Marvin Lindsay
@marvinlindsay.bsky.social
Ph.D. and Presbyterian Church (USA) pastor. Slytherin. Enneagram 3W4. Backing the Pack in South Jersey.
Gen-X didn't do the work of interrogating Donner and problematizing his toxic masculinity that's why we made kids cry at little league
Tis the season where I share my reflections from a few years back on the best and worst Christmas specials:
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The Most Beloved Christmas Specials Are (Almost) All Terrible
Here are the only two worth watching.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Gen-X didn't do the work of interrogating Donner and problematizing his toxic masculinity that's why we made kids cry at little league
Despite the headline, this article doesn’t shed much light on whether Graham Platner can win, much less on how he’d represent Maine. But it is a fascinating portrait of a guy who’s just wired very differently than I am: apple.news/AjN2Xe_TbRaC...
Graham Platner Really Might Be Doomed. Pay Attention to Him Anyway. — POLITICO
The candidate embodies a quarter-century of raw American frustration. It’s the source of his strength — and potentially his downfall.
apple.news
December 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Despite the headline, this article doesn’t shed much light on whether Graham Platner can win, much less on how he’d represent Maine. But it is a fascinating portrait of a guy who’s just wired very differently than I am: apple.news/AjN2Xe_TbRaC...
While y’all frantically throwing Christmas Eve services together somebody is already locked and loaded for Trinity Sunday.
December 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
While y’all frantically throwing Christmas Eve services together somebody is already locked and loaded for Trinity Sunday.
Ok, Pluribus finally advanced the plot tonight.
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Ok, Pluribus finally advanced the plot tonight.
“Buffoonery” is trying to have it both ways with voters by demanding your party fund a popular program you and your party claim to hate.
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ObamaCare anxiety rising among House GOP centrists: ‘To do this is buffoonery’ — The Hill
Frustration is mounting among moderate House Republicans as various competing health care plans appear to be going nowhere, with less than 10 working days left on the calendar before millions of Ameri...
apple.news
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“Buffoonery” is trying to have it both ways with voters by demanding your party fund a popular program you and your party claim to hate.
apple.news/A60CPd70ORDy...
apple.news/A60CPd70ORDy...
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The good news of a God who judges?
Come hear more this Sunday at 10 AM at St. John's Park Slope 💒
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Come hear more this Sunday at 10 AM at St. John's Park Slope 💒
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The Alarm Clock of God
No one goes to the desert expecting to be saved.
substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The good news of a God who judges?
Come hear more this Sunday at 10 AM at St. John's Park Slope 💒
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Come hear more this Sunday at 10 AM at St. John's Park Slope 💒
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Should have fired him (and her) five days ago, but Sunk-Cost Fallacy and whatnot.
Is your head coach's girlfriend filing FOIA requests on your school's top comms official a good look? Asking for a friend
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Should have fired him (and her) five days ago, but Sunk-Cost Fallacy and whatnot.
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For a change, I got a Dadvent calendar this year. I just opened the first window and it said "can you shut that before it messes with the thermostat".
December 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
For a change, I got a Dadvent calendar this year. I just opened the first window and it said "can you shut that before it messes with the thermostat".
Slightly diminish a band:
The B-29s
Duran
A Pair of Seagulls
Samsara (think grunge)
Audio Indentured Servant
Princes of Leon
Blink-181
(sorry; I got carried away)
The B-29s
Duran
A Pair of Seagulls
Samsara (think grunge)
Audio Indentured Servant
Princes of Leon
Blink-181
(sorry; I got carried away)
Slightly diminish a band:
They’re Probably Not Giants
They’re Probably Not Giants
Slightly diminish a band:
The Slapstick Murphys
The Slapstick Murphys
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Slightly diminish a band:
The B-29s
Duran
A Pair of Seagulls
Samsara (think grunge)
Audio Indentured Servant
Princes of Leon
Blink-181
(sorry; I got carried away)
The B-29s
Duran
A Pair of Seagulls
Samsara (think grunge)
Audio Indentured Servant
Princes of Leon
Blink-181
(sorry; I got carried away)
Will bet cash money someone has already written a dissertation arguing this
December 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Will bet cash money someone has already written a dissertation arguing this
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Think along with him. The last post in this 🧵 is one for the ages:
I’ve been thinking about the problematic political realities of Sombertown in “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.”
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December 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Think along with him. The last post in this 🧵 is one for the ages:
For singing, my favorite is “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” and for listening, my favorite is “Coventry Carol.”
My favorite secular song is “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” the John Denver and Ralph the Dog version: youtu.be/8tvvNV3geqQ?...
My favorite secular song is “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” the John Denver and Ralph the Dog version: youtu.be/8tvvNV3geqQ?...
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
For singing, my favorite is “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” and for listening, my favorite is “Coventry Carol.”
My favorite secular song is “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” the John Denver and Ralph the Dog version: youtu.be/8tvvNV3geqQ?...
My favorite secular song is “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” the John Denver and Ralph the Dog version: youtu.be/8tvvNV3geqQ?...
Brady wasn’t a System QB. Bill was a System Coach. (The Brady System)
the more postgame comments (or lack of comments, just demeanor) of Belichick I see, the less I think he actually had to do with the NFL success
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Brady wasn’t a System QB. Bill was a System Coach. (The Brady System)
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Just like the coach.
Haven’t had a real “give up game” from UNC since Clemson but this is it. Clear that a good chunk of them just don’t want to be out there.
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Just like the coach.
It was a great Thanksgiving. Safe travel. Delicious food. Old and new faces around the table. Little talk of politics or religion, even among the like-minded. If anyone was drunk, it wasn’t evident.
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It was a great Thanksgiving. Safe travel. Delicious food. Old and new faces around the table. Little talk of politics or religion, even among the like-minded. If anyone was drunk, it wasn’t evident.
Chicago man, shamed by @radiofreetom.bsky.social, ditches backwards White Sox cap (but not the bat) for a flight to Rome.
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Chicago man, shamed by @radiofreetom.bsky.social, ditches backwards White Sox cap (but not the bat) for a flight to Rome.
Post your favorite "The Lord of the Rings" character …wrong answers only.
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Post your favorite "The Lord of the Rings" character …wrong answers only.
Thanksgiving 2025 License Plate Results (vehicles must be in motion and no tractor trailers). It's not a great haul compared to a summer trip on I-95--a New Brunswick or PEI is not an unreasonable expectation then--but I'm very pleased with the sighting of two different Alaska plates!
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Thanksgiving 2025 License Plate Results (vehicles must be in motion and no tractor trailers). It's not a great haul compared to a summer trip on I-95--a New Brunswick or PEI is not an unreasonable expectation then--but I'm very pleased with the sighting of two different Alaska plates!
Eagles are cooked.
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Eagles are cooked.
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‘When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”’
Actor stabbed with a real knife during a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. #drama #tragedy #edfringe www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Our student theatre group had the bright idea of using actual knives on stage for authenticity. The blade missed my aorta by about a centimetre
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November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
‘When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”’
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Orthodox Thanksgiving falls on December 4 this year.
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Orthodox Thanksgiving falls on December 4 this year.