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Daniel

Daniel

@nieciedo.bsky.social

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We’re all in the gutter and most of us are looking at our phones. Gay Anglo-Catholic monarchist gadfly in NYC One of the Tiresome Liturgical Gays™️

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

Dick Cheney won’t see your jokes, but your friends who orchestrated a destructive and illegal war based on lies and also shot a guy in the face will.

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 2d

Dick Cheney is dead. After so much Chaotic Evil, I’m feeling almost nostalgic for the era of Lawful Evil.

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 4d

New “What Kind of Anglican Are You?” quiz:

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It labeled me an Innovative High Tractarian and paired me with Newman, the patron saint of swimmers 🤦‍♂️
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Anglican Spectrum Test - Discover Your Theological Alignment

Take the Anglican Three Values Quiz to discover your theological alignment between Catholic, Protestant, and Liberal traditions. Get a personalized title and historical figure match.

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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 4d

“But lo there breaks a yet more glorious day!
The saints triumphant rise in bright array
The King of Glory passes on his way
Alleluia! Alleluia!”

My heart always swells and my eyes get wet at that verse.
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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 5d

I filled in the circle for the candidate who actually cares about struggling New Yorkers, won his party’s primary, and isn’t a certifiably insane cat hoarder. It’s notable that it’s the last point that tells you who I meant.

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 5d

Tell me about an interesting saint you learned about since last All Saints’ Day
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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 6d

Malmsey: a traditional option for disposing of inconvenient Royal Dukes

The author holding a glass of Malmsey fortified wine at Keen’s Steakhouse in NYC

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry, but the US has proven that democracy has failed.

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 7d

I use the 30-day cycle for mid-day prayer and Compline in lieu of the repetitive ones appointed for those offices in the BCP.

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 7d

Monarchy has been the norm for most of human history, and republics have a tendency of degenerating into dictatorship. If the Unpleasantness of 1776 had never happened, we would be in a better place.

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 7d

I remember when people really said that Bill de Blasio was a dangerous Communist who would destroy the city and turn it into a 3rd-World hellhole of crime and economic decay. What we got was just 8 years of well-intentioned feckless incompetence. I’m not impressed by the fear-mongering over Mamdani.

Close-up of Hugo Weaving as Elrond from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring with the caption “I was there. 3,000 years ago.”

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 7d

Compared to the United States, having a non-partisan hereditary Head of State who doesn’t get involved in political fights seems really attractive, no?

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 7d

The night before All Hallows’ Eve is traditionally a night of pranks and mischief: egging houses, toilet-papering trees, nailing theses on the efficacy of indulgences to church doors…
Be careful out there!
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Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 7d

I choose to believe that this is the origin of the meme

Image from a production of Evita with an actress as Eva Perón in a white dress on the balcony of the Casa Rosada with arms raised in the iconic pose. The text above reads “…at 6s and 7s with you…”

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 19d

I for one would actually like to have a King, thank you very much. I’d be happy with any one of these.

King Charles III of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

King Frederik X of Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland

King Felipe VI of Spain

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 20d

We’re really doing this #NoKings thing again?

If we had a King, we wouldn’t be in this mess!

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 22d

Watching House of Guinness after bingeing Boots throws into high relief the contrast between the genres of “Hot Rich People Doing Rich People Drama” and “Hot Working-Class People Doing Working-Class Drama.”

I’m eager for more proletarian programming.

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 22d

I’m still reading Dilexi Te but I really don’t understand why Popes need to be so verbose. Do you really need 121 paragraphs to tell people that poor people deserve love, support, and social justice?

Oh, yeah. That’s where we are now.

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 23d

I am both ironically and unironically in favor 100% of a Vlad the Impaler day. We just don’t actually know the date he was born or when he died the first time.

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 25d

Any other Anglicans here who venerate Blessed Emperor Karl? I’ve met about 5 on Facebook ⚓️

The author holding the prayer book of the Emperor Karl Prayer League in front of a statue of Karl in front of a painting of the same person; to the right is a statue of the BVM.

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · 25d

I wish Katy Perry had stayed in space 💔

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · Oct 7

When Charlene sings that she’s “been undressed by kings,” I have determined that she means two (or more) of the following:

Constantine II of Greece
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Juan Carlos of Spain
Hussein of Jordan
Hassan II of Morocco

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · Oct 6

As Christians we have no reason to fear death because it’s lost its victory and its sting. I just can’t greet it as a sister. It’s something we have to face and go through but it’s not a good thing in itself, and in the New Creation there will be no death or Death.

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · Oct 6

Thank you for these thoughts! You make some good points.

I personally can’t make a distinction between Death and death: they’re the same thing to me. One is the cosmic Power and the other is its manifestation in the world.

You’re right about the tree but something did change in the Fall.

Daniel @nieciedo.bsky.social · Oct 6

St Paul himself says “ The last enemy to be destroyed is death.”