I had a meltdown and now I'm crashing out.

When pundits talk about “de-risking” pipeline investment, they mean that we cover the losses and private companies walk off with the profits. It’s taxpayer funded corporate welfare.

Your worth is not determined by your job, your bank account or your ability to produce for capitalism. Disabled people have worth. Children have worth. The elderly have worth. The homeless have worth. Those in power want you to de-value others so you will accept atrocities.

I want to read both mystery books and science fiction books and I feel torn in half.

Friendly reminder that despite your bumper sticker, Alberta oil does not heart you back.

I like a chronological timeline because it means I scroll until I'm caught up and I don't have to scroll anymore.

I want to be absolutely clear: The end goal is no more nonaffirming churches. Not a "diversity of thought" that's just rewriting purity codes. Not a "range of opinions" with a variety of ways to exclude and dehumanize and tolerate "separate but equal." Not a bare minimum. Not an "I love you but."

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.

Today is Doctor Who Day, which honours the day that Doctor Who premiered on the BBC in 1963. The TARDIS, The Doctor and many other aspects of the show are thanks to its co-creator, Sydney Newman of Toronto. This is his story. 🧵 1/12

always sober Thanksgiving at my family's house is not tge most fun annual event but this is at least a non issue.

it's "how dare you say Christmas is a Christian holiday" time of year again

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

I've had my own father try and sneak me alcohol.

It's weird how aggressive some folks can be when you decline alcohol. Like they need you to justify why you aren't drinking. Please don't be that person.

They can’t stand the idea that we might have something they don’t. It makes them feel inferior, & only #autistic people are supposed to feel inferior, not NORMAL people! 2/2

Non-autistics will exclude & bully us our whole lives for our “weird” “restricted” interests, then turn around & tell us “special interests aren’t real, everyone has interests like that!” #Autistic 1/2

A lot of leftists just want their own version of Trump. They want to chant blood and soul but leftistly and they’re fine with secret police provided the secret police are nominally leftist.

I recently took out a Christmas film called Joyeux Noel. It's about the Christmas truce of 1914 and has English, French, and German dialogue. Do you think that counts?

If all goes well, I'll be buying myself a jigsaw puzzle tomorrow.

Understanding the difference between "religious people" and White Evangelical Nationalism is knowing: They didn't want more religious freedom or a more religious country; they wanted their own personal pliable, obedient cult followers.

what if we stopped saying pedophile all together and just went back to RAPES CHILDREN

One major reason why I'm not Conservative? I abhor bullies and cruelty. And from what I've seen over the last 10 years or so, that seems to be the main demographic. Or at least people who see nothing wrong with bullies and cruelty even if they themselves aren't.

I impulsively took out an I Spy book from the library. Some of it was easy but there were some surprisingly difficult objects hidden in there.

thing about autism is if you work really hard for many years, you can learn through trial-and-error how to navigate social situations and interpersonal connections SO effectively that people don't really believe you're autistic anymore and resent you for not being perfect at nonverbal communication

I left for the mall and as I was leaving, a car was stopped by the police. When I get back, the car is still there and there are now seven cop cars. I have no idea what's going on.

"But why don't progressive Christians just tell the conservative ones to do better? Surely that would work and fix everything but since everything isn't fixed, progressives must be complicit!"

Does anyone have good recommendations for an advent devotional I could try out this year? Preferably not conservative.

Does anyone have good recommendations for an advent devotional I could try out this year? Preferably not conservative.

From the 1950s to 1970s, the Prime Minister opened the Grey Cup with a ceremonial kickoff. The worst kickoff was one yard by John Diefenbaker in 1959. The best was 32 yards by Pierre Trudeau in 1969. 72-year-old Governor General Roland Michener equaled that distance in 1971.

I'm a giant church nerd but: The lead-up to Christmas is an actual season called Advent. Christmas is not a day but a season that starts on Christmas and runs til Epiphany. And in Denver: your decor stays up until after the Stock Show. None of these things start before Thanksgiving.

Someone said Jesus wasn't real. I pointed out that most historians do think a real person inspired the stories. He went off on me, saying there are no miracles. When I pointed out I never said anything about miracles, he blocked me.

when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >

I watched Iron Man and am now wondering how far I'll keep watching in the MCU. Last time I made it halfway through Moon Knight.

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

I did some reading. I learned that the first Muslim elected to the House of Representatives in the US was a man named Keith Ellison in 2006. He swore his oath of office on a translated Quran that was owned by Thomas Jefferson.

We’re a good example of how an #autistic strong sense of justice actually works: We’re both totally honest about & committed to our respective moral values. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing depends on the specific values involved, & his values happen to suck.

I'm already thinking of a New Year's Resolution.

I will stand by, this remains the funniest mistranslation in manga localization history

Meanwhile, over at Tumblr: Great Social Media Heresies (or "How Jesus Was Too Butch To Let A Little Crucifixion Bother Him"): www.tumblr.com/dduane/79994...

When sending mutual aid, I hate that it costs $20 Canadian to send $10 US. I help out where I can (mostly to people I know/trust), but the exchange rate sucks and the fees PayPal and other platforms charge is extortionate.

The woman who called churches to get formula and the discussion around it shows a deep misunderstanding of how church funds work. Should the church help the community? Obviously. Do most churches have funds and staff at the ready to get formula quickly? They don’t, actually.

The medical field characterizes us as “rigid thinkers” who are too naive to understand guile & too “sensitive” to injustice. They do mental gymnastics to frame our honesty, integrity, & a drive towards justice as deficits, rather than strengths. #Autistic

If our values are bad, we’ll still be bad people. But when our values are good, we have the potential to be powerful moral lodestones, advocates, & truth-tellers. #Autistic

#Autistic people tend to be earnest & honest, & to have strong integrity: we hold ourselves to our values. Many of us are deeply upset by anything that seems unjust. We aren’t all angels, but I do think most of us are genuinely trying to be decent, & that is a virtue of our neurotype.

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As a Christian I am not called or committed to pretending my enemy is one iota less evil than they are. I am called and committed to loving my enemy in the fullness of their evilness and cruelty and I am called and committed to calling them to repent.