Elis
@ancientspeak.bsky.social
she/her/佢. Episcopal churchlady. Hongkonger, Southerner, feminist of color. Classics & religion nerd, now wrestling with theology.
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1/ A grassroots relief effort has sprung to life across Tai Po, and online, as Hongkongers rally to volunteer, offer food, shelter and clothing to the victims of the Tai Po fire tragedy.
Read the full story on HKFP: buff.ly/Dv8hIz6
Read the full story on HKFP: buff.ly/Dv8hIz6
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
1/ A grassroots relief effort has sprung to life across Tai Po, and online, as Hongkongers rally to volunteer, offer food, shelter and clothing to the victims of the Tai Po fire tragedy.
Read the full story on HKFP: buff.ly/Dv8hIz6
Read the full story on HKFP: buff.ly/Dv8hIz6
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I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.
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A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.
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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
Perfectionist baker has yet to figure out pies ... so we are trying again tomorrow. (Pie dough is resting in the fridge overnight.)
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Perfectionist baker has yet to figure out pies ... so we are trying again tomorrow. (Pie dough is resting in the fridge overnight.)
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So are you suggesting that we should consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some?
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So are you suggesting that we should consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some?
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I'm one of those curmudgeons who is unwilling to accept "changes in culturally accepted practices of worship attendance" as a reason to lessen our expectation that Christians be together at least weekly for corporate worship.
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I'm one of those curmudgeons who is unwilling to accept "changes in culturally accepted practices of worship attendance" as a reason to lessen our expectation that Christians be together at least weekly for corporate worship.
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At the moment, I’m regrettably not reading Edgar Allan Poe whilst having cappuccinos and croissants in a dimly-lit quaint café on a cobblestone street in Prague during a snowstorm, so no, I’m afraid your email did not “find me well.”
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
At the moment, I’m regrettably not reading Edgar Allan Poe whilst having cappuccinos and croissants in a dimly-lit quaint café on a cobblestone street in Prague during a snowstorm, so no, I’m afraid your email did not “find me well.”
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did i get anything done today? no. but did i relax? also no.
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
did i get anything done today? no. but did i relax? also no.
"unity without multiplicity is tyranny, multiplicity without unity is fragmentation" 🙏🏼
This is one of the most powerful and beautiful images of the Trinity I have seen outside of Duns Scotus and Bonaventure.
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"unity without multiplicity is tyranny, multiplicity without unity is fragmentation" 🙏🏼
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V. With pity behold the sorrows of our hearts;
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
V. With pity behold the sorrows of our hearts;
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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid).
November 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid).
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"fuck it thats up to god not me" is not just an article of faith, it is a path to maintaining sanity
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"fuck it thats up to god not me" is not just an article of faith, it is a path to maintaining sanity
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I confess to you and to the Church
November 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I confess to you and to the Church
God bless friends who pick up your transcontinental phone calls to talk about your transcontinental heartaches! ❤️🩹
November 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
God bless friends who pick up your transcontinental phone calls to talk about your transcontinental heartaches! ❤️🩹
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Church is good, people. Take it from me.
Watching people walk up the aisle for Communion - those who have been here often and those who have not been here for a long time - my heart just spills out. 🕯
Watching people walk up the aisle for Communion - those who have been here often and those who have not been here for a long time - my heart just spills out. 🕯
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Church is good, people. Take it from me.
Watching people walk up the aisle for Communion - those who have been here often and those who have not been here for a long time - my heart just spills out. 🕯
Watching people walk up the aisle for Communion - those who have been here often and those who have not been here for a long time - my heart just spills out. 🕯
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It’s funny that even now, with everything we know, there’s still a retreat towards treating racism as somehow uniquely unbelievable.
November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It’s funny that even now, with everything we know, there’s still a retreat towards treating racism as somehow uniquely unbelievable.
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“More than seven decades later, the 79-year-old Sanford grandfather – still a man without a country – found himself in legal limbo in the Alligator Alcatraz detention camp in the Everglades, picked up on a decades-old deportation order authorities had previously chosen not to enforce.”
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“More than seven decades later, the 79-year-old Sanford grandfather – still a man without a country – found himself in legal limbo in the Alligator Alcatraz detention camp in the Everglades, picked up on a decades-old deportation order authorities had previously chosen not to enforce.”
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79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
(Do not) ask me what it’s like to have several friends with the same first name, and to have a crush on one of them, so whenever the name comes up, friends will be like “oh *[Name]*?” and I get to be like “nope! a different person with this common name! a friend I don’t have a crush on actually!!!”
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
(Do not) ask me what it’s like to have several friends with the same first name, and to have a crush on one of them, so whenever the name comes up, friends will be like “oh *[Name]*?” and I get to be like “nope! a different person with this common name! a friend I don’t have a crush on actually!!!”