John Allen
@knowtea.bsky.social
Minister (PCUSA), Musician (conductor, composer, singer, pianist/organist, music director for musical theatre), Whovian, Teutophone, Swedish-American, Jazz aficionado, #faithfullylgbt, and stuff.
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John Allen
@knowtea.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Ok for those of you who don’t know me: hi. Minister (PCUSA), Composer, Conductor, Singer, Baker, Queer/Bi, Whovian, Barth/Torrance stan, Batman stan. I write church music but I mostly listen to jazz. Liturgy nerd. Nerd in general. Involuntarily single. What’d I leave out?
Why Hostess snack cakes never used “Ding Dong Merrily on High” for holiday commercials is a real mystery. Missed opportunity.
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Why Hostess snack cakes never used “Ding Dong Merrily on High” for holiday commercials is a real mystery. Missed opportunity.
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Good news: only really, really dumb people thought they really wanted free speech on campus
Bad news: There are a deal-breakingly lot of really, really dumb people
Bad news: There are a deal-breakingly lot of really, really dumb people
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Good news: only really, really dumb people thought they really wanted free speech on campus
Bad news: There are a deal-breakingly lot of really, really dumb people
Bad news: There are a deal-breakingly lot of really, really dumb people
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ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
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Christ the King Sunday is the perfect opportunity to remind everyone that the separation of church and state protects both the church *and* the state from each other.
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Christ the King Sunday is the perfect opportunity to remind everyone that the separation of church and state protects both the church *and* the state from each other.
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Mike Johnson saying the un redacted release of the Epstein files poses a national security risk isn’t the “we have nothing to hide” message he thinks it is.
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Mike Johnson saying the un redacted release of the Epstein files poses a national security risk isn’t the “we have nothing to hide” message he thinks it is.
Annoying things I’ve heard from having QVC on all day while I’ve done housework: 1) “Vanella.” Every single person who has had to say “vanilla” has said “vanella”; 2) No one, and I mean no one, has known how to pronounce “mauve.”
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Annoying things I’ve heard from having QVC on all day while I’ve done housework: 1) “Vanella.” Every single person who has had to say “vanilla” has said “vanella”; 2) No one, and I mean no one, has known how to pronounce “mauve.”
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Don’t waste your time fact-checking these numbers, don’t engage Vance's vile propaganda as if he was advancing an argument in good faith.
Call out the underlying political project: A violent, authoritarian blood-and-soil nationalism that defines “America” as a white Christian homeland.
Call out the underlying political project: A violent, authoritarian blood-and-soil nationalism that defines “America” as a white Christian homeland.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Don’t waste your time fact-checking these numbers, don’t engage Vance's vile propaganda as if he was advancing an argument in good faith.
Call out the underlying political project: A violent, authoritarian blood-and-soil nationalism that defines “America” as a white Christian homeland.
Call out the underlying political project: A violent, authoritarian blood-and-soil nationalism that defines “America” as a white Christian homeland.
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I listened to the Megyn Kelly clip and my takeaway is that she should change her name to Megyn R Kelly
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I listened to the Megyn Kelly clip and my takeaway is that she should change her name to Megyn R Kelly
Downside of going to sleep listening to Classic American Top 40: chances are HIGH you’re gonna wake up to a Richard Marx song!
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Downside of going to sleep listening to Classic American Top 40: chances are HIGH you’re gonna wake up to a Richard Marx song!
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Once Christians tie their faith to partisan politics they eventually have to defend the indefensible.
Pledge all your allegiance to Jesus Christ and let the politicians fend for themselves.
Pledge all your allegiance to Jesus Christ and let the politicians fend for themselves.
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Once Christians tie their faith to partisan politics they eventually have to defend the indefensible.
Pledge all your allegiance to Jesus Christ and let the politicians fend for themselves.
Pledge all your allegiance to Jesus Christ and let the politicians fend for themselves.
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
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Republicans spent 10 years radicalizing their own base over QAnon. They promised to release the Epstein Files, which they said would be the proof and expose the conspiracy.
What they failed to realize was Trump is at the center of it and the base wouldn't forget.
What they failed to realize was Trump is at the center of it and the base wouldn't forget.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Republicans spent 10 years radicalizing their own base over QAnon. They promised to release the Epstein Files, which they said would be the proof and expose the conspiracy.
What they failed to realize was Trump is at the center of it and the base wouldn't forget.
What they failed to realize was Trump is at the center of it and the base wouldn't forget.
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The Epstein saga is the biggest political cover-up in modern history.
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The Epstein saga is the biggest political cover-up in modern history.
You know you’re hungry when you can smell rice cooking.
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
You know you’re hungry when you can smell rice cooking.
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Kim Davis is so angry that the Supreme Court failed to uphold her deeply held religious belief that "marriage is sacred," she's threatening to get three MORE divorces.
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Kim Davis is so angry that the Supreme Court failed to uphold her deeply held religious belief that "marriage is sacred," she's threatening to get three MORE divorces.
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Today is the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Please tell me this QVC host didn’t just say “Cream BROO-lay.” 🤦🏻♂️
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Please tell me this QVC host didn’t just say “Cream BROO-lay.” 🤦🏻♂️
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JUST NOW: Donald Trump gets loudly BOOED by the crowd at the Commanders game. What a loser!
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
JUST NOW: Donald Trump gets loudly BOOED by the crowd at the Commanders game. What a loser!
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#ProudBlue
SNAP benefits have never missed a beat during government shutdowns, until Trump
The Dept of Agriculture said benefits would continue but Republicans said, NO
Republicans are cruel
Please support your local food bank, if you are able, and be prepared to wait the Republicans out
SNAP benefits have never missed a beat during government shutdowns, until Trump
The Dept of Agriculture said benefits would continue but Republicans said, NO
Republicans are cruel
Please support your local food bank, if you are able, and be prepared to wait the Republicans out
November 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
#ProudBlue
SNAP benefits have never missed a beat during government shutdowns, until Trump
The Dept of Agriculture said benefits would continue but Republicans said, NO
Republicans are cruel
Please support your local food bank, if you are able, and be prepared to wait the Republicans out
SNAP benefits have never missed a beat during government shutdowns, until Trump
The Dept of Agriculture said benefits would continue but Republicans said, NO
Republicans are cruel
Please support your local food bank, if you are able, and be prepared to wait the Republicans out
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In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
August 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
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Friday the US Supreme Court is set to discuss whether to hear a challenge to Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 landmark decision which extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide. 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 💔
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Friday the US Supreme Court is set to discuss whether to hear a challenge to Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 landmark decision which extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide. 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 💔
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Fascist Russia is at war with the West. We are in the middle of World War III.
This war will not end until we understand rashism (Russian fascism) to be a variant of Nazism (German fascism). Russia’s genocide of Ukrainians is a crime comparable to Germany’s genocide of the Jews.
This war will not end until we understand rashism (Russian fascism) to be a variant of Nazism (German fascism). Russia’s genocide of Ukrainians is a crime comparable to Germany’s genocide of the Jews.
November 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Fascist Russia is at war with the West. We are in the middle of World War III.
This war will not end until we understand rashism (Russian fascism) to be a variant of Nazism (German fascism). Russia’s genocide of Ukrainians is a crime comparable to Germany’s genocide of the Jews.
This war will not end until we understand rashism (Russian fascism) to be a variant of Nazism (German fascism). Russia’s genocide of Ukrainians is a crime comparable to Germany’s genocide of the Jews.
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The password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system was “Louvre,” according to a museum employee
Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee
According to an employee with knowledge of the system, the password to the Louvre's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre" at the time of the robbery last month.
abcnews.go.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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