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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 23h

with all due respect to my Anglican friends, liturgically demoting a Doctor for being impolite is a scene from some forgotten Waugh satire on the Church of England

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

my only opinion about nikole hannah-jones is that writing a newspaper article about your teenager is psychotic behavior and an editor should have stepped in out of a sense of decent propriety

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spent the weekend unpacking boxes of books that had been in storage since 2016, like greeting very old friends

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

20-year-old me would regard this as a stupid question; 40-year-old me agrees

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the interesting thing about working in fundraising research is that you get to know lots of fundraisers, and fundraisers are a fascinatingly weird breed

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

people in the comments and quote tweets are mad at the nyt about this but isn't it a pretty obvious joke?

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

People are treating this like it's an intrinsically silly question to ask and I don't understand why

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

because I can't enter middle-aged fatherhood in any normal way, the war I'm fixating on is the Thirty Years' War

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have always had a bit of a soft spot for Uticensis (what soulful white boy doesn't?) but Trump's second term has given me a soft spot (mutatis mutandis) for Sulla

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My father-in-law is a televsion set. He is insanely gifted. We were talking about how the X Files and Frasier debuted less than a week apart in 1993, and I asked him what it would take to do that today. I will never forget his answer "We can’t, we don’t know how to do it."

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玄光 @occultlight.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This isn't what animism is and I wish American tech freaks wouldn't replicate bizarre bad racist 19th century pseudo-anthropology filtered through the New Age to make outrageous claims

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the thing that gets me about AI boosterism is that the focus is almost always on how it will boost productivity and not how it will afford more leisure

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

LLM (Large Lucifer Model)

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

as expected, I speak objectively correctly

Northeastern Connecticut was the birthplace of Athena, Jesus, and Charlemagne

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"what does the upside down y mean" real question just asked by an MBA student in my econometrics class

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don't approve of gerontocrats, however markey earned my respect by beating the crap out of that mewling hyannisport bog rat last go-round. good for him. also moulton seemed dumb and smug this is your last go, though, Ed, unless you personally execute every remaining Kennedy

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Delighted that I've only even heard of the two that toddlers keep bringing to my attention My two year old keeps asking for miss rachel Center-right democrats won't shut up about hasan piker

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

-"I say Jeeves, you're rather yucking my whatsit" -"Your yum, sir?"

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Thomas Jerome @thomasjerome.com · 29/08/2026

I see Axios finally got an answer to, "why don't most Americans embrace an industry, whose biggest advocates are Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and various San Francisco utilitarian group sex enthusiasts, when it promises them higher power bills, worse jobs, and dumber kids?" Ah, yes. China.

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Most Excellent Theophilus @optimetheophile.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I used to balk at "costal elitist"(preferring "costal elite") because that implied merely thinking that our lifestyle is better, but I think I'm leaning into both. Our way of life is both better and should be asserted as such in the public discourse.

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

it seems obviously the case (and not at all contradictory) that (a) swapping 'clanker' into historical expressions of bigotry against real people is in bad taste at best (b) using it in general, to deride generative AI and the people trying to foist it on every part of life, is totally fine

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The two pieces of media I've been persuaded to consume by Online in the last week are Dungeon Crawler Carl and Columbo so the internet is a real mixed bag let's say

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

the heat in the professional sphere about the jason arday case is only 15% about the plagiarism and 85% about lying to journalists (which is a fun and honorable pastime for which we should have given him a medal)

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Because I think there's something to learn from reading even bad books, I am now 20% of the way through Dungeon Crawler Carl, and you know what? I still don't get it. It's awful. I don't believe these books have been edited.

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I didn't party as a kid/teen/twenty-something. Bet you couldn't have guessed that about me.

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

if people still write novels in a year or two, bishop barron would make a very funny minor character in a novel

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Nikolaj Bill @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Your Excellency, you’re a bishop of a midsize diocese in Minnesota.

Tweet by Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron • 40m
Apparently, the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts has determined not to count letter grades toward its freshmen's GPAs during their first semester, starting in 2027. The reason given is that this move will address the growing mental health crisis among young people. Nothing could be further from the truth. It will, in fact, exacerbate the crisis.
Across cultures, one can discern a common pattern in the initiation rituals of primal peoples. The elders of the tribe rip a young person from the comfort of his home during the night. He is then scarified or otherwise physically marked in some way—a tooth is knocked out or his face is cut—in order to impress upon him that life is difficult.
Then he is introduced to the lore and history of his people, and finally he is taken to the edge of the wilderness, given a few simple provisions, and told to make his way for an extended period of time.
The entire purpose of the exercise is to break him free from the dominance of his self-regarding feelings and to orient him to the achievement of objective goods.

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Mark @samueltwain.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Pooh: you, a brain donor moron, not reading Fenimore Cooper because AI is spoonfeeding it to you Tuxedo Pooh: me, cultured genius, not reading Fenimore Cooper because Twain cooked him thoroughly a century and a half ago

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I understand Brandon Sanderson fans, although I am not of their tribe; I do not understand Dungeon Crawler Carl-heads

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This was a highly sophisticated "Dungeon Crawler Carl" joke fyi

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Then he fires a laser at him and blows him up

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I don't think the valence of any sneering about the "faculty lounge" I've ever heard has had the connotation of wealth and luxury more like "a room full of tedious, impractical, pompous, and out-of-touch eggheads fond of autoölfaction of flatulence"

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Started two historical series that I've been meaning to try recently Bernard Cornwell SUCKS Patrick O'Brien writes masterpieces

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Having finally read the thing entire, I don't get what the big deal was here (aside from the tedious Gen X things about wanting more sex scenes) It's a review of a movie, and reviews of movies are boring unless they're vitriolic pans. What did you want her to write?

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm sick to death of the unrealistic beauty standards foisted on us by TV, which is why Ross Douthat joining sixty minutes is so important

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

These people are simply not Americans. This is not how a free man behaves. These people are willing slaves to a man who would sell them out in an instant and spit on their wives and children if he thought he could make a buck from it. Disgusting, vile people, barely worthy to be called human.

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm glad we all agree that Emily Wilson is annoying now, welcome to all the new haters

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So I spoke; but he answered me straightway saying, "Wackadoo, radiant Odysseus!"

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We're not even getting any good satiric verse out of this imperial decline this sucks

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

the brown university AI scandal from a few weeks back has two groups of reactions that are engineered to drive me crazy There's a combination of AI-boosters and tender-headed Student Life types both, from their own priors, asking whether using chatgpt during your exam is "really cheating"

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

if I had a nickel for every expert in the first Origenist controversy working in my university fundraising office I would have two nickels, not a lot, weird twice, etc

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Do you think they call it the "Classical Learning Test" because the nearest analogue to what they're actually pretending to test for is "liberal education" but if they called it that they couldn't get buy in from rich right wing cranks and fake universities

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

writing a book is always an arrogant thing to do, but writing a book and then reading the audiobook yourself borders on insanity

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Not a Mainer, not my business, but they should try running someone you want to have a beer with

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Started reading the diaries of John Quincy Adams in earnest yesterday and they are a source of great joy, marred only by the fact that the library of America editor is evidently ignorant of Greek. ("αλληλομς"? Really?)

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Yankee Papist @yankeepapist.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Having a country singer at the Boston pops feels like a betrayal

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