📷 I think this fortune comes across as more foreboding than intended.
📷 I think this fortune comes across as more foreboding than intended.
I like reading @connectedplaces.online because even if many of the projects highlighted in their most recent roundup end of failing they project a hopeful vision for a less toxic social web.
Reading today about the botched execution of Christa Pike. This is not the first time these types of complications have been document.
IMHO the “medicalization” of the U.S. justice system’s capital punishment apparatus is a total farce. Execution is inherently violent and malevolent and no amount of bureaucratic performance meant to make it look like a clinical procedure can hide that. The grotesqueness of the guillotine is humane by comparison because of its immediate lethality.
🍂📷 Autumn vibes are on point for October 1st.
When it comes to a non-peer-reviewed or non-scholarly-theory based definition of a primary tension in U.S. Evangelicalism I don’t think you can do much better than how @skye.jethani frames it:
{quoting a Christian bookstore owner}: “It’s our job to find out what our customers need, and then seek to meet those needs. Any Christian bookstore that sets out to change the customer’s desires is headed for bankruptcy.” And I think this is what they both get right about the American white evangelical experience, and that is it is largely shaped by the marketplace. In that it’s a populist movement that if you go against popular desire, you’re going to lose audience, you’re going to lose donors, you’re going to lose customers. And so it responds to what the market wants. And I think the way Bonnie {Kristian} deals with that is she looks at what has been insurgent in American popular culture in the last ten years, and a lot of it’s ugly stuff, and she said, “When that comes into American evangelicalism, that’s the result of American culture. It’s not evangelicalism.” And so don’t blame evangelicalism for it. And I think Kristin {Kobes du Mez} looks at that and goes, “Yeah, but evangelicalism, because it’s a populist movement, lacks the strength to disciple these bad things out of its people.”
📷🍂Come track the fall progression with me through the maple in my front yard. 2026.09.28
Evergreen meme. 🌭🌲
🎶 when was one of ya’ll gonna inform me Tiny Habits exists, and how long have you known? 🎶
🎥🍎✈️ Final approach at the cider mill today:
Adding this article blurb to the mental corkboard I maintain dedicated to antecedents of a tech-inflected neofeudalism.