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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 7h

I'd verify with the terms and conditions, but I can't imagine you wouldn't be. The AI company has definitely covered their asses to put liability on their customers. So you can bring it to your company in writing saying you too refuse any liability for required tasks and try to get them to sign it?😬

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David Spade Says Yikes!

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 7h

do you think little hebrew kids were ever bringing their sick pets to jesus like this

skyler gisondo holding a sleeping white puppy

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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine if we talked about any other product or service the way some people talk about reading articles online. "I really wanted to see that film you recommended, but the movie theater paywalled it." "That latte sounds amazing but they won't let me access it without giving them my credit card?? :/"

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You rush to placate the ones who let fear turn to hate. You insist we can all coexist, and I must empathize with their distress, which is, my being.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Am I an issue you can "agree to disagree" on? When you talk about unity, my full dignity is "secondary" to "healing division." Keeping the "main thing the main thing" does not include my humanity. Churches assure that you will not be forced to see me as called, worthy, and equipped for ministry.

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The concept of hell isn’t just used to terrorize little children into a lifetime of religious devotion . . . It also works well to desensitize people to the suffering of other humans and enable them to ignore or even cheer on genocidal actions.

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you believe everyone outside of your little cult is going to be tortured for all of eternity in hell it doesn’t bother you if your president publicly talks about bombing entire cities in your country. In fact, you might just cheer it on as deserved punishment for what you perceive as sin.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can confirm. I spoke at a conference recently, where the person before me talked about AI. I started my keynote by saying that AI is incompatible with feminism because AI is built on theft and therefore a consent violation. "Gen-AI stole my book. AI is harmful to real people like me." It hit hard.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For sure. I'm trying to think of a modern comparison that wouldn't have Bsky coming for ME in the digital streets. lol But yes! Collective liberation is the destination and the "enemy is your neighbor" answer is the path. Two colonized impoverished groups fighting each other while empire laughs.

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Scotty Sire: We Have A Common Enemy

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, it seems like the story would have mentioned it if he was some swaggering, untrained, underqualified, tax-payer-funded wannabe-centurion who never goes anywhere without two knives and a sword and got jumped in the street because he's such a royal pain in the ass. haha Different Bible lesson.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hm. When you say ICE, I'm thinking that would be a Roman military commander, specifically and voluntarily sent to wipe out Samaritans. ICE isn't just racist or prejudiced. They are the enforcement of empire and the very face of oppression. Do you think the Judian's $$$ job is murdering Samaritans?

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

14 million Americans are a small price to pay. Think of the atrocities ahead . . .

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

huh. I've never heard of the power dynamic explained like that. I thought it was a lot more like Montagues vs. Capulets, Yankee fan getting beat up in a Red Sox bar or vice versa, or like "We don't talk to that side of the [religious] family." etc.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

? fwiw I am pretty sure I am the only U.S. person on this thread and/because I'm UMC. No Yankee agnostics are in this conversation.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow, recently? Like, in a contrarian way or like "Ya know what, that loud southern neighbor of ours has some excellent points about turning all our state-run schools into tax-payer-funded Bible studies!"?

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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 06/10/2026

a man who's run out of road standing on the edge of a cliff

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Germany denominational demographics/research also gets super confusing in this area 😂

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our emphasis is not "save the lost" via conversion tactics, but feed "physical and spiritual hunger" and such as our primary witness. Real, literal bread, shared skills, and mutually beneficial relationship with our neighbors. Evangelicals say this doesn't "work"; mainliners say this IS our work.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also, your phrasing is interesting. "Social gospel" and evangelical are nearly opposites here. Not an "even though" but a "due to." Evangelicals here that HCR is referencing think we're heretics, mainly over being too into the social gospel➡️ liberation pipeline. No holiness but social holiness!

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Huh. I didn't know that. I had a great conversation with the Moderator at the time when I was working on the 2023(?) Evolving Faith conference that didn't give me that impression, but I haven't kept up with it since.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(also I thought you were still in Canada, so I apologize if I'm overexplaining US-specific definitions around evangelicalism as if you don't live here. Haha)

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ah. That is all currently more of U.S. Protestant general common ground, not evangelicals only. What kind of evangelicalism is your church most aligned with? (ARC, SBC, CoG, CoC, PCA...)

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Agreed while simultaneously plotting a "United Methodism 101" educational public awareness campaign because people who drive by at least one every day have no idea what we actually believe other than sing 19th century hymns, host Meals on Wheels, and hang rainbow flags. 😅

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Folks, the Adam Hamilton candidacy has revealed the esoteric secrets of the second-largest Protestant denomination in America. We will never recover

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

21st c mainline polling category has significant deviation and definitional contrast to the US evangelical polling category in demographics and sociopolitical stance because we're coming at it from a different (sometimes opposite) framework of theology and practice. Not just liberal evangelicals.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I would not say that current-day US UMC or other mainline churches being "evangelical" in a historian's sense are what those polling categories are about. We're not Bebbington Quad, solas, inerrancy, convert-focused, etc. It's not just social principles like feminist, affirming, Democrats, etc.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mmmm depends on the term definitions there 😅

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Same, but in a very fiction phenomenon way, not in a "this is a real theology" way 😅

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very validating to hear HCR say this too.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I admit when I read the first part, I thought it was about the rapture, which was funny for 2 seconds until I remembered who the metaphorical "slot machine companies" are 🙃

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Damaged dopamine neurons? That sounds like... Ah there it is! "This new investigation is only preliminary, but it suggests that perhaps long COVID impacts dopamine-releasing neurons in broadly similar ways to Parkinson's." If you don't plan to get a 2026 vax, I can help motivate you. 💔🙃🧠

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I agree with this thread about Hamilton's PR, but I do want to point to the comments of any given Facebook post about the UMC. We are, uh, not exactly as Inoffensive Cultural Unifier as we once were nor are evangelicals still some weirdos with a bullhorn and sign. They VERY much do not like us. 😬😅

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"what abandoned hobbies?" (They are in storage cube drawers so I forget they exist 😅)

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Tracy Wise @frauwise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My thanks to Siw Heede and Community Forward Redlands for this lovely coverage at my book event, hosted by the Friends of AK Smiley Public Library in Redlands, CA! #BookSky#WriterSky Redlands author Tracy Wise launches second book, ‘Manufacturing a Duchess’ share.google/SDOxweuRhndq...

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Redlands author Tracy Wise launches second book, ‘Manufacturing a Duchess’

The Regency-era novel explores love, duty and the changing society of 1820s Britain as the Industrial Revolution takes hold.

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SFCityLegends @sfcitylegends.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

More importantly immigrants pay millions in taxes whereas ICE costs millions so it's a 2x multi million tax loss. We need to crystallize & galvanize this in conservative thinking. The safety net works better with open immigration, it's a win/win

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The daughter also told police the abuse had happened repeatedly in the past, leading to Texas Child Protective Services Investigations, and the daughter alleged the family moved homes because of those reports."

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Lauren the Flute @laurentheflute.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I should not be on social media getting triggered by the things going around and yet I can't look away This sucks a whole lot I know a lot of you are in the same situation and I'm so sorry this is such a universal experience

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't promise every affirming, antiracist, pro-choice, etc. leader will be scandal free. Not every rainbow flag waver will be safe. But I will promise that you already have a red flag if waving a rainbow one is too much to ask of them.

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