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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I thought my computer was getting old, slowing down. And then I thought maybe it's actually all the extra AI junk that Chrome added that's bogging me down. Sure enough, switched to Firefox, and all is well. So before you buy a new computer, consider blaming AI tech bros instead.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stereotypes of witches having warts or discolored skin are wild to me, mainly because most of the ones I've ever met are super into skin care and can tell you exactly which plant is going to take care of that business for you.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cannot explain Newton's third law of motion in abbreviated form. Every time, no matter how I try, it's: Every action has an equal, opposite reaction. Because of Hamilton our Cabinet's fractured into faction.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For every man who learned from watching Worf's character arc, the longest of any Star Trek character, that there is more to masculinity than anger, we give thanks.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I know Tim Curry did many amazing things, but my main memory of him as from the 1997 film McHale's Navy, which Wikipedia aptly describes as "critical and commercial failure," but which nevertheless frequently graced midday summer television stations.

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The Tiny Angry Witch @tinyangrywitch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Tiny Angry Witch has spread her mischief to Bluesky! We post a new stop-motion adventure every month (roughly) with behind the scenes glimpses of how they get made. Animated ~ Lumi Barron Written ~ David K. Barnes Voiced ~ Beth Eyre Sound & Music ~ Odinn Orn Hilmarsson www.tinyangrywitch.com

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The Tiny Angry Witch

She's tiny. She's angry. She's the Tiny Angry Witch - a stop-motion animated series with new videos every month!

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I threw stones at the stars but the whole sky fell.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Nouwen wrote: "I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in the world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self." I don’t know how I’m doing with offering my vulnerable self, but I am nailing the irrelevance bit.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We as White American Christians are infants when it comes to calling for justice in the face of state violence. Luckily, we have elders to tutor and inspire us. This month, Oscar Romero. Subscribe to the Church of the Wild and Poor for more.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hey Bsky! I'd like to invite you to check out my new project: reimagining Church as an ecosystem in a way that helps us meet this moment with greater joy and resilience. I think you'd enjoy spending a few minutes learning more.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

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Join me as I lean into reimagining the Church as an ecosystem, starting right here.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I had the most clever thought for this site and you all were going to love it. I don't have social media on my phone so I got out of bed and went towards my computer. On the way I realized that my kids and dog needed breakfast first. The most clever thought was lost to history. Sorry y'all.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Name that movie! A teen boy loses his family in a senseless attack by an indifferent superpower. He is radicalized and trained by a desert hermit, a member of an ancient and violent religion. He goes on to play a decisive role in a military/terrorist attack that kills about 1.5 million people.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Convincing any site to not save my information, especially my CC. I literally just want my CC in my pocket, on a piece of physical plastic that I can consult when needed, not on your server, whose security I know not.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Okay, this was admittedly very fun. Here are my results: I'm closest to Ephrem the Syrian (the harp of the Spirit). My wider constellation: Polycarp of Smyrna, John Chrysostom, John of Damascus, Gregory the Great.—"Which Patristic-Era Thinker Are You?"

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

*Everything* AI can do for your writing can also be done by sending your draft to a friend. Like Googling a recipe or loading a dishwasher, AI in writing turns something that was once a point of connection and mutual care into an individualistic, isolating chore in the name of convenience.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"[Leo] is taking [those] that most directly indict the cruelty of Trumpism and entrusting them with the institutional authority...He has sent a Salvadoran migrant to Appalachia, a Colombian immigrant to the Texas border, a Vietnamese refugee to San Diego, and a Black Howard chaplain to the capital."

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I do care about assassination attempts on the president. Democracies do not function on violence; every life is sacred; and it only fuels his martyr narrative. I just care even more about people dying in American concentration camps, dying by American bombs, dying through losing USAID support...

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Share your top songs for your own funeral!

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Shake it Out- Florence & the Machine

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I wish it was enough to tell Congress "Fight for our democracy and to keep our nation from being disassembled" and I didn't have to write a letter about each specific example that includes.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Today in church at the offering we talked about one very simple reason to support local churches and their pastors: Otherwise theology in your town is shaped by powerful men who know less than the average church goer and certainly less than the average pastor.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I'm pretty sure Gandalf and Radagast would be closer friends except that Radagast is always afraid that Gandalf's fireworks are going to set the forest on fire so they don't really have much to do when they just "hang out."

