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ORA EST LABORA | High church lowlife crafting #PunchyLittleProverbs for fellow rank and file believers. DMs open, learn more at https://pewpew.start.page
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Wilfred Owen thought "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" was The old Lie, but I know of of an even older one;
Semper solus eras
The old Liar wants you to believe nobody likes you, that you were always alone. The oldest lie, evil itself, isn't patriotism. It's isolation.
#PunchyLittleProverb
Semper solus eras
The old Liar wants you to believe nobody likes you, that you were always alone. The oldest lie, evil itself, isn't patriotism. It's isolation.
#PunchyLittleProverb
MilSpouse @esaumccaulley.bsky.social, of @nytimes.com and @holypostmedia.bsky.social, built a career showing how #Black voices have been excluded from theological interpretation.
I asked him to see the same with #military voices.
He saw it and chose not to engage. pewpew.ghost.io/when-fellow-...
I asked him to see the same with #military voices.
He saw it and chose not to engage. pewpew.ghost.io/when-fellow-...
When Fellow Military Families Choose Silence
In 2014, my partner babysat Esau McCaulley's children in Scotland so he and his wife (a Navy Reserve medical officer) could work and teach. When Esau organized a prayer vigil after Mike Brown's murder...
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January 15, 2026 at 5:50 AM
MilSpouse @esaumccaulley.bsky.social, of @nytimes.com and @holypostmedia.bsky.social, built a career showing how #Black voices have been excluded from theological interpretation.
I asked him to see the same with #military voices.
He saw it and chose not to engage. pewpew.ghost.io/when-fellow-...
I asked him to see the same with #military voices.
He saw it and chose not to engage. pewpew.ghost.io/when-fellow-...
Being a rank-and-file believer 🪖means living every day as though it will only make sense in the future.
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January 14, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Being a rank-and-file believer 🪖means living every day as though it will only make sense in the future.
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#PunchyLittleProverb
YHWH is the Cataclysmic Savior.
If you have no corruption to destroy, redemption might not feel like much of a train wreck.
But if you’ve accumulated a lot of ill-gotten gains stored away like tomorrow’s mana..! You be sweatin’ 😥😬
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If you have no corruption to destroy, redemption might not feel like much of a train wreck.
But if you’ve accumulated a lot of ill-gotten gains stored away like tomorrow’s mana..! You be sweatin’ 😥😬
#PunchyLittleProverb
January 14, 2026 at 9:31 PM
YHWH is the Cataclysmic Savior.
If you have no corruption to destroy, redemption might not feel like much of a train wreck.
But if you’ve accumulated a lot of ill-gotten gains stored away like tomorrow’s mana..! You be sweatin’ 😥😬
#PunchyLittleProverb
If you have no corruption to destroy, redemption might not feel like much of a train wreck.
But if you’ve accumulated a lot of ill-gotten gains stored away like tomorrow’s mana..! You be sweatin’ 😥😬
#PunchyLittleProverb
If you have to believe “Jesus” is a son of David, then you might as well call him Oedipus, because he came to kill (the very idea of) kings.
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January 14, 2026 at 9:12 PM
If you have to believe “Jesus” is a son of David, then you might as well call him Oedipus, because he came to kill (the very idea of) kings.
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The only difference between a whore and a hypocrite is that I’d trust the prostitute over the politician any day.
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January 14, 2026 at 8:30 PM
The only difference between a whore and a hypocrite is that I’d trust the prostitute over the politician any day.
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Work is the mean between Toil and Play.
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January 14, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Work is the mean between Toil and Play.
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Science didn’t kill God.
If your god couldn’t be transfigured to fit a larger container, then your religion was dead to begin with.
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If your god couldn’t be transfigured to fit a larger container, then your religion was dead to begin with.
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January 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Science didn’t kill God.
If your god couldn’t be transfigured to fit a larger container, then your religion was dead to begin with.
#PunchyLittleProverb
If your god couldn’t be transfigured to fit a larger container, then your religion was dead to begin with.
#PunchyLittleProverb
Just because I haven’t shown you my work doesn’t necessarily mean I’m the one with the wrong answer.
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January 13, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Just because I haven’t shown you my work doesn’t necessarily mean I’m the one with the wrong answer.
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#PunchyLittleProverb
Be the Pray-er you wish to see (answered) in the world.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Be the Pray-er you wish to see (answered) in the world.
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Entitlement Religion is the American caste system.
It exploits the fruit of someone else’s labor then puts them behind a temple veil to make itself high priest to a god of its own making.
It inverts the God’s economy by demanding food without farmers, goods without goodness, wisdom without work.
It exploits the fruit of someone else’s labor then puts them behind a temple veil to make itself high priest to a god of its own making.
