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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
3yo wants to play doctor so I complain of a tummy ache. She runs an “x-ray,” turns out I have multiple broken bones but she has something that will make me feel better. Brings me an old gift box and says to open it: it’s a crucifix.
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
6yo’s annotations on the pamphlet he found at Mass today
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
(SpongeBob receiving viaticum) I’m ready
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
No joke, he is punning constantly and in ways I never imagined. It is uncanny lol
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
6yo telling me that the word “napkin” means “a family of rest”
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
[watching the end of The Lion King when Simba defeats Scar] 8yo: the king has returned 6yo: and the knave is dead
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I don’t have the heart to tell him
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
“Actually three, like in xylophone. It steals from Z too.”
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
6yo telling me about his dislike of the letter X because it is a “disrespectful letter”: “It doesn’t have its own sound, it just steals from two other letters”
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
6yo says he wants to be a lawyer when he grows up Me: Do you know what a lawyer is? 6yo: Yes. A lawyer helps other people find loopholes. And I’m very good at finding loopholes
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Just paraphrasing the story of Joseph and his brothers to the kids at bedtime and couldn’t get through it without tearing up
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
8yo watching Aladdin, where it’s explained that you can’t wish for more wishes: “I would wish for more genies”
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
We had company over this evening so she was watching with her brothers upstairs but ran out at the end and shouted down to me from the banister lol
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
3yo daughter now doing this thing where every time we finish a movie together and the credits song starts playing she’ll say ”Daddy, dance with me!” and pull me up off the couch to start twirling
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Devil on the mountain: All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me American evangelicals: Deal
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
3yo daughter has started exclaiming “what the heg!”
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Anti-human, anti-life; corrosive of sociality, civility, decency, dignity, piety, and fear of God; cynically contemptuous of truth in its abject nihilism; a stain on Christian witness for those who make themselves complicit—the cancerous rot of MAGA must go.
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
“Rats are haters.” —3yo daughter
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The Jesus of history, the Christ of faith?
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“Guy who has strong opinions about the Super Bowl halftime show” is such a funny character. Best case scenario it’s a good performance and you go “that was mildly entertaining.” How do you get worked up about it on like a personal level lol
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I was at a youth group SB party when the Janet Jackson thing happened lol
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Missed the AI Dunkin ad, looked it up. The slop is getting desperate, it can’t carry on like this. We’re going to win this thing.
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Me: why are you being fussy? 3yo daughter: it’s hard to say
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
3yo daughter (pointing at elderly man in a cartoon): he’s old Me: what about me, am I old? 3yo (annoyed like I’m acting ridiculous): noooo, you’re new! (beat) 3yo: but you’re getting old. then I’m going to need a new daddy
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Kids’ illness rallying in its second week
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
lol that would be a good bit honestly
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Definitely more uneven though (and I never finished season 5, only got a few episodes in and couldn’t do it)
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I kid, I‘ll actually go to bat for season 4 to a certain extent—I’m charmed by the ambition of it and it has some killer bits
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Share a TV show you love with 3 seasons or less.
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Yeah he was just trying to put it in his own words but happened to land on a perfectly accurate scholastic formulation lol
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Me: “It’s hard to say for sure but it’s possible that even Satan will turn back to God in the end.“ 8yo: “Of course he will.”
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
6yo working out the Trinity in real time: “So… they’re the same THING but they’re not the same PERSON” Me (ecstatic): “Exactly!” 6yo: “That’s super weird!”
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
8yo on God’s providence: “He’s playing wizard’s chess against Satan. That’s basically how the universe works.”
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
You ask me, the light‘s winning
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Inshellah they find him
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The long 1990s have come to an end
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Thanks, Mark! And fair point, you are probably right lol
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
wager that one’s reputation will weather the storm and hold out in the end (that would be too reflective), rather they are enslaved to the same totalizing presentism that cannot see past short-term advantage while all gets washed under the ceaseless deluge of “content.” (4/4)
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
contradict themselves boldly, and have no concern for personal reputation or honor when they can count on the fact that Monday’s story will be forgotten by Friday. The rapid news cycle is exploited of course, but I suspect that for many malefactors it is not a calculated (3/4)
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
a certain historical consciousness (“how will I be remembered?”). But the engines of distraction that govern of contemporary life (technological, political, cultural) preclude this kind of reflective movement by design. Politicians and pundits can lie to your face, (2/4)
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Thinking about this some more, I think the loss of honor as a category is tied up with the widespread erosion of memory. To value honor or consider an act as honorable requires a higher vantage of time that transcends immediate utility and embraces (1/4)
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
we don’t even rise to the level of the former even in fits and starts. Not that base opportunism hasn’t always been there but not too long ago you still saw people who were embroiled in scandal voluntarily resign in disgrace. (2/2)
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
[Reposting from the other place:] What’s striking to me is the total disappearance of “honor” (even in a misplaced sense) as a conceivable good or motive in public life. True virtue even more so but I feel like the decline into short-term private pleasure-seeking has been so precipitous that (1/2)
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
8yo is telling riddles and demanding that every guess be supported with reasons for its proposal. He keeps rejecting my guesses for being insufficiently argued prescinding from questions of correctness.
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
When I threaten war over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the committee will finally see how wrong they got it
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Vance currently putting up Jordan numbers in this department
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Anti-human, anti-life; corrosive of sociality, civility, decency, dignity, piety, and fear of God; cynically contemptuous of truth in its abject nihilism; a stain on Christian witness for those who make themselves complicit—the cancerous rot of MAGA must go.
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas!
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Matt @scriptumsent.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
lol I'll DM you a link
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