Since men with Male Pattern Brokenness can’t take responsibility for their own actions and emotions, they believe other people are responsible for making them act and feel however they act and feel—good or bad. It’s not the only way to avoid growing up, but it’s one of them.

Imagine being the US president, extraordinarily wealthy, and still so afraid of being laughed at. It’s almost as if power and money don’t buy peace of mind or confidence.

My friend @thismicahcarver.bsky.social once said it, so I put it on a shirt. May you be a blessing to a family of hungry worms, James Dobson.

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.

Fuck these ghouls. Also, quit using my art.

Given enough time, I think most of us come out fine, or at least closer to it. The Indigo Girls taught me that. 1/3

A Cyber Truck advertising a retail clinic for men who can’t get an erection is redundant:

In the book Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse wrote “only that which can change can continue.” I think about those seven words a lot. They help me understand why and where so many people get stuck—and life is full of opportunities to get stuck if you:

As promised! Hell, empathy and sleep training and how they’re connected!

New episode up this week wherein we talk about Hell, the death of Empathy, and Sleep Training with @jennywood.bsky.social It’s a good one! open.spotify.com/episode/0CKR...

Y’all, it was a treat for me to hang out with Tori and Justin, talk shit about Mark Driscoll and David Ramsey, and share one of my favorite stories from a Bible. Get into it!

This was a delight. @thismicahcarver.bsky.social is fantastic!

I stand with the Tesla automobiles that are bravely choosing to self immolate in protest. Your deaths are not in vain!

A movie where the ghost of Jesus (he’s dead) haunts all the evangelicals who used his name to be horrible. There’s a scene where Jesus appears in the passenger seat next to an actress who looks uncannily like a certain country singer, grabs the steering wheel and forces her off the road.

Make art. Start making art. Keep making art. Art is resistance. The art will save us.

When people see Elon Musk sitting at a table with seven Nazis they say “look, there are eight Nazis at that table.”

I didn't really become a Lynch believer until 2024. So it's bittersweet to have fallen in love with him and then know he's gone. I grew to see him as Mr. Rodgers for disenchanted grownups. Maybe: "what do you do with the Weird you feel?" Or: "Hellow Shadow, won't you be my neighbor?"

Over on TikTok, my grammar lessons are getting me in trouble:

I appreciate politeness as much as anyone, but the “sir” and, later, the “yes sir” I got in the gym this morning felt downright ageist.

"The GOP is essentially Camp Kanakuk on steroids." Phil Madeira

Honored!

don't mind me just replenishing myself with the blood of one thousand snowmen (drinking water)

We’re talking @daviddark.bsky.social, y’all. To borrow a line from him, “is this thing on?”

Happy birthday to @daviddark.bsky.social who once said that “you can’t hand someone their epiphany.” He also taught me to slow the tape, to stand where I am and be human there, & that the glory of God is a human being fully alive. Here’s to many more years, David. I’m grateful for your witness.

genuine lol/love

Words matter. For example, if you changed that line in “Christmas Shoes” to “would you hurry, sir? Diddy says there’s not much time,” you change the context entirely. What wouldn’t change is my feelings about the song.

Words matter. For example, if you changed that line in “Christmas Shoes” to “would you hurry, sir? Diddy says there’s not much time,” you change the context entirely. What wouldn’t change is my feelings about the song.

Proof that, if she was still alive, my mom wouldn’t have enjoyed this app.

Honestly, if he was out shoe shopping on Christmas Eve while his mom was on her deathbed, I feel like he was probably picking up something for himself too.

When David Berman sang “people gotta synchronize to animal time,“ I wonder if this is what he meant:

Found the original cover art for Weezer’s “Pinkerton” in Goodwill today:

Right after The Big Lebowski came out, Thomas Kinkade and I were bowling like normal, except now he wanted me to call him “The Dude.” My only issue was that he kept saying Walter’s lines because he liked the profanity. I’d had enough of it and told him so. “Eight year olds,” he laughed. I miss him.

Be the humor you want to see in the world:

Working from home is great but one potential downside is getting to the grocery store without remembering to change shoes.

Often times laughter is the slack in the line that keeps it from breaking. Please don't stop joking. Anyone who follows you or observes your content knows that you are not making light of difficult things but just trying to get through them and help us do the same.

My ears are burning and the only cure is more Ruston Kelly

Happy Thanksgiving, BlueSky friends — from me & @jennywood.bsky.social.

Give yourself permission to like yourself, y’all. If not now, when?

This thread is like a poetical call and response about our relationship with humor during times of civil upset. May our senses of humor survive the serious actions we must take.

I want to hear one little, silly thing you are NOT thankful for. Mine is leaf blowers. The scourge of neighborhood birders everywhere.

When you say you wish to be literally serious, what do you mean?

May I ask you a question?

Fighting for our lives.

oh no

Are you serious?

I’ll never forget the time Thomas Kinkade and I drove 12 hours to see a live taping of Wheel of Fortune. He disappeared into Sajak’s dressing room once we got there and came out a few minutes later laughing his head off. “I shit in his shoes,” he choked. Turns out, Pat owed Tom money. I miss him.

Proof that, if she was still alive, my mom wouldn’t have enjoyed this app.

I don’t actually want to parent my kids so I don’t have bedrooms for them. But when I’m forced to take them I post lots of pictures and say “finally getting time with my kids🥺” I get a lot of attention from men that way because they all want to take care of a “sad mom.” #womeninmalefields

No but I can’t be the only one