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@reckless.bsky.social First stop NYC, next stop Racine?

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@brchastain.social What state or sovereign wealth fund is going to buy this debt? What motivates people to accrue power to simply do awful things at larger scales?

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@brchastain.social All these ludicrous numbers. Hundreds of billions allocated here to for “security,” billions in aid and funding cut because “woke.” So much capital, for so much destruction.

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@lindsayfickas.bsky.social

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@lindsayfickas.bsky.social The lead track on that album will make you a vibraphone believer. And also anyone who makes such a silly goose/egomaniacal album cover has my attention

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@lindsayfickas.bsky.social How about some jazz vibraphone music.apple.com/us/album/big…

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@brchastain.social Sing it with me:
\n5G & honor
\nGlory, cell towers
\nBe unto the Ancient of Days

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Cov’ring the nation,
\nAll of Creation,
\n5G is a form of praise

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Every tongue in heaven & earth
\nCrystal clear reception
\nApps that need all 5 bars to work
\nShall have them

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You will be exalted oh God
\n& T-Mobile shall not pass..

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@brchastain.social It’s just not particularly interesting

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@brchastain.social It’s physics

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@brchastain.social i just love books and reading so goddam much.

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A couple thoughts on The Fifth Season (and a technical test to boot). brchastain.micro.blog

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@brchastain.social Dr. Martin was such a figure on the IWU campus for decades. He had sycophantic followers (mostly poli-sci/pre-law majors but some from other majors that sought out his classes) that were called Martinites. He was staunchly anti-choice and what I can now call Christian Reconstructionist.

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@brchastain.social There are likely some people who were connecting these elite and non-elite spheres and spreading these ideas that haven’t yet been documented in books or research. I’m thinking of people like Glenn Martin at IWU (from my experience), and others.

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@ryankturnbull.bsky.social I think I called evangelicalism a hyperobject, which is quite sinful, so I guess by the transitive property I did. But I’m no mathematician. I did interview Timothy Morton about their book Hell: Toward A Christian Ecology, though. open.spotify.com/episode/4Czg…

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@brchastain.social The fact that they have no imagination, no goodwill, no concern for anything beyond their investment portfolio is immaterial to them.

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started going to the gym again at the beginning of the year and there’s just an insane amount of christian tees on display every time. anyway been wearing my exvangelical tee i bought as a quality check and am in a one-sided passive aggressive and pointless mental battle with them now

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@brchastain.social There’s something about knowing you will never be on the same side of your parent, and the fatalistic nature for both parent and child, that is summed up in that look of knowing and grief that Faramir and Denethor share in Return of the King.

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@brchastain.social I mean I know that’s their official name, they are “the Society of Jesus” and in that way the Jesuits are the New York Knickerbockers of Catholicism, but come on

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@brchastain.social Reduce White Point is such a wonderful accessibility feature. BookFusion is such a wonderful e-reader app. I de-Amazon’ed my ebooks last year and I’m thrilled with the result.

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@brchastain.social Color Me BADBADNOTGOOD

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@brchastain.social Anamanaguchi-Mane

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@brchastain.social Cat Stevens Power

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@brchastain.social Carman McRae

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@brchastain.social Cake Spoon (not ruined tbh)

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@brchastain.social Broken Bells & Sebastian

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@brchastain.social boygenius ii men

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@brchastain.social The Beths-el Music

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There’s something delightfully weird and still so practical about Lower Wacker. Do you hate driving downtown? Are you willing to traverse the underworld to avoid it? The signage is minimal and the lighting is haunted but the traffic flows

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i’ve been experimenting with shortening ‘thanksgiving’ to ‘tgiving’ while jotting down notes. i’ll be honest i don’t like it either and will be abandoning the practice

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if you like lo-fi, there’s a good chance you dig instrumental music, so why not try some jazz. the genre is woven through american history and has led to all sorts of scenes around the globe. there’s so much to explore.

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oh no, what a completely expected outcome\nwww.nytimes.com/2025/11/1…

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yeah we couldn’t crack real-world immortality, but would you like to generate an NPC facsimile of your self?

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techcrunch.com/2025/11/1…

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If I could tell me 20 year old self that I’d be at home reading Tillich’s Courage to Be at 7:30 on a Friday night, well, he’d probably be ok with it. That kid was a fucking nerd

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Big Loser Energy: fake traffic from a guy who’s supposed to get a real trillion dollars for making fake promises about his fake robot strategy\nwww.theverge.com/news/8164…

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oof. i will not be elaborating

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The Right Is Attacking a Franchise It Once Loved. The Reason Why Is Laughable. - Slate

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i’ve been going through one of the longest creative droughts i can remember over the last several months, but i feel that things may be picking up again soon. i wrote my first post in a while yesterday. read it here: www.postevangelicalpost.com/p/no-king…

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how is this even a question. www.theverge.com/policy/80…

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Elon just posting Ls on main yet again www.theverge.com/2024/11/2…

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Pretty intolerable that the House Speaker tries to claim ignorance instead of actually trying to defend what POTUS does on any given day. Bro you can’t pretend to not be aware. We’re all aware.

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Chicago forever. www.nytimes.com/live/2025…

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my book will have been out for 1 year tomorrow. it’s still relevant, unfortunately for all of us on planet earth. (the rapture didn’t happen, natch). buy a copy here: bookshop.org/a/11130/9…

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well this will certainly help deflate his god complex i’m sure smh

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www.theverge.com/news/7725…

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I wonder if there is a NYT Crossword curse like the Madden curse, b/c ARMANI was an answer in today’s puzzle

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every time i’m on a video call and someone walks around with their laptop i just think of Requiem for a Dream, which is a weird headspace to be thrown into.

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i’m gonna need albums i listened to in college to stop coming out with 20th anniversary editions.

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So many words when two would suffice

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I usually consider the key audience of all announced AI features to be the stereotypical ‘busy executive’ - and well, busy execs don’t have time to read to their children. Just let the lying robot do it. Google Gemini can now create AI-generated bedtime stories | The Verge

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for Danny Boy, the “G” in G-Men stands for ‘grift,’ and he needs to get back to it gizmodo.com/dan-bongi…

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cool. cool cool cool \nwww.theverge.com/news/7048…

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