Fr. Josh Miller

https://frjosh.org

Catholic Priest.
Normie poster.
I don't care about your money, but I do care about free networks.

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2026-04-07 18:55:24 UTC

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For my part: the young people I work with who have this problem tend to have a small IRL social graph. Dating apps and the like don't work for a lot of people, and yet the majority expect them to.
Most of the good guys I know just don't know enough people. They don't know the good girls out there, so I always push them towards something, anything social. My pastoral version of "touch grass."

2026-04-05 07:26:40 UTC

:hyves_banaan2: I just sorta feel like this is it: this is my emoji now. :hyves_banaan2:

2026-04-05 03:13:34 UTC

> Vigil was great! Baptisms and Confirmations were joyful, honored to be a part of them.
> I survived, health wise. Headache is now massive.
> I ate a junkfood meal after, first since August.
Goodnight.

2026-04-04 22:42:53 UTC

Soon.
https://blossom.primal.net/0d75681ba136a6c3b0df315a1b4ea94ad7683b6357501e57b6c4f0f889212396.jpg

2026-04-04 20:52:57 UTC

Yes.
https://blossom.primal.net/b452502067e2a24c1c04d7606dc27e306f2f0d805ddcfb80d89d67b54e95a644.webp

2026-04-04 20:15:21 UTC

Good Priests Right Now: Prepping for Vigil, meticulously studying one of the more complex liturgies we do.
Me, Mediocre Priest: BLASTING THIS ON REPEAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2HH7J-Sx80

2026-04-03 22:29:37 UTC

“When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez
and it’s Easter time too.”
https://blossom.primal.net/b1c4369bb8d1960390eaea5694a42b26526d2d7b399a2eb787548fe9d17fae99.jpg

2026-04-03 17:00:44 UTC

WORD5 #546 2/6
🟧🟪⬛🟧🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪
https://otherstuff.ai/word5/

2026-04-03 16:26:25 UTC

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Alright, let's add some general nausea to all of this. That's cool.

2026-04-03 14:50:40 UTC

Good Friday, still sick. Appropriate.

2026-04-03 01:20:35 UTC

Holy Thursday in the books. It was a nice one, despite being sicker than a dog.

2026-04-02 18:39:46 UTC

Here's the thing about Long John Silver's: the fish is terrible, but never sleep on the chicken. Something about the batter is perfect. I don't eat fried foods anymore, but if I did...
#nevent1q…3pgy

2026-04-02 16:44:39 UTC

noStrudel is still pretty good. Will be 100% Ditto, though, when it starts populating more than an hour's worth of posts to the browser.

2026-04-02 16:30:54 UTC

11 years ago, somehow, I stumbled upon a PDF file of the Roman Missal. My most-used PDF. They ought to give it to you at Ordination.

2026-04-02 14:43:35 UTC

This may seem like a small thing, but it is no small thing. It’s a sign of the upgrade we received in Pope Leo.
The Washing of the Feet within the context of Holy Thursday is not some vague sentimental gesture towards a broad notion of Christian service, as Francis signaled during his papacy, and we often see on the ground in parishes. Rather, it is a liturgical gesture fixed on one reality: ministerial priesthood. This is why the rubrics always called for “select men” to stand in for the Apostles during this liturgical action. Anything less dilutes its true meaning.
It’s good to have a man on the Chair of Peter who understands these subtleties and has the HUMILITY to follow them. Humility is not found in personal preference or in vague niceties; this is almost always vague, show humility, meant to draw your praise.
True humility in the papacy looks like this. It looks like accepting without argument the traditions handed on, and honoring them without personal spin.
https://image.nostr.build/c87072e0a631e341c23dc23c85bc3b54ec3e80ea1c0a51b362becc66b52d5b08.jpg

2026-04-02 01:19:24 UTC

I'm certain that, at a civic level, or even a scientific level, I should care about the Moon. I should care that we're going there.
But I don't. Have fun on the Moon, guys. I'd rather go back to Montana.

2026-04-02 01:15:00 UTC

The answer to the RAM shortage, it seems, would simply be to... make more RAM.
(Seriously, though: market compensation has to come sooner or later.)

2026-04-01 20:05:59 UTC

The moon? That 'ole thing's still around? I thought we nuked it years ago.

2026-04-01 19:09:21 UTC

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I will be doing so in the future! And thanks!

2026-04-01 19:08:52 UTC

Seems like conversation around AGI has cooled significantly over the past year or two, making public discourse a little less dumb. So that’s something.

2026-04-01 15:57:25 UTC

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For the record, the problem has never been umps who are 1/10th of an inch off. The problem has always been the Joe Wests and C. B. Bucknors of the league, who are off by 2-3 inches. Consistently.

2026-04-01 15:54:41 UTC

Joe West is more accurate than ABS, says Joe West.
https://archive.ph/8OL3G

2026-03-31 17:36:26 UTC

This is the worst time of year to live in Illinois. Constant 30+ degree shifts, tearing up the sinuses. EMS calls go on the rise, as do deaths at the change of seasons.
I am constantly sick. Good news is: only a month to go!

2026-03-31 17:27:26 UTC

The MacBook Neo is what I always wanted an x86 MacBook Air to run like. But they were always terrible.

2026-03-31 16:08:23 UTC

Standard problem with Ditto, same problem I've had with other clients, seemingly fixed on Primal (finally): After scrolling to a certain point, the feed just populates my own posts. If I've been gone for eight hours (sleep), no way to see what I've missed overnight.

2026-03-30 15:08:14 UTC

GM. Chrism Mass today, my 20th one or something ridiculous like that.

2026-03-30 02:27:18 UTC

Was thinking earlier today about Nodaway County, in northwestern Missouri. It was the strangest place I've ever lived, and I've lived all around.
It was unfriendly to the extreme, outside of Maryville, the county seat and university town. I was an outsider, and made to feel like it constantly. It was like an old cliche of the frontier west, where you were never quite sure if you might have to shoot your way out. I learned out in Nodaway that "Who are you and what are you doing out here?" isn't really a sentence. It's a look some people know how to give.
I survived it, but it's on a very short list of places I'd never return to.

2026-03-29 00:34:57 UTC

Illinois makes it to the Final Four! At least one of my teams is halfway decent.

2026-03-28 15:43:13 UTC

Four of the Elite Eight teams are from the Big Ten. Too bad Nebraska (my native land) couldn't get there, but glad Illinois (my alma mater) made it.

2026-03-28 14:45:13 UTC

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Right place, right time. The anti-Elon sentiment was at a height, and they wanted a not-Twitter that felt like Twitter. Nobody cared about the original mission of the site, and pretty soon not even the devs seemed to care anymore.

2026-03-28 02:40:25 UTC

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It is now longer and more elaborate than it needs to be; clearly written by a group of French basement Vatican dwellers who never had the hard task of actually doing a Vigil.

2026-03-27 20:46:24 UTC

Best name in baseball? Probably.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/8d2fc5f3f816d55953548565121bd293461ce493adf7cf6cb2ab1120e2ff09b3.png

2026-03-27 18:49:17 UTC

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Just now, I was able to: connect said wallet to... basically everything, desktop or otherwise, and successfully send zaps.
I hate monkeying with this stuff. If I can do it, you can too.
#nevent1q…te97

2026-03-27 16:13:37 UTC

Just took a gander at the revised OCIA Rite for the Easter Vigil.
May God have mercy on liturgists.

2026-03-27 15:39:43 UTC

My collection is growing. Windy City Bulls giveaway night, parishioner just brought it by.
https://blossom.primal.net/180a2abbd64b61f45280cac517b8e1a55486e298cee39533a837034e3d2ce4c5.jpg

2026-03-27 03:31:56 UTC

I object to the resurgence of the mustache.

2026-03-26 17:57:47 UTC

Grateful for the return of baseball. The beautiful thinkin' man's game.

2026-03-24 20:48:19 UTC

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Enjoy. Best purchase I've made in a long while.

