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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 11h

I've been drinking this stuff like I'm getting paid by the cup

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The kind of weirdo you just know you're gonna find touching himself in the stacks 📚

Every call number is a code, mysterious at first, but which, once learned, opens the door of the library and enables us to draw on all its riches.

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

John Milbank is dropping f-bombs over at the other spot, in case anyone's into that kinda thing

A tweet from theologican John Milbank that says, "Sometimes when one hears the ‘thoughts’ of people who were once high up in government, one realises it is no wonder we are so f*cked…"

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some dude (NOT me) should take the hot MLB player discussion over to Twitter and see how quickly it makes them cry Also, we need a "bad boy" division

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

ACTUALLY hear me out on this big guy. No one will treat you better

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Inside you there are two wolves

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thomas Reid, famous for always having just stepped out of the shower

Thomas Reid seemingly with a red towel on his head

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

academia.edu's version of "hot singles in your area"

An email from academia . edu informing me that a well-known author mentions my name

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To be fair, this is the normal female reaction when Eric Schmitt pretends to know about sports

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Eric Schmitt after faceplanting in that hearing today

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Find someone that looks at you the way Adley Rutschman looks at his pitcher when he gets out if a jam

Adley Rutschman looking at Payton Tolle with crazy eyes

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey, check it out, the White Sox are fostering, "bonds of friendship and solidarity among people"

White Sox beating the Astros 5-2 in the top of the 6th

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't really like brownies, but I could eat a whole box of this trash

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My MLB Postseason bracket Do NOT ask me to defend this. It is pure vibes

My MLB Posteason bracket that has the Milwaukee Brewers defeating the Boston Red Sox in the World Series

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

absolutely ruining my daughter's life by showing up to her high school softball game wearing this

A crop top that says "Hot Girls Eat Arby's"

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thank you for coming to my information literacy instruction session. That is all. You are now free to go 📚

The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Presbyterian nerds only: This little communicant manual is a beauty

Cover of Communicant's Manual of the United Presbyterian Church

Illustration of the Martyr's Monument in Edinburgh, Scotland

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Seriously, where are my royalties for Candle in the Wind?

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This must have been from a later tour

Childhood me in shorts, a t-shirt, and sunglasses

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Apparently I was Elton John as a child?

Childhood me in slacks, a sweater, and blue glasses

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My daughter is digging through old family photos and finding out how cool was in high school

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just came across a photo of C. Herbert Oliver that I've never seen before Impeach Nixon rally at Brooklyn College in 1974 Check out my article on Oliver's role in the Birmingham campaign works.hcommons.org/records/2j82...

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Taking suggestions for new reasons to live #STLCards

Post-Dispatch headline noting that the Cardinals have been eliminated from the playoffs for the fourth year in a row

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Taking my place alongside Earl Woods and Richard Williams in the pantheon of great American athlete dads

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The humanities are always in crisis. I no longer believe this is an institutional matter - it's in the nature of intellectual life, or of thought itself. Thinking is always in crisis." 📚💙

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

every time I see, "quick, easy meal" recipes with pricey seafood #alisiddiq

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yes sir, Ireland clearly loves you, sir

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Aspiring librarians should know, this is "other duties as assigned" 📚 🧻

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm not sure that there was ever a more annoying book packaging. But it hit hard anyway 15 years ago

Rob Bell's book Love Wins, published in 2011, complete with an annoying clear plastic dust jacket

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Machen's Hope" is a great book about a crucial figure In American Christianity I write about Machen's modernism, sexuality, racism, love of Princeton's library, and his relationship with his mother onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I've had gay friends explain to me that this is a classic case of "gay face"

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

No umpire has ever harassed Sonny Gray about his cap. Wonder why?

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My essay, "'He Confided to His Mother': Minnie Machen and the Shaping of J Gresham Machen’s Hope" is out today It reviews Richard Burnett's excellent book, Machen's Hope 📚💙 I discuss Machen as (probably) a closeted gay man and why Burnett doesn't mention it onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When they try to convince you that feminists are ugly, remember that the leader of second-wave feminism looked like this

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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If JD can drag himself away from his couch* for a minute, I've got a book he should read dn710800.ca.archive.org/0/items/Chri...

Richard Bauckham's "The Theology of the Book of Revelation," a book that interprets Revelation in it's first-century context and does not talk about teh "rapture" or "Left Behind" bullshit

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