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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Funniest King Cake ever and I am here for it

A closeup of a store-bought Mardi Gras King Cake in a box with a Fleur-de-Lis and purple and yellow swirls. The visible portion of the cake has yellow sugar on it, and a purple plastic baby is sticking out with its hand up like “heeeelp meeee”

Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Sorry I’ve been so quiet lately. I’ve been feeling pretty overwhelmed and have come down with a cold too; I’m sniffling and coughing over here. I have no brilliant thoughts on the news but will say it sucks to have a “Dem” rep who is now officially worse than National Review

A screenshot of a Google search of “National Review Kristi Noem” on my phone, showing as a result the NR headline “Fire Kristi Noem into the Sun”

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I can haz @theflytrapmedia.com posters on the wall, and you can haz them too! theflytrapmedia-shop.fourthwall.com

A picture of a white wall (featuring a thermostat on the right) with two Flytrap Media posters on it (art by Rommy Torrico). One says “Virginity is Fake” and features a design reminiscent of the movie American Pie. The second features two women facing away from the viewer, one with light brown skin and another with stakes skin, in tank tops, parties, and thigh-high socks. On the woman on the left’s butt cheek is printed “Stop violence”. On the other woman’s butt cheek is printed “against women”. The posters are in black frames.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This time Russell really really means it, you guys! If regular evangelicals don't get the message he's going to wag his finger even harder

A screenshot from the Christianity Today website with a picture of white supremacist Nick Fuentes speaking into a microphone and emphatically gesturing with his right hand on a yellowish tan background. Below that are the words: "The Theology Project" followed by the headline "The Church Better Start Taking Nazification Seriously." The byline is Russell Moore, who is listed as columnist here but has far more roles than that at CT Magazine. The DEK reads "Tucker Carlson hosted neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes on his podcast. The stakes are high for American Christians."

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

What the French-fried fuckity fuck? I emphatically did not opt IN to this and now I have to log in and opt OUT? When you’ve already done a thing I not only disapprove of, but that also makes literally no sense? You can’t turn my old paper into an analogy. That’s not how papers or analogies work

A screenshot of an email from academia.edu proclaiming “Our AI turned your research into an easy to understand analogy.” The research in question is an old conference paper, “Father Sergii’s Apocalypse.” The fine print says if I don’t want them to use AI on my uploaded work I have to opt out.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I was having some thoughts this morning about lapdogs of the Trump regime, but then it occurred to me that it’s funny we use that particular idiom/metaphor. In my experience, lapdogs are rather mischievous and not especially obedient creatures

A picture of a black Pomeranian dog in a teal harness with a devil-may-care look on her face, stubbornly lounging when she’s supposed to be walking home

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

And look how well that worked out! Today, there are *only* some 40,000 denominations

Chrissy Stroop’s anti-proselytizing principles infographic. Subhead: Prophylactic protection against evangelical aggression. Point one (illustrated with an icon of a church congregation): I am not your mission field. Point two (illustrated with an icon of talking heads on TV): I don’t owe you a debate. Point three (illustrated with an icon of a human head with a question mark inside the brain area): There are no shortcuts to being a good person, least of all “right belief.” Point four (illustrated by an icon of a person waking): Leavers are not a “crisis in the church.” Treat us as humans with moral autonomy. Point five (illustrated with an icon of a man with arms outstretched as if proclaiming something to a crowd): Proselytizing is always objectification. Let people follow their own consciences. Point six (illustrated by an icon of a person from the waist up holding an open book): Our stories are ours. Leavers are not believers’ object lessons.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Proselytizing is bad, and you should feel bad

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Don’t proselytize in my notifications bruh

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I’ve also thought a lot about this and come to a view of anti-proselytization. I even made this infographic to sum up my thoughts on this a few years back

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Major “we’re all looking for the guy who did this” vibes. Heckuva job, NY Times

A cropped screenshot of my iPhone’s home screen with a NY Times news alert: “The tremendous cost of the Trump revolution’s experiment in recklessness are beginning to reveal themselves.”