2026-03-23 19:46:49 UTC

I love my MacBook Neo. It's probably the best computer purchase I've made in the last decade. Take it wherever, bang it around, get things done.

2026-01-19 19:24:19 UTC

The one thing I use AI for: formatting my LaTeX stuff. Not because I have to, but because I am lazy.

2026-01-18 18:50:15 UTC

Yorgos Lanthimos' "Bugonia" is worth your attention, even if it is a bit predictable.

2025-11-10 18:21:30 UTC

50 years ago today. Only one thing to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A

2025-11-08 17:16:28 UTC

Getting in shape becomes a kind of addiction after a while. A healthy one, but an addiction nonetheless.

2025-10-02 16:07:52 UTC

The hardest part about intermittent fasting isn't the hunger: you get past that in about a month. The hardest part is the dehydration: with my 40/8, I need to drink about a gallon of water a day.
I fail at this. Daily.

2025-10-02 14:46:07 UTC

Glad the iPhone Air is lagging behind expectations. Sends a clear message: people don't care about the thickness of a phone, especially against battery life.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/02/iphone-17-strong-demand-morgan-stanley/

2025-09-17 18:21:01 UTC

Just drank some Belgian beers in accord with my heritage. Convocation is the best.
https://image.nostr.build/0840505c1b8e5b15f6b428a6dc50a13300ac9c895890e7ad8cd08c2393fef696.jpg

2025-09-13 03:38:41 UTC

Really: turn off all the lights, and play Bob Dylan's "Rough and Rowdy Ways." Play it all the way through, like albums are meant to be played.
"I'll see you, baby, on Judgment Day."

2025-09-11 17:24:00 UTC

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They were never the solution. There's a reason Jack deleted.
#nevent1q…uyck

2025-09-10 19:42:45 UTC

Prayers for Charlie Kirk. I tend to avoid politics as much as possible, but one thing that really concerns me here, so allow me to comment:
BOOMERS. GET A GRIP.

2025-09-10 17:02:56 UTC

Do you part to fight brain rot: write in long-form. 🫡
https://www.thenexus.media/tiktok-won-now-everything-is-60-seconds/

2025-09-10 15:31:47 UTC

Or, we could all post to Nostr and just be normal.
https://archive.ph/7X5Qy

2025-09-09 19:03:39 UTC

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"bright" even.

2025-09-09 19:03:16 UTC

Well, bring obnoxious orange is my favorite color, Apple, so at least you've done one thing right with the "new" iPhone 17 Pro Max.

2025-09-09 16:30:20 UTC

I suspect I just have to face the facts: I can't watch pro football anymore. Not because my teams are trash: I have too many I follow to be disappointed.
It's the pace of play. The grind. The standing around. 45 minutes longer than the average baseball game, with 11 minutes less action. I'd rather watch test cricket, which is a different kind of schlog altogether.
Something needs to happen. Put Rob Manfred in charge: we'd all complain for a season, but then we'd dig the faster play.

2025-09-09 02:43:07 UTC

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Nah. Improving.

2025-09-09 02:40:01 UTC

I've said it before, and Iwill say it again: the NFL is broken. Shorten the games.

2025-09-08 19:20:39 UTC

Not quite sold on this, but at least I know the encryption model will be open source and audited.
#note1fez…tx43

2025-08-22 15:18:00 UTC

Case in point: HVAC. HVAC systems can be relatively simple, even the commercial units like the one I have in my church, and there are a ton of people qualified to work on HVAC systems.
Problem: They're putting computer controller units on them now. Many advantages to this, but it also makes repairs terrible. A power surge knocked out the controller unit, and did $10K worth of damage; the HVAC guys (the repairmen who would normally handle all work on a normal mechanical unit) cannot fix it. It must farmed out to a computer company who specializes in installing and maintaining such things, and I've been waiting for this one company for almost three weeks to complete the job.
The reality is that things still break as they always did, but the consequences of breakage are higher now, and we only have electronic integration to blame.
#nevent1q…264h

