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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I absolutely love that the “unhinged” flyer my student made in a burst of whimsy is bringing such joy to the interwebs ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Don’t believe the take going around that Matthew Vines’ NYT piece is just about his personal preference not to use the word “queer.” It is 100% a political thought piece blaming queer theory and the “queer” community for the threat to marriage marriages equality for the “good gays” like him

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Today (June 23) the kindle version of Nerd Faith is on Prime Day deal for $2.99! Check it out. Also, drop me a review because that would be super helpful as we must always feed the algorithm! a.co/d/017Gc83E

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gracejisunkim.bsky.social @gracejisunkim.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New Madang Podcast with @thenerdypriest.bsky.social on her book, Nerd Faith. Great book and wonderful conversation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2J9...

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Madang Podcast: Rachel Kessler, Ep.61

YouTube video by Grace Ji-Sun Kim

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

And so I continue to look at the GOP and think, aren't you humiliated enough yet? What would be enough to break your loyalty? And to Dems, why can't you see that reaching across the aisle" for moderate compromise to get us back to "normal" is DOA?

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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

But didn't you hear? Chatbots that steal actual writers' work only use the same amount of water as huge tracts of farmland. And since obviously we can't assess which one provides more to human wellbeing we can't be against data centers unless we're against farms too.

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Veronica Schanoes @schanoes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I realize this is not the worst part, but I really resent the way people throw around the term “blood libel.” The blood libel is a very specific thing, and justified centuries of antisemitic slaughter. It doesn’t just mean “any old accusation of violence that I would prefer not be true.”

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 13/05/2026

Let's all take a moment and celebrate my priest's book outperforming the vice president's.

Rachel Kessler's Nerd Faith with a higher amazon ranking than JD Vance's Communion

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

well well well, look which Ohio author's religion book is more popular...it's the Rev. Rachel Kessler of Kenyon College

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 13/05/2026

It’s a great book, too! And unlike that other guy, @thenerdypriest.bsky.social really knows her topic!

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Some seem to be taking the wrong lessons from this scene. kotaku.com/university-c... (1) It is 0% shocking that new college graduates (in humanities!) are critical of AI. (2) Pushing back on AI hype from a commencement speaker seems more likely an indication of high rather than low AI literacy.

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UCF Graduation Speaker Totally Shocked When Students Boo AI

The University of Central Florida commencement speaker didn't know how to read the room

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The fantasy of a university that is “cutting edge” without disciplinary basics and does football but not history and produces knowledge first but also profit first and makes expertise but improves nothing and saves the sector by cannibalizing it is incoherent, besides being a project of social harm

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I work w/ college students. I don’t deny in the stress of the moment it is easy for students to default to Chat-GBT, but almost every student I know is absolutely ideologically opposed to AI. They see the risk to the planet and to human creativity. I wish us olds were so clear-sighted

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Leah Schnelbach @leahschnelbach.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Really love @thenerdypriest.bsky.social digging into Project Hail Mary, and how deepening the humanity of Rocky and Eva Stratt ends up making Ryland Grace more human, too.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"No matter the existential stakes we may face, what is worth preserving in our humanity if we cannot find a moment to sing Harry Styles’ 'Sign of the Times' with friends at karaoke?" @thenerdypriest.bsky.social identifies the messy, earnest human nature at the heart of Project Hail Mary:

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The Deep Humanity of Project Hail Mary - Reactor

What are we trying to save?

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 06/05/2026

Not content to rest on her book laurels, my priest and occasional roommate @thenerdypriest.bsky.social is writing about movies! reactormag.com/the-deep-hum...

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The Deep Humanity of Project Hail Mary - Reactor

What are we trying to save?

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Amaze! amaze! Hot take: we cannot love humanity as a whole if we cannot love particular persons (including lovable rock aliens!) My thoughts on Project Hail Mary are up on @reactorsff.bsky.social reactormag.com/the-deep-hum...

