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Christopher Walsh

@deflatermaus.bsky.social
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PhD candidate & book historian studying text, memory, & heritage @Rutgers. Interests include Chinese history, East Asian languages, religious and theological book & print culture. Anglo-Catholic Episcopal layman.

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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
just this week a retired priest told me a story of a time he took over as a rotating priest for a Liberian congregation in the US; the parish was using drums and guitars and dancing processions, which he continued feeling like that was their practice. he was an old white man, didn't want to impose
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
TEC should have a unified system for licensed lay ministers like the CoE and they should be allowed to wear a blue tippet.
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In the church this morning I passed two younger women waiting for the elevators. One says "you know, once in college I gave up elevators for Lent." The friend says, "Oh, yeah?" to which she replies, "Yeah. I'm not even Catholic but everyone was giving up something so I did too."
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Served the chalice at a wedding today with many non-Episcopalian who came for communion and I only had to ask people to actually eat the Eucharist twice, very good
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columbo screenshots @columboscreens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
this thread got me thinking about all the weird things I see in TEC churches that are not rubrical, running the gamut from the celebrant adding "this is God's table, not ours, and all are welcome at his feast" instead of the usual invitation to communion and explicitly inviting the unbaptized
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Quo vadis, Binface
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Few know the secret to fencing is actually a jaunty little hat.
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
stopped in at Pusey House on Sunday for some praise and thanksgiving
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m overhearing a conversation in Lincoln’s Inn Fields where a Namibian man is explaining African colonial history to a German who keeps exclaiming “really? Oh, wow.”
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Spot the difference: two difference author portraits for the same book by the same author, published in the same year in the same place. Giacomo di Grassi's "Ragione adoprar sicuramente l'Arme," printed in Venice in 1570 by Giorgio di'Cavalli... or is it Giordano Ziletti?
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It was boiling in the V&A reading room yesterday and today wasn't terribly better BUT that didn't stop me from looking at books.
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
the Victoria & Albert museum's book request form is funny when you've hit your limit because the system says "Speak with your librarian. You have reached the maximum number of requests allowed." speak with your librarian, like 'speak with your doctor' or 'consult your pharmacist.'
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Successor of the Apostles for $1000 please, Ken
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
ICAC? more like ipecac amirite
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A few years ago I was given a woodblock print of Qiu Jin, done by the Zhejiang artist Huang Shang in 1978. I wish her poetry was more widely available in English.
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EOW Without Context @eow-no-context.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
a substantial number of Episcopalians are most wary of language which strikes them as abstract
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
bold talk for a guy looking like the Crypt Keeper-in-training
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Al Jeans ain't bad
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
if you're going to make up a movie based vaguely on Tolkien's notes you can put some black and brown people in it, it's allowed. no one but dumb internet racists will care. "all of the Broadbeam dwarves are black actually" or "Some of the Laiquendi look Asian." You could do it, it's a fantasy world
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Reading Chernow’s biography of Grant right now and these types are such whiny, pampered losers when it comes to this “boo hoo civil war” nonsense. At least the odious southern plantocracy had the force of will to commit armed treason. And guess what, we drove them down into the dirt anyway
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Jessica Pressman’s aesthetic of bookishness extended
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Matt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I knew this data format was old, but this is ridiculous
A stone ruin with the letters MARC visible carved into it.
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I am really coming to dislike the "inclusive language" versions of TEC eucharistic prayers, especially when they do things like replace "Lord" with just "God." There are other issues like stripping out male-gender pronouns but this one gets me the most. It feels like misplaced egalitarianism
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Re: current TEC publications, does LLF or the Daily Office Readings actually have the order for Morning or Evening Prayer in them?
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
anyone have $1200 to drop on a full-size facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript?
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The Voynich Manuscript XXL
Discover the Voynich Manuscript XXL. A museum-size facsimile hand-bound in natural parchment. Limited to 224 + 24 numbered copies worldwide.
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
it's because Mike got sent to 'Nam in 1968
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
there is a thinkpiece in how the SSPX attitude toward canon law is functionally the same as American SovCit magical thinking about civil law. I've seen SSPX members earnestly arguing "it's not really excommunication because the Vatican didn't do [insert obscure procedural process]."
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
oh wow I just dreamed of the Duke of Zhou last night, wonder if that's connected
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Nathan Bedford Forrest smiling up at them from hell
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I think Vance and the SSPX schism exemplify the same strand within right-wing Catholic thinking, which is the steadfast belief that rules do not apply to you. SSPX? "Oh we're not really excommunicated, we're not disobeying the pope" and then they deploy Lefebvrist SovCit nonsense about canon law
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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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In the Shade of Victor Mair
Celebrating New Sinology 維恆之蔭德 'Translating 里 as "trident" today in memory of Victor Mair, who was a generous scholar and a kind and decent man.' This note by Brendan O'Kane, characteristically arch a...
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I have been listening to the audiobook of Chernow's biography of U.S. Grant, and hearing how much the pro-slavery Southerners progressively radicalized themselves right into the Civil War it's eerie to see exactly the same thing happening over the past two decades with the GOP
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
if academic doesn't work out I think I'll open a cutesy steamed bun restaurant/cafe that does funky little colored buns shaped like animals and really cash in on the bubble tea couple crowd and influencers. I'll call it Bao Bae.
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Some of the fine old Protestant Ascendancy gentlemen of Ireland - at Marsh’s Library and the Royal Irish Academy. God bless dear old Archbishop Narcissus Marsh!
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Looking forward to presenting in just a few short weeks!
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The new NJtransit app is absolutely awful, never ceases to amaze me how the company will take something average and make it worse
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
one of the funniest vocabulary introductions to modern English has to be "chud," from a 1980s b-movie about sewer dwelling mutants. "MAGA chuds" is instantly recognizable in its meaning
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Are you a member of the Caxton Club? If you are, you can catch my short piece about the book collection of longtime MSU fencing coach Charles Schmitter in the new Caxtonian! If you’re not a member of the premier bibliophile club in the Midwest… why not???
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
why does he look like a white convert to Islam who has a podcast about fiqh
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Canvas being down just reminds me that Rutgers had its own native course infrastructure (Sakai) and it eliminated it to pay money to Instructure instead
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
London-based friends and researchers, I have a fellowship-supported two-week research trip at the V&A in the planning stages. Any good recommendations for short-stay apartments that are affordable and or all the way out in places like Watford or Morden?
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
POV: you are a straight person walking into a queer-affirming Anglo-Catholic church that uses incense
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
American Lysenkoism
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
@theodramatist.com is there any way to get a look at the parish survey questions without actually doing the survey? I'm helping our rector with the parish response and would love the opportunity to plan...
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
SENATOR: In your confirmation hearing, you swore to me - swore - you would preserve this nation's willowy gay physiques, so WHY have we seen a dramatic INCREASE in "twinkdeath" since Jan 2025?? I ALMOST suspect you WANT our gay boys to develop dadbods. RFK JR: t h a T ' s ,, p r E p O s t e R O u S
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Wow I had no idea
The Atlantic
POLITICS
The FBI Director Is MIARapper M.I.A.
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
RIP Susan Leigh Star you would have loved this
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
more proof that for so many of these people Christianity is a set of vibes, a pop culture argot, that they put on to achieve a certain goal. it's not the result of any kind of sincere faith
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Christopher Walsh @deflatermaus.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Spring Break, 2005, at the DC Holocaust Museum. I'm reading the memorial plaque to the Bielski brothers. An old man turns to me, points at the plaque, and says "I was there. Those men saved my life." I stammer a response, look at the plaque, but when I turn back to ask him a question, he's gone.
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