Colin Toffelmire
@toffelmire.bsky.social
Professor of Christian Studies (Ambrose Uni), amateur cook, even more amateur film lover. Theology, culture, language and hermeneutics, probably more politics than is healthy or wise.
It's just laicite again folks. Still terrible, but not new at all.
A lot of this stuff comes as really surprising if youve never heard of french politics
The new rules will ban *all prayers in public.* That's a violation of religious liberty.
The restrictions on face coverings *also* seem to me seriously unjust— and even the paternalist justifications seems self-defeating if it leads to women simply being less able to leave the house.
The restrictions on face coverings *also* seem to me seriously unjust— and even the paternalist justifications seems self-defeating if it leads to women simply being less able to leave the house.
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
It's just laicite again folks. Still terrible, but not new at all.
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EXCITING NEWS: yesterday, I submitted the manuscript for my first book to Baylor University Press. Tentatively titled “Intellectual Disability and the Christian Life,” this book is an attempt to give language to the ongoing Christian witness of people with intellectual disabilities.
September 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
EXCITING NEWS: yesterday, I submitted the manuscript for my first book to Baylor University Press. Tentatively titled “Intellectual Disability and the Christian Life,” this book is an attempt to give language to the ongoing Christian witness of people with intellectual disabilities.
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I'm not really recommending you read this piece, because the subject matter is the opposite of edifying, but Phillips does conclude with a sentence that cuts to the heart of a lot of the evil with which we are beset because of rich fools.
"It’s hard out there for the people it’s easy for."
"It’s hard out there for the people it’s easy for."
I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm not really recommending you read this piece, because the subject matter is the opposite of edifying, but Phillips does conclude with a sentence that cuts to the heart of a lot of the evil with which we are beset because of rich fools.
"It’s hard out there for the people it’s easy for."
"It’s hard out there for the people it’s easy for."
Gets even more depressing when you start digging into the related American evangelical complex.
Had a trigger memory today when Willow Creek's Global Leadership Summit came up. At the time I was similtaneously disturbed and gaslit by how much everyone loved it, but in retrospect, wow, was that ever theologically vapid, utterly demoralizing stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Gets even more depressing when you start digging into the related American evangelical complex.
The degree of self-parody here is truly wild.
Larry Summers’s co-teacher at Harvard:
“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”
Student:
“NO WE WON’T”
dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”
Student:
“NO WE WON’T”
dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The degree of self-parody here is truly wild.
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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Their history really is "we lied to everyone and got away with it long enough that we won at the poker table so now you have to treat us like a real company". This is what people insist is the future of money.
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Their history really is "we lied to everyone and got away with it long enough that we won at the poker table so now you have to treat us like a real company". This is what people insist is the future of money.
The normie experience of late capitalist economics summed up in a single post.
I’d feel more comfortable mocking them if they had faced more obvious consequences. Instead it feels like the joke’s on everyone else
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The normie experience of late capitalist economics summed up in a single post.
From this guy's lips to God's ear.
Punchbowl backing up what I said last week, Greene is probable only the first of many Republicans to retire before the midterms
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
From this guy's lips to God's ear.
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Amazingly, almost everything in this skeet is wrong. The myth of Spinoza's "excommunication" is mostly a product of twentieth century post-Christian wishful thinking.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Amazingly, almost everything in this skeet is wrong. The myth of Spinoza's "excommunication" is mostly a product of twentieth century post-Christian wishful thinking.
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This is the main thing I keep saying. I don’t presume to know whether AI is bad at EVERYTHING but the main thing it can’t do is what the powers that be in education want it to do and the reason I keep saying it is you don’t need any studies
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is the main thing I keep saying. I don’t presume to know whether AI is bad at EVERYTHING but the main thing it can’t do is what the powers that be in education want it to do and the reason I keep saying it is you don’t need any studies
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Our political era is said to be marked by polarization, or fragmentation, or being post-truth.
All of those are true enough. But perhaps above all we are living in an era of shamelessness.
