Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026When new housing starts being built and housing affordability gets marginally better so T***p starts calling them Trump Houses or some shit, let's be sure to remind everyone he didn't sign the bill because he was throwing a tantrum 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 07/03/2026When they used to warn us that action movies would make children more violent and divorced from the grave consequences of our actions, who would have thought they meant our president and his 14 year-old DoD secretary? 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I will assume all redacted creeps in the files are Trump until proven otherwise (by law, incidentally). 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 13/01/2026I think the acting president of Venezuela should live in Venezuela, is all I'm saying. (Or do they not have golf courses there? Is that the problem?) 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I still haven't seen a long supercut of Trump promising no foreign conflicts and Trump supporters saying they're voting for him bc they don't want anymore wars. So, uh, if you all can get on that... 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 20/12/2025People who have teacher friends and are frustrated by the Epstein files release, turning in an assignment 10% done, and that 10% is done completely wrong but the kid insists it fits the instructions, is something your friends deal with all the time 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 18/12/2025With the Trump admin threatening hospital funding if it provides childhood gender affirming care, it's worth remembering that overwhelmingly most surgical interventions are cis boys getting breast reductions (but RFK doesn't count those) 031
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 01/10/2025So just to be clear, every member of our military has to waste work hours doing PT every day, whether their job is physically strenuous or not, because Trump didn't like his pew pew parade? Did I get that right? 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 07/09/2025For when you need an analogy between a critical hypothesis on the the gospels and a basic theorem from calculus (which has to happen at least twice a week): jeftripp.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/q...jeftripp.wordpress.comQ and the Mean Value TheoremWhew, it’s been a while since I posted here, but I need to work some stuff out. The issue I have is with the Two-Document Hypothesis (2DH) in Synoptic Gospel studies. The argument usually goes some… 010
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 04/07/2025What does Odysseus mean by time "ticking" thousands of years before mechanical clocks exactly? "The time display on my phone is accelerating rapidly, Telemachus!" #christophernolan #odyssey 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Guys, just let Trump pretend he did a war thing. Then we don't need a super dumb war because his bone spurs are aching. 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 18/06/2025The SP had to make exceptions for other forms of gender-affirming care because most of such care on minors, including hormone therapy and surgeries, is for cis boys, not for trans kids. 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Every time I start Disney+, I'm reminded of a beat up Ford Fiesta we had to pump the gas and roll a bit to get going. 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Update on automated source detected: 98% of verses in John and Romans assigned accurately, with most of the rest HB citations or transitional verses. Next step: a mix of John and Matthew 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Republicans are testing the waters on challenging Trump with this plane deal. We should reward them, not punish them. As we call to tell them their budget sucks, we should compliment them if they've openly questioned this corruption 000
Reposted by Jef TrippBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/05/2025This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-... 28351692750
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 17/04/2025It's not just that they're wrong on the science. Imagine hating autistic kids so much that if there's even a 1 in billion chance vaccines cause autism, it's worth killing some children. Anti-vax is a new Molech. 130
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Still noodling with a sorce-detection algorithm using a big mix of John and Romans as a test run. Looking good, I think. #bible #biblesky 010
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Softballing algorithmic source detection by mixing Romans and GJohn. So far 100% success, and John 8 & 14 the most Johnish/least Pauline, Rom 13 & 16 most Pauline / least Johnny (also, I'm trying to avoid "Johannine"). 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025The Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting brings 10,000 scholars together. International members are afraid to travel to the US, and a Bible-study group is gathering information on how best to keep its members out of inaccessible detention centers. This is where we are. #academicsky 12410
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Who tf is #morganwallen and why does he get invited to #SNL every two weeks just to be a dick? 010
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 23/03/2025So, uh, who's with me going on strike from paying federal taxes this year since I don't want to fund a fascist administration and it doesn't want to fund auditors? 000
Reposted by Jef TrippGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/03/2025At the end of the day, Trump and Musk's fascist tactics can be broken into two categories: bogeymen and Trojan horses. Learn how to recognize them so we can fight back against them at The Big Picture.thinkbigpicture.substack.comBogeymen and Trojan HorsesHow to identify and call out Trump and Musk’s fascist tactics 612482429
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Phrases like, "As we discussed in a forthcoming article" are why no one likes academics. #academicsky 040
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Just so we're clear, T complaining about protests on college campuses is a (hypocritical, anti-free speech) pretext to defend higher ed in general. 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Again, thought it was a good time to return to this talk as attacks on non-binary people increase. Here i discuss non-binary elements in the depiction of God in the Hebrew Bible. #Bible #transrights Part 2/3 m.youtube.com/watch?v=88pe...m.youtube.comSounds Like BS: Gender and the Gods (Part 2)YouTube video by Doubter's Commentary 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 08/02/2025With some self-identified Christians getting ballsy attacking trans people, I thought it might be worth returning to this talk on how people understood gender in the biblical world #transrights #Bible Part 1/3 m.youtube.com/watch?v=S2aw...m.youtube.comSound Like BS: Sex and Gender in the Ancient Biblical World, Part 1YouTube video by Doubter's Commentary 000
Reposted by Jef TrippBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025I beg of Republicans, read a book. 6377205672
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Noodling around with a machine-learning technique to detect sources in texts using a mix of John 1-5 and Romans 1-3. It was able to separate John 1-2, 4-5 as a distinct cluster - and it's like come back with the cool kids, John 3 Anyway, baby steps 010
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 23/01/2025“No that’s not acceptable, but I didn’t see it,” Sen. Tuberville told ABC about violent Jan. 6 rioters after they were pardoned. “I don’t believe it because I didn’t see it. Now, if I see it, I would believe it, but I didn’t see in that video.” I mean, his name is Tommy (John 20) 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 22/01/2025On Trump's satanic attack on a Christian daring to ask for mercy and supporting that attack with lies about the poor and needy: m.youtube.com/watch?v=IB8P...m.youtube.comChristians are supposed to prioritize mercyYouTube video by Dan McClellan 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 22/01/2025THE BIBLE doesn't exist. There are more than half a dozen BibleS read today by millions of Jewish and Christian readers each. Not different versions. Different content. To talk about "the Bible" is already in some sense to take a sectarian side. 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Correlation of Matthew's and Luke's sequencing of Markan elements vs the sequencing of double tradition material, often identified with a lost source called Q. 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 18/01/2025I once wanted to open a chapter on sayings in John about Jesus's various advents with something snappy. I wrote: Jesus does a lot of coming in John--he has come, he does come, and he will come again. I still regret deleting it. 000
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Thanks to Neotestamentica for publishing my follow-up article on arguments from order applied to the question of whether the Gospels of Matthew and Luke used a sayings source, Q! muse.jhu.edu/article/947414muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE - Arguments from Order for Q, Revisited: A New Solution to an Old Method 030
Jef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 14/01/2025A friend saw this footnote in a draft of a paper I'm writing and said, matter-of-factly, "This is why you're not smiling." 020
