And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

I decided a while ago that if there is a supreme being and an afterlife it oversees, then it's going to be a smarter, more compassionate being than I could try to be. Part of that would mean eventual forgiveness of all people regardless. This is the stupidest thought I cling desperately to

Not to get preachy, but these are things I find in Quaker meeting. A solid chance to recenter and ground myself, community, and to know my input is seen and appreciated.

For those who pay attention to UK politics, the Liberal Democrats and #LDConf A bunch of TERFs tried first thing this morning to impose a transphobic policy on our internal elections (they wanted to exclude trans women from the gender balance criteria) They failed, spectacularly.

Very proud to support this. @nionwomen.bsky.social @goodlawproject.bsky.social Add your name to the open letter for cis women here: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

I think fundamentally, the ability to care about the rights of a small and vulnerable minority (of whom you might know no members) is an important sign of whether you are committed to human rights out of principle, or out of mere convenience.

How exhausted have I been about everything? I couldn't even switch accounts to keep up on everything 😑

The Canadian Friends Service Committee developed a thoughtful Toolkit for Responding to Violent Conflicts for Quakers that may interest peace groups more generally. quakerservice.ca/news/toolkit...

You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.

Every trans person who transitions later in life is a gift to the community. Your example tells those still waiting: it’s not too late and you are not alone.

This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.

No one should profit from war and violence. As protests against arms dealers continue today, Quakers handed in their demand to Clarion Events, calling on them to drop the DSEI arms fair. 📸Michael Preston for Quakers in Britain

"Considered" I am still pretty wiccan in my view of the divine, and understanding of things. Maybe I should give the practice another shot, as i have been changed with quaker practice so it would be a very different experience 🤔

Linehan’s court case making it very clear indeed exactly how wacky this stuff always was, and that people like him have always been about incoherent hatred. e.g. the Harry Potter lady and those ex-Guardian colonists aren’t more reasonable than this: they are *more careful about public perception*.

Shower thoughts with Erin: my quaker ritual starts when I get to the meeting building, and start setting up the streaming equipment. And it doesn't hit a high point until someone brings the laptop we use. And this is consistent with the time I considered myself wiccan (continued)

'Be careful, people love you'

Silence can be a beautiful and needful thing, whether sitting in meditation or as a form of worship. Contemplating dependent arising and metta meditation are profound personal examples. I am radiating love for all beings - including you! May all beings know peace! #vegan #meditation #govegan

The biggest mistake Quakers ever made was changing the name of the Committee to Nominate the Nominating Committee. Com Nom Nom Com will live on in my heart.

I really think they're going to go down in history next to antibiotics and the earliest vaccines. It's easy to over-weigh the significance of the moment we live in now, but the people who brought us this breakthrough are miracles

Really loved the episode of @theequaker.bsky.social about Benjamin Lay! Temps are finally starting to stay below 70 in Minnesota, so I’ll be able to break out this hoodie soon!

An amazing thing to me is that these three images, sequentially, are a horror plot. Your own longing for childhood gradually consuming you, growing like a cancer metastasizing as you willingly let it consume you, distracted by an endless stream of nostalgic materialism.

people on TV looked right into the camera with a straight face and said "if you don't go to Disney Land the terrorists have won."

Benjamin Lay would have hated character limits... Listen to the full episode here: quakerpodcast.com/benjamin-lay...

Stephen King's Response to Conservative Attack on Trans People Goes Viral www.newsweek.com/ste... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

"Deploying the National Guard against D.C.’s unhoused population costs 4x more than housing them. If the Guard remains deployed for three months, it would cost more than operating public housing for the entire unhoused population in D.C. for an entire year. Priorities." --Robert Reich

I try not to wish ill on people. But do I also wish god would hurry up on some of them...

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world." ~ Jack Layton

More often than I care to admit I want to think "at what point does a person kill their inner light enough that I can stop looking for it in them?" A fire is dangerous when it's been put out still, an ember that was shielded from water and dirt could still catch air and burn again

didn't make this and if you did i am happy to credit you

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

One thing about Nazis is that they didn't leave a digital footprint. They could just burn their diaries and lie. MAGA won't be able to erase what they've said and how long they supported. They published their freefall into fascism in real time, and those records won't just disappear.

It's funny to me specifically the number of posts that are "I'd be a quaker but..." Cause they're the same as "I'd be vegan but cheeeeese" You want fat and protein from cheese, that's the craving. So what do you think you want from being a quaker?

"Erin, why do you come up with such dumb takes?" I'm trying to provoke god into a response so I can know if I'm right or not. So far, either I'm right, or god might have better things to do 🤣

*slamming shot glass down* christian nationalism, and by extension the governments they control, is the Cult of Leviathan. Seeking only to make detrimental chaos and climate catastrophy to destroy the creation of god

... No, I don't want to know what chatgpt says about nontheist quakers. Fucking Hell.

"This change was not the result simply of inward reflection or corporate discernment. Quaker communities were compelled to act, in no small part, through the persistent resistance of those they enslaved."

"Erin why do you have an interest in the bible?" Cause I need to know when I'm being bullshitted www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3rK...

Jewish atheists: God isn’t real but that’s not my business Christian atheists: God isn’t real and I’m going to make it everyone’s problem

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📣 New video! I react to a video titled ‘Why I am Not a Quaker’… I predictably have views! #quaker #quakerism #quakers #britishquakers

Yep. Judeo-Christian is NOT A THING. It’s just something Christians and politicians use as a weapon to appropriate/assimilate us and erase our existence. bsky.app/profile/prof...

The "libgen" database, which Anthropic used, currently lists over 1600 titles of mine across multiple languages, so, uh, yeah

Quakers in the wild west are like "howdy Pardner"

Face your fears and your powerlessness. Have faith. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #11

For too long the world of theological magazines and leaflets has been utterly dominated by slick corporate mass produced hatred. It's time for inclusive Christians to lean into the long Queer history of underground printing, zine making, resource sharing, and other such physical tangible activism.

‘Given the opportunity, we can do things for ourselves’: An $82M Indigenous owned solar project begins - An entirely owned and operated First Nations solar project set to provide renewable energy to a major mining operation in Saskatchewan is underway.

Yesterday, I learned something that made so much of Quakerism click into place. Early Friends believed that our social justice work IS Armageddon. Christ returned in our hearts to guide our nonviolent transformation of earth into a new Eden. It is the Lamb's War, but it is a war of hearts and minds