Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Just received an alumni fundraising appeal letter from CUA, and guess which faculty member currently employed by the secret police is used for the picture! 150
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 01/10/2026End it forever.thehill.comTennessee governor halts executions after Christa Pike survives 2 lethal injection attemptsTennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) on Wednesday halted capital punishments in the state, after death-row prisoner Christa Pike survived two lethal injections. “Carrying out a lawfully imposed sentence is … 030
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The second reading in today's Office is from Thérèse of Lisieux's Story of a Soul for her feast, making her one of the youngest named authors of the Roman liturgy. 030
Reposted by Joshuapmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Winsor McCay, from the comic strip“Dream of the Rarebit Fiend” New York Herald, 1913. 444488
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Someone hit me with "the 'daily' in 'give us today our daily bread' could also mean 'future," so it's an eschatological event", and I feigned surprise to give them a little conversational gift. 020
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Whenever I login to Facebook, I just see stuff like this old screen cap from a Diagnosis Murder episode that misspelled Saint Clare‘s name. I consider myself lucky that way.  010
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Gary's bringing something extra to the lemon party" is the filthiest line I've ever heard on Bake Off. 110
Reposted by JoshuaAnne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026(Bishop Barron voice) Friends, this exactly what godless communists like Pamela Isley want to do to us all. 1102
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just started, but it's already interesting that Foley has used her signature format (alternating POV characters, nonlinear timeline). Reads more like "Lucy Foley writes a novel set in Miss Marple's world" than "Lucy Foley continues Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series." 000
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026How is every headline for this movie so hilariously bad?variety.com‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Star Alan Cumming Says ‘I Don’t Fully Understand the Plot’ and Only Acted With Florence Pugh’s Stunt DoubleAlan Cumming says he has no idea what the "Avengers: Doomsday" plot is and he only acted with Florence Pugh's stunt double. 221
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I made some raspberry brownies to say goodbye to the weekend; time well spent! 010
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026tbh McDonalds Monopoly hasn't hit the same without the Mormon crime ring 010
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In today's Office, Polycarp demonstrates the classic early Christian rhetorical tactic of "sweet inversion," in which the bad things of the world are used to reveal spiritual values underneath. Here, the chains of prisoners are inverted into regal adornments. 010
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think Saturday mornings should have double the hours of other mornings. Have people looked into this? 161
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The local bakery had a bunch of Dolly Parton-themed cookies today. Delicious, but needs 150% more glitter for verisimilitude. 010
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The list looks pretty solid to me. Wouldn't be *my* list, but if you're asking for a snapshot of the recent TV landscape according to cultural elites, this looks exactly right. 140
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Extremely confident America needs its first dentist president and also that AOC is a licensed dentist 070
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I watched the Line of Fire pilot, and it's striking how much any show set in Washington with a fictional, non-Trumpian president feels like it's in another country if not universe. 010
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The new Miss Marple continuation novel in my mailbox todaystatic.klipy.comMarple Miss Detective's Suspecting GazeALT: Marple Miss Detective's Suspecting Gaze 001
Reposted by Joshualauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points 646091989
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 23/09/2026With 90s nostalgia being very hot rn, an EarthBound anime would be huge. 020
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 22/09/2026saw a clip of the new Game Changer of a player being asked to show off a talent, and they try poetry recitation and get nearly every line wrong. A true nightmare of mine. (No one noticed.) 100
Reposted by JoshuaUnited States Conference of Catholic Bishops @usccbofficial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The Catholic Church in the United States will observe National Migration Week beginning September 21 and culminating with the 112th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on September 27. Read the full release at: ow.ly/BOpm50ZPKfQ 11711
Reposted by JoshuaAndrew Dignan @andrewdignan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Apropos of today's shit sandwich, here are all the films Paramount has released or will release in 2026 (some of these are international only or streaming titles). It's a good thing the Ellison braintrust is now overseeing roughly 40% of the industry. 5428
Reposted by JoshuaAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor. 13638341786
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Is the RSV the only major 20th-century translation to render Jude 22's advice to "convince" doubters rather than "have mercy" on them? 110
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Happy St. Matthew's Day! "He saw the tax collector...he saw him through the eyes of mercy and chose him." 040
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Based on the image, I guess this is Charn, not Narnia. It will be interesting to see how different the visual language of the newly created Narnia is from this world in Gerwig's vision. 130
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"I just want to show everyone you can be both intelligent and goofy." Traitors Contestant, I don't think that's even a discourse. 010
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Nothing good can happen when a coworker messages me, "You technically are a theologian, right?" 120
Reposted by JoshuaSurprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2 🗃️🧪 1026174
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Happy St. Hildegard von Bingen! The saint with the name most fun to say! 020
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Reading Jesus and John Wayne, and sometimes the evangelical lore drops are so brutal I wonder how this religious movement lasted so much as a decade. 110
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Listening to the Audible radio play of The Murder at the Vicarage, and oh my, Toni Collete is really not pulling off Miss Marple. 000
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Happy Our Lady of Sorrows! An excellent day to practice empathy. 010
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It's always a trip to hear Matthew Rhys use his real accent. 020
Reposted by JoshuaRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Sorry it just occurred to me that there may be people who haven’t seen clip from the Quibi show where Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman dying because of her golden prosthetic arm and I needed to fix that 21248221370
Reposted by Joshuaustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“What’s real? What’s not?” is also rather famously more or less what Pontius Pilate said while being faced with having to torture to death a random guy with no criminal record because a mob demanded it 210924
Reposted by JoshuaYou Can't Stop Progress @petrochemicsoul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Thinking about "plus they'll probably have to deal with Godzilla at some point". 251181348
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As a CUA grad, I'll say, it's both horrific and exactly what one would expect this man to do.ncregister.comCatholic Theologian Takes Job in Trump’s Department of Homeland SecurityChad Pecknold, a longtime professor at The Catholic University of America, has begun working for the government agency that oversees immigration enforcement. 1135
Reposted by Joshua✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 20/04/2024A friend of mine showed me this a long time ago and once in a blue moon “Bishop is alternate universe Gary Coleman with a hella massive glow up” pops back into my very accursed brain. 21941244
Reposted by JoshuaErin Returns From The Grave 🦇🖤🦇 @woodaba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026OBJECTIVELY the funniest screenshot in any nintendo direct im dying 4102423197
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hellcat is not only a major character in WONDER MAN but she debuts a personalized bike and fit. Very important to me. 011
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Does it surprise other people that Fran Fine still has name recognition greater than Liz Lemon, Don Draper, or Lorelai Gilmore? 130
Reposted by Joshuadave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 25/05/2026(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh 224391921
Joshua @whyisjoshua.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Imagine how Presbyterian you have to be for it to go in the first paragraph of your wikipedia page. 120
