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Actually, I’d amend this quotation a bit. Because yes, complementarians (those who believe women aren’t suited for leadership but are suited for certain “complementary” roles) and MAGAts contribute a lot to the problem. But sexism isn’t limited to religious or political conservatives.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 7h

Around 2010 or so I introduced a topic at a church board meeting with that phrase (intentionally) and got to see who amongst us understood.

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Another: “We have allowed men to define respecting women almost entirely by what we personally do not do. ‘I would never rape a woman.’ Good. That is an extraordinarily low bar… The harder question is what you do when another man disrespects a woman in your presence.” baptistnews.com/article/as-y...

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As you read about the Cornell Seven, remember Tamar

"Christian and Jewish Scripture already contains a story about this. Her name is Tamar," says Braxton Wade.

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From the same article: “If you want to protect women from assault, you don’t need to worry about transgender folks. You need to worry about frat boys and the families and politicians who have trained them up…”

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 10h

“…underneath it all lies a culture in which men do not take seriously the humanity of women… That blame lies squarely at the feet of the complementarians in the evangelical church & the MAGA adherents who have pledged their undying devotion to an unrepentant rapist.” baptistnews.com/article/dear...

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Dear men, it is time to wake the hell up

All this is horrible, but there’s one fact about this case that ought to keep you awake at night worried about the future of the world:

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 10h

As a Unitarian Universalist humanist, I’ve got a lot of theological differences with Baptists of any stripe. But the liberal Baptists at Baptist News Global are speaking a language that I understand.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 11h

On the other hand, solely and entirely because of MST3K, the phrase “think about it, won’t you?” lives in my head. Even though the “won’t you” seems not to be in the original. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8vZ...

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Like Father Like Son - Anti Smoking PSA 1967

YouTube video by sedetinstitucional

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 11h

I’m an older Gen X (born 1965). “Brain on drugs,” no question.

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 30/09/2026

“No one need ever die again. No disease, no deformities.”

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 30/09/2026

“Can you understand that a human converted to an android can be programmed for the better? Can you imagine how life could be improved…”

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 30/09/2026

“By continuing the process, I could have transferred you, your very consciousness, into that android. Your soul, if you wish. All of you. In android form, a human being can have practical immortality. Can you understand what I'm offering mankind?”

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 30/09/2026

We watched the ST:TOS episode “What Are Little Girls Made Of” last night, and it’s like all these AI companies are filled with people who saw that as kids and decided that was their life’s goal, without seeing the fascism and eugenics.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now I’m nobody, but I think that is indicative of a set of political principles. I think that’s worth taking a note of. They do not care whether it’s useful. They do not care about the user. If you are the user, however, maybe you care.

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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seeking help from social scientists. I am despairing about what to do with one of my papers. If you edit a journal in sociology or adjacent (or even a multidisciplinary journal) and don’t have secret unstated journal rules and aren’t a dick and reply to emails in less than a year, ping me? 🙏🙏🙏

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And imagine if the media turned this kind of scrutiny and skepticism against police, politicians, and powerful interests instead of vulnerable victims of gang rape? What a world we could have

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 28/09/2026

We come from different faith traditions, and there are some things we disagree about, but we can all come together to proclaim the inherent worthiness and dignity of all people, and to decry the immorality of the administration’s actions against immigrants.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 28/09/2026

Glad to be able to participate in a multi-faith protest and march this afternoon in support of immigrants. Among the leaders who spoke were a Catholic priest, a Unitarian Universalist minister, a reconstructionist rabbi, an imam, a reform rabbi, an Episcopalian minister, and a Catholic bishop.

Selfie of an older white man with glasses and a gray mustache in a crowded protest. He is wearing a black shirt with a minister’s tab collar, a yellow stole with a heart symbol, and a small heart-shaped trans liberation pin. Prominent in the crowd behind him are two Franciscan monks in brown robes. People in the crowd are holding up signs; most can’t be read, but one says “stop ICE violence now.”

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 28/09/2026

When I first saw this comment this morning, it looked like this, and (beyond my control) my immediate thought was “I would call that teal, but maybe she means the landscape?”…

The usual Dr-Manhattan-sitting-in-a-purple-and-pink-lunar-landscape meme, followed by a “view full thread” button, followed by a post saying “You look so pretty in that color of purple!”

