Shelly Penton
@plaidsilk.bsky.social
PhD Candidate Religious Studies. UVA. Skeets my own.
As a PhD student, and if nothing else, I've learned from Jim Ryan the importance of keeping contemporaneous notes.
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
As a PhD student, and if nothing else, I've learned from Jim Ryan the importance of keeping contemporaneous notes.
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I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
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If she had an editor, that person hates her more than anyone has ever hated a person before.
The prose is incoherent & the only way to make it through a paragraph is to rely on the North Star or her self-pitying narcissism. The gist of this graf is “strangers obsess about me, must be because I work so hard,” but it is almost immediate lost in the morass of “typed on notes app while hiking”
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
If she had an editor, that person hates her more than anyone has ever hated a person before.
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god yes absolutely here for the ecclesiastical content, honestly if rian johnson would give us one of these every 3-5 years for the rest of our lives this century might just be bearable
Final trailer! Wake Up Dead Man is in theaters 11/26 and on Netflix 12/12. Can’t WAIT for you all to see it. #wakeupdeadman
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
god yes absolutely here for the ecclesiastical content, honestly if rian johnson would give us one of these every 3-5 years for the rest of our lives this century might just be bearable
watching men like Larry Summers continue to teach at places like Harvard while my brilliant friends and colleagues can't even get an interview literally anywhere and entering my Harley Quinn era
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
watching men like Larry Summers continue to teach at places like Harvard while my brilliant friends and colleagues can't even get an interview literally anywhere and entering my Harley Quinn era
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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And it's full of so many tells that show that the people who made this thing Actually Fucking Care. Linux OS, showing Godot during the gamedev portion, the modularity and compatibility.
AND! Valve is a privately-owned company. Not beholden to shareholders & actually run by a game guy, not a $ guy.
AND! Valve is a privately-owned company. Not beholden to shareholders & actually run by a game guy, not a $ guy.
I think that's what makes the upcoming Steam Machine so exciting for me, it's just a "console" but it feels like a real natural development of technology that wasn't possible for them to execute before. Now they have the tech progress, producing a new product people actually want is possible
November 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
And it's full of so many tells that show that the people who made this thing Actually Fucking Care. Linux OS, showing Godot during the gamedev portion, the modularity and compatibility.
AND! Valve is a privately-owned company. Not beholden to shareholders & actually run by a game guy, not a $ guy.
AND! Valve is a privately-owned company. Not beholden to shareholders & actually run by a game guy, not a $ guy.
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Cassidy is smart enough to understand how the ACA works. He is simply lying because he is a bad person.
Cassidy: "The president is proposing that we take the $26b that would be going to insurance companies if we just do an extension and give it directly to the American people in which 100% of the money is used for them to purchase healthcare on their own terms. That makes them an informed consumer."
November 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Cassidy is smart enough to understand how the ACA works. He is simply lying because he is a bad person.
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I don’t think women’s professional ambitions should be limited by how tactfully or gamely they respond to men’s sexual entitlement.
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I don’t think women’s professional ambitions should be limited by how tactfully or gamely they respond to men’s sexual entitlement.
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Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”
tfw you are in line with the US bishops
Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:
wapo.st/448fDw6
wapo.st/448fDw6
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
tfw you are in line with the US bishops
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The optics of a Christian nationalist regime sure are interesting, folks.
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The optics of a Christian nationalist regime sure are interesting, folks.
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1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
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Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?
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NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Hey yall, ever seen a bunch of academics call someone a lily-livered coward?
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Hey yall, ever seen a bunch of academics call someone a lily-livered coward?
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Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask:
What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔
www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...
What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔
www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...
November 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask:
What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔
www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...
What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔
www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...
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US Bishops have responded to attacks by Border Czar Tom Homan: “The bishops of the United States have spoken together and in unity with Pope Leo XIV.”
November 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
US Bishops have responded to attacks by Border Czar Tom Homan: “The bishops of the United States have spoken together and in unity with Pope Leo XIV.”
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"The Cavalier Daily corresponded with former Rector Robert Hardie, whose term ended June 30, regarding the two accounts. He confirmed that he agreed with Ryan’s account.
'I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,' Hardie said."
Welp
www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
'I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,' Hardie said."
Welp
www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
Ryan and Sheridan provide full accounts of Ryan’s resignation. They differ significantly
“I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,” former Board Rector Robert Hardie said.
www.cavalierdaily.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"The Cavalier Daily corresponded with former Rector Robert Hardie, whose term ended June 30, regarding the two accounts. He confirmed that he agreed with Ryan’s account.
'I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,' Hardie said."
Welp
www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
'I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,' Hardie said."
Welp
www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
"Fox News: We are equal and balanced – unlike the (fake!) mainstream media – we argue the pedophiles' side."
15-year-olds aren't "barely legal" it is literally illegal to fuck them
You know. Because they're children
You know. Because they're children
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"Fox News: We are equal and balanced – unlike the (fake!) mainstream media – we argue the pedophiles' side."