Chrissy Stroop
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Chrissy Stroop
@thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social
Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum

Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Some Jewish folks are atheists *and* observant because that is a thing you can be. Your atheism is just a mirror reflection of bad Christianity (which I know well, having grown up in it). Not all religions are exactly alike (or even remotely alike)
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Piss off, proselytizer
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I am happy for you that you can delude yourself into thinking that all of your ideas are logical and natural, that universal atheism is the only good future, and that religion is separate somehow from the cultures of the people practicing it. I am not your mission field.
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I am personally affected by the ACA subsidy ending and also my health insurance premiums are going way up next year. If you appreciate my work, there's never been a better time to become a paid subscriber. (Patreon gives me a better revenue split) www.patreon.com/posts/what-w...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Interesting!
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
That does sound fun!
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Thanks, I’ll take a look at it
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Which do you like best and what sets them apart if you don’t mind another question? Part of my problem is narrowing this down from so many farming sims or farming-sim-adjacent games
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Interesting, I’ll take a look at it
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Yeah, I have avoided that one so far because Disney—I don’t hate Disney but I don’t know, I’m not sure I wasn’t Disney characters in my farming life/community sim
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I played that—it was pretty fun!
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
What do you like about it (if you don’t mind a follow-up question)?
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I rarely talk about the process of getting my work published but this one is a definite exception. I have never experienced this before in my career.

Both of the TV editors working with me on this piece were let go in the middle of the editing process. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
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November 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The flaw is the idea that teens like “center” are fixed and not relative
November 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Hey, 45 is not old lol
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Based on the geography referenced in your bio it looks like we share a granfalloon or two as well
November 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM