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jmccyoung

@jmccyoung@mstdn.social

Live in #Berkeley, staff in the UC English Department, #Christian active at St. Columba's #Episcopal Church in West Marin Co., California. cyclist; reader of theology, science, and F/SF; BA in paleontology dating to near the K-Pg boundary; interested in classical and medieval history, historical linguistics, digital humanities and science. Also a cat guy. He/him/his.

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jmccyoung , to random
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Trump has changed what it means to be evangelical
https://wapo.st/4c2GhIU (gift link)
"The idea of evangelicals who don’t go to church was once unusual. Now, it is surprisingly common. In 2008, only 16 percent of evangelicals said they never or seldom attended church. By 2020, 27 percent did.
Evangelicalism, in short, has become about shared political convictions. In one survey of Christian attitudes ... 43 percent of evangelicals said they did not believe in the divinity of Christ." 1/2

jmccyoung , to random
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Why Does the NYPD Hate This Bike Chain
https://www.404media.co/email/1cc25606-201a-4f10-87ce-aeefa8285c3f/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

'“This is not what students bring to school,” Sheppard said, holding the chain to the camera. “These are heavy industrial chains that were locked with bike locks, and this is what we encountered on every door inside of Hamilton Hall.”

'But this is exactly what students bring to school, and it’s a bike lock chain that’s recommended to them through the Columbia University website.'

jmccyoung OP ,
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@rodbotic @meganL Thank you! Watch out Baskin Robbins!

jmccyoung , to random
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@futurebird Saw and immediately thought of you:
The comings and goings of ants: how are social skills shaped in an ever-changing world?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01000-z

evanpeterjones , to bookstodon group
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Curious how Mastodon reads compared to the YouGov poll of the US population below

How many Books did you read last year?

https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/48239-54-percent-of-americans-read-a-book-this-year

#bookstodon #books #reading @bookstodon

jmccyoung ,
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@evanpeterjones @bookstodon I voted 10-20 because that was closest to the 57 books StoryGraph tells me I read in 2023, but maybe you should revise your poll to reflect the numbers for reading addicts more accurately?

jmccyoung , to random
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Cardinals meet secretly in Prague to discuss "gender ideology"
https://archive.is/2024.02.08-124305/https://international.la-croix.com/news/religion/cardinals-meet-secretly-in-prague-to-discuss-gender-ideology/19144 h/t @wdlindsy (Free snapshot of article; the original is paywalled)

jmccyoung OP ,
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@wdlindsy Oh, interesting! Thank you. I didn't get that pop-up so I checked archive.is and was glad it was there.

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