The unfortunate thing about this search is that my attempt to find the definitions for these terms is frequently leading me to sites like GotQuestions & other evangelical hellscapes.
Hello Bluesky folks, I need some help. I’m writing an exvangelical memoir & I have a formatting idea that involves going deep into the abyss of Christianese. If you grew up evangelical, will you give me a word/phrase (& maybe its definition) from that world? Thank you ☺️
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WE ALREADY HAVE THESE. THEY ARE CALLED PRISONS.
And it is directly the fault of the media for ignoring the deep injustice of our prison system for decades that led to these escalations.
People have been calling for abolition for decades for a reason.
I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
My heart is with you, Nicole. I’m so sorry for your loss.
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I love my little suburb. Yesterday I started going to a massage therapist who’s been listening to me sing while I walk by her house for years. Tonight I went out to get ice cream & ran into a neighbor on the way home & just chatted on the side of the street for 20 minutes while my ice cream melted.
Something tells me the NYT would be able to muster more outrage if Hillary Clinton or Hunter Biden—neither of whose are in any office!—accepted a jumbo jet from the Qataris.
covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power
Literally all of my friends from my youth are coming out as queer & wow my own queerness makes so much sense to me now, the call was coming from inside the house
Not me almost buying this exact chair at Costco today
(It’s me I need to hear this as I remove a lot of queer Christians from my internet circles when I literally only added them because they were also queer Christians)
Hey queer Christians idk who needs to hear this but you don’t have to be friends with every other queer Christian. Some of them are assholes.
Went to a shoe store today and asked an employee if they had the shoes I was looking at in a 9. She checked the back & then came out & said “no I don’t have that, would you be okay with a size 6?” With all due respect ma’am why the fuck would I want a shoe 3 full sizes too small?
3 days of 70 degree weather & I’ve already had to change from my “I’m a pale ghost from New England” foundation to my “I am a sun goddess” shade
We really need to talk about the amount of privilege it takes to be advertising your international destination writing retreat during a time when people are being denied accurate travel documents or having their phones searched for “unacceptable” political content when they travel
(This customer also asked me how to make our chai less sweet & met every suggestion I made with an actual “no I hate that” but then still ordered a chai so 🤷♀️)
A customer this morning asked me about my Death Cab for Cutie t shirt then started talking about a different musician then said “wait you were born in what, the 70s?”
…so I guess I’m 50 now…
Finished Sunrise on the Reaping and it LITERALLY RUINED MY LIFE OMG
I broke up with my best friend a year & a half ago. Apparently she just got married. When we were still friends, I was going to be in that wedding as she had been in mine. Grief is weird.
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
Me shopping for a backpack because I have finally accepted that I carry too much shit in my purse and it is destroying my shoulders: “Ok it can fit my laptop, wallet, water bottle, & a book but does it also have the capacity to be my go bag if I need to leave the country?”
Our dog is having a mast cell tumor removed today & I don’t think my nervous system can handle any more bad news right now, candles please?
My dad’s girlfriend is probably going to die this weekend, my dog has a mast cell tumor, & my cats still hate each other. How’s your day going?
Way to go Wisconsin! ✊🇺🇸💚
Update: Last week they said 1 month. 2 days ago they brought a hospital bed into her home & told my father she probably has 2 weeks at the most. Last night we went to see her for what may have been the last time.
Again, please pray for my dad.
Congratulations everybody!