It inverts the God’s economy by demanding food without farmers, goods without goodness, wisdom without work.
January 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Entitlement Religion is the American caste system.
It exploits the fruit of someone else’s labor then puts them behind a temple veil to make itself high priest to a god of its own making.
It inverts the God’s economy by demanding food without farmers, goods without goodness, wisdom without work.
It exploits the fruit of someone else’s labor then puts them behind a temple veil to make itself high priest to a god of its own making.
It inverts the God’s economy by demanding food without farmers, goods without goodness, wisdom without work.
Ain’t no future living in the past, but I don’t want a future that hasn’t learned from it either.
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January 13, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Ain’t no future living in the past, but I don’t want a future that hasn’t learned from it either.
#PunchyLittleProverb
#PunchyLittleProverb
Imagine @erbks.bsky.social telling @esaumccaulley.bsky.social "the primary audience for [his] book (Black readers) doesn't intersect well with our readership." The bias would be obvious.
Yet when the #ProtectedClass is #MilitaryFamilies, it gets dressed up as editorial discretion.
Yet when the #ProtectedClass is #MilitaryFamilies, it gets dressed up as editorial discretion.
Military Voices Only Count if They Confirm Civilian Bias
In April 2022, Chris Smith, editor of The Englewood Review of Books, declined to review my book God is a Grunt (Hachette). His reasoning was explicit: "the primary audience for this book (active milit...
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January 12, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Imagine @erbks.bsky.social telling @esaumccaulley.bsky.social "the primary audience for [his] book (Black readers) doesn't intersect well with our readership." The bias would be obvious.
Yet when the #ProtectedClass is #MilitaryFamilies, it gets dressed up as editorial discretion.
Yet when the #ProtectedClass is #MilitaryFamilies, it gets dressed up as editorial discretion.
Epiphany is a Greek word that is never used in the Gospels. It is only used by Psaul and possibly the letters of John, but I don't believe it's in John's gospel. #Epiphany is an appearance, sometimes a coming, but not advent.
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😇 Epiphany 1 (and my essay on being a combative noncombatant)
Readings: 📜Jeremiah 31:7-14; 🎶Psalm 147:12-20; 📜Ephesians 1:3-14; 📜John 1:1-18. For full access, go to PewPewHQ.com/tfw/a-e01
On Being a Combative Noncombatant
Why Silence Isn't Neutral When Your F...
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January 12, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Epiphany is a Greek word that is never used in the Gospels. It is only used by Psaul and possibly the letters of John, but I don't believe it's in John's gospel. #Epiphany is an appearance, sometimes a coming, but not advent.
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“Public service sometimes means standing firm in face of threats.”
Justice department opens investigation into Jerome Powell as Trump ramps up campaign against Federal Reserve | Jerome Powell | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Justice department opens investigation into Jerome Powell as Trump ramps up campaign against Federal Reserve | Jerome Powell | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Justice department opens investigation into Jerome Powell as Trump ramps up campaign against Federal Reserve
Fed chair accuses DoJ of threatening criminal charges over building renovation projects because central bank defied Trump’s interest rate demands
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January 12, 2026 at 4:07 AM
“Public service sometimes means standing firm in face of threats.”
Justice department opens investigation into Jerome Powell as Trump ramps up campaign against Federal Reserve | Jerome Powell | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Justice department opens investigation into Jerome Powell as Trump ramps up campaign against Federal Reserve | Jerome Powell | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I truly admire the ascetics, and considered taking a vow of celibacy before I met my partner, but…
You can never truly understand God until you have a child running around that might one day be killed by an angry mob.
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You can never truly understand God until you have a child running around that might one day be killed by an angry mob.
#PunchyLittleProverb
January 11, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I truly admire the ascetics, and considered taking a vow of celibacy before I met my partner, but…
You can never truly understand God until you have a child running around that might one day be killed by an angry mob.
#PunchyLittleProverb
You can never truly understand God until you have a child running around that might one day be killed by an angry mob.
#PunchyLittleProverb
It's always the shittiest self-proclaimed champions who deliver The People to and through the shit pile; Samson, Solomon, Herod, Nero, Trump.
You know the type.
You know the type.
two men standing next to each other with the word morons on the bottom right
ALT: two men standing next to each other with the word morons on the bottom right
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January 11, 2026 at 5:42 PM
It's always the shittiest self-proclaimed champions who deliver The People to and through the shit pile; Samson, Solomon, Herod, Nero, Trump.
You know the type.
You know the type.
If ICE really wants to be fair and balanced, they should #DeportMelania.
I don’t really #SupportICE, but justice is supposed to be blind right?
I don’t really #SupportICE, but justice is supposed to be blind right?
a woman in a neon green dress is standing next to a man in a suit in front of american flags .
