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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You DO take tests incredibly quickly, so I can see this

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Animystic 🎑 @animystic.net · 29/09/2026

Hey Christians in particular: do you think it's good if the only people who can become clergy come from generational wealth? ⚓

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Memento Mori Kira @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If we’re going to rehash the Gilded Age, it would be great for wealthy industry magnates to actually fund arts, hospitals, parks, schools, etc.

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Daniel Bentley @danielbentley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Smashing Pumpkins song "Zero" includes the line "And God is empty, just like me" which is a really beautiful summary of Philippians 2.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As of today, I've been a priest for one year. It's hard to believe it's already been a year, and equally hard to believe it hasn't been 10.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Frog and cranberries it must be fall.

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Beckett the Delicate Ecopouf @delicateecopouf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do you think part of the whole Stanza delle Lacrime experience is coming to terms with the fact that for the rest of your life you will need to graciously accept unhinged extravagant gifts from people?

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At this point I'm entirely unfazed by notifications that my data has been found in a breach and honestly that's troubling

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thing that doesn't sound true but is: Stan Rogers DIED at 33 years old. He recorded THIS at 30. There's just no way that's a guy under 50.

youtu.be

Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage

YouTube video by MoonfirespamAM

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As a lifelong Michigander other than 5 years in Seattle (and 3 in a secluded college town in south Middle Tennessee) this tracks mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

"Dialect map" showing my dialect is most like someone from Michigan (58%). Most-similar cities are Milwaukee, WI (54%); San Francisco, CA (54%); and Seattle, WA (54%). Least-similar cities are New Orleans, LA (47%); Athens, GA (48%); and Boston, MA (48%).

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

sry i fridgemogged u or w/e i fw them tho frfr plummaxxing

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ok I guess they're under Sermons That Work now?

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Does anyone know how to see *all* the past Bible studies for a given Sunday on the TEC website? I sure wish they'd gotten some redirects in place before launching this huge overhaul. ⚓

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

thys nys no partye! thys nys no disco! thys nys no jestinge arounde! thys nys no taverne! nor roade-syde playhous! Ich ne have tyme for that nowe!

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's this idea that institutions have to embrace AI in order to stay relevant with young people and, y'all, I REALLY don't think that's true.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is legitimately sad.

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a serious thing. It sounds like a joke, but there’s one retired school district administrator making all my Episcopal parish’s media happen. She gets confused at anything that isn’t in MS Office, and barely knows how to text. If you’ve got Canva or web skills, please help us out!

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

No judgement, truly! I just can't figure out when AI use became a cultural *given*.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This obviously isn't unique to me but it is DEEPLY weird to constantly get this message that basically everybody is using generative AI all the time when I just... don't? Like I just don't use it? It's not even (or it wasn't at least) some kind of principled stand. I just don't use it.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry now 💔 May he rest in peace.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We have a final slate at last! Each of these candidates represents a distinct path forward for our new diocese, and I can't wait to see the direction we choose. Prayers requested ahead of the election of our first diocesan bishop this October, if you're the praying sort. Or hey, even if you're not.⚓

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life?

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The world is darker without Dolly Parton in it, but nowhere near as dark as if she had never been. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton embodied the fact that people just can do good things, if they want to ...

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dangit this guy beat me to the joke by 13 minutes

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I was going to make a joke about how we CAN'T change "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" because HAMES doesn't spell anything but SHAME does so I guess that actually works

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

two vast and trunkless legs

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Alexander Glass @alexanderglass.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We assume these things are ancient arrowheads, but if you rotate this by 90 degrees, it's clearly a sculpture of a ghost.

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Beckett the Delicate Ecopouf @delicateecopouf.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Prayers ascending for Bishop-Elect @davidsibley.org and the Diocese of Lexington as they await consent from the wider church and prayerfully move forward in ministry together. 🙏⚓🕯️

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is absolutely harrowing. It's inexcusable that this is allowed to happen.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Update: I saw the movie and I had a great time

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In case you didn’t have enough reasons to love Spanish football, here’s some more wholesome content of the male players paying their respects to the women’s team, which also won the world cup www.instagram.com/reel/DbEsgxe...

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Also, maybe? Part of me feels like it's a bit generational, too. I could be imagining it but I think younger clergy might be more likely to lean tab.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

TBH I just wish it was easier to find band collars and shirts that fit me

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Man I need some new adjectives

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

As a member of the search committee, I was incredibly impressed by everyone who put themselves forward. This discernment was incredibly holy and difficult, and I can't wait to see what happens at the electing convention. ⚓

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

On this, our seventh wedding anniversary, my spouse and I accidentally played identical Wordle games. We got it in 2.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I take my vows seriously

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

To be clear this isn't a jab at the movie. I haven't seen it, but I've heard good things and I want to! But I literally stopped washing dishes and said "oh my GOD" out loud.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I've simply never considered the possibility that how we treat the least of those around us might be how we're treating divinity

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Just listened to an episode of Consider This on NPR in which Christopher Nolan walked through some of the themes in his Odyssey and can you even imagine?? the Golden Rule with theological underpinning??? How novel! *stares in Christian clergy*

But the other is a concept called xenia. I don't refer to it by that name in the film. In order to keep things simple, I refer to it by its other name, which is Zeus' law. And that's essentially the idea that when you meet a stranger, however humble that stranger might seem - you know, might - you might think that they're a beggar or whatever - they could be a god in disguise. And so you have to treat them the way you would want to be treated. So it's sort of what other cultures have referred to as the sort of golden rule - you know, treat others as you want to be treated - but with a theological underpinning.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Plume air quality app is describing the current conditions where I am as "airpocalypse"

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phoenix @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Going from the cyclosporiasis news, to the heat wave, to an AQI somewhere between "very unhealthy" and "excessive" definitely feels a bit apocalyptic. We're reacting to a lot of *conditions* this week, huh?

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