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Irkutsk is now becoming a very different kind of “risk” territory.

The lesbians at that Western MA bar may get the chance for one hell of a “told you so” unless this turns out to be zombies.

Screenshot from CNN; map of Eastern Asia with a point marking Shelekhov, Russia. The headline is “Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection.”

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am so in the weeds with iced coffee, masks, canes, and quasi-hijabs. What accessory am I expected to have an opinion on next? Can it please be ascots?

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a good shirt for picking up heavy, dense, and impenetrable objects.

The author in a gym taking a selfie in the mirror. He is holding a dumbbell in his left hand and his phone in the right hand. He is wearing a t-shirt of the cover of the Miller translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The first time I met her, she was Bishop of London. So if you’re looking for a promotion, you could make worse choices than hanging out with me ⚓️

The author with The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am increasingly of the opinion that revising the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and The Hymnal 1982 would be not so much opening a can of worms as opening the Ark of the Covenant 👻👻👻😱🫠 ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Thank God we won’t have to endure the “Racist Jesus learned a Very Special Lesson” discourse for another three years ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It was Miriam the Prophetess who led the song of redemption when Israel was freed from slavery in Egypt at the Red Sea. It was another Miriam - Mary, Apostle to the Apostles - who bore the good news of redemption when the whole world was freed from slavery to Death at the empty tomb. ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

So Matt Damon’s father is of British ancestry and his mother is of Scandinavian descent. Odd how no one is complaining about him playing the King of Ithaca…

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Today in 1794, in what the Roman Martyrology calls “the Gallic Perturbation,” the 16 Carmelite sisters of Compiègne were martyred beneath the national razor. They went to their deaths singing Salve Regina. All ye holy martyrs, pray for us! ⚓️

An icon of the martyrdom of the Carmelites of Compiègne. One nun is walking upon the steps to the guillotine guarded by two executioners. The other 15 nuns are standing and kneeling ans praying at the foot of the scaffold. In the top right corner, Jesus is show in the clouds blessing them. The text “Your mercy is confirmed over us” is written in French on the side.

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Their Catholic Majesties together with the Princess of the Asturias and Infanta Sofia will be in attendance at Sunday’s World Cup Final. I would be OK with a Spanish victory if it meant our wannabe king would be eclipsed on the stage by the glory of a real one!

Left to right: Leonor, Princess of the Asturias, His Majesty King Felipe Vi of Spain, Queen Letizia, and Infanta Sofia

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My preferred team in this match didn’t win. One of two things happened: 1) Spain played very well and France did not maximize their full potential. 2) #FIFA, Adidas, Nike, the Illuminati, the Lizard People, and the Greys of Zeta Reticuli rigged the match. 🤔 #WorldCup

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

One thing I’ll say for the Belgians is that at least they know how to count above 60 like normal people.

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I am shocked that one of the most corrupt politicians in history and one of the most corrupt international organizations in history have colluded to be corrupt together.

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

England expects that every man will do his duty 🦁🦁🦁

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This is what I have to look forward to this evening 🤣

The meme of Homer Simpson looking out of place at a lesbian bar except he’s got the Three Lions on his white shirt and the women are all dressed in green and wearing sombreros. The caption is: “How it feels to support England today”

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

45 years ago today, also on a Friday #LestWeForget

The article from page A20 of the New York Times on Friday, July 3, 1981 with the title “Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals.” It is a sidebar next to a full-page cut-out of the music and lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My working definition of “Protestant” has always been “Western Christian independent of the Papacy” so I’m pleased to welcome the Society of St. Pius X into the Protestant fold 🤗 ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It was fun to watch Spain and Austria compete over something besides who had the most inbred Habsburgs - another contest that Spain won! 🇪🇸 #WorldCup

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

They keep trying so hard to make “FIFA World Cup” happen - but we all just want to watch football without being constantly reminded of the fantastically corrupt syndicate that manages it. It’s just the “World Cup.” #WorldCup

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 is currently playing Norway 🇳🇴 In another universe, Ireland 🇮🇪 is playing Iceland 🇮🇸

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As both Democrats and Republicans are losing their shot over the stupid term “democratic socialism,” I propose an alternative slogan that gets the main idea across without confusing connotations: “BE LIKE DENMARK!”

