marked safe from having any idea of what people are talking about

Our coffee table was made from a Liberty ship. It carried Allied tanks across the ocean in WWII, and now it’s usually covered in library books.

'Behold I have created the Panopticon, as described in the book “The Panopticon is Bad" by Michel Foucault'

I ended up wearing a podcast shirt instead. And came home with an additional shirt my 8 year old manifested for me when she said today that it would be better if I had a shirt with a possum on it.

Me: hmm what shirt should I wear to the Mountain Goats show @bladebarringer.com: a normal thing to wear to a concert is a shirt from another band Me: what other band, I only listen to @themountaingoats.bsky.social

Do you think he makes them take SHAPE assessments

Remember how Epstein recommended a Dobson article to, presumably, one of his victims? FocusFamily (on X), which, like so many evangelical institutions, seems incapable of self-reflection or listening to impact statements & emailed that same article out again today.

This is a museum replica by Alva Studios, but I’m not sure what it’s a replica of. My grandmother wore it in the 1960’s. Does the image look familiar to anybody?

“listen to your body” and “make enough money to live” are conflicting imperatives under the T&C of the current OS afaik

We took the kids to a free circus show today. Me: I wonder what it would be like to be upside down on the aerial silks. Think I could learn to do that? 10 year old, matter of fact: no, you’re not graceful. You should probably stick to the clown part.

This adaptation released in 2005, there is a strong genetic component to autism, you connect the dots

Participated in a tiny game jam over the long weekend. The theme was Connection. I wish I could have worked on it more, but I'm pretty happy with what I learned and put together in such a short time! bladebarringer.itch.io/doodle-dot

North Carolina in 2026 is doing crime innovation & the reviews are fantastic www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...

If someone offers you a seat on a rocket ship you politely decline because you don’t want to go on a rocket ship, it seems unpleasant.

I made a mess on my floor to take these pictures for my slides

Parenting coaches: take my Lowering Demands to Peacefully Parent Your Deeply Feeling Spicy One Me: welcome to Clown Parenting

For averting/de-escalating intense kid meltdowns, no coach/parenting book/therapist/class has been as helpful to me as having done a bunch of improv. A PDA support group invited me to further explain and teach some games. It’s tomorrow, free on Zoom, anyone is welcome, just email them.

The youth long to RETVRN (to making zines)

I have now (except for some admin work) wrapped up year 14 of Latin teaching. This was the first time in awhile I’ve had elementary students, and I ended up writing a lot of libelli (tiny books) so they could have more input than their textbook provided.

My 10 year old told me “happy Mother’s Day, disarm, disarm!” because he gets it. (And also because he has an easier time understanding a protest-related holiday than a greeting card one.)

“Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly: ‘We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. +

just because it's gold doesn't make it a golden calf; have y'all forgotten Nebuchadnezzar

"Animorphs theme" "Atlantis theme" "Woodstock theme" "The Odyssey by Homer" "World War 1" "Vampires" "Poisonous Flowers" "Autumn Festivals and Holidays" "Insectoids" "the Pacific Northwest" "Russian folklore" "Just Flying Things" see I'm good at this

great thread (with terrific improvised prompts at the end)

Overheard this evening 7 year old, calling her brother: you are required for a meeting 10 year old: is this a military matter or a religious matter? 7yo, gesturing at pile of stuffies: military 10yo: I’ll change uniforms then

AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT i would die

The proposed icon for lab mice used in autism research. You will literally never find another podcast on the internet brave enough to suggest that autistic mice should be understood as martyrs for humanity.

The most Alyssa dilemma I could have is that it sure looks like the mime/clown workshops I hope to take this summer will conflict with the Latin immersion conference.

Christian parenting books foist impossible standards on the newest people, & tell adults to dole out punishments in God’s Name. Like the unforgiving servant, Christian adults give lip-service to grace while withholding it from the vulnerable children entrusted to our care.

"I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened," sighed Frodo. "Lol," Gandalf replied. "Well it did... So I guess you're going to have to figure that one out."

It is also necessary to conduct a criminal probe of all the other images of God smashed in Gaza, people whom Christ said were his brothers and sisters. God doesn’t care about the symbolic violence but the real violence.

hawking a line of branded Mountain Goats smart glasses. no matter where you look things look a little bleaker and also the wearer cannot remove the glasses once worn. I’m disrupting this sector

It feels to me at the end that Wilson is unaccustomed to people not fawn-chuckling at his ineffective jokes.

Another @alyssakaye.bsky.social has hit the podcast! In this one we discuss the experiences of autistic Christian parents that parent autistic children.

I feel like the Antichrist would be less obvious about it.

“It can be hard to discern between Spirit-led vision and a church’s ambition.”

*walks into a classroom, grabs a chair, flips it around, sits down in it backwards facing the class*

EGGS ARE 10 DOLLARS because of Archbishop Sarah Mullally

Since becoming a dad I've become a lot more aware of the presence of firetrucks. This is because in our evolutionary timeline an extinct predator that resembled a large truck used to hunt small children so parents developed the innate urge to find and identify them for the child.

The question everyone is asking:

“April is the cruelest month…” - TSA Eliot

Is this a prequel to The Sparrow

Photo of Mike Johnson and other House Republicans presenting to Donald Trump a golden "America First Award" they made up just for him.

A world where everyone has a world class education and loving parents is going to be a better world but it’s not going to be a world free from greed, selfishness, or even violence.

penal substitutionary atonement, but for technical debt is anyone looking into this?

You can’t take the sky from me, but it does not follow that you should give me additional sky.

People forget, it’s not about the stabbing, but rather the co-conspirators we make along the way. #IdesOfMarch

I appreciated the nuance here, and also the explanation that sometimes you can clock an autistic woman because she seems “like a woman wearing a woman suit” (me)

I do think it’s helpful to think of the CAT-Q as a measure of how much energy I expend attempting to mask, not how effective my masking is