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Hey @washingtonpost.com, you lost another subscriber today! I had only been hanging on because I write a lot of media criticism, but after Daddy Bezos Bucks' latest disastrous diktat, WaPo is a total write-off. Heckuva job, Washington Post! You're no longer even worth criticizing

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I’m old enough to remember when bedding didn’t ask such personal questions

A closeup of part of a salmon-colored fitted sheet showing a white tag that reads, in black block letters, “TOP OR BOTTOM”

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Why do people think there’s any value in this flex? Independent media can’t exist without subscriber revenue

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Just found out about the DOGE Super Bowl commercial via an evangelical family and family friend group text. I only don’t remove myself from it because it’s a train wreck and treasure trove of ethnographic information about the people I come from and WTAF. Apparently this is a meme they’re sharing

A pie labeled “Who fans are rooting for in the Super Bowl.” Two tiny slivers in red and green, respectively, are labeled “Chiefs” and “Eagles.” The rest of the pie, in light gray, is labeled DOGE commercials,” and in the lower right corner of the image “GO ELON!” is printed. The background is white and the text is in black.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Is it too much to ask people not to use posts like my op here to proselytize? Apparently it is

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Spare me your “a relationship, not a religion” pablum. I’ve heard it all before, it’s still manipulative and it’s still proselytizing, and no proselytizing is a hard boundary with me

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Seems like my pineapple chicken fried rice is gonna be the new Christmas dinner tradition for my found family in the PNW - it was a hit, and it tastes even better to me today! Oyster sauce and butter are key to packing in flavor

A very large stainless steel skillet pictured from above and full of fried rice with chicken, pineapple, cashews, shredded carrots, peas, egg, and green onions

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Tankies will be blocked on sight. Also: 1. Did this rando even read the essay? 2: Don’t address a trans woman as “dude” unless you know it’s cool 3. I, a trans woman eking out a living, who writes a lot about the structural injustices of the American system, somehow REPRESENT that system? DUDE

A screenshot of a skeet of mine with a reply from some rando, Jeremy Bulloch. My skeet reads, “I don’t know if there are any [nonviolent routes to an equitable America], which should come through pretty clearly if you read my essay. But a more violent future is going to be a lot of chaos and ugliness that harms us all, not some immediately successful “glorious revolution” that establishes equity just like that.

The tankie rando’s reply reads: “Sorry dude, all the workers have to lose is their chains. The entire system you represent has gotta go. Your essay is frankly shamefully wrong headed (sic.) trash, and you should be ashamed if you actually believe this drek (sic.). Do better or STOP. #EatTheRich

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Quite predatory of you to proselytize in this sort of thread

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

No, I would not, and please stop proselytizing in my mentions

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

So, my preference is not to bother with theology at all because at best (in my view) it creates a bunch of extra steps, but yes, we agree on this. I even put the point on an infographic I made years ago

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I kinda wanted to throw my "anti-proselytizing principles" infographic at him at the very least. But I just blocked

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Dude just tried to bait me. I'd have dragged him back in the Twitter days, but I've learned better here on Bluesky. The theobros are not going to do well here 😈

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I live near Portland now, with sound family and a grumpy, adorkable Pomeranian

A picture of Darcy, a large black Pomeranian, sitting in a field of dirt and grass, smiling, and wearing a bow with peanut butter and jelly designs

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

You can never count on America to do the right thing, but you can pretty much always count on The NY Times to do… whatever this is. Big “We’re all looking for the guy who did this” energy here

A screenshot of a NY Times editorial by Kathleen Kingsbury, the I opinion editor, with the headline (not pictured) “Opinion Today: America moves into uncharted waters.” The portion shown reads: “America has spoken. Donald Trump will return to the White House. Times Opinion, and especially our editorial board, has repeatedly raised the alarm about how unfit a leader Trump has shown himself to be. Enough voters obviously, ultimately disagreed.”

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Here’s my favorite example, because Italian Americans are as vulnerable and threatened as trans people obvs and therefore as in need (or not) of advocacy from Democratic leadership

Rando Threads user itsnancyann replies to my post on Kamala Harris leaving trans rights out of her speech with “Full stop this is not helping. She recognized all Americans from all walks of life. She didn’t specifically mention Italian-Americans either.”

