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Shouting Thomas
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Playwright, organizer, seminarian, study group enthusiast, worm compost evangelist, weird angel creature, They/them, AuDHD I post about left politics, spirituality, music, and very occasionally, theatre Views expressed are my own so don't tag my boss
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If you have financial room to help and disabled, trans American stay housed in Toronto. Sie's not on social media, so it's hard to reach people and raise money.

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Help trans disabled artist organizer Seeley stay housed, in Canada, and recover
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When you shoot one sitting attorney general, it's tragedy. When you start an illegal war that will destabilize a region for a generation, it's a statistic
Nah, I think both earn respect by being consistent over time. Last minute rip offs won't impress long held constituencies. If he really wants to beat Silwa at his own game would be to beat up a mugger on the subway, or better yet, lie and say he did. That way Silwa voters know he walks the talk
Again, a city who respects freaks!
Also, the article I'm reading contains on of my favourite academic moves. A one-sentence throwaway in the conclusion saying, "X scholars work on this subject is trash btw" implying their own scholarship on the matter disproves it without needing further comment.

I live for the academic drama
Blessing your timeline with Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse who lived in Senegal in the 20th century and was a teacher and Quranic exegete and founder of the Fayda Tijaniyya Sufi order.
Mashallah, some of my Quran classmates spoke to our prof and convinced her that we had too many, too difficult Required readings and so she shifted several to Suggested

I've been quietly complaining about the workload but I thought it was just normal for Muslim students so I didn't want to complain
Speaks to the character of New York
No one follows me for New York municipal politics and I'm much more aligned with Mamdani (who is his own type of freak) but I'm not suggesting people vote for Silwa. I just appreciate that a guy who started a street vigilante org and loves competitive eating and cats has a real shot at being mayor
A city is made worthwhile by its freaks. Freaks make the good art, throw the good parties, and generate New Possibilities. But freaks are not always valued. Often they are exploited then discarded. I appreciate that a plurality of New Yorkers want to accord one of their genuine freaks the mayoralty
Was honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.
I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
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If you're interested in getting started, this is how I got into it

prisonercorrespondenceproject.com
I got started with Prisoner Correspondence Program which is specifically for queer incarcerated people
I understand the attraction of calling for mandatory voting after an extremely low turn out election with a bad result but if the problem is a majority of people dont want to, or can't, do something then simply legally compelling them to do it is not a solution
We all share some the same stories (the Bible, the early church) and many of the same practices (Sunday worship, communion, baptism etc) but how and why we do these things differs substantially and those differences are part of what makes my church slightly different even than any other church
Which is also different from how some Catholic or Orthodox traditions would work where the priests are working from a set "script" with little deviation which is different from certain Quakers who have no ministers or set "script".

Those are all very different ways of doing church
OK, for example, I was on the worship team at church. We worked with the minister and music director to design worship. This is different from other Protestant denominations where the congregation would have little say in worship but the minister would have significant say
Yeah, lots of Left thinking around capital T capital R The Revolution is repackaged Christian end times thinking
I think some of the base narratives of fascism have been popular throughout time especially during crisis:

Things are so chaotic and our institutions are decript, we need a strong man to bring order

These foreigners and their new ways are undermining our previously good society

Violence enobles
Yes! Learning to create myths is important work for leftists. We do need treatise we just also need myths.

I do think the universal church has a handle on myths but I was thinking about the church particular. How does my church do church and how is it different than how other Christians do church?
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Let's not forget one of the best parts of the playoffs (and the season):

Daaaa Yankees lose!

We'll always have that.
Something I've been thinking about in church and organizing contexts is, How do transmit memory intergenerationally?
The duty to keep the memories of the World War II generation alive will pass solely to us soon. The work of fighting fascism may never finish.
“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”
It is good to love something enough to let it break your heart. It's maybe actually the only way to live

(This is a post about the Blue Jays)
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I heard there were some legs out there
That Ozy carved with the word, "Despair"
But you don't care f'r stoney visage, do you?
It goes like this: the 4th, the 5th,
The frown and sneer, the wrinkled lip.
The colosal wreck composing hallelujah!
This is just to say

I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand

Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"