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I make The Bible Lore Podcast, which is about the cultures and mythology that influenced the writers of the Bible. biblelorepodcast@gmail.com Available on all platforms but here's the Patreon: https://patreon.com/biblelorepodcast
what’s next, Paddington stuck in washing machine? watch now on youtube or listen wherever you get podcasts
Currently checking my phone every half hour to see whether we’re closer to getting the evac order. Nice to also see self-important centrist scholars spreading conspiracy theories about “terrorists” starting fires. Rest assured: this useless fuck will not get the Bible Lore invite.
Bible at the Movies 7 has hit the free feed! Hesse joins me as we discuss forgiveness, revenge, and the power of sharing your drugs with your enemies as an act of love – all key themes of Abel Ferrara’s grimy 1992 Catholic masterpiece ‘Bad Lieutenant’.
The Senate named the sanctions bill they voted to advance today after Lindsey Graham. A bill that will kill more Iranian children while also giving unchecked authority to Trump: honoring Graham exactly as he would have wanted.
I’m sorry I said your wife looked “sturdy.” I stand by what I said but I understand how you may have interpreted things differently than how I meant them.
the history of charging the mound, episode 6: LENNY RANDLE now free to watch on youtube youtu.be/RiQ-jr20CGA?...
MLB's most famous forfeit, 10-cent beer night, and the hero behind it all
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The Iliad is like 80% running back to the ships, and you know it's really bad when they're fighting BY the ships. The ships, it should be noted, go completely unused after about the first three books.
Patrick Monahan@pattymo.com · 2w agoOdysseus and his men are obsessed with running back to their ships. They can’t get enough of it
There are two types of people in this world. Ernest. And everyone else is Vern..
Tired: The Roman Empire fell because of Christians and foreigners and moral decay Wired: The Roman Empire never fell (a la PKD) Inspired: The Assyrian Empire never fell
Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 3w agoI am aware that writers don’t pick titles in the NYT but I’d like to suggest that Gibbon’s magnum opus isn’t “the definitive” book on empires. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o... (🎁🔗) Why? Well, I don’t believe “exotic” foreigners introduce “moral decay” & I think the Byzantine Empire is worthy of note.
look i don't like adam schiff either but i wouldn't kill myself to avoid having a conversation with the man
For those wanting some very accessible reads, I recommend looking through these to see what catches your eye. I’m thanked in the last two books, so consider those biased recs (but very good ones!)
listen to "the bible lore podcast" for "good knowledge"@haydentank.bsky.social · 4w agoAbsolutely! Here are many of my favorite accessible and introductory works about the Bible and Middle Eastern history
I will never not repost Jamelle Bouie hate. You have to dive into 19th century insults for cowardliness to properly describe what a lowlife he is.
rich traditions@helldude.bsky.social · 4w agoit's fun to see the few occasions where this guy finally feels brave enough to stake a clear position. this platner guy? i feel i can now stake a (~)definitive position. gaza "genocide" (some say it is, others dispute) still assessing, can't say much with certainty about its goodness (or vice versa)
it's fun to see the few occasions where this guy finally feels brave enough to stake a clear position. this platner guy? i feel i can now stake a (~)definitive position. gaza "genocide" (some say it is, others dispute) still assessing, can't say much with certainty about its goodness (or vice versa)
Repeat after me: I am not fiercer than Sabrina Carpenter. I am not fiercer than Felix Biederman. I am not fiercer than Glenn Greenwald. I am not fiercer than MovieBob. But if I stand back and watch and learn, I will be fiercer than I am.
sadly this also ends his career as an oysterman as he no longer needs to pretend to have a job
This is some shit I would do to JF in a multiplayer game where you have to fly a small plane together
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w agoA pilot jumped out of the door of a moving plane to his death, leaving the student he was teaching to fly to land the aircraft by herself. The student said he told her, "You know what you have to do, carry on."
This book will become essential reading for all BLP listeners very quickly.
Seth L. Sanders@nabalkattu.bsky.social · last mo.Where do Israel and Palestine come from and how have they changed over time? People are curious about how we can trace the ancient heritages of Palestinian, Jewish, and other peoples in the Levant. But there aren't any fresh, up-to-date accounts good for beginners--so I wrote one.
This is why I find the Platner discourse so off-putting: people in these Electoral Fandoms doing victory laps or shamefully retreating to silence in response to a rape victim who’s become a side character in their video game or show, with all the care, dignity, and genuine concern that entails.
David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · last mo.This is what I wrote about Platner back in October of 2025, and I think it holds up okay. The popular movement that grew around him in Maine is real and inspiring, the guy himself was always fugazy at best. At this point I just hope the former outlasts the latter. defector.com/what-job-is-...
challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today
Guys who refused to call what Israel did to Gaza a genocide until it wouldn't cost them anything to do so are running cover for an elected official who did the same. File under "who care"
Pod Save America@podsaveamerica.crooked.com · last mo.Jon Lovett on Scott Weiner being harassed at San Francisco Trans March.
It's a funny thing these clowns do where they'll ask Mamdani about Israel and then take his comments later and go "interesting how he's not talking about these other countries. 🤔"
the other big names in lefty bible podcasting are blue jays sickos cheering on springer and his "dingers" (gross stuff). mark my words, i will remain a pathetic mariners fan until the day i pass into sheol, where all mariners fans end up.
Dean Dettloff@deandettloff.bsky.social · last mo.I dragged @mattbernico.bsky.social to a baseball game last week and this is our new author and media photo. Editors please update your websites accordingly.
JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights
