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Shane Liesegang, SJ

@sjml.bsky.social

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🎭 theater kid turned 🎮 game dev turned ✝️ Jesuit [scholastic/deacon] past: skyrim, fallout, god of war, novitiate, philosophy/political econ, refugee aid (🇱🇧🇮🇶🇯🇴🇸🇾), theology, starfield, migrant care (🇵🇭) present: theology in Boston https://shaneliesegang.com

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · Feb 3

I'm increasingly skeptical that "another birdsite" is the answer but there's so many people I can only keep in touch with on the social, so here we are. My old feed was a mix of lefty politics, tech/games, and religion. Trying to find more of the same, but now with migration/refugee stuff thrown in.

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 10h

daaaaahahahhahahahhahahahhahaha

lol it was effing Boom Blox

Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 10h

(growing up I had a print of one of Struzan's Star Wars one-sheets on my wall that included a copyright notice for "Revenge of the Jedi" so was probably worth a good deal money if multiple teenage boys had not used thumbtacks to pin it up)

Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 10h

I don't even mean "you" in the derogatory kind of "you, Eric Trump, of all people" but in the broader sense of "humanity writ large, any of us, even the greatest or most virtuous."

Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 10h

What kind of God do you claim to worship that is so fragile as to need saving by you?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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."

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 10h

oh man! Struzan is one of those names that even a lot of film nerds don't know and then you show the work and they're like "wait, that was all ONE person doing all of that for decades?!"

Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 12h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 10h

rip in peace

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

going viral here is worse than it used to be on twitter because half of the replies will just be pure pedantry

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 13h

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 14h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly my traveling companion is vegetarian, but maybe there’s places with good sides…

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

If I theoretically had just like two hours to do something in St. Louis, what should that something be? (I am a food/history/art tourist mostly.)

Please don’t say the arch.

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

the algorithm has figured out that I like sports and live in Boston and therefore assumed (not wholly erroneously but in this case *sorely* mistakenly) that I am a Patriots fan

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

unscheduled manifestation with superior

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 2d

Annoyingly put-together guy getting way too chatty with the busy baristas at the coffeeshop this morning: "Billy Joel is like the perfect music for this morning."
Barista, slammed, in the midst of making tons of drinks, incredibly flat affect: "This is Bob Dylan."

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

(helping run a retreat this weekend where I talked about gratitude practice a lot in one-on-ones but felt crass plugging my app to retreatants so instead I do so to Bluesky)

Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 2d

I made this little web (/installable-on-phone-home-screen-like-an-app) tool a few years ago as a way of establishing a gratitude practice. You may also find it useful.

Bank up tiny moments ("this cup of coffee is great;" "my friend told me a joke I hadn't heard before") to recall them when needed.

Gratitude Bank

A small tool to help you remember things that inspire gratitude, so you can recall them later when you need to. Created by Shane Liesegang, SJ.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 3d

Sarah Jeong remains very smart and I wish this wasn't such an insightful breakdown of Where We Are™ but it sure is

Media really needs more analysis that actually *understands* the internet, as in what things are like for people who are immersed in it, because they're increasingly driving everything

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 5d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 5d

I am increasingly grateful that somehow my social feeds have only ever been Catholic-adjacent, because every time I get a glimpse of the mainline stuff there it is WILD (derogatory)

Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 5d

Catholic influencers logging on to vatican dot va this morning

Kombucha woman meme, but reversed. In the first box, above the "intrigued" face, is "Apostolic Exhortation 'Dilexi Te' of the Holy Father Leo XIV to All Christians..." And in the second box, above the "disgusted" face, is the rest of the title of the new document: "...on Love for the Poor"

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 5d

Long after this cruelty is over, we will remember those who welcomed it with open arms.

History will judge them in the same breath as those who tacitly approved of the leaders who encouraged the worst in humanity through history.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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