All of those are true enough. But perhaps above all we are living in an era of shamelessness.
And here's the UCP statement on the Transgender Day of Remembrance from Minister of Arts, Culture and Status of Women Tanya Fir.
www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Our political era is said to be marked by polarization, or fragmentation, or being post-truth.
All of those are true enough. But perhaps above all we are living in an era of shamelessness.
All of those are true enough. But perhaps above all we are living in an era of shamelessness.
This is truly the funniest thing I've seen in ages. Thanks for the laughs grok, made my day.
oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is truly the funniest thing I've seen in ages. Thanks for the laughs grok, made my day.
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I agree. Of all the policy measures on the table, Albertans are warmest to the notion of securing more federal jobs out West. Way more popular than a provincial pension plan or police force.
Albertans want bridges not firewalls.
macleans.ca/politics/how...
Albertans want bridges not firewalls.
macleans.ca/politics/how...
How to Fix Western Alienation - Macleans.ca
Ottawa feels out of touch. Spreading the federal government across the country would rebuild trust.
macleans.ca
November 19, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I agree. Of all the policy measures on the table, Albertans are warmest to the notion of securing more federal jobs out West. Way more popular than a provincial pension plan or police force.
Albertans want bridges not firewalls.
macleans.ca/politics/how...
Albertans want bridges not firewalls.
macleans.ca/politics/how...
In honour of the coming wide release of Wake Up Dead Man (the new Knives Out mystery from @rianjohnson.bsky.social), I'm reupping a piece I wrote about the original film a few years ago.
popularcultureandtheology.com/2022/12/26/a...
popularcultureandtheology.com/2022/12/26/a...
A Beautiful Pattern: The Aesthetics of Virtue in Knives Out
By Colin Toffelmire Rian Johnson’s celebrated murder-mystery Knives Out is intricate, fun, and funny. The plot always leans forward, the acting is excellent, and it is relentlessly clever. What’s m…
popularcultureandtheology.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
In honour of the coming wide release of Wake Up Dead Man (the new Knives Out mystery from @rianjohnson.bsky.social), I'm reupping a piece I wrote about the original film a few years ago.
popularcultureandtheology.com/2022/12/26/a...
popularcultureandtheology.com/2022/12/26/a...
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
Vance is seemingly incoherent because he's actually incoherent. He's actually incoherent because the closest thing he has to a sense of self is the ability to morph that self into the framework required for self-promotion and "success." There's no there there.
Like, he's friends with Adrian and comments on his post time to time, funded by Vance, ran on a natpop platform in Ohio, and also associated with the more Nietzschean wing of the New Right
genuinely wonder what his rule looks like given that these are widely disparate factions
genuinely wonder what his rule looks like given that these are widely disparate factions
Vance is mostly just an orthodox postliberal, from my read of him. He's not really completely immersed in one of the postliberal camps entirely, so you see the e.g. technocapitalist, integralist, national populist, and Nietzschean influence all represented in his staff/comments
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Vance is seemingly incoherent because he's actually incoherent. He's actually incoherent because the closest thing he has to a sense of self is the ability to morph that self into the framework required for self-promotion and "success." There's no there there.
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Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
In defence of the Dems, it is basically impossible to play chicken with somebody who is eager to crash their car into yours, and will go well out of their way in order to do so.
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In defence of the Dems, it is basically impossible to play chicken with somebody who is eager to crash their car into yours, and will go well out of their way in order to do so.
My humble foreigner's opinion is that this is the narrative that Dem voters should pursue, instead of "our team are feckless morons". Hang the whole thing on Trump, then hang Trump on the GOP in the midterms next year.
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
My humble foreigner's opinion is that this is the narrative that Dem voters should pursue, instead of "our team are feckless morons". Hang the whole thing on Trump, then hang Trump on the GOP in the midterms next year.
Always interesting to see where we do and don't believe in state's rights.
NYT - USDA telling states to “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if they do not comply. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Always interesting to see where we do and don't believe in state's rights.
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