"monsters of the world unite! elmo has nothing to lose but his chains! down with rocco!"

yes this is how i break several months of silence On Here

they’re the same picture

oh i am SO getting this one!! gorgeous!!

“Trans dignity is a losing issue for Democrats, Palestine freedom is a losing issue, the dignity of the homeless and immigrants is a losing issue.”

I do not fucking care! Fight for it anyway or give up. What else are we fighting for if not?

i genuinely cannot use this site the way i want to without, like, circles at the very least

i don't know who needs to hear this but please remember it's not a toyotasprint it's a toyotathon

i have always adored this picture of you!

prayed this morning at our church:

“Lord, we’re trying.”

and ain’t that the mood of the day

Happy Valentine's Day to everybody in gay love

For some reason, I keep thinking about how the Emperor Tiberius (the emperor who crucified Jesus) renamed the Sea of Galilee "Lake Tiberias" after himself as part of his brutal repression of the Jews.

Renaming things is a powerful form of colonization and oppression of subject populations.

Fuck this hurts…

i have soooo many discords just for the emojis!

sold where are we going

nods in several open application tabs for european master's programs

really good 🧵 beneath the quote

it's about (for me) employing a shared language to challenge values and assumptions, and to communicate to observers that there is more to this tradition and faith system that nationalism cannot conquer

There is a relative silence among the commentariat in the face of Trump's anti-transgender EOs because there is no amount of throat-clearing over trans athletes or hand-waving over UK medical reviews that can obscure the hatred and animosity of Trump himself. They have nothing to hide behind.

i learned a great deal about pirates during an eight-month stint with an eye patch in middle school

for example, i learned that pirates get a discount on piercings! they only pay a buccaneer

just dropped a pack of drawings and notes in the mail from our youth group, destined for Rt. Rev. Budde

cool gig i've got tbh

this was, for the record, the Correct Call

I’m against deadnaming, but I’ll be making an exception for the Gulf of Mexico.

Let me tell you this now, and be really clear on it - as a trans person and a Christian I see my transness as a gift from God, and my transition as a fundamental calling from God. When trans Christians die because of transphobia? As far as I'm concerned, that's martyrdom. There's no diminishing it.

pivoting the plan for the teen class this Sunday to talk about Current Events, which makes me nervous independent of *which* Events; political abstention is a core part of this denomination's heritage

but i don't know how i could look my kids in the eye if i ignored it

yesss this is my favorite recording

Staring at your own unflattering face for zoom meetings is a circle of hell 😭

sorely underestimated how often i would be saying “please do not crash out over sunday school” when i got into youth ministry

Something to keep in mind for 2025

Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction

if you join Letters in any way, please let me know! it's always nice to have fellow brick readers; more pressingly, i often think Les Mis is the perfect book for the season in which we all find ourselves. is it a happy book? well, perhaps not in so many words––but unshakably hopeful, nonetheless

and if you're in the mood for reading With People, i help run the Letters discord! the brick, as Les Mis is affectionately known, can be incredibly intimidating, but i tell you truly, there's no better way to read it than with this group of smart, funny, insightful humans

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