Jeremiah

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I'm ashamed to say I'm reading Alice in Wonderland for the first time. It's hilarious. James ( 8 ) has read it twice this summer and said it's his favorite book. DBH would be proud.

Today we celebrate my favorite modern saint, Mother Maria of Paris. A unique character: a former revolutionary and deputy mayor, poet and theologian, twice married, nun in the world; she could be seen always either serving the poor or smoking cigarettes and discussing theology.🧵

Today we celebrate St. Macrina the Younger, sometimes called St. Macrina the Teacher, for she was the older sister of Sts Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, and impacted them deeply by both her philosophical learning and her personal holiness. In chapter ten of On the Soul…

I know several people who seemed most interested in voting for Trump precisely because of his supposed toughness on human trafficking. And now, within a week or so, his administration does a complete 180 on Epstein, fires the prosecutor who worked the case against him, and guts…

Israeli forces attacked the Holy Family Church—the only Catholic church in Gaza—this morning, killing two civilians and injuring several others, including the parish priest, Father Gabriel Romanelli.

Frogs Wrestling, by Ohara Koson, ca. 1928-1930

Superman was awesome. Its success so far makes me (probably too optimistically) hopeful we might move be moving beyond a cynical “own-the-[political opponent]” cultural moment to a more pronounced concern for simple goodness.

WTF even is this country I live in… In one post, he wrote: "I am based. I have rizz. I am smart. I am charismatic. I have superior genetics. I am strong. I am bold. I am intense. I have large amounts of testosterone. I am never wrong. I don’t apologize. I am an alpha male."…

“Nothing can be both A and also not-A. But there are two realms in which the principle does not hold. One is that of materia prima, pure potency as such, which absent the impress of any formal causality has no actual existence at all, and thus does not rise to the level of…

Abba Theodore of Pherme asked Abba Pambo, ‘Give me a word to live by.’ And with great reluctance he said to him, ‘Go, Theodore, and have compassion on all. Compassion allows us to speak freely to God.’ - Sayings of the Desert Fathers

Started a new discipline when training: instead of scrolling my phone between sets, reading passages from great works of practical philosophy (mostly Confucian and Stoic atm). Today’s nugget from the early Confucian philosopher Xunzi: “Heaven does not suspend the winter because…

BTW the IQ argument is pretty much shut medium.com/incerto/iq-is-…

Am I the only one who finds it very out of place that an ascetic on the Holy Mountain has a photo on his wall of an ethno-nationalist military leader (in place, apparently, of any icons)?

Anyone else ever get overwhelmed sometimes by the absolute beauty and goodness of everyone and everything but also the inexplicable ugliness, and also the hateful stubborn ugliness of themself?

Making good progress on the teacher grading view, which is probably the most complex bit of ui. (Still in progress.)

Working from home is awesome. Working from home when you don’t have a separate office and the rest of the family is home as well is…less than awesome.

Introducing Pops to Origen of Alexandria.

Nothing like seeing a feature you've been working on for over six months get released to prod...and then immediately encountering a bug that's never happened before. 🙃