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indeedagem.blacksky.app @indeedagem.blacksky.app · 18/04/2026

With alt text

A mural with the words: the future they want for you

Under the words is a yellow tint and two people sitting beside a fire with their heads down. To the right of them is three buildings. one is labeled Amazon, one is labeled data center and the one in front is labeled ICE.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

What is the average number of mental break downs for one of your employees per year?

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

So, I'm really sorry about that, because I too would love an easy road map from this moment to the next better thing.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This is a public service announcement: There is no one single way empires fall. Saying so does not make sense out of this political moment. Sometimes a republic becomes an empire and that causes the elites to thrive for centuries longer. You may resume your regularly scheduled broadcast.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

One Australian shepherd dripping wet standing gloriously among the pines of the high Rockies.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Just War Theory is what happens when theologians task their imagination with asking: What would a just war look like, if there was one? It doesn't describe any real world event. More than that, you can choose to use your imagination to create a world with no war. Why not do that instead?

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The POTUS: Nah man, I thought that was what doctors wore. Peanut gallery: Oh yes. How reasonable and excusable. Meanwhile, my 8yo: "In what way are ICE operations any different from the Fugitive Slave Act in Harriet Tubman's time? I thought we dealt with this!"

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Every time Vance cites anything from the history of Christianity it's this way. It's like the old days when America got Bible lessons from the Duck Dynasty guys, but with less camo.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Researcher finds there's a good reason to put your hand over your mouth when you yawn and it's not what you think! Forget bring polite. It's just to keep your family from interrupting your yawn by sticking their fingers in your mouth.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My 6yo has gotten very into making cards: folded, stamped, custom art and messages. Two of my favorite stock cards he made for any occasion read: "Singular or plural. Both are great." & "Great care, great times."

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The absurdity of our world and the audacity of our autocrat is made an ounce more bearable by the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that is explaining the Avignon Papacy to random acquaintances who are suddenly curious.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'd like to ask America to please switch to exclusively asking for CVs so that I don't have to keep figuring out how to type "résumé" properly every few years.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Please tell me the psychic teleportation experts were actually called, consulted, and found the Waffle House in Rome, GA an unlikely destination.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

If it didn't move around, I would work on my taxes on Passion Friday every year.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

To everyone else who grew up watching Star Trek and dreaming of a world after poverty: We are living in a post-scarcity world. Nobody lacks anything because there just isn't enough. We could send every kid to college, feed every belly, and fund every hospital. We only fail because of injustice.

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I don’t want 99% of the “advancements” being forced on and/or sold to me. I want clean air, clean water, and a stable ecosystem and planet. I want free healthcare and education. I want justice and collective liberation.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I've been off the bsky for 9 months. Checking in! What's changed?

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Every "void" in a fantasy novel seems like the physical manifestation of the "Archive" button in Gmail.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Can I count the ways?! How about this: I will walk to Mordor and destroy the One Ring if that's what needs done, but please say there's double-breaktast waiting when I'm done.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 31/05/2025

Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

In a dramatic incident captured on video, U.S. Department of Homeland Security police Wednesday handcuffed one of Rep. Jerry Nadler aides in the congressmember's Manhattan office, which is in the same federal office building as an immigration courthouse.

In the video, which was shared with Gothamist and filmed by a person who was monitoring activity in immigration court, DHS officers entered Nadler’s district office and accused staff members of “harboring rioters.” A Nadler staffer is seen crying and being handcuffed. Another officer is at a door trying to enter a private area of the office while a staffer asks for a warrant.

DHS later said in a statement that “one individual” — the woman seen being handcuffed — had blocked police from performing a security check they intended to do based on information there were protesters in the lawmaker’s office. Later that day, protesters gathered outside of the federal building, demonstrating against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I love anything that helpsy kids grow in a faith that we don't instantly have to deconstruct for their good or that of others. And guess what? We got VeggieTales DVDs from our library and they're still great. I'm so, so pleased.

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