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Awkward that both the Office and Eucharist Gospels feature sons at enmity with fathers today 😬 ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“Just remember that after Christ was crucified on the cross, and all his men had gone home, it was women who stayed with him to the bitter end, and it was women who first heralded the news of his resurrection - so just put that in your pulpit and smoke it.” Designing Women S2 E20 ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Who else sang the Stanford/Williams marathon today? ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Not feeling Pentecost today. I’ve been burned out at my parish for years. All of my friends have drifted away and now the rector I love is leaving for good for the literal opposite point on the globe. I’m just so tired. ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

499 years ago, 189 Swiss Guards fought off mutinous soldiers of Emperor Charles V to save the Pope; 147 of them died. They’re remembered in a total banger by Sabaton. The sack of Rome made the Pope wary of pissing off the Emperor again, such as giving an annulment to his aunt’s English husband… ⚓️

A row of the Pontifical Swiss Guards in their uniforms designed by Michelangelo.

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I like serving at Requiems because they are a kindness that cannot be repaid in this life. But also, they are an acknowledgment and a defiance of death. A Requiem Mass is basically middle finger to the Reaper ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

On this feast of St Philip and James, the latter apostle is mentioned in TEC’s Office and Eucharist lectionaries together a total of exactly zero times! The less said about James the Less the better, I guess! ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Travelers cross a forbidden threshhold. They meet incomprehensible amoral beings who deceive and seduce them into pleasure and ritual that blur the lines of identity and consent. They are returned to the world irrevocably changed: Rocky Horror is a modern version of an encounter with the Fae.

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I’m not going to say that I butchered the plainchant this evening. I’ll just say that I inadvertently invented a psalm tone that has never before existed in all of Christendom! ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Interesting that the most traction I’ve ever gotten on this site was a gym selfie that apparently revealed more about my anatomy than I intended. That’s what I use X for!

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

At my local pub a few months ago, I introduced myself to a guy who misheard “Daniel” because there was a lot of noise and he thought I said “Janet.” Now, every time I see him he calls me “Janet.” At least no one calls out “Slut!” Yet 😉

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

We support the incoming PM of Hungary for… reasons

Péter Magyar standing in front of a Hungarian flag with a raised fist

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This pin was gifted to us by the most recent Clerk of His Majesty’s Chapel Royal ⚓️

The author holding a gilded pin of King Charles III’s Royal Cipher

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Magyar has won in Magyarország 🇭🇺 🎉

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Low Sunday is offers us the rare opportunity simply to sit in the nave. I didn’t #touchpews because technically we don’t have pews ⚓️

The author is a white male in his is 40s, glasses, and a beard. He is sitting in church wearing a light gray sport coat, a pastel multicolored tie, a purple pocket square, and a pin commemorating Yuri Gagarin

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Chess is something I feel like I’m supposed to enjoy as a pretentious former gifted kid, but I’m just not good at it. I know how the pieces move, but the strategy is just too abstract for me. Also, I’m only good for one or maybe two power ballads, MAX.

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

How in this Year of God’s Wrath Two Thousand and Twenty-six are people STILL doing the Side A/Side B thing? ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It was 14 years ago today, Easter Sunday in 2012, that I attended an Episcopal church for the first time. Somehow they have not yet been able to get rid of me 😉 ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

📅 Mark your calendars: 29 April will be the 10th anniversary of the Beech Marten Incident at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. I wonder how the folks in the timeline we shunted off from are doing.

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

People have been looking at the moon for as long as we’ve been people, so it’s amazing that we’re now seeing parts of it that no other people before us ever did. Except maybe some abductees 👽

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Jesus like us went from womb to tomb. Unlike us, he did not go from sperm to worm 😉 ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

It’s impossible for me to be sad in the Triduum. For me, it’s the destruction of the Death Star, the fall of Barad-Dûr, the charge of the Winged Hussars, and D-Day all rolled into one and multiplied by infinity. ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Is it “fire - Messi-er” or “fi-uh - Messiah?” 🤔 ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“She’s an Arminian, Blanche.” “Why”s that funny?” “You’re not surprised?” “Of course not. I’ve never met any personally, but isn’t Cher one?” “Not Armenian, Blanche! ARMINIAN!” 😜 ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Thank God Justin took the fish mitre with him ⚓️

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The Society in a nutshell: “Women can receive and confer cooties, but not Holy Orders.”

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