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The Deep Humanity of Project Hail Mary - Reactor

What are we trying to save?

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Someone tell me to just say no to the sunk cost fallacy and let me DNF this book even though I’m like 60% through and I’ve invested so much time. www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

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This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)

Outlander meets Game of Thrones in this blockbuster new…

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

“Bite sized but rich, satisfying, and sometimes unexpectedly poignant” is exactly what I hope people take away from Nerd Faith. One day until official launch!

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Debating sending to my publisher as a new headshot! Also look at that pile of books that is much shorter than the last time I was in

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

what if, in these fleeting interactions, we recognized each other's mutual humanity?? what if we allowed authors to be eccentric introverts, as god intended, rather than public celebrities with media training, flawless makeup, and infinite endurance??

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

finally saw the video of an author being ""rude"" at bookcon and i fear there are a lot of unanswered questions here. like: what if we didn't demand the performance of joyful intimacy from total strangers?? and what if i smash your phone with a cartoonishly large hammer???

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2026

i think people have forgotten that vance is quite possibly the least experienced person to *ever* serve as vice president of the united states

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

That feeling when you go to your local bookstore and your book is actually there for people to buy! (Official release date is May 5, but I guess some copies are coming early. Link for orders/preorders below)

Selfie with a stack of my book “nerd faith” along with a poster promoting my local author event

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Fun fact! My husband @leemankessler.com has me listed in his contacts as “Turbulent Priest.” You may draw whatever conclusions you like about our marriage or the state of church-town relations in our village

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

One of those days where it’s hard to remember this account is satire

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I would like someone to stop the mad man with the nuclear codes please. That would be awesome. Thanks!

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Revisiting Tolkien’s “The Monsters and the Critics” for my Old English class, and I always get a chuckle from: “I have of course read Beowulf, as have most (but not all) of those who criticize it.” 10/10 academic shade. Chefs kiss. No notes.

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This is what I mean when I say Christian Nationalists hate the Wrong Kind Of Christian even more than they hate nonbelievers. A nonbeliever can still be converted. Other Christians threaten the whole machine.

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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 23/03/2026

Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed? - Terry Pratchett, Snuff

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

for some reason (the knowledge that 100% of my money is going toward torture camps, surveillance tech, and warfare, rather than vaccines or public radio) i am having a hard time starting my taxes this year

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16/03/2026

Who would have thought that tariffing all our allies over a lie, threatening their sovereignty, calling them names, proclaiming us the greatest and saying they aren't doing anything, and then starting a war of aggression could result in this!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"where are the student protestors now" as if they were not expelled, arrested, threatened, derided, abandoned, and deported. as if we didn't systematically punish what could have been our own next generation of active political leaders. jfc.

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I got the author copies of my book! It’s starting to feel real!! Official release date is May 5

Front copy of book with cover “Nerd Faith”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/03/2026

Yes? Extremely?

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I don’t want the national conversation to turn into “how should we fight this war with Iran?” when we shouldn’t be fighting Iran in the first place!

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Abolish Ice is the moderate position at this point

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We started with restrain ICE. Then reform ICE, then landed squarely on abolish ICE. But I’ve moved on to prosecute ICE y’all. Every last one even if it takes 20 years of trials.

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Seemed like a good day to get a second tattoo! Fun fact, tattoos on your inner arm do in fact hurt a lot more than ones on your shoulder. But also, didn’t pass out this time so … win?

Julian of Norwich quote: “All Shall be well, all shall be will and all manner of things shall be well” with image of hazelnuts

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

My hot take is that books (while heavy) are actually fairly easy to move and I’d rather pack and move books than fussy breakable things that require lots of careful packing.

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RevRachelK @thenerdypriest.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The fun thing about clinical anxiety and depression is that when you get a day what you just feel *normal human baseline* it’s like you’re riding an ecstatic high. What a rush

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!" counterpoint! the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

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