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Wandering Hoo

@wanderlib.bsky.social

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he/him Trans rights are human rights You don't have to understand. You must have to be kind. Psalm 22:6

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · May 1

more gender makes world more gooder.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 2h

January 6th.

Yes. I completely get that "investigations necessary and hard."

But also, it feels like it should have been a "look out the f***ing window" sort of case. Even if the reality of it wasn't.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 2h

Hank Green has a pretty solid cover of it that would also work.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 2h

Small business owners who *love* conspicuous consumption v. quiet managerial functionaries who disdain it.

Conservatives aspire to be oilmen.

Liberals aspire to be Mr. Rogers.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes I think about how the youth group I was in when I was 14 did a tour of other churches in the county and I had to lobby basically alone for attending an LDS service (and won lol) but going to a nondenom one was instantly consensus because we thought their name implied inclusivity

gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · Jan 23

good thread, and reminds me of one of my big beefs: media somehow thinking "non-denominational" means something like "ecumenical" or "inclusive". No, it's a particular type of low-church evangelical protestant, it tells you a LOT about what that church believes and is like.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Jan 23

By the end of this you should be able to recognize that the generic Christian that shows up in American popular media is not merely unfair, but an incoherent mishmash of Catholic aesthetics and evangelical beliefs.

We will begin, very briefly, with the Great Schism.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3h

A major point from abolitionists was not merely that slavery was abominable abuse of the enslaved that failed to "better" them, but that "masters" themselves got conspicuously and continually worse.

The "cut the ice and keep fighting" line was in part about this.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3h

Lockout doesn't work.

You have to actively spit in their face and talk shit.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3h

I don't think this really changes the question.

"A significant portion of the country is just plain evil" is not a problem that we have good answers for.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3h

A sick-out or "work to rule" by the libs who staff a *lot* of organizations is possible *if you organize now.*

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3h

You also *really* want to maximize crowd size and the apparent consequences when you present it.

And, ideally, you make the fork you want them to take the path of least resistance.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3h

It strips the very act of personalized creation of value.

And the *question* insults me.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3h

Yesn't.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3h

Broadly, I think there's a "c'mon man, it was on national TV, what more do you need" element here. Which I don't disagree with, but courts usually require more for privileged defendants (this is of dubious value)

Also, I would have been in jail immediately for the documents case.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3h

Some say it sounds like a locomotive, but don't believe the lying liberals.

The light is big. It's beautiful, like Ivanka. And it's going to deliver bigly.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3h

Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 3h

People in deserts haven't taken it well. Particularly given the legacies of Uranium.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 8h

The nail-color phone case matching.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 8h

I see Thune has made a pro-Democrat ad for BlueSky.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 10h

I have friends (of christ) everywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 8h

I picked a heck of a week for a church retreat.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 8h

When Arizona is dunking on you...

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 8h

It is an odd, though not unwelcome, experience.

Reminds us of why "God-fearing" has long been the appellation of those viewed as possessing of great moral certitude.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 10h

Highland Park.

It's easier to flee.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 10h

Programmers and not understanding software is dual-use, NAMID.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 11h

"Hey, do you guys want to become really popular for doing very little while collecting OT?" Seems a good pitch.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 11h

I'm with you, it's more that they do not have *anyone* else.