you ever watch a quaker organization unwittingly process itself towards extinction in real time?
you ever watch a quaker organization unwittingly process itself towards extinction in real time?
wild Friday night cleaning the bathroom
ok that's it someone please set fire to the internet. we're done here.
The Collects
haven't had a normal night's sleep since the time change. does anybody know what day, time, season, or war it is?
βIf rights donβt count right now, we are still going to be out there because testimony and witness matter,β Sarah Nahar, the staff supervisor and a member of the Mennonite Action steering committee, told @sojo.net's reporter. (gift link)
the only way this could get any more Maryland is if she was wearing the state flag pattern on her dress (and her socks, but that goes without saying)
Jasonβs right leg is wrapped in a large black brace with tubes coming out connected to an ice machine and tens unit out of frame. His other leg is just hanging out. Theyβre lying on a physical therapy table.
βWe are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.β
a large spider crossing my dining room just now nearly broke me, in case you're wondering how my day is going
Like watching open heart surgery without a heart present.
A glass of white wine sits on the little green shelf on my porch, with a potato head mug full of water and Robbie Couchβs book The Sky Blues behind it
white wine on the porch season starts now
so the Board of Peace was actually a plank of wood. got it.
I've recommended a bit of queer theology too, but my breadth there is limited, and I refuse to read apologia about why the hets should be accepting.
Anyway, tell me you've got more than $500 to spend on books at your peril.
The Meetinghouse librarian sent a note to Friends asking for book acquisition suggestions. I'm doing my best (but failing) to keep from inundating him with every book of queer poetry ever that touches on faith.
cc: @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Guys the Lit for Queer Liberation auction is live! So many great items!
www.32auctions.com/LitforQueerL...
International relations theory thinks of mutually assured destruction in terms of nukes. We need to be thinking in terms of water infrastructure & environment.
Evening Prayer: Loving God, as we end this day we hold in our hearts both gratitude for the days graces and grief over life's losses. For those who are grateful, we celebrate with them. For those who grieve, we share in their heartache. Bring grace to our world and its pain. Amen.
"How to bring god closer /
after the frenzy, the snarling riots, /
this god hanging on a tree?"
(Christine E. Black, 2018)
sojo.net/magazine/mar...
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h β’β’β’ My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
βI have usernames older than you.β.
Holy shit
Selfie of Jason leaned on one wrist looking into the camera showing off a fresh haircut and wearing a green shirt
back to being a homosexual I guess
Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership
Kristi Noem can now go back to being a Mary Kay Pink Cadillac in a cheap wig and those weird plastic headlight eyelashes.
She doesnβt care about people (or dogs) because she is, and always has been, a tacky vanity car.
If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
A byproduct of having been barely raised is that when a colleague takes time away to deal with their teenage child, I just sort of blink confusedly.
Then I remember I was basically feral from 14 on and perhaps *that* was the weird thing.
a colleague just (kindly) mocked my "load-bearing they/them pronoun" and I haven't laughed that hard in weeks.
Iβve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.
Choir practice coincidentally got out at the same time as the hockey game and these people are NOT HOT and NOT GAY and I HAVE BEEN SOLD SIX HOURS OF SMUTTY LIES.
See also;
- the fast moving bike lane
- people's gardens
- water
Dear Couples -
I'm afraid I will not be walking in the road/bush etc so you don't have to walk single file.
Kind regards -
ellen cross