i really cannot explain enough how much you do not want to be searching for a passport and banking passwords whilst you're grieving and trying to say final goodbyes.
Jordan Haynie Ware
@godwelcomesall.bsky.social
Texan by birth, Canadian by choice. One of many dozens of Jeopardy! contestants on this app. Lover of word-based social media, Jesus, and dogs. Trans rights are human rights. She/her.
if you actually love your loved ones, show that love by making sure that they know what you want, and making it as easy as possible, legally, for them to do that. and this goes for medical care and incapacity, as well. if you want your kids to step in, make sure they have POA. etc.
Having now dealt with the deaths of two parents within two months, let me just say that the kindest thing you can do for your loved ones, at every stage of life, is assume that some of them will outlive you, and make that as easy as possible for them, logistically. it sucks and it's morbid, but.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d agoI accept that I am incredibly morbid, but this also goes within marriages, you really are better off using the process of doing your lasting power of attorney to try and have a frank conversation about end of life issues.
I found this so interesting - I had to think hard about some of these, and some of them the answers have changed after 9 years in Canada. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
There is a weird attitude among leftish Americans sometimes that the rest of the world is supposed to respond as though he is not the President of the United States. He is the President of the United States! Canada (and the rest of the world) is going to treat him accordingly!
Dan Hayward@danielhayward.bsky.social · 2w agoThere was an article in Slate about naïve foreigners who take the President's statements as meaningful US policy. Really (again)? You folks assured us, "he's just trolling about Greenland." It turned out he was deadly serious.
Sermon preview: - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Jesus calls us to an empathy that is literally suicidal, what on earth are y'all taking about - The Martyrs of Memphis - Dolly Parton
This is an episode in Buffy Season 1 from 1997.
Leah from South Dakota@leahfromsd.bsky.social · 3w agoWho's going to write the horror story about some AI tech bros finding ancient black magic books, destroying them in order to scan for their stupid app, and unleashing the worst curse the world has ever seen? #Scriptsky #ProbablyAlreadyAThing
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Whenever WhatsApp offers to summarize the message whose content is literally "ok" I die a little inside
Orlagh O’Kelly@orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 3w agoOr how it summarizes text messages in more words than the original message 🤦♀️
I am a Christian pastor who is constantly telling Christians "that's not in there, some Christian somewhere said it but not the Bible" or "this verse is actually in the Bible, not the Communist Manifesto" and watching people shrug and not change
Adam L. Cox@adamlcox.bsky.social · 3w agoIt’s unnecessary, as a historian, because what really matters is what the people who engage in actions related to the Bible think the Bible says, rather than what it actually says. If that makes sense.
this doesn't apply to the quoted piece, but most people who say "teach the bible" mean "give my children sectarian religious instruction" not "teach my children the literary and rhetorical importance of the biblical text"
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4w agoEvery conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"
I really, really hate seeing old churches go. But the church is a living thing — not a museum. And these places won’t be there for weddings and funerals if those are the only two times people care about them.
my personality is "castlevania"@leokitty.bsky.social · 4w agojust want to note that this church is fine but not amazing, celebs got interested in "saving it" but not interesting in paying for any maintenance and it's basically in "must go" state due to that and the very small group who worship there are who is trying to sell bc they can't maintain!!!!!!
God really did die out of empathy for us and commanded his followers to do the same; to be a Christian is to believe in empathy to the point of death, that is the 2,000 year witness across denominations
Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 4w agoYou can demand a return to "Christian values", or you can attack empathy as "suicidal". You cannot do both.
Guys like Yglesias keep using the "HR training" and "HR lady" shorthand because it's less obviously odious than honestly saying that they don't think racism or misogyny are important issues worth dealing with and only matter as "luxury beliefs" for prudish upper class people
A non-zero percentage of the religion problems of our day is that both the religious and the formerly-religious have never developed a mature understanding of the faith and base all their opinions on what they learned in 3rd grade Sunday school
Bridget O’Brien@bridgetemob.bsky.social · 4w ago“Hi. Former K12 student here, where they made me take science EVERY YEAR of school. Let me tell you what my 7th grade physics teacher told me about electrons, this DEFINITELY makes me an authoritative source on particle physics.”
James Talarico won't steal your pen is such a great line
They say not to check your phone as soon as you wake up, but if I hadn't, I'd've missed remembering just how bonkers Field of Dreams was and an awesome long read about neofascism so checkmate, health nerds.
On this day, the Church remembers Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a seminarian who gave his life during the civil rights movement. His sacrificial courage calls all of us to stand where Jesus stands—in solidarity with the oppressed in our community, and in our world.
I don't use LinkedIn much so I'm not sure why a job hunting app thinks following the Prime Minister of my country is going to help but given they send me 37 emails a day suggesting I do, I guess he must play a role here?
The idea most people have about Christian salvation (if you lived a good life then when you die your soul goes to heaven) is not found anywhere in the Bible. In fact, it contradicts everything Jesus says about what will happen to those who have died.
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 4w agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
The Lord God Almighty changed God's law because a bunch of women argued it wasn't fair (Numbers 27:1-11)
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 4w agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
I did not enjoy my Peace Corps service; I had health issues, I didn’t advocate for myself very well, I was placed in a difficult context and didn’t handle it the best. I support the Peace Corps and its goals and think more people should do some kind of 2 year service in their 20s.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last mo.what are things where your own experience and the view of what you think is good for most people vary wildly? For instance, I *hated* university and it was not at all interesting or useful to me intellectually, but am generally very encouraging of people going to university.
I don’t post many personal photos to Bluesky because it’s a text-based medium but I’ve decided to share a Machu Picchu pic, as a treat, mostly because I went to Machu Picchu and I plan to be insufferable about it
Sermons that bum me out: 1. Here are some academic thoughts about the Scripture but they don't actually, like, matter 2. Here is what you are doing wrong, it's probably about sex or how you dress 3. When you think about it, all that really matters to being nice like you learned in kindergarten
Jordan Haynie Ware@godwelcomesall.bsky.social · last mo.God is the interesting thing about the church!
I'll go one further and say that anyone delivering previously prepared remarks containing people's names should know how to pronounce them. I don't even think youtubers should be mispronouncing names they knew they would be saying
Jamie McKelvie@mckelvie.bsky.social · 2mo agoAwards ceremonies should not be mispronouncing nominee names in 2026, imo
Any former service worker knows - especially but not exclusively in the US where minimum tipped wage is $2.13/hour - 20% is the minimum tip.