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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

(there's also a fun καινός vs κενός thing bcs he uses the former to condemn what one translator puts as "profane newfangled talk" instead of what the KJV renders as "profane and *vain* babblings)

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It's actually mostly focused on Gregory Akindynos! Obv all Orthodox polemics include allegations of novely/innovation but Akindynos essentially sees all new ways of articulating theology as dangerous—he cites 2 Timothy 2:16-17 in almost every surviving letter of his!

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

oh wet leg and blood orange are also important ones i’d say

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

unfortunately cameron winter is on multiple of my friends’ “out in 2026” lists

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

i’ve been a beths fan since 2018 but unfortunately they hit their peak as indie favorites w/ expert in a dying field, and mountain goats i think peaked even before that LCD soundsystem seems impossible to fully displace tho

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

finally a question i’m qualified to answer deerhunter, ariel pink, and joanna newsom i would say are still coolish geese/cameron winter, wednesday, MJ lenderman, alice phoebe lou, and ear are the bands/artists that come to mind first

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

It’s pretty hideous (not that it matters bcs it should still be built, but nonetheless)

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Should we drain Greenlake because some people get exposed to toxic algae?

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I feel like people’s sarcasm/satire detectors just broke at some point in the last few years and haven’t recovered

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I feel like this is so clearly sarcastic

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

“f Harrell wins, he would become Seattle’s first two-term mayor since Greg Nickels in 2009” does ANYONE read over these???

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Yeah I think 90% of the time I am v much against using LLMs (especially in school, which is ofc more relevant to my life right now) but for this kind of this it is quite useful and I don’t see much harm in it if you’re capable of fact checking

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Anyone of course has *the right* to decide who they talk to, but that doesn’t mean it’s always a good thing to do! Like, the best hope we have for keeping people from becoming fascists is remaining in their lives despite arguments and shitty jokes. Be the pushback they wouldn’t otherwise get!

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I really don’t at all but believe what you want Funnily enough my only (close) family member who I know voted for Trump is my 100% Chickasaw great-grandma who is pro-choice and pro-gay (religious, but very libertarian), and she did so primarily because she wants us to drill for oil/frack more!

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

You keep putting words in my mouth — you should be critical and push back! I do it with my homophobic, antivax, and climate change-denying family all the time! That’s very different than intentionally going no-contact

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A classic! Was my fav growing up and now I force my young cousins to play it (and will do the same if/when I have kids someday)

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Also if this is your analysis of the 2024 election then we will never win again. Did the 54% of Hispanic men that voted for Trump do so because they were scared of brown people? Did the Muslim residents of Dearborn who abandoned Dems en masse do so because they’re all self-hating? No!

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Again, sad Trump voters are not the biggest problem we have. But there’s no better way to radicalize people then to leave them in a bubble of like-minded people! And for better or for worse ~70% of the American doesn’t think politics should impact relationships — it hurts the left’s image a lot!

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Isn’t it fun that that’s just not what I said Do I think voting for Trump is evil? Yes! Do I think “the worst thing in the world” is the fact that Trump voters are sad? No! I just think going no contact w/ longtime family and friends hurts the success of the left and fosters extremism.

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

…people further into extremism since they seek love and support from people who almost certainly have even more destructive beliefs. I suppose I just don’t believe that anyone is irredeemable, and I would hope my loved ones wouldn’t ditch me the second they started finding my views reprehensible.

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I think those are evil beliefs, but I do think maintaining truly unconditional relationships with some people in your life is an important and healthy thing to do But most importantly I think it just makes the problem worse to cut those people off. All it does (as far as I’ve seen) is send…

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I will personally be at Streamline if I’m in Seattle (my personal fav QAish dive bar)

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I don’t think they’re entirely irrational but I do think my life has been radically shaped by the fact that my parents had me at 24 and 25 Like, I still have two great-grandmas alive! Meanwhile some of my friends have parents turning 70!

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

…and to me “I would go no contact with my family/longtime friends over politics” — especially for cishet people whose physical safety isn’t being threatened — is a belief that most Americans (including me!) find very off-putting

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Like imo one of the most Bluesky beliefs is that it’s good and reasonable to cut off your conservative/conspiracist/extremist family members There was a poll recently where only 25% of Americans (but 40% of Harris voters!) said they would ever consider going no-contact w family over politics

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I think it’s a very specific type of progressive (and I don’t think it means being trans or anti-Zionist like many are saying, bcs Twitter is still very trans and has no shortage of anti-Zionists)

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Like to me it’s pretty clear that well-planned rail is able to attract non-transit riders in a way that buses generally aren’t

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Idk I think WSLE is still worth it — if Downtown Redmond has shown anything, it’s that people reallyyyyy like stations that go to directly to walkable commercial centers

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Yeah the suburban ST3 extensions need to be blown up for the time being

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

The Infatuation has a lot of shitty takes imo (especially their staff writer Aimee)

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Omg I was just talking about this w a friend you’re the Seattle reporting GOAT

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Maybe not as clean or polished as most of Paris proper but I appreciated getting to live there nonetheless lol

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

You might have some luck in the (still métro-accessible) suburbs — last year I was in a pretty construction-heavy part of Bois-Colombes right by Parc Georges Pompidou It’s an area that still has quite a few (often attached) SFHs but is quickly densifying!

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Oh hey I’ve been doing research there too (on a wildly different topic of course) Genuinely feels like you’re entering a prison to get into the research library lol

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I’ve been to the area once or twice! Just never knew it had a name other than “Greenlake-ish”

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

In my 21 years of being a Seattlite I have never heard of Tangletown

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

…including the one she endorsed for reelection in her own city lol

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I fear Jayapal is mostly just a hypocrite given that she endorsed our deeply corrupt, pro-sweeps mayor

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

If you believed this sincerely you wouldn’t have endorsed Harrell! Do you think your supporters live under a rock???

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Wtf happened in Bainbridge at the end of 2016

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Praying that Sound Transit/planning depts learn some lessons from Downtown Redmond’s success lol

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Well hopefully it ends the exact same way for them and the minimum wage increase wins in a landslide anyways

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

~2/3 of Seattle residents weren’t even born in Washington! Who is this appealing to? (and I say this as someone born and raised in Seattle lol)

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Every time I start becoming appreciative of Seattle transit again I come back to Paris where the suburbs have automatic metros with 90 second headways

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Jack Gronholz @jackgronholz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Living within walking distance of a bakery should be a human right (I’m in France for 3 weeks)

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