Valerie Pavilonis

Ambitious French people really are special

@suzania don't forget bookie

There’s like maybe a maximum of 8 jobs where I understand what the job is. Shopkeeper. Farmer. Teacher of some kind. Priest. Novelist. Journalist. Private detective. Chef. That’s it. What is a data engineer. I don’t know.

Begging people to remember you can have *friends* "For these moms, non-monogamy seems to offer more than just a way to reclaim their libido. Could it also be the secret to raising kids without completely resenting one’s husband?" thecut.com/article/non-mo…

Catholics are called to reject antisemitism and the lies and conspiracies that fuel it, and to stand clearly against hatred and violence directed toward our Jewish brothers and sisters. To defend religious freedom with integrity, we must also reject antisemitism. @ArchbishpSample @archdpdx Watch the full video at: ow.ly/sYF550Yw6cA

Do you know an early-career journalist who would be a good fit for @TheDispatch? Our friends @TFASorg are sponsoring a year-long fellowship at The Dispatch to encourage fact-based reporting and analysis. Pls share widely! jefapply.connect.tfas.org

don’t forget to leave a guinness out for cillian murphy tonight

Right now, Pope Leo is the only world leader providing any moral clarity on issues like the Iran War and AI. Everyone else is triangulating.

If you’re a Chicago writer, I want to read your work. @default_friend and I run a writer’s group here and we’re always looking for new people. Let me know if you’re down to join.

Kayla did such a beautiful job with this one! Thanks for writing for us :)

레온 비초우코프스키, 〈봄 – 예술가의 작업실 내부〉(1933)

this is the book btw it was very good amazon.com/Chaim-Soutine-…

unfortunately after reading "Chaim Soutine" by @Celestemarcus3 I have a much greater appreciation for van gogh and related guys. sigh. and i was such a happy hater

I have a new piece out in @thedispatch today where I talk about Chicago’s rich literary history and urge people to come revive the literary scene here. Link below 👇

250 Years Of Being Better! 🏅🇺🇸🇺🇸🏅

@BMcGrewvy hello :)

I really want to write a piece about film clergy in movies like Wake Up Dead Man, First Reformed and The Apostle so I can explain why The Apostle is one of the very few that actually nails it, but I do not know who would want such a piece.

Wrote a piece for @thedispatch today on @uarizona's Biosphere 2: "The facility is a testament to man’s gargantuan dreams: a relic of a past where we still believed in the future."

Why did New Atheism fade? And will the same thing happen to our so-called 'religious revival'? Today, @NickPompella dove into these questions for @thedispatch. Link below!

TIL about the existence of blebbisomes (large extracellular vesicles that contain everything but a nucleus) and they are named this because they, in the technical parlance, "bleb around" it's so WHIMSICAL i'm so happy bleb bleb bleb

what if the english major is causing the great evils (i am an english major)