Luke Burgis
@lukeburgis
Building @clunyinstitute, Editing @clunyjournal, Writing http://read.lukeburgis.com Author of WANTING and THE ONE & THE NINETY-NINE (Coming 2026)
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In order to fully tell the story of my breakup to my friends I must begin with the day I was born
Clune is a real one, and I can't wait to read it. I'll reimburse the first person who has attended a Cluny event and posts here, or DM's me, for the cost of a hardcover purchase, if you have the "Tips" feature turned on via X. (I need to be able to send you $30 in about 5…
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I don’t know Anthony Esolen personally, but I follow him here and I’ve just re-read his “10 Ways” book (first time was in seminary) now that I have a 21-month old daughter, but I am starting to believe he is a national treasure that must be protected at all costs.
Today I had an experience I've not had in 10 years -- or more, all things considered. I was chatting with an old friend of ours outside her apartment, on the lawn. A boy across the street was fooling around with a soccer ball. He's 16, and built like a middle linebacker. She…
Does anyone know a good resource—film, essay, book—that could introduce a non-religious person to the general idea of mystagogy?
Also adding “Why?” to the list. Yes, this is just some Christian nationalist slop, but the rule holds true for 99% of posts using this phrase. “I don’t think people realize” would be another one.
Major mute updates tonight. This is one-third of total new additions. Now I just need an option for “all AI content” @elonmusk
similar to how as a society we have an “all hands on deck” for suicide hotlines and awareness and prevention while at the same time being ok with suicide (with a rx from a physician)
Back in Michigan. Struck again by the bizarre contrast between our "all hands on deck" efforts to make everyone stop smoking tobacco... and then we legalized cannabis and now it's everywhere.
Never, under any circumstance, share a video on X of you or anyone you love—especially your own children—which shows you or them performing a golf swing.
I agree, but I don’t think it’s being rude. I think it’s telling the truth. And in the words of one modern-day saint: it can be extremely good to ocassionally “complicate people’s lives”
I think you should be occasionally, strategically rude in a way that might totally upend peoples lives for the better. Sometimes people need a push, or a question forced, but they don't know it yet.
i feel the pain
“It is not easy to convince people that I am not dealing with ideas but perceptions. Not concepts but observations. It is easy to disseminate ideas, but difficult to train perception. Marshall McLuhan, 1972. born this day: July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980
I’m not quite sure what to think of accounts that have interacted and engaged with me from time to time for several years, and will even send me a DM asking me for things, but don’t follow me. What’s up with that?
Drawbridge at dinner, might be inspiring a 21-month old future engineer
I've been looking for the best way to mute all of these types of posts as well, and have landed at muting the phase "here's" as the best catch-all.
Major mute updates tonight. This is one-third of total new additions. Now I just need an option for “all AI content” @elonmusk
Six weeks. Fifteen ideas. Real risks that usher in real change.