Kevin Hargaden
@kevinhargaden
Professional bibliophile. Evangelistic about how riding bikes every day is fun. Likes jokes.
In a zany attempt to head off a mid life crisis, I'm moving my family from a lovely college town on the edge of Dublin to a quintessential middle America city (South Bend IN) on Wednesday. Do my North American bsky pals have any valuable advice for me?
My first ever football coach would sometimes call me Baresi. Perhaps no one has ever given me a better compliment. I'm really disappointed to hear of the passing of this absolute legend of my childhood
What you guys need to know is that if you just keep subscribing, my monks and I are *this close* to turning lead into gold.
A groundbreaking study in how industrial espionage can cascade into tragedy, especially when it involves experimental genetics.
Regarding the growing call to *ban* e-scooters, the data speaks for itself...
all anyone ever wants is a crew as cool as the gang in this baby book
look, i know it's weird that a beautiful American woman has released a tribute album to the Cure where she dials down the goth and turns up the humour, but I'm here for it.
The first one to really overwhelm me was Shalekhet (Fallen Leaves) by Menashe Kadishman in Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin. The whole building, in fact, as an artefact, still occupied an outsized space in my imagination.
I'm back on my shit (writing letters to the editor about how cycling is good actually). www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
lol. I'm clearly very good at my job. britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...
absolutely LOVING the way that Micro-Giant depicted the Holy Spirit as a sort of psychedelic Celtic spiral in this drawing of Pentecost
beautiful summer Sunday afternoon you say? perfect time to do a clear out of our attic i - the dumbest clown in Ireland - says
At a formal Oxbridge high table dinner deal, this week, I sat beside a finance exec now doing a humanities phd. He explained to me with great confidence that capitalism just means people with capital invest it seeking profit, eventually serving the common good. I'm the guy who believes in myths
Clearing out the attic and found to my delight that Genius Past Me preserved all three @ronanhession.bsky.social albums for Present Me (who now has a cd player in his car) to enjoy afresh. I'm ready to commit some dictionary crimes
an underrated benefit of being consistently prolife is that eugenics is just simply shut down
Sure sure sure, the Catholics have their densely argued yet plainly written account of what it might mean to pursue human flourishing in an age of AI, but never forget that us Protestants built a robot pastor we named BlessU-2
A+ grade find in the library. Gonna get the gossip on 18th century kirk sessions
If I was in charge of soccer in Ireland I had organised the least glamorous fixture imaginable for after the season ended, I would flood local clubs up and down the country with cheap tickets for this. But as it stands, it would cost me €70+ to bring my son to this...
It's past time for my British friends who are preachers to get their people fully familiar with 1 Peter 2
Hey chums. You know any young Europeans (20-35) who might be interested in learning more about how their professional life can serve the common good? Cos me and some Jesuit geniuses are gonna take a ganseyload of people up the Dolomites to concentrate on just that question. (Feel free to share.)
My son discovered the idea of inspirational posters yesterday and we came down to this, stuck on our kitchen wall, this morning:
Hello friends. Christian ethicist here, with a little note from Irish history: Once they start classifying some people as decent, you have to ask who is indecent.
Speaking of Eagleton, he has reviewed the new book on Solidarity by he of the great eyebrows, Rowan Williams: archive.ph/VIGal
this weekend i went to the most famous Irish university that isn't in Ireland and dropped in on the 7-storey tall Touchdown Jesus.
Hey @bedubble.bsky.social, I see your array of public transport options and I approve
Sorry guys, Leinster is now just called "Maynooth Province". I don't make the rules (insane Loyalists from 1912 do).