krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Quote this with your first anime. I probably watched a little Robotech as a really little kid, but this fight in Dragonball Z hooked me: Tien vs Nappa 040
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Someone seems to have escaped the Fallout universe. 020
Reposted by krispykolaSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026French Historian Marc Bloch, 1940. This is from his book Strange Defeat that tried to make sense of why the French elite succumbed so seemingly easily to the Nazi takeover. Bloch, a nerdy middle aged Sorbonne professor, joined the resistance and was executed by the Gestapo in 1944. 16622206
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 06/08/2026A few years ago, I was traveling through Heathrow with my grandma. She needed a wheelchair to travel, so an employ dressed in suit took us to an elevator to travel through the basement. To use it, he used a special key. He turns to me and says, "A bit like 007, isn't it?" Make that guy James Bond. 030
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Checking the Wikipedia page for Robinson-Patman Act: "Enforcement of the RPA's provisions began to decline beginning in the 1980s." Huh, that's not really a surprise. 020
Reposted by krispykolavanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026circe did that to those guys because they gave her the ickatha 13410
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This reminds me that a missing part of third spaces discussion is out in nature. Hanging out at the creek, the field, etc. 020
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I'm in the secret third group. I just want the sun to be directly overhead at high noon 020
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Worked with some chaplain trainees who had to be chided for asking hospital patients with crosses if they were, "Catholic or Christrian?" 091
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 06/07/2026My grandma met him without any knowledge of who he was and talked about how nice and handsome he was until she died. 030
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I maintain that the strong exegetic tradition of the Puritans is what enabled the literal perpetrators of the Salem Witch Trials to eventually lib out as the modern UCC 091
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 03/07/2026In the Great Gatsby, Owl-Eyes is impressed that Gatsby has real books in his library instead of fakes. Fitzgerald knew the kind of people who were ignorant and vain enough to fill their libraries with fake books in the roaring 20's. 000
Reposted by krispykolaCBMnyc @cbmnyc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I think it would be a good thing to mark a Gettysburg remembrance day before the July 4th holiday each year. A sort of "these were the sacrifices made to allow the continued celebration of July 4th and these were the noble American values that were defended" day. 091
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Been thinking of the Egyptian midwives with all this talk of forced sterilization of foreigners. 000
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I'd always wondered where this sound effect came from www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ49...youtube.comHow this sound effect came to stand for "Japan"YouTube video by Jack Lo 000
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 24/06/2026"The wolf will lay down with the lamb," or in this case, the dog with the burrowing rodent. 000
Reposted by krispykolaPile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 11/06/2026Zanzibar the tortoise getting big scritches at Nashville Zoo: 22876127
Reposted by krispykolaDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/06/2026You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733... 5762301446
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 30/05/2026A friend visited me at seminary one time and was like, "did you know the four gospels don't fully agree?" And I was like, Buddy I can show you the section in the sem library that illustrates how people have been wrestling with this for 2000 years. 040
Reposted by krispykolaAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Wow this is so cool. British Library for the win. h/t @paolosandro.bsky.social theconversation.com/what-a-list-...theconversation.comWhat a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plagueDespite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival. 919146
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This is part of the reason why so many sports anime end with the team losing the championship. Winning wasn't as important as them coming together and trying their best. 170
Reposted by krispykolaBassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer 130198284937
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Obviously not even close to the same thing, but my church is doing a week of half day Vacation Bible School for $40. Total. 020
Reposted by krispykolaSenator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 15/05/2026John Lewis was my parishioner. He had no reason to think that he would win when he was crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge. But he just kept walking. We must keep walking. 426980
Reposted by krispykolaRocketgirl 🚀 @rocketgrrl.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The probability of this level of musical cohesion occurring by chance is negligible. His skill is…evident. 0216
Reposted by krispykolavenomous laura @lauracreature.bsky.social · 13/05/2026mfw I'm contemplating dinner 0111
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Used to really buck against the Old Testament passages on collective punishment, but in light of recent events I'm a bit more sympathetic to them. 020
Reposted by krispykolaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/05/20263/3 Jewel-encrusted Crown of Life at the feet of God-Christ, center of the Ghent Altarpiece. 0383
Reposted by krispykolaweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Wasn't planning to lie down in green pastures today but he maketh me 1945752
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 24/04/2026The funny thing about incense use in high church congregations is that this was not the case for the Church originally. Christianity's success over traditional paganism in the west DESTROYED the incense trade in the late ancient world. 010
Reposted by krispykolaMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026there's a big thing where people think passionate or divisive politcs are per se some kind of evil and like, no, they're an outcome of the structure of partisan disagreement. of course politics are going to be less passionate *if the issues are less morally substantive* 0221
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Of the 4 Chaos Gods, I've always struggled to think of what kind of person would willing go for Nurgle, but 'eugenicists' actually fits the bill nicely. 000
Reposted by krispykolaRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Jake Mangum spots kid in the crowd, tosses the ball, and her brother catches it and gives it to her. Dudes rock. 1014099742
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 18/04/2026One campaign I was in, we all died to a rogue trader emerging from the warp full of power. Pretty infight-y. Guy was so powerful demons were trying to help us stop him. 010
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 15/04/2026I've always thought Batman is Scottish-American (named after Robert the Bruce) and therefore Presbyterian. 151
krispykola @krispykola.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Trump giving Rome Total War diplomacy energy with this quote 031
Reposted by krispykola✨🌯 jamie @glitterburrito.bsky.social · 12/04/2026fiddling as rome burns ❌ watching mma as america crumbles ✅ 1364
Reposted by krispykolaAbby @arobertswrites.com · 10/04/2026One of Patrick's letters is his Confessio, his account of how he came to Ireland as an enslaved person, escaped, studied in Gaul, and returned to Ireland. The other is his letter of excommunication to the warlord Coroticus for killing and enslaving members of Patrick's community. 1102
Reposted by krispykolaCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026this country was founded by slaveowners and then a hundred years later freed slaves carried the stars and stripes onto the battlefield against their former owners, quoting those same slaveowning founders "America is ontologically racist" is the fascist worldview, you don't need to affirm it 411918
Reposted by krispykolaDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Looking right at you from around 1510: a cardinal, painted by Raphael. Such a wonderful portrait, so sharp. It's Raphael's day. 315921
Reposted by krispykolaletithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 29/03/2026one of my best memes 0246
Reposted by krispykolaClassics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 29/03/2026The Braves hitting a walk-off grand slam to beat the Royals for #NoKings 151
