Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
On a whim, listened to my episode of @gohomebible.bsky.social again, and was suddenly reminded that @toriglass.bsky.social, @justingentry.bsky.social and I recorded that in September 2021.
In the intro, we're making a point, "Hey. Three quarters of a million people are dead from COVID... SO FAR."
Hey guise,
Let's fuck with right-wingers and flood the Webbernetz with fake Charlie Kirk memes:
Bluesky will do that sometimes.
Good things:
• got a vehicle upgrade thanks to @thepursuinglife.bsky.social
• had some great one on one time with my son
• it finally rained which means I can try out my new mower soon.
For those of you that left Conservative Christianity, Evangelicalism, or the faith altogether…how glad are you to be out?
Cause the last few days have confirmed I made the best decision of my life walking away from that anti-Christ shit show.
No regrets, how about you?
My lover stretches Out hi hand through the hole and my criedfor him Larose toopen to my lover and my hands dripped with mvrrh And myrrh was covering my fingerson thehandlesofttee bolt. -SongofSongs 5:4-5
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This is the verse that will be on the back of the book!
As the National Guard gears up to descend on my city I can’t help but remember all the people who said I was an alarmist and told me it would never happen here.
Kent State is going to be a fond memory after all this but hey I guess they got to “own the libs” for a short time.
I’ll celebrate every day there is one less eugenicist in the world.
Today I learned that some species of tarantula keep tiny frogs as pets.
Now you know this too.
I am officially, this plant makes me happy, years old.
It’s like hate watching but more fun.
Get some of the writers from The Marvelous Miss Maisel and that’s a winning series.
That was a whirlwind.
The only piece of life advice I have in 2025 is if you feel like you’re doomscrolling endlessly you probably are, and the minute you feel that way you should take some kind of action—and this can even just be donating 5 bucks somewhere—and then putting your phone anyway.
I think about this at least once a week.
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. - Dune
My new rule for life is this:
Never argue with someone John Brown would have shot.
What if we stopped platforming fascists and just started loudly yelling at them to shut up and/or ignored them completely.
I don’t want to hear some Connor’s “ideas” like it’s the 1930’s and we don’t already know where this is going.
Debating them legitimizes them and we have got to stop.
It fits! I did a little digging today and I learned that Mike Johnson isn’t just an SBC member but also served on the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for the SBC between 2004 and 2012. He knows a thing or two about coverups.
You can always count on Southern Baptists to protect predators; Mike Johnson is no exception.
As much as I would *not* be able to live in New York I would jump at the chance over living in Miami again or being stuck in Dallas.
Ya’ll it was incredible.
If you eat pizza with your hands how will you touch your anus?
He is everywhere!
I say this as a Biblical scholar, when the Bible talks about the Mark of the Beast it is referring to Alligator Alcatraz T-shirts.
Ah thank you so much ☺️
*slowly raises peanut butter ladened Oreo to mouth*
Then I’ll have two then.
I have successfully converted my kids to dried cranberries and it feels like an achievement
