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jack 🌹

@kyriakos.bsky.social

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PhD in Systematic Theology & Philosophy of Religion | Eastern Orthodox | Socialist | Researching & Teaching @FordhamNYC: Phenomenology, Theological Metaphysics, Modern Christian Thought & Continental Philosophy

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 58m

these colors don’t run

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jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 23h

Most Christians worldwide refer to their clergy as priests, so it isn’t really all that weird

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

This isn't important, but: A weirdly high number of y'all keep referring to ministers/pastors as priests.

This is particularly odd, since *most* Christians in the U.S. belong to traditions that generally do not call their clergy priests!

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jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 1d

Replacing Columbus Day with the feast of St Francis of Assisi is the obvious move. Every corner of the Italian community would be satisfied and you’d only have to shift things over by a few days. It’s clean.

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jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 1d

The novel was, in large part, a mistake

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 4d

I only cook with Le Creuset. If that’s a problem, there’s the door 👉

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jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 4d

As I always say: tradition has a liberal bias 😎

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 4d

Can’t wait for Hakeem Jeffries to declare this as another distraction

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Pumpkinspacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social · 4d

I still don't believe cheugy is a word young people actually use.

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 4d

Le Creuset is Cheugy 👎

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jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not gonna get ahead of myself but I feel like the Kimmel thing really was the turn of the tide

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 4d

pretty sure this is part of how they blew it, and thank god.

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 24d

Can't help but thing they absolutely fucking whiffed it by making this about Jimmy Kimmel. The media was already circling the wagons around Charlie Kirk, who they were treating as an industry martyr, and then they went and made it about media censorship.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 5d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 4d

I’m old enough to remember when this kind of rhetoric was the norm in both parties. There’s a lesson in that

American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: Winsome Earle-Sears says her opposition to marriage equality or her support for LGTBQ+ Americans being fired for being gay is "not discrimination." #VAGov

jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been a CharliXCX loyalist for some time, but the events of the last week have radicalized me even further

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jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 5d

It’s coming whether we want it or not

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jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 5d

It’s important to make things nice for yourself sometimes

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globe moment @pacifismenjoyer.bsky.social · 5d

the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

Mary, Mother of God crushing the snake from the Gadsden Flag under her feet.

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jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 5d

It’s like you’re all trying to annoy me into being a Yankees fan

jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 5d

This entire presidency is essentially a sock puppet show enacted for the approval of Ian Miles Cheong

jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 5d

This is the key to understanding everything about this entire administration

audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 6d

I might be wrong, but I think their X bubbles have led them to overestimate their own popularity and how much power over the public they've actually consolidated