I got banned from /r/relationships for "advocating gendered violence" when I advised someone that it was a totally healthy *desire* to kick her rapist in the dick. Note: did not tell her to kick him. Just to *want* to.

Talking about your dead relatives with their friends and acquaintances is always weird, and I wish I'd thought to get drunk before hearing about the details of my grandparents' marriage. You're a wise person, tef.

You Brits will do *anything* to avoid direct contact with your neighbours, eh? Even the badgers are in on this. Then again, you're followed about by a murder of crows…

I just don't post much. Mostly we use Discord. I wasn't much on Twitter, either.

• books, I have an enormous collection
• '90s music
• genealogy, focusing on women and PoC
• public history
• history of colonisation
• Boston and Cambridge
• religion (I'm a UU, so anything goes)
• giving parties of all sorts
• making friends with kids via chalk, bubble mix, and conversation

Chris has been a dad for twenty years, he knows how to attract young acolytes. 😉

Let's not forget "I am not opposed to being bribed with swag".

I am 41 years old. I have two adult children. I assume that if I have fond memories of anything, it occurred so long ago kids roll their eyes at it.