Rev. AJ van Tine

@revajvt.bsky.social

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Unitarian Universalist minister living and serving in Rochester, NY. He/him.

From Wikipedia: Easy Star All-Stars is a reggae collective founded in 1997 by Michael Goldwasser, Eric Smith, Lem Oppenheimer and Remy Gerstein of New York City-based Easy Star Records.[1] The band is known for its reinterpretations of classic albums in reggae style. Their first album, released in 2003, was Dub Side of the Moon, an interpretation of Pink Floyd's 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon. This was followed by Radiodread (2006), an interpretation of Radiohead's 1997 album OK Computer; Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band (2009), an interpretation of the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; and Easy Star's Thrillah (2012), an interpretation of Michael Jackson's 1982 album Thriller.[2] In 2023, they released their eighth studio album, Ziggy Stardub, a reggae re-imagining of David Bowie's 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.
We might start by noting that this is not at all what is happening. “Liberals will always side with fascism over socialism, because facism protects capital” it is claimed. But both historically and today liberals never do this (conservatives often do). Nor, for that matter, do fascists always protect the interests of business elites—think of Trump’s tariffs. And to the great disappointment of apocalypticists everywhere, we are not faced with a choice between two dramatic pivots from liberalism. Rather, countries around the world are balkanising into ‘normie progressive liberal’ and ‘unhinged internet fascist’ factions.
Kombucha girl meme with the first frame, negative reaction, on “weird AI music,” and the second frame has her with a positive reaction while photoshopped as a certain musicial genius, and the text “weird Al music.”
Five skeksis is from The Dark Crystal plot menacingly.
Stylized map of an aerial view of Walt Disney World
Pg 94 of “Four Thousand Weeks” by Oliver Burkeman, with a highlighted phrase “it’s essentially a giant machine for persuading you to make the wrong choices about what to do with your attention,”
Tweet from @RebeccMcLaugh: My husband has three rules of engagement when we go to church. 1. An alone person in our gathering is an emergency 2. Friends can wait 3. Introduce a newcomer to someone else. Let’s all be missionaries at church today!
A moon oracle card featuring a bull in a desert, being touched by a rainbow, while a full moon is in the sky. Title and meaning read as “Exalted Moon: Self-Regulation”