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 27/09/2026

Thanks! I was taking a walk with a friend a few weeks ago and we ducked into an antique mall to get out of the heat, and there it was! I had just gotten rid of my extensive collection of espresso mugs, but this looked like too pretty a demitasse to pass up.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 27/09/2026

From one yellow-wall-haver to another! Prost!

A balding white man with glasses and a gray mustache holds a delicate Japanese demitasse near his face. Behind him are a bookcase and two photographs. The room has yellow walls.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 27/09/2026

Since we are speaking of the past, here is a photo from 13 years ago plus one day that my phone decided to show me. Or is this the future? The second photo is from the following month.

A demitasse, with a visible residue of espresso, resting on a saucer on a placemat on a wooden table. There is a sugar cube on the saucer, in a red wrapper that says “HENRI BLANC — Le café du café,” and there is a small spoon resting bowl-down on the rim of the saucer as well.

A photo of a middle-aged man with short dark brown hair and a dark brown beard and mustache, with touches of gray showing. He is wearing glasses with rectangular wire frames, and a collared shirty with a teal plaid pattern. Behind hims there is some greenery and a but of wooden fencing.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 26/09/2026

Apologies: The two papers were at least cited in the text.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 26/09/2026

Was at a fancy mall a while back and, struck by a spiritual mood while in the central courtyard, decided to call the quarters.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 26/09/2026

Oh! And the citations to my papers? Two papers I actually wrote do appear in the bibliography. There are no citations of them in the text.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 26/09/2026

Sir, I don’t think it is you who needs endorsing, because it wasn’t you who wrote the paper. And I’m sure as hell not going to endorse Astra and Claude. I don’t think I’ll even answer the email, because if I get a response, the odds are it won’t be a human who writes it. What a fucking world.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 26/09/2026

“Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 was used to draft and revise the manuscript. The author reviewed the material and takes full responsibility for the article.”

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 26/09/2026

“The author designed and operated the multi-agent research system used in this work, built on OpenAI GPT-6 Astra. The system carried out literature analysis, mathematical development and computation, with checks assigned to agents separate from those developing the arguments.” And another:

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 26/09/2026

(If you don’t have an academic email address, the arXiv asks you to provide academic endorsers before they accept any submissions from you.) Their paper, they say, cites two of my papers. So I take a look! Happy to help out a nontraditional scholar. 83 pages. At the end, a declaration:

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 26/09/2026

Well, this is a new one for me. An email out of the blue from someone who describes themselves as an independent scholar (like me! no problem there), in which they point to their recent math preprint on Zenodo and ask me whether I would endorse them to get their paper on the arXiv.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 26/09/2026

It seems appropriate that I gave your post its first and as-yet-only like three years after you posted. We few, we happy few!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 24/09/2026

<after leaving my car in neutral at the top of a hill with the parking brake off> Officer, it went rogue. My vehicle took actions I did not intend. I’m very sorry about the 4th-graders in the crosswalk. Please give me $250,000,000,000 so I can try to better align my car’s intentions.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 23/09/2026

Have Democrats from outside California gotten the message yet from those of us who know him that Gavin Newsom is a toxic POS?

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 21/09/2026

I really enjoyed reading Russell Banks’s Cloudsplitter a few years back. Very much fiction, yes, but effective in imagining a person and his motives, and their effect on a family. Quite possibly you already know it, but if not: recommended.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 21/09/2026

Sometimes there’s a song that used to be on the radio when you were young, that you could never quite catch all the lyrics to, but that had a catchy beat or rhythm or hook or something… and 40 years later, when you hear it again and catch all the lyrics, you think, my god, is *that* what it’s about?

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 20/09/2026

“Fueling theorems since 1966…”

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 20/09/2026

Always fun to stop at the Hillcrest Peet’s on a weekend afternoon, because the place next door is hoppin’ :)

A smiling white man with glasses and a grey mustache holds up a paper Peet’s cup with a little cappuccino foam visible. He is wearing a blue and grey patterned shirt. Behind him are a few parked cars, and the glassed-in patio of a hoppin’ bar/restaurant.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We read Jonah on Yom Kippur. It's about a word that's come up lately: complicity.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

“these attempts to distance themselves from trans rights isn’t really winning anyone over, and might actually be hurting them, in some small way.” — @evanurquhart.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2154...

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Transcript: How Purple-State Democrats Should Talk About Trans Issues

Journalist Evan Urquhart argues that swing-state Democratic candidates are going too far in distancing themselves from transgender rights.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

They *very much* want people to die.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

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