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Jon Coutts

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Film lover and lifelong fan of #LFC and the #Canucks. Scottish-Canadian theologian writing a book on Bonhoeffer. 🎬 http://letterboxd.com/joncoutts ✍️ http://thissideofsunday.blogspot.com

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta get the Swifties on it

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 1d

I've been ride or die for many a Canucks season but I'm tempted to tune out for this one.

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 1d

It must suck to be a world leader standing behind Trump at a podium: if you roll your eyes you may save a shred of dignity, but you risk having your country bombed right off the map

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 1d

We quit spotify and moved to Tidal. It helps that you can move your playlists over with an app called switcheroo

Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · 2d

Found out that Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads, if you need another reason to quit using it.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 2d

Alternative headline: Majority in Edmonton and Calgary feel let down by infrastructure

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 2d

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 6d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 3d

Would that be a Kane hattrick?

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 3d

Team identity so far: Hughes deftly works it into the zone rather than dumping it, drops it to Kane, Kane dumps it in and breaks his stick.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 3d

Well the Canucks have sure been uninspiring

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 3d

This is fascinating, thanks

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 3d

My Anglicanism is rusty. Is there even an organizational sense in which they'd have to say they "serving under the authority of" a female bishop (against their convictions)?

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 3d

Sad indeed - although I'm curious what qualifies it as schism rather than, say, a parting of ways over a difference over convictions that are difficult to coordinate without harm to one or the other

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 3d

Lovin the new Tweedy. I feel like he's being sarcastic here

Jeff Tweedy's "Feel Free"

"Feel free, To never listen and always speak, To never learn and try to teach"

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 3d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 3d

Just starting into Moltmann but I'm excited to get to his 20 pages on the mandates

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 3d

Probably wouldn't be a good sitcom but it'd make a great road trip movie

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 3d

How did they fail to call this "Two Jürgens study Bonhoeffer"?

Book cover: R.H. Fuller edited "Two Studies in the Theology of Bonhoeffer", one by Jürgen Moltmann and the other by Jürgen Weissbach

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 3d

I'm going to cry aren't I?

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 4d

Turned the Mariners game on in the 7th and have nearly watched a whole game since then

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 5d

Ugh.

Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 5d

Oof

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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 5d

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 5d

Once again I want to mention how stupid it is that Sportsnet blacks out so many out-of-region broadcasts.

Canadians often move to other provinces but take their loyalties with them.

Just because I moved doesn't mean I should have to pay thru the nose to see my team.

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 5d

honestly, having a game on every day was really good for me this summer

Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 5d

Yep