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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

yeah so a bunch of liberals and leftists on X and bluesky mocking queer people for wearing masks to a queer bar is the most predictably terrible outcome of that article

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

totally sucks to log back on after driving across the country to see so much hate levied at the action of masking specifically, not to mention the people who are desperate for the very few places (it’s literally named last ditch people) still safe if not encouraging toward those who wear them.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is great to see! I'd love to see more of that but know it's hard.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We were all singing in our ranges, if I recall correctly -- you just picked whichever "A" worked for you and went from there. I was in children & teen choir and it wasn't uncommon for me to be singing a full octave lower than the soprano next to me, but we were both singing the same melody

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've been in TEC for a decade and still find myself bristling at the hymnal and choral tradition in the church, this is why I attend a church that offers a service without music. If I had to go to a TEC church with music, I think it would be a real challenge for me

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I then took a detour to Evangelicalism; there we also had an emphasis on singing in unison and used songs that followed the structure of pop songs, which I think makes them feel more familiar and simpler.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Many of the songs I grew up with also had a kind of verse/chorus structure which made it easier to "learn" them because you heard the chorus 3-4 times and could join in when you learned them. They were also from a more folk tradition as opposed to a choral one, so they seemed more familiar.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I grew up Catholic in a church that used a lot of Marty Haugen and David Haas music. There wasn't an emphasis on harmony and usually the congregation and choir sang in unison. Sonically, TEC's musical can sound more "complex" because of the harmonies.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

got this *and* a new The War on Drugs single today!

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

adjacent: i'm trying to bring this up in higher ed and saying that we always need an opt-out option for those students for whom interacting with a GenAI chatbot will be a safety risk and i'm ignored or told that won't happen 🫠

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

She went to YDS at the same time I did! She's so great.

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

<Religious studies narrator> It did *not* used to mean something

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‘Cult’ Used to Mean Something. Now It Applies to Taylor Swift and Trader Joe’s.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 27/08/2026

many traffic deaths are purposeful policy decisions.

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a birb @rhiolit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

chronically ill non-driver here, yup. also no one wants to take cars away from rural folks and the disabled people who need them. nor is there a remotely politically viable program to take cars away from folks in general. but there are a hell of a lot of car trips that could be bike or transit trips

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hey ⚓ has anyone here made a stole before? Any advice, patterns, words of caution welcome.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you live in a city you shouldn't have to own a car.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Tangentially related: I got a city bike back in June and have been blown away by how much possibility it's opened up for me. Bike to the beach? Go for it. Run an errand that's too far walking and not on a reliable bus line? Done.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Had my first experience of being screamed at and cussed out by a driver while biking this morning. My crime? Biking.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I almost drew him a punnett square, like I learned to do in middle school, to try and explain why I could carry the gene but not express it

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"You can walk and run? Congratulations on beating Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy*!" *I do not have Duchenne, I am a genetic carrier for it. This was a cardiologist who definitely glanced at but did not in any way process my medical history

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I love Brookline Booksmith & Bank Square Books! Sometimes I take the train up just to spend a few hours in Brookline Booksmith.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.

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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Great thread. Yale’s efforts at some kind of settlement should cast doubt on its much-publicized April report on the humanities. It wasn’t a report, but a performance to satisfy political censors. Pundits who praised the “report” as a source of “bold ideas” for reform should admit their complicity.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I met him a few times in Princeton when I worked at the Seminar before knowing who he was & he was so kind. Later, in one of my Ph.D. seminars, one of my colleagues who went to PTS was like "did you ever meet Peter Brown" and I looked him up and was like "IS THAT WHO THAT NICE MAN WAS?"

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Biked some errands today (farmer's market, bakery/coffee shop, zero-waste store, & library) & it is absurd to me that Providence has a bunch of safe places to bike, but they're not all connected

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I saw it in one of the special IMAX film theaters and laughed out loud at how bad the dialogue was MORE THAN ONCE.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Getting a button that says "Emily Wilson is right about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey" and wearing it everywhere until things improve

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Most loved (at the time): Brave New World Most hated: Walden, The Awakening, and Pride & Prejudice

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I simultaneously love and hate that you've made me aware of this

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So far, the vehicles that have been most hostile to as a cyclist have been oversized pickup trucks & I really feel like there's some rich gender analysis to be done there

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I think the Church suffers when there’s a lack of scholar-bishops and monk-bishops and a surplus of CEO bishops.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I'm so sorry, Kira. I hope you all can find time to grieve

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I follow you but don't know you (though I think we must have met in New Haven when I lived there!), feel free to DM

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Man, all of the church inside baseball is just what my heart needed this morning

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Yep! I'm not a canon lawyer, but my knowledge of Catholic doctrine & the Donatist controversy would say that sacraments before they were kicked out of the church are legit, but going forward if they perform a marriage after having been kicked out, that won't be valid

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

!!!!!!!!!! I'm a church historian and WOW

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I'm like 99% sure we didn't even get OFF the light rail, we just rode it to one end and then back again

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This made me cackle, but my family DID go on the Hiawatha (now Blue) Line light rail when it opened even though (1) we lived in Woodbury & so drove to get there and (2) literally never took public transit again in my childhood

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I have owned a bike for 4 days. Since then, the word "stroad" has entered by vocabulary, I'm talking to everyone I meet about better pedestrian and bike infrastructure, and I'm already planning bike-based day trips (with public transit to fill in gaps). Is this just what happens?

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This is where I am. My sibling has a severe, progressive, and ultimately fatal muscle disorder and the amount of anti-disability & "this life is worth less than others" I've seen from medical professionals in my time has made me realize that we're all sickened by capitalism.

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Forgot my biggest worries: I mostly see people using them without wearing helmets and with earbuds/headphones in. The lack of safety gear & awareness is so dangerous

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sweater weather sara @inperplexitea.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It's such a problem here because the college students use them frequently, leave them blocking sidewalks and curb cuts and don't follow traffic laws. I love that they have an option to explore more of the city, but I think it's only a matter of time before one of them gets struck by a car.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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