Molly Reese
@mt_missing
Mostly here to follow accounts that recommend great books and to post occasional amateur chicken rearing content.
OpenAI taking orders from a disembodied head in Edgestow
This is one of the most jaw-dropping pieces I've ever read and I'm not entirely sure what to do with it. nytimes.com/2025/06/13/tec…
Me: pushing happy kids on the swings in the bright buttery sunshine* 3 yr old, demonstrating: [Mama] Do you ever close your eyes and breathe in? Me: That's very good advice. I'll do it more often. The kid is a treasure 🤌
Having another baby and find the name Ignatius perfect, and yet, completely ruined by John Kennedy Toole. Can't say the name without immediately thinking, "My valve is actin up!"
I've finally finished Tom Jones (THE PERFECT SUMMER READ) and have an important note: Blifil is right up there with Humbert Humbert for literary characters whose names *perfectly* communicate their moral and interior ICK!
RETVRN
17th Century Baroque church pulpit one the form of whale, Poland
Pull up to the library and 3 yr old exclaims, "we're at the book church!"
3 yr old taught 1 yr old an adorable dance today. He went into toddler euphoria when he recognized he'd taught his brother something. They passed excitement back and forth like a ball, and I hope we preserve this type of communion. Relationship is the heart of love & learning.
Man, my apocalyptic lit seminar really prepared me for each fresh hell that emerges
NEW - Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" bans all 50 states from regulating AI for 10 years, centralizes control at the federal level, and integrates AI systems into key federal agencies.
Global online searches for “how to become Catholic” surged by a staggering 373% between April 20 and April 26. zenit.org/2025/05/13/how…
Global online searches for “how to become Catholic” surged by a staggering 373% between April 20 and April 26. zenit.org/2025/05/13/how…
The first time I heard Latin responses - and the Salve Regina - was at a Catholic college Mass when I was 21. I was stunned by the beauty and saddened that it hadn't been shared with me.
Most of the devout young Catholics I meet grow up with the typical parish fare on Sundays, only later discovering the beauty of our authentic Catholic liturgical patrimony. Their reaction? Wonder, mixed with anger. They tell me—and this is a literal, word-for-word quote—“I’ve…
Finished Flannery O'Connor's the Lame Shall Enter First earlier this morning, and I can't shake the horrible feeling that I'm being ground up in the maw of some horrible demon
I want a pope with a mind like a diamond. I want a pope who knows what’s best.
Begging the Church to read more Dostoevsky.
Buddy, the body of Venerable Pope Pius XII reportedly exploded while lying in state
A key driver of human trafficking has always been the exploitative desires of a decadent economy.
Baby buyers meeting their Mexican surrogate mother for the first time, shortly before she gave birth.
Women who act as "surrogates" are bound by contracts to avoid even touching the babies they give birth to. The reason for this is to prevent bonding. That privilege goes to the buyers.
Standing ovation for this @erikabachiochi piece in @WSJ. It's time for heterodox Catholic man-fluencers to read JPII and stop distorting Church doctrine about women. Link below.