Reposted by Steven GnocchiJeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If this gets 100 likes, then I'll take that as a sign that I have to write the Kalshi/Polymarket/Super Tax Harvesting/Sports Gambling/ @pablo.show /The Score/Fukuyama/China piece that has been bubbling inside of me for the past few months. Apologies to my haters. 1086221
Reposted by Steven GnocchiJohn @notheotherjohn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A weird thing that really happened around the year 2000 was that mainstream news ran and pushed a story for MONTHS that there was a secret new invention that was going to be revolutionary and then it turned out it was the Segway 591656193
Reposted by Steven GnocchiBridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oh, EVERYONE loves a BONE CHAPEL until suddenly there's video of the bones moving around inside musculature and skin!! 1122
Reposted by Steven Gnocchiamanda hess @amandahess.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I wrote about Bernadine Bluntly, a tradwife who lived with her husband and six children in an off-grid tiny home until last year, when she snuck down the gravel path to the highway, called the police, and got a restraining order. Now she's an ex-trad infuencer: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/s...nytimes.comBernadine Bluntly’s Brand Was Tradwife. Then She Got Divorced.What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online? 2033671
Reposted by Steven GnocchiDa Pope @deepdishpapa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Technological progress is never simply a technical matter. Every technology reflects, whether explicitly or implicitly, a particular understanding of the human person, of society, and of the future we wish to build. 1/3 1103
Reposted by Steven GnocchiSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026lol lol lol lol lol lol lol 913437925
Reposted by Steven GnocchiAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026happy first (full) day of fall, bluesky 464740810
Reposted by Steven GnocchiThe Catholic Theological Society of America @thectsa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026#CareerOpportunity Associate Professor & Mary Ann Spearin Chair in Catholic Theology, University of Dayton #Theology #CatholicJobs www.ctsa-online.org/CareerOpport...ctsa-online.orgCatholic Theological Society of America - Career Opportunities 022
Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com · 22/09/2026Today in class we're talking about Nietzsche's The Joyous Science and the whole "God is dead" thing. Fave pre-class questions so far: Is it possible to have a morality without conforming to a society? Can people find meaning in suffering without believing that the suffering itself has a purpose? 120
Reposted by Steven GnocchiAmigo de Frodo @bpdflores.bsky.social · 20/09/20261. Ecclesiology is an extension of Christology. 2. The social doctrine of the Catholic Church as taught by the popes is firmly rooted in Chalcedonian Christology and the Nicene profession of faith. 3. So too is the entirety of the teaching of Second Vatican Council. 04311
Reposted by Steven GnocchiKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11996991916
Reposted by Steven GnocchiSuper Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is incredible nitter.app/banteg/statu... H/t @gregdoucette.bsky.socialnitter.appbanteg (@banteg)>be me >discover effective altruism >apparently normal charity is inefficient >why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing >fair enough >buy mosquito nets >save live... 24682219
Reposted by Steven GnocchiBridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Lord, make me log off; but not yet. 1337
Reposted by Steven GnocchiCommonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 15/09/2026"Because Pecknold’s case implicates his responsibilities to the canonical mission of CUA’s School of Theology, the buck unquestionably stops with the archbishop." @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social on theologian Chad Pecknold's new job with Trump's DHS: www.commonwealmagazine.org/heaps-peckno...commonwealmagazine.orgChad Pecknold’s New JobBy taking a job at Trump's DHS, theologian Chad Pecknold reveals a desperate need for pastoral guidance and correction. 042
Reposted by Steven GnocchiJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out. 351442411
Reposted by Steven GnocchiJonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is what Chad Pecknold signed up to provide "Cultural Outreach" for 192
Reposted by Steven GnocchiBridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026They made sad beige toys for children, from the popular short form internet video series “Don’t make sad beige toys for sad beige children, by Werner Herzog” youtu.be/KqnBkwDuYI0?...youtu.beBest of Sad Beige Werner HerzogYouTube video by Sad Beige 1103
Reposted by Steven GnocchiAnne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENS IS PROVIDENTIAL, CHAD. 162
Reposted by Steven GnocchiMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As if the headline isn't enough incentive, do read this short news story to the last paragraph because MAN does it escalate! playbill.com/article/man-...playbill.comMan Sentenced to 2-Year Jail Sentence After Strangling Fellow Theatregoer for Singing Along During We Will Rock YouThe dust-up happened at a 2023 press performance in London's West End. 1171075330
Reposted by Steven GnocchiBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026real friendships involve the other person pushing back against you, having needs, being busy, not being able to devote themselves to you. we know from the experience of the powerful that having somebody at your literal beck and call is a factor in driving people mad. 61270169
Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com · 10/09/2026I listened to this episode of Jesuitical on the way to work and it is very good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzAn...youtube.comSSPX Excommunicated: History, Pope Leo and why it all goes back to Vatican IIYouTube video by America - The Jesuit Review 000
Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com · 10/09/2026Question a student submitted for our discussion of Gotthold Lessing later today: "Is human history actually a story of continuous moral progress, or do we just keep making the same mistakes with better technology?" 000
Reposted by Steven GnocchiKarthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Just pointing out to American Tradcath recent converts that we have had 8 Popes named Urban, and not one named Rural. Just saying. 414625
Reposted by Steven GnocchiJonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026One that still messes with me is how, in the word “helicopter,“ the prefix is “helico–“ and the root is “–pter.” 1111
Reposted by Steven GnocchiDa Pope @deepdishpapa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Do not be afraid to sow without immediately seeing the fruits. The sowing belongs to you; the growth belongs to God. No gesture carried out in the name of Christ is useless. 0306
Reposted by Steven GnocchiLiturgical Press @litpress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026We're looking for an Academic and Spiritual Theology Editor to join our team in Collegeville, MN. More information: litpress.org/careers 022
Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com · 30/08/2026Busted out and rebuilt the old Lego airport with the kids on a rainy Sunday 050
Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com · 28/08/2026One specific need for Saint Leo is someone focused on Catholic Social Teaching. The CST courses in the MA and ThD programs both need development and a great teacher. Both are fully online. If you or anyone you know might be interested, please pass this along: www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...higheredjobs.com 144
Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com · 28/08/2026We are also looking for people to serve as directors and readers on dissertation committees: www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...higheredjobs.com 020
Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com · 28/08/2026Saint Leo Theology is looking for adjunct theology instructors to work in our online graduate program. We need people for course development, teaching, and dissertation committees. Reach out if you're interested, and feel free to pass this along in you networks: www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...higheredjobs.com 000
Reposted by Steven GnocchiJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours. 117313118381
Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com · 26/08/2026In the Hebrew Scriptures seminar I took with Fr. Jim Walsh in undergrad, he would draw timelines with stick figures. The stick figures would have period appropriate dress/headgear and speech bubbles in the script of the original languages. 2202
Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com · 25/08/2026"After years of the same old educational model, it’s time to turn the page. Well, not literally, but we can swipe boldly into the future with our fat little thumbs." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...mcsweeneys.netOur University Does Not Require Books, Paper, or Human Knowledge“Such a radical shakeup in learning has never happened before, as far as I know. Is there even a way to learn about whether or not something has happened bef... 040
Reposted by Steven GnocchiJonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is exactly the thing I want to ask Bobby B here: “and with what behaviors does the BVM effect this victory of hers? Is it the watching her son get tortured to death in public? Is it the humble acceptance of public embarrassment? Oh! Is it maybe the songwriting? I bet it’s the songwriting.” 1182
Reposted by Steven GnocchiJonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I’ve mentioned before that, as an elder millenial, it was disorienting to see the left become moralistic, but in retrospect I should have foreseen that the thermostatic right wing response would be full blown relativism. 082
Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com · 21/08/2026This piece by Boyd Taylor Coolman is very good: www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...americamagazine.orgThe medieval understanding of intelligence is exactly what we need in the age of A.I.Exercising restraint in the use of A.I. will require a paradigm shift in how human intelligence is essentially conceived. 050
Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com · 21/08/2026If you could all stop sending me emails, that would be great 000
Reposted by Steven GnocchiKevin Erdmann @kevinerdmann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026“History is the unfolding of miscalculations.” Barbara Tuchman. Such a great quote. 0305
Reposted by Steven Gnocchiiucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay, 218104152359
Reposted by Steven GnocchiJonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I have a short essay in this issue about death and the surprisingly comforting metaphysics of what it means when we call the eternal God "Creator." CW: stillbirth www.commonwealmagazine.org/conquering-d...commonwealmagazine.orgConquering Death"When we wonder why death takes a life too soon, we bring forth a more wondrous puzzle: Why are there lives to be taken at all?" 263
Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com · 12/08/2026Well yes I am thinking about buying a White Sox Pope hat off of eBay, why do you ask? 000
Reposted by Steven GnocchiMatthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Someone needs to point out that Thomas Aquinas and the medieval scholastics seemed to do okay with a pass/fail system without grades. 081
