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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 6h

Prévisions de COVID pour le Canada : OCT 11 - OCT 24, 2025

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Environ 1 personne sur 95 est actuellement infectée au Canada.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 14h

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And perfectly folded flags.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Eric Trump: "If he wasn't heaven-bound, he wouldn't have been alive after Butler. If he wasn't heaven-bound, that flag wouldn't have folded up like a perfect angel right above his head. If he wasn't heaven-bound, if he wasn't meant for this purpose, he wouldn't have beaten Hillary."

Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 14h

Saying that humans are necessary for saving these things implies that God can’t. It is to put oneself in place of God, which is an outright violation of the First Commandment. They are saving God? How arrogant can you get?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 17h

What does he mean by “relatively short time?” Years? Decades? Centuries? (Months?)

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 17h

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

READ FULL ARTICLE: opentable.lgbt/our-blog/202...

Against the tide: LGBTQIA+ inclusive churches thrive amid rising conservatism in Brazil — Open Table Network

IN THE FIRST of a new series of blogs highlighting stories from our LGBTQIA+ siblings in other countries, journalist André Aram reports from the largest country in South America and the fifth largest ...

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 17h

Are you familiar with the new TEC proposal for readings for Holy Week that try to undo some of that?

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Helen Rottier @helenrottier.bsky.social · 2d

Academia was never supposed to run like this - competitive, precarious, racing to produce and accumulate. Many researchers are trying to identify solutions, and we need to work together to do so. #AcademicSky

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 2d

As recently tenured faculty I can tell you that in no world would I have time to complete one review properly a week, let alone two. The system is absolutely breaking up.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 3d

If you need *another* reason not to donate to the Sally Ann….

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 3d

This is a related aside because I agree with everything you are saying but I wish we could go back to using Butler’s performativity the way they intended. In Bodies that Matter, they are clear that performativity is when performance of gender and its reception align, the “performer” becomes more who

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 3d

I get that at this point I’m working against how culture has picked up butler’s word. I just wish we had another way of pointing this out that wasn’t the opposite of what butler was trying to get at (and doesn’t subconsciously lend fuel to drag artists and trans people somehow being inauthentic.)

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 3d

they are performing as. In drag, the more men perform and are received as women, they more they become women. It’s complicated but performativity is about the performance changing us. Which is always what I hope woke performativity might do - change the performer so they actually are more woke. But

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 3d

This is a related aside because I agree with everything you are saying but I wish we could go back to using Butler’s performativity the way they intended. In Bodies that Matter, they are clear that performativity is when performance of gender and its reception align, the “performer” becomes more who

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 3d

“Accepting” is a bit of a spectrum - from tolerating to supporting to celebrating. But I really doubt the wapo 2023 results that said 66% were supportive. If that were the case, we would see a significant drop in the number of teens living on the streets.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 3d

Pew poll finds just 31% of parents accept their trans kids. Crucial to dialog around GAC which focuses on affirming parents. This is directly _opposite_ a 2023 WashPo/KKF poll 2023 (tinyurl.com/ph5u6pnh) which found two-thirds of transppl said families were supportive. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Most trans adults say transitioning made them more satisfied with their lives

The Post-KFF survey is the largest, nongovernmental survey of transgender Americans using randomized sampling methods.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 3d

I will say that the younger gen Z and older Gen alphas I know are pretty disgusted with AI already and know it’s completely untrustworthy. That gives me some hope.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 4d

This is giving the same energy as a grades appeal. You think I was too harsh and you want me to regrade your paper? Are you suuuure?

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 4d

“A court in southern France has increased by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term

A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 4d

King Henry II and Thomas Becket come to mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bacon: "The president was demanding her indictment 2 weeks ago and I think it really muddies the water. Normally, the president says out of this discussion, they let the attorney general and the process work. When you have a president ordering & demanding indictments, it will be used by the defense"

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 4d

The test will be designed so that a fail gets the highest grade so he can see he has the highest test results EVER.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, very true! Two popes in a row make me especially hopeful.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 5d

I changed the printer paper and the printer dialog box asked if I had changed the paper and I said (out loud), "That's none of your business." So that's how my day is going.

Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 5d

I voted a few days ago and the poll workers were asking if wanted a school trustee ballot. It was a weird question. I was like uh yes! Maybe they were trying to save blank ballots from the box? It was still weird.

Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 5d

What a change from fifty years ago!

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 5d

Yes certainly I am not his intended audience. I couldn’t tell whether it was meant sarcastically or not - part of me thought yes and part no. I’m going to hope for sarcasm.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 5d

The author only cares because now white men are targets? They weren’t right that govt will persecute Xians. What they got right is that people with power will always crush those who stand up for the powerless. He should be asking for forgiveness from the trampled that he never cared about before.

Timothy Leitzke @thatpastor.bsky.social · 5d

baptistnews.com/article/dear...

Dear white evangelicals, I was wrong – Baptist News Global

This use of force by the government against Christians is exactly what you’ve warned us about for years, Rick Pidcock says.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes futility seems like the right word.

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