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 13/07/2024

I know all your apologetics talking points. Now piss off, proselytizer

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

Did you see the label they slapped on this post? 🙄

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

Good for you, but DON’T proselytize in my mentions. I don’t need god (and he doesn’t exist anyway) religiondispatches.org/is-proselyti...

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

I’m passing through Phoenix, and literally just now someone was in the one “unisex”/disability restroom for about twenty minutes. While I waited, an elderly woman with her caregiver and a family with young kids lined up behind me—in an awkward space not at all designed for lining up.

A shot of the external restroom door and a bit of the wall next to it. Note that there is a “family/unisex” label but also a sign on the door that says “This restroom is only for people needing accessible accommodation or for adults with children.” Which makes me think maybe it’s not for trans/nonbinary people? Uncomfortable

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Don’t cheat, post the last pic of yourself!

A closeup selfie of me in a green t-shirt and black cat-eye glasses with some light pink eye shadow and medium length eyelash extensions. My hair is (dyed) a copper color, it has loose curls and is shoulder. The picture cuts off the top of my head lol. On my face is a slight, closed-lip smile

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

The New York Times in a few years, when there’s a national abortion ban and SCOTUS has overturned Obergefell: We’re all trying to find the guy who did this

A picture from the “I Think You Should Leave” hot dog guy sketch featuring a white guy in a hot dog suit with his right arm partially extended, feigning confusion.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Or you could, you know, just keep all that to yourself

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Hold the phone everybody, David Frum just solved polarization and everything is fine now 🙃🙄🤦‍♀️

Screenshot of the Atlantic’s website, March 2024 issue. Under the rubric of “ideas” the headline for an article by David Frum reads: “Uncancel Woodrow Wilson.” Beneath that it says “Despised as a racist by today’s left and a tyrant by today’s right, the 28th president championed a set of values that our politics sorely lack.”

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

NY Times: Oh my oh dear, society did a political about trans people www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/o...

Picture of the man in a hotdog suit from the sketch that launched the “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” meme.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

“We have no idea how this campaign has achieved such remarkable successes but it couldn’t possibly be our objective if obsessive reporting on the subject or our glowing portrayals of the activists behind it” - NY Times, probably

A screenshot of my phone’s Notification Center showing a New York Times app notification reading “Inside an Anti-DEI Crusade. Thousands of emails reveal the playbook- and grievances - behind one strand of the campaign at public universities.”

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Waiting for Christianity Today to set up shop on this platform so I can rip on them without being punished by the evil algorithms of the other place. Unsurprisingly, they conclude we all just need more Jesus. I wrote a case against that literally last week: www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/lets-face-...

Screenshot of a post from Christianity Today's official Twitter account linking to an article called "A (deconstructed) home for the holidays." The description reads "Faith is dividing families. What does lament look like in our relationships to God and our loved ones? From @sometimesalight." The illustration is a fragmented picture of the outline of a house with what appears to be a family having a holiday meal inside superimposed on it--the family members now divided into different fragments of the broken house.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

I looked into 14 million futures and in none of them does any of those candidates win the Republican primaries

A screenshot of a headline from my email this morning. Beneath the header “The Morning Dispatch” the headline reads “GOP Debate IV: Endgame.”

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Corrupting influence of the Huts is ruining Tatooine family values, desert-planet-based news organization reports. Please join in the moral panic

Deseret news headline of "Why fewer marriages, lower levels of faith are related" juxtaposed hilariously with an ad for "Burlesque Show Portland" featuring a picture of a portrayal of Jaba the Hut with a chained up Princess Leia in what is clearly a Star Wars inspired scene.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Explain this anomaly (right or wrong answers; will be impressed if you guess correctly but would love to be amused by your wrong answers)

A screenshot of a phone notification with that weekly report on my screen time dated yesterday, 9:17 AM and reading “You averaged 29 minutes of screen time per day last week.”

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Yup, I’m definitely going to be sold on paying for a publication by a guy who infamously wants women who have abortions to be executed by hanging. A+ marketing there, The Dispatch! 🙃 PS. I only read you (sometimes) to know what the “respectable” bad guys are saying www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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