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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 · 24/09/2026

2 weeks ago I spent 1 hr 58 min on hold with the IRS just to say Me: Hey. I paid you but I keep getting letters. Can I ignore them? IRS: Yeah. You paid us & can ignore us until next year [when we again hound your days and haunt your dreams with our chaotic, inescapable power].

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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

Somebody send Miss Piggy a card today, please.

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

My apologies to: a) Every other actor in that movie who, it seems, made no lasting impression on me. b) The truckload of people who just followed me hoping to learn something or connect about medieval book history.

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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

Yeah, it's less like locking up the toothpaste and deodorant in behind glass in a store full of humans, and more like putting them in a cabinet with a child lock because they're unfortunately located in an overpopulated racoon enclosure.

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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

Also, how algorithms have no ability to identify common factors. If I follow my local police dept & local fire dept & local church, it doesn't mean I now want videos about first responders or pastors praying over police. It means I want to see what's going on with organizations within 5 miles of me.

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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 · 22/05/2026

For the record, I would also throw out my dishwasher if it wasn't so, so much more water efficient than handwashing.

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

Please do not be surprised when people, students especially, express even greater feelings of isolation 10 years from now than they do today.

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

For something as personal and creative as writing, I would feel that I had lost out on a point of human connection by asking a machine to do what my partner or parent or colleague would be happy to do for me.

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

I'm not saying I don't Google recipes or use a dishwasher. I do. But I've also learned the joy of calling someone who made something delicious and asking them to share their recipe instead of wading through ads to get to one that might? work.

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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 · 27/04/2026

I think you've written a very merciful and dignifying thing here. Thanks for doing just that.

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

The list of people who are dead or dying because of Trump and the oligarchs is long and I only have so many shits to give about another moment in which his security squad once again was able to keep him secure.

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

...dying by withering mental health support for veterans, dying by the assassination of politicians other of parties, dying at the hands of "law enforcement," dying through the enablement of war crimes and genocide.

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

...dying in a failing healthcare system, dying from preventable diseases because of misinformation, dying from losing what little support we offer our poor, dying by spikes in suicide in the trans community, dying by hate crimes, dying by unrestricted gun ownership...

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

I mean, he did get that humble, simple life he was after.

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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

It takes pastors and other kinds of teachers to make that stay true, and also to remind people that it's worth doing. It's worth investing in. Ordinary people having knowledge of their own faith tradition is essential to reclaiming our sanity.

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

All of these politicians act like the Christian faith or the Bible support them. The silver lining is that they are very, very uneducated about these things and the average regular church attender could beat them in any kind of theology competition.

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

Hegseth doesn't know the difference between Ezekiel and Pulp Fiction. Mike Johnson doesn't know what just war theory actually argues or he wouldn't apply to our attacks on Iran.

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

The president apparently can't tell the difference between Jesus and a physician. Vance has less education on bring Catholic than a 7yo receiving their first communion.

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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 imagine that lasting them like a week, and then Gandalf gets that look, like he really wants to make someone explode, and Radagast is all, "You know what? I bet there's someone somewhere else that needs your help. I've kept you here long enough."

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

I think most people would be much better off with a little less grammar and a little more background on how knowledge is made, who does the work of translation, how they make choices. No matter how much you do yourself, you are always doing it in a context and need to grasp that.

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

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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

Best I could do. His name is Banjo. He likes long walks in the woods and rolling in the snow. He is the one the local assisted living residents ask to come for visits. Today he got in trouble for eating an entire jar of peanut butter that was left on the counter.

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