ALT: a woman in a neon green dress is standing next to a man in a suit in front of american flags .
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January 11, 2026 at 5:39 PM
If ICE really wants to be fair and balanced, they should #DeportMelania.
I don’t really #SupportICE, but justice is supposed to be blind right?
I don’t really #SupportICE, but justice is supposed to be blind right?
You can’t be expected to be politically correct if you don’t politically exist.
Social decorum is only obligatory upon those whom social decorum recognizes.
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Social decorum is only obligatory upon those whom social decorum recognizes.
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January 11, 2026 at 6:20 AM
You can’t be expected to be politically correct if you don’t politically exist.
Social decorum is only obligatory upon those whom social decorum recognizes.
#PunchyLittleProverb
Social decorum is only obligatory upon those whom social decorum recognizes.
#PunchyLittleProverb
The authors of Leviticus, like the #civilians of America, didn't anticipate the goats having a say in the matter. That's how you know #veterans aren't full members of the assembly; they're just ritual objects.
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GruntGod v.2.2.3: Why Azazel Matters
Yom Kippur and the Scapegoat Problem
Most Christians know Passover, which has become Easter. Fewer know Yom Kippur, known as the Day of Atonement, which centers on two goats—one slaughtered, one exil...
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January 11, 2026 at 4:35 AM
The authors of Leviticus, like the #civilians of America, didn't anticipate the goats having a say in the matter. That's how you know #veterans aren't full members of the assembly; they're just ritual objects.
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The Semitic Root is logic incarnate.
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January 11, 2026 at 1:36 AM
The Semitic Root is logic incarnate.
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Reposted by Martinalian 🛸
Mars was the god of justice, not war, but #civilian theology will distort history like a carnival mirror to score a few political points.
I’m a 100% disabled combat #veteran, that number is my monthly pension for breaking my body so #pansies like Brian can spread their misinformation. 🤷 🫡
I’m a 100% disabled combat #veteran, that number is my monthly pension for breaking my body so #pansies like Brian can spread their misinformation. 🤷 🫡
A war budget of 1.5 trillion dollars (proposed for 2027) is $4,322 for every man, woman, and child in America.
Mars is a voracious god.
(Artwork: “The Face of War,” Salvador Dalí, 1941)
Mars is a voracious god.
(Artwork: “The Face of War,” Salvador Dalí, 1941)
January 10, 2026 at 1:17 AM
The theology of Passover cuts against "freedom isn't free" rhetoric. American civil religion suggests that because freedom costs blood, #MilitaryFamilies pay so #civilians don't have to.
But if freedom requires blood, everyone's hands should be bloodied.
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But if freedom requires blood, everyone's hands should be bloodied.
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Passover's Political Theology — Pew Pew HQ
What "Freedom Isn't Free" Gets Wrong Americans love to say "freedom isn't free" while pointing to military service. The phrase shows up everywhere—bumper stickers, Memorial Day speeches. It's meant t...
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January 10, 2026 at 1:03 AM
The theology of Passover cuts against "freedom isn't free" rhetoric. American civil religion suggests that because freedom costs blood, #MilitaryFamilies pay so #civilians don't have to.
But if freedom requires blood, everyone's hands should be bloodied.
pewpewhq.com/trng/passove...
But if freedom requires blood, everyone's hands should be bloodied.
pewpewhq.com/trng/passove...
Large language models (LLMs) are no more “intelligent” than calculators. They’re just the latest word processors, another tool at a worker’s disposal. Don’t feel any worse using them than you do using Docs or Word. If it helps you create good shit, ain’t no shame in having help.
January 9, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Large language models (LLMs) are no more “intelligent” than calculators. They’re just the latest word processors, another tool at a worker’s disposal. Don’t feel any worse using them than you do using Docs or Word. If it helps you create good shit, ain’t no shame in having help.
Wilfred Owen thought "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" was The old Lie, but I know of of an even older one;
Semper solus eras
The old Liar wants you to believe nobody likes you, that you were always alone. The oldest lie, evil itself, isn't patriotism. It's isolation.
#PunchyLittleProverb
Semper solus eras
The old Liar wants you to believe nobody likes you, that you were always alone. The oldest lie, evil itself, isn't patriotism. It's isolation.
#PunchyLittleProverb
January 9, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Wilfred Owen thought "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" was The old Lie, but I know of of an even older one;
Semper solus eras
The old Liar wants you to believe nobody likes you, that you were always alone. The oldest lie, evil itself, isn't patriotism. It's isolation.
#PunchyLittleProverb
Semper solus eras
The old Liar wants you to believe nobody likes you, that you were always alone. The oldest lie, evil itself, isn't patriotism. It's isolation.
#PunchyLittleProverb