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Bethany Erickson
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Happily married mom of 5. Catholic convert, still love the Anglicans. Neurodivergent. Probably reading Goodnight Moon.
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shoomer5.bsky.social
All good questions.
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social
without saying gender is reducible to these, I often think we need to be simultaneously addressing questions like

“am I alone, or do I belong to a group?”

“is the kind of person that I am a kind that’s okay to be?”

“how do I know how I’m to relate to others? what is to be expected of me?”
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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cyberjauvie.me
when God sings with his creations, will AI not be part of the choir?

Pope: lol no
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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elmcitytree.blacksky.app
My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
Only a handful of the millions of people in this vast place are aware that the fate intended for you, Sister Angela, and for George Jackson, and for the numberless prisoners in our concentration camps-for that is what they are—is a fate which is about to engulf them, too. White lives, for the forces which rule in this country, are no more sacred than black ones, as many and many a student is discovering, as the white American corpses in Vietnam prove. If the American people are unable to contend with their elected leaders for the redemption of their own honor and the lives of their own children, we, the blacks, the most rejected of the Western children, can expect very little help at their hands: which, after all, is nothing new. What the Americans do not realize is that a war between brothers, in the same cities, on the same soil, is not a racial war but a civil war. But the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers.
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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elmcitytree.blacksky.app
Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.
Sobe it. We cannot awaken this sleper, and God knows we have tried. We must do what we can do, and fortify and save each other—we are not drowning in an apathetic self-contempt, we do feel ourselves sufficiently worthwhile to contend even with inexorable forces in order to change our fate and the fate of our children and the condition of the world! We know that a man is not a thing and is not to be placed at the mercy of things. We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists. We know that a baby does not come into the world merely to be the instrument of someone else's profit. We know that democracy does not mean the coercion of all into a deadly-and, finally, wicked—mediocrity but the liberty for all to aspire to the best that is in him, or that has ever been.
October 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
shoomer5.bsky.social
English and American, the countries
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
shoomer5.bsky.social
They do not intend to follow the law.
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM