area behind the church I am currently interim-pastoring. They are not infrequent visitors to the neighborhood.

Two (out of possibly four) deer in a play area.

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll. (You didn’t specify a daytime sky…)

View of a moonlit sky past the scoreboard at Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport, IA (a corner of the scoreboard is visible, yes)

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

@mapquest.com Sorry, I think I must’ve misunderstood the instructions…

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Weather Underground app has not changed.

Weather map view of the accurately named Gulf of Mexico and surrounding land areas. Some rain over parts of FL, GA, AL, and Cuba.

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Post a picture that should be an album cover.

The head and front legs of a grey/white cat looking very intense.

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Even the comic strips get this. (From today’s Over the Hedge comic.)

Sat, Aug 15 v
(Narrator : A HAMMY-HUG FAILED TO HEAL TRUMP'S PSYCHIC WOUNDS...)
Verne the turtle: IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT. HE'S HAMMY-RESISTANT. NOTHING CHANGED...
RJ the raccoon: NOT NOTHING...

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It’s quite a thing when a passage from a biblical commentary up and slaps this hard. (Eleazar S. Fernandez, Feasting on the Word A:3, 376)

Romans 12:1-8
Theoiogical Perspective
We are living in a confessional situation (status confessionis), and this situation must inform the way we think, dwell, and act. If imperial Rome was the empire in Paul's time, our contemporary empire is more powerful, pervasive, and cunning. If imperial Rome was able to claim devotion and demand sacri-fice, the empire of our time (a global domination system) has greater uncanny power to make idolatrous claims. This is even more so if we think that we not only live in a "market economy," we also live in a
"market society" or, broadly, the global domination system of which the market is one expression. Its more ubiquitous and beguiling presence gives validity to its claim: "outside of the market there is no salvation" (extra mercatum nulla salus). Nations have claimed imperial status, but they all bow down and serve this god—an idol. Modern rulers have passed draconian measures both to perpetuate themselves in power and in the defense of this idol.

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Seeing these back to back in my feed was very confusing.

Top: headline with picture of US Capitol building:
US Senate struggles to wrap up work before August recess • lowa Capital
Dispatch
The U.S. Senate continued work Friday night without an indication as to when senators wo...
© iowacapitaldispatch.com

Bottom:
(Reposted by Eric Rauchway)
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsk... • 5m
It's late, so getting up from my desk, I tell the nightwatchman here at the ILT office building: I will arise and go now, for always night and day/l hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore.
Nightwatchman: Yeah, whatever. Close the door on your way out.

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Checking out a concert that includes (among other things) Bix Beiderbecke’s cornet (pictured here):

Close-up view of Bix Beiderbecke’s cornet. Couldn’t quite get his name etched just above the bell.

Bix Beiderbecke’s cornet (being held by a museum volunteer)

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

The instructions say “without explanation,” so…

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Here’s Lilo, the Cat of Exquisite and Well-Balanced Whiskers.

Brown and white tabby Lilo, with a bit of a V fur pattern on the top of her head and, as the post says, exquisite and well-balanced whiskers.

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A more close-up view of the river than I usually get.

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

And they still have the gall to issue this statement. There is no Christ in this.

"Southwestern Seminary is grateful that this matter has been amicably resolved for all involved. The Seminary has consistently denied any liability or wrongdoing, and the rulings in the case are a matter of public record," officials with the seminary said. "We are thankful to put this chapter behind us and to remain focused on our mission."

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Including this guy (although it’s possible he lives there on someone else’s dime…?).

A t-shirt from RAYGUN that makes the point that

ROGER
MARSHALL
LIVES IN
FLORIDA

(Specifically a McMansion near Sarasota).

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Charles S. Freeman @cspencef.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a weather advisory for funnel clouds. Tornadoes, yes, but not specifically funnel clouds. Rather have an advisory for funnel cake, but…