Jay Knight ♞

Jay Knight ♞

@jayknight.com

Memphis. Dad. Software Engineer. Orthodox Christian ☦. Violin. Amateur Radio Operator. https://jayknight.com/

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Check out this absolute unit of an anvil cloud. Radar said this was over Whiteville/Bolivar, TN, taken from Bartlett. #thunderstorm #weather #cumulonimbus #memphis #tennessee

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In Engish, turkeys are named after the country Turkiye. In Turkiye, they're called "Hindi" named after India. In Hindi, they're sometimes called "Peru" named after...Peru. In Peru they're called "pavo" named after peacocks. Peacocks don't have a word for turkeys.

Remember the "last channel" button on tv remotes? I sure wish I could quickly switch between the soccer game on peacock and the baseball game on the MLB app.

"A lifeless corpse, he heard Thy voice; and at once he rose from the dead, filled with the breath of life and glorifying Thee, O Lord. Lazarus already stank; but, receiving the command of Thy life-giving voice, O my Savior, he arose from the tomb...."

"Woe is me! Now am I destroyed utterly, Hell cried out, and thus he spoke to Death: See, the man from Nazareth has shaken the lower world, and cutting open my belly he has called a lifeless corpse and raised it up." -Some choice verses from the Canon of Lazarus for Lazarus Saturday.

(1/2) "We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag....

(2/2) "...The expansion of the international economy is not a foreign invasion; it is an American triumph, one we worked hard to achieve, and something central to our vision of a peaceful and prosperous world of freedom." -Ronald Reagan

Coming home from a family Christmas party in Arkansas, we saw the GaoJing 1-02 (Superview 1-02) Chinese imaging satellite satellite re-entering and burning up in the atmosphere. Quite the sight. Captured from Slovak, AR.

Jonathan McDowell@planet4589.bsky.social

The commercial imaging satellite 高景一号02星 (GaoJing 1-02, Superview 1-02), operated by Beijing-based SpaceView (北京航天世景信息技术有限公司) reentered above New Orleans at 0408 UTC Dec 22 (10.08 pm CST Dec 21) heading northbound towards MS, AR, MO and was widely observed

Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. Yäj: a small desk tray that can hold a single pen and a pad of post-it notes.

Sarah M@lore.house

Mhäras, a line of pillowcase covers that look like they were designed by the animators of The Beatles Yellow Submarine films but colored by Pottery Barn’s design team.

I switched my handle to be my domain name yesterday, and my old handle is already a porn account. That's not ideal. I should have registered it as an alt right after I made the switch.

"The story of the Nativity is utterly shrouded in the cloak of weakness... Christ is incarnate as an unborn child in a world where infant mortality would have been astronomical by our modern standards... The God of the universe, to use modern scientific terminology, becomes a Zygote."

glory2godforallthings.comThe Wisdom of Man and the Foolishness of God - Glory to God For All ThingsThe Feast of the Nativity, known sometimes in Orthodoxy as “the Winter Pascha,” is one of the great examples in the story of our salvation where the “foolishness of God” defeats the wisdom of man. It ...

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Bluesky has gotten LOUD! That's not a bad thing, but I've been here a year and a half and I'm getting used to the changes. Here's a feed I love. It finds the quieter posters from your follows to display only. These are often your friends or deliberate follows. Give it a try!

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