2025-08-22 14:42:59 UTC

Sort of. I know plenty of people who had the same washer and dryer, kept alive by the 'ole repair man, for three decades; then they buy a new one, with all the bells and whistles, and the first time it breaks down, they're told it's cheaper to replace than repair. This is the most common story I hear from people in their 80's, but is true even of the appliances I grew up with as a kid.
I think the most common problem with consumer appliances and automobiles is that they're more complicated now, involving more electronics. This means more can go wrong, and there will be no one near you who can fix it. Hence why I'm firmly against installing anything in my plant with a computer, when a simple mechanical item will work work just fine. I have to budget for disasters and repairs.
#nevent1q…hgck

2025-08-22 14:26:02 UTC

Good Friday morning to all. Pray it's a productive one!

2025-08-21 22:27:28 UTC

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Certainly: most web apps are terrible, as are their desktop versions. Inconsistent. Poor load times, if anything loads at all. Primal is the best example. If Nostr is to succeed, solid web apps are an absolute must. Thankfully, Damus Notedeck gives me reason for hope.

2025-08-21 21:17:51 UTC

I'll say it until I'm blue: stable desktop/web versions are far more important right now than your cell phone app.

2025-08-21 15:36:22 UTC

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Still laughing at this, btw. I am, in fact, 45.

2025-08-21 14:45:22 UTC

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Yep. Always carry one in my pocket.
pocket.https://blossom.primal.net/58a2357cb3aa195aaa6f4518896c312d4db9f452d740ad10b0ea673b7fa4d3f2.jpg

2025-08-21 14:36:11 UTC

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Amen.

2025-08-11 02:15:34 UTC

Minnesota.
Bob Dylan.
Prince.
In that order.

2025-07-29 20:00:23 UTC

When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, at seven years old my answer was definitive: Second Baseman for the Chicago Cubs.
That's because Ryne Sandberg was the second baseman in those days. Always moving, always making the play, always tuned into the moment so he could position himself properly. And he did it all with a layer of humility that has always been a staple of the game.
RIP Ryno, and thanks for helping along my love of the game.
https://image.nostr.build/1263e7e3c55916bdb9bbb0a1bbc9c30b4cddff0b4438e6252c8f3e9d2d724b6a.jpg

2025-07-28 15:11:39 UTC

Yep. Windows is in fact the ultimate malware now.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/28/windows_11_is_a_minefield/

2025-07-26 00:39:28 UTC

Happy Gilmore 2 is a success in a rare way. Most soft reboots/revisits/sequels after a long period of time end up being shadows, but this one felt right in league with the original. Highly recommended.

2025-07-11 21:44:38 UTC

The Uniball Zento Signature, Flow, and Basic all in .38. The difference is in pen materials, with the Basic feeling like your typical light disposable, the Flow being slightly heavier and more tighter in construction, and the Signature featuring magnetic cap and post. Otherwise, the cartridges are the same.
The ink itself is glorious, and I highly recommend all pen carriers check it out. Pass on the Signature until you’ve experienced the ink and you can actually find it at a decent ($30) price.
https://image.nostr.build/024fc7d9ad4dddf50067b393cb1b86107c694a424c8eaa4e3851e998e9dd48b1.jpg

2025-07-10 18:39:50 UTC

Midwesterners like to complain about a lack of rain. I like to remind Midwesterners that it's already as humid as it gets outside. If you want a green lawn, check out the parish's with the sprinkler system.

2025-07-10 16:35:11 UTC

The cost of AI is going insane, and for the funniest reasons.
The VC cash-in is now upon us, and who better to target than the VC startups for whom $20k a year is chump change? Meanwhile, the common person who might view it (rightly) as a shortcut search engine is priced straight out.

2025-07-05 20:27:17 UTC

I appreciate this article. It’s like acknowledging what you believed in is really a scam, even if he doesn’t have the courage to say it.
#note1nlx…f9gt

2025-07-01 15:51:25 UTC

For us sportsballers, July 1st is a High Feast:
Happy Bobby Bonilla Day!

2025-06-24 01:42:55 UTC

Rate Field, Chicago. Where the air is hot and the baseball and beer are cold.

