Loved this conversation! #Whovians Listen now:

Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.

A new episode of Poema Podcast is out! This week I’m joined by the awesome @jennadewitt.bsky.social to discuss the recent season of #DoctorWho & the themes of grief, power & fear we see in this season. Listen where you get podcasts! #Podcast #Whovian podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

"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!"

The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping. Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets

As you prepare for the oncoming holiday season, let me know what I'm missing from this list! invisiblecakesociety.com/2024/12/17/l...

"Cis women having male levels of testosterone" is another big giveaway about what this is. What is a "male" level of testosterone and how can a cis female have it naturally occurring in their cis female body if its specific to men? Is there a male level of height?

Always interesting to learn new things about the guy whose signature is on my degree as the newly hired university president 🙃

The reason Mike Johnson is so good at ignoring the terrible things happening in front of him (sex abuse, ICE raids, etc.) is because he's a Southern Baptist, and Southern Baptists are very good at ignoring horrific things. It's the natural progression of a group founded by enslavers

am I tired, hot, and brain fogged because of my meds, a new illness, the stress of the world news, the stress of traveling soon, something I ate, or because it's 90 F highs in November but still dark at 4:30

THIS. Not just including but honoring queerness in our churches. And feeling very loved to hear the aromanticism and asexuality inclusion in that! That's not something that gets said in these spaces, and Billie and Tamice do it so well, on this and every topic they cover. youtu.be/Q5Vzd8oTXeY?...

It’s a scam and a pretty common one. Churches get multiple calls like this a week. The person answering the phone is doesn’t have access to funds to give. They aren’t charge of the food shelf. They aren’t the pastor. They might not even be a member of the church.

“Hear the voice of God in this: you will not remain the collateral damage of someone else’s agenda or performances of misguided righteousness or power-seeking games or platform building.” Boom. A Prayer: for the ones who were turned into an object lesson open.substack.com/pub/sarahbes...

truly wild how heads of state will start wars, displace people & will then complain about immigrants — going so far as to rile their followers up to hate crime the very refugees their wars created.

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

Does it have Max Lucado books and a Thomas Kincade painting? Of course. Does it also have Bird by Bird and A Year of Biblical Womanhood? You bet your UWiF it does.

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

This made me giggle despite my affection for modalism. (*insert "Patriiiick!" here iykyk) 😀

Me, openly aroace: when the bible talks about love, Jesus emphasized platonic love and community more than marriage or sex Rando: 1 Corinthians 1:6-9 hope that helps Me: sorry should I just go ✨righteously✨ have sex now

This is what SCIENCE does: collects higher-quality (e.g., nuanced) data and updates to reflect that!

Today, the Supreme Court did the right thing by denying review of a petition that sought to challenge the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. That’s because marriage equality has helped millions of Americans take care of each other, build stability, + plan for the future. whymarriagematters.org

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Church is better when it's gay

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

When people don’t have insurance they neglect their health until it’s an emergency. When people don’t have money to pay for emergencies hospitals care for them anyway… until of course the hospitals go bankrupt and have to close, then there just isn’t critical healthcare at all.

Merry and Pippin, describing their activities to Gandalf:

One thing I wish more people understood is that when you talk about American churches, you're talking about a category so large and diverse as to be almost meaningless.

Added more tonight! Thank you for the suggestions. Always open to more queer histories of affirming denominations or overview timelines (including and especially from outside the U.S.) invisiblecakesociety.com/2025/10/27/q...

decided to do the Zohran thing with one of Wesley's sayings

So many churches help, many people scam, and finding that middle ground of trying to provide immediate need while trying to get long term support is incredibly difficult. The streets talk. As soon as you give out cash, you get 50 people looking for cash the next day /5

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

hey if yall get a message or reply like this, this is fake this is not actual bsky, most likely someone trying to scam or hack accounts they appear currently to only be targeting artist accounts spread the word!!

i don’t think the main problem with the american church is “too many of them refuse to be scammed by a lady who is obviously lying.”

My faith calls me to celebrate and officiate marriages for all kinds of couples. If marriage equality were overturned, it would infringe my First Amendment right to practice my religion freely.

OpenAI is losing 12 billion dollars *a quarter*. Nearly 50 billion dollars *a fucking year*. 50 billion! GONE! FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET! All to make racist fake videos, useless slop art, drive people to suicide, and drink entire lakes of water. They don't *have* a business!

This comparison is an excellent example of how to give people intuition for orders of magnitude/how to do shade

I'm praying for members LGBTQ+ today. You are not and never have been an "issue" and your rights should not be up for debate.

It occurs to me to put my rainbow bag in the trunk. Not because that’s where it belongs, but to not give anyone an excuse to take out their religion on my car window. It occurs to me if I were in a redder county, I'd never leave it visible to begin with. invisiblecakesociety.com/2025/11/06/o...

The fact is most people are basing their votes and beliefs on the rumor mill. News (aka being aware of who/what you're voting for) is exhausting and depressing (fact) and therefore most people simply get their information on reality from the rumor mill.

today, my mom said that she finds Mamdani scary because he "says so many antisemitic things," and when i asked her what things, she said she'd never heard him speak, but that everyone says that he is very antisemitic. at the end of the day, that's what's going on.

For those who may not realize, it's a really important moment in the United Methodist Church. We are expecting final results on a potentially historic restructuring, so here's a 🧵 on what that is and why we went to Zimbabwe last week... #UMC

they are breaking the law to deprive children of food while they build a ballroom so they can host even more lavish parties for themselves

I'm not letting this go. It seems like it should be a much bigger deal that the President of the United States admitted on live TV Sunday night that he has no idea who he's pardoning — that he only pardoned a crypto fraudster because his sons told him to. Why is the media ignoring this corruption?

Folks keep looking for some deeper meaning behind the bigotry and cruelty of conservatives, but the reality is they're just shitty people. There's no hidden trauma, they're not closeted, they're just assholes.

Theyve arrested a priest in probably the most politically powerful mainline judicatory in the United States, good luck

New resource at Invisible Cake Society! What am I missing? Send me your policy timelines, podcasts on or sound recordings with queer Christians (pre-2010s), publication archives page, etc. Looking for websites with facts and stories like these: invisiblecakesociety.com/2025/10/27/q...

Jesus: Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Christian Nationalists: *raise their hands in unison*

Recognizing aromantic, asexual, and aspec identities as valid means absolutely nothing if you actively refuse to include us in queer spaces and conversations