Wayne

*peeks over at BlueSky after almost a year*

Is anyone I know active on this site?

TIL the phrase "rent-seeking behavior"

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

Against such things there is no law."

(Gal 5:22-23)

People in the feed are talking about the move from ex-Twitter to BlueSky in terms of rightwing / leftwing conflict.

Meanwhile, I'm just mad that the search feature over there is broken. Finding useful past discussions is my superpower, but it doesn't work if you're going to break searches. 🤷‍♂️

Reminds me of this infamous letter from cornetist Herbert L. Clarke in which he decries the evils of trumpets and "jaz" (ca. 1921):

Trying to build the Restorationist starter pack. Would love to know of more.

go.bsky.app/9byRiLZ

"Known" is probably a generous word to describe anything I did on Twitter though, lol.

I'm not sure.

Probably being the creator of this chart:

Confession: I regularly referred to you in at-home conversations as "Walter the Muppet."

TIL the word "kakistocracy"

On the bird website, I kept a running thread of "TIL" items--marking the dates that I learned various new things. I'm re-starting that here.

But if no one knows everything, then everyone has things they are learning later than everyone else.

Admitting that we don't know things is how we learn.

Hopefully, it will keep us honest and humble too.

People are always learning new things.

But sometimes we might feel embarrassed to learn something that "everyone else already knows." Why did we learn it so late?

If we're not careful, we might be tempted to pretend we knew that thing all along.

In which I offer a few thoughts about what the tale of the Rich Man and Lazarus is actually trying to teach us. I even have a chart!
open.substack.com/pub/skiesofpar…

Yeah, I imagine it would be considerably less effort if the platform wasn't still behind an invite-wall.

Alright, let's give this platform a try.