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I think I would dissolve into a gibbering pool of humanity if I was invited to preach in a pulpit like this.

Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My sister used to work at a recruiting office and she once had someone bring their whole family to an interview. The family sat in the waiting room and ate pizza. The interviewee did not get the job.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sometimes i think about how no one in the northern US in the nineties knew what an avocado was.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m from NY and a Calvinist and I support this message.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just making this prediction now so you all know I called it: in 2050, the top name for baby girls in the US will be “Doris.”

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I very much doubt whether American evangelicalism has the capacity to course correct at this point. As trumpism alternately decays and regroups over the next decade or more, many Christians are just going to check out of evangelicalism, and Christianity overall.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was sitting in the kitchen dipping my pretzel crisps into store brand Nutella and my 9 year old saw and said “dad, you have the best ideas.”

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Listen this whole Great Lakes thing has a lot of people on edge, so I think it’s a good time to remind everyone that I’ve created an acronym that makes it both easy and fun to remember the names of all 11 finger lakes: CHOCS CHOCKS.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Is it a good sign for the economy when your local pizza place starts running a “recession special” with 1 pizza, 12 garlic knots, and 2 liter bottle of Pepsi?

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Water quality. The Hudson River was full of chemical and human waste, all the way north of Albany even. It’s not perfect notes but is so much cleaner.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I reiterate my argument that a society that values money above craft will have nothing worth owning or using. Government can help, but not solve, the problem by establishing a maximum wealth limit so that private capital is limited in its ability to ruin nice things.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Kind of ironic that when they first came out, evangelical kids couldn’t read Harry Potter and now only evangelical kids read Harry Potter.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In elementary school, they made up a fake intraschool mail service so we could write letters to each other. I promptly write a letter to myself, mailed it off and had it “returned to sender” because I had written my “address” wrong in “to” on the envelope but wrote it right in “from.”

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Weren’t all the jobs screwing in tiny screws for iPhones supposed to be back in the us by now?

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

All this talk of "hypocrisy" being necessary to a society rests on the, frankly batty, psychologized view of ourselves we have - where our feelings are somehow more "the real us" than our actions. So if we feel like doing something bad but instead do something good, we are still bad!

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My retirement goal is to form a parasocial relationship with a really cool machine and travel around the country using it to help people in mundane ways.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I just want an app where it tells you the news that happened 16 years ago.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Wondering why weird al has not done a polka of k pop demon hunters yet.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Troy, Schenectady, Saratoga

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This campaign is already going so much better than I thought.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Reading the entire Bible and broadcasting it to the entire nation while actively taking food, healthcare, clean water, clean air, shelter, due process, and basic human dignity away from people is the exact kind of religious hypocrisy Jesus raged against.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

In the time it took me to use the bathroom, gas went from 2.87 to 3.19.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Going to just turn my profile into a William James quotation aggregator. "The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers." from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, 1902

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It’s interesting that no one in the Epstein files appears to be gay, or trans, or a librarian. Those are the top three kinds of people we’re supposed to worry about our kids around, right?

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

What if you were an ant and an ICE agent slipped and fell on you? Then you wouldn't think it was so funny.

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sam @samthielman.com · 03/01/2026

the American opioid crisis is almost entirely the work of Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Sackler family of murderous profiteers, but because Americans can't imagine anything being their fault, we've invaded Venezuela over it

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

We have reached the part of Christmas where I eat leftovers in the order of how little food there is in the container, so I can have the joy of cleaning out as many containers at one meal as possible. I finished five different containers at lunch.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

So chuffed that my native county in NY, an ancestrally Republican place, gave 15 out of its 25 seats on the county legislature to Democrats last night, re-elected its Democratic comptroller and elected a Democratic county judge both by 40k to 32k votes.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

One interesting angle I don't think anyone has played up is that Andrew Cuomo and RFK Jr. used to be brothers-in-law.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

How much of elite capitulation to trump is due to the fact that our society has cultivated a leadership class solely on the basis of abstract “business” theory who are not rooted in any particular craft or discipline?

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

If only American liberals had thanked president trump more, with more tears in their eyes, for ending the war in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu wouldn’t have had to keep bombing Palestinian kids.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Why yes I am having fun blocking all the shitposters and or bots who are showing up here, why do you ask?

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Going to cancel Disney+ and send the $16 a month to the ACLU. And promise my 8 year old to go out for ice cream every month to try to mollify her somewhat (should cost about $16 too). Please pray for us parents who believe in free speech.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

If you want more NY thoughts, the collision in the 1800s of Dutch tolerance and New England passion for social righteousness fueled both the ideas of the abolitionist movement and created the manpower necessary to carry them out in the many immigrants who fought for the Union in the Civil War.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I live in what was 300 years ago the Dutch heartland of North America. I have a vanishingly small percentage of Dutch ancestry, so don't really count it as my history. It is fascinating to me that the Dutch laid the foundations of NY and within 200 years, had basically drifted into history.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Prove me wrong: Without the Erie Canal, NY would have become just a slightly colder Pennsylvania.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I know it’s vanilla to say so but the Beatles are just so good. What Bach was to western art music (until twelve tone music) the Beatles are to rock n roll. They anticipated it all, no rock group has yet invented something they did not.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I hope Governor Hochul was able to introduce our Texas Democratic guests to Albany's most unique food: mozzarella sticks with raspberry sauce. I am not kidding, this is a real food.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

One of my favorite memories from my chaplaincy internship in the hospital was sitting with another recent seminary grad, using our seminary Greek to figure out that "nephrolithiasis" must mean the patient's kidneys were turning into stone. We agreed that must be pretty awful before we realized

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Nothing is more NY than a bunch of fig tree saplings for sale by the side of the road.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

For more than three years, I regularly visited hospice patients in a nursing home. Some of them were there because they had no family, some of them because their families couldn’t care for them (try caring for a 200 lb bed bound person when you weigh 120), and some of them were there because their

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

“If you’re going to sell the Bible, you should know the Bible.” - leader Jeffries just note

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Is there anyone on BSKY live-blogging this process in the House and explaining all the parliamentary procedures, etc.? Like what Joshua Friedman does for court hearings? Knowing more about parliamentary procedure, I find, goes a long way to soothing your broken heart.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The fact that I am still tearing the perforated edges off of dot matrix paper in 2025 may mean that we went a little overboard as a society making that stuff.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

If you are confused about who the fourth senator is who has not voted yet, my guess is it’s Majority leader thune. If the vote will fail, he will also vote against it. This would allow him to later bring it up again with a motion to reconsider.

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Wesley @wtjoseph.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I’ve never lived in a pine forest before so I really didn’t realize the insane menace that pine pollen is. Going to take a few days to clean off every single exterior surface from a thick layer of yellow gunk.

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