2025-06-23 22:28:12 UTC

This take on a classic Imperial sought after throughout the country is both glorious and an abomination deserving of direct condemnation from the Lord and his Bride.
https://image.nostr.build/daa6a083d9cfc49f3599daf975c751a405bdd38ee30b1bd1223019ba461c760d.jpg

2025-06-23 21:07:16 UTC

Got carded. I’m 45 and I’m buying three cans of highly regarded beers at $15 each for a tailgate. But I still got carded.
https://image.nostr.build/7d994bcf81cde4b5e8b1bac633614646ffa1db6c202349de60e034a8a6200e8e.jpg

2025-06-23 16:53:35 UTC

Looks good, but I doubt the claim. I only experience an "overflowing sense of immorality" after eating at McDonald's.
https://blossom.primal.net/63ecc76af7bf2ca7e1776e8782988c9bd9f01d3b7e655da3d2fd2f84ae26421c.png

2025-06-22 01:53:46 UTC

More European institutions dumping Microsoft. Gives me hope.

2025-06-21 20:25:21 UTC

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Those of us who live in it do everything we can to stay out of it.

2025-06-21 20:19:53 UTC

Not a fan.
https://image.nostr.build/77d4008ee71a27d0fe8d5a13975b137f1938fefdb6b4dcb928c7b91ea9afd8c4.jpg

2025-06-14 02:07:20 UTC

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Agreed. Was surprised how good a movie it was, when I remember how the trailer was initially received as a meme.

2025-06-12 23:02:35 UTC

My vibe
https://image.nostr.build/1477e9fcc1bb3432537b1edca0c8aa8d28f3a93b6b6adb4c7bd9604336df01a3.jpg

2025-06-04 16:47:42 UTC

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*whatever is simplest, just as is the case with cellphone usage.

2025-05-31 18:27:21 UTC

Blessing of the Bikes was a success.

2025-05-20 15:03:57 UTC

Reticulating splines

2025-05-14 03:22:13 UTC

I wrote about how Pope Leo is "one of us."
https://frjosh.org/blog/one-of-us/

2025-05-11 01:21:37 UTC

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One suggestion: "Agite, Tangite Herbas"

2025-05-10 23:53:38 UTC

PREDICTION: Pope Leo XIV will be the first pope to address directly the dangers of being terminally online.

2025-05-10 20:06:43 UTC

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Not uncommon. Most of us have too many degrees. I have three BAs and two MAs.

2025-05-10 16:40:27 UTC

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Just a boomer meme here or there from me. And always with a preface ;)

2025-05-10 16:28:56 UTC

Boomer, but I will permit it.
https://blossom.primal.net/bff9f5e32446cb95d15a9b00c065746103b89cf401b9749d6903d2de31d40208.png

2025-05-10 01:53:03 UTC

I love this poem, and the acknowledgment that, in the end, it doesn't really matter. Touch grass.
--
16-bit Intel 8088 chip
with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can’t use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.
— Charles Bukowski

2025-05-09 01:21:09 UTC

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lol I love it.

2025-05-09 00:26:12 UTC

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He was on the betting sheets prior to; but I’ve seen his name discussed in Catholic circles before all this.

2025-05-08 23:17:39 UTC

I don’t get a chance to wear tshirts out much, but when I do:
https://image.nostr.build/eda82f9b9c58fd02a098590e714d24e47d7ec53004211c850dd80152dcf9bbcf.png

2025-05-08 20:00:34 UTC

Some solid South Side yearbook action for you all.
https://blossom.primal.net/8a27c31813bc7d7d8dd676acb9557ba32be9cce87d9afbe5a513dd8d48e1fc05.png

2025-05-08 19:54:03 UTC

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Me too, but if he's not: can we really blame him?

2025-05-08 18:16:30 UTC

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The scuttlebut is that they wanted Western leadership style back in office, which I certainly understand. I just expected an Italian.

2025-05-08 17:50:40 UTC

Just goes to show you: anything's possible at a conclave. I was 100% certain the old rules would apply here, and an American would be off the table.
Pope Francis hated Americans, by the way.
Amazing.