oooh yeah, i could zazz it up a bit
there's already perfectly good (and boring looking) signs up, i mainly just want something to be very, very grabby with eyes

If you hear them disengage after you bring up the morality of it, then attack from a profit point of view. Claim to be a shareholder (they can't check), and tell them that if they continue to deny a legal stream of income, you'll be forced to sell while your shares still have value.

Grats, doc! In my experience, when the chunkiest diaper stripes on god's marble are that pissed off at your existence, that's generally a very good sign you're doing something right.

This made me so joyous I had to do a little dance

Will, this isn't a death threat. It is how bluesky users communicate. If you don't like that, you are more than welcome to go somewhere else.

in short: Be yourself, and if you don't know who that is yet, keep at it. Find your tribe, and if you can't, forge your own and you'll have friends sooner than you think. And if someone doesn't like your tribe?

Well, fuck 'em. They can get their own. Love y'all.

providing me with a foil to grind off the casting-marks, flash, and scale. I would like to thank my current antagonists for reminding me that Mean Girls was just a movie, and Regina George doesn't exist.

I would like to also thank you, constant reader, for loving each other, and for loving pupkin.

And I am useful because I am proof to myself and the world that just because something really, REALLY should have killed you, doesn't mean that it will. I hit harder with a black eye.

I would like to thank my friends and loved ones for helping me realize who I have always been, and my fiends for

useful because it reminds me of what the stakes are if i forget that last point. my trauma is useful because it has taught me humility, and burned away a lot of the self-importance that hobbles so many others.

blasting furnace that, over the decades, has burned away the doubt and the fear preventing me from understanding who I am and then doing that on purpose. my mistakes are useful because they remind me what i, and therefore others, are capable of. my frustration and disgust at ego fetishists is

Protecting everyone smaller than me. And I'm a white male-shaped person - socially speaking, that means most people are smaller than me. Every scar is a lesson learned, every trigger that speeds up my heart rate is a hard-learned lesson in *never again*, every quanta of rage is a spark in the

i think i'm landing back in my punk phase, and i think maybe i never shoulda thought of myself as having left it, because nazi punks fuck off is, like, in my genetic code. fuck a nazi. my rage, my trauma, my somewhat imposing appearance, these are all useful, as they help with what i am for:

people. we are not here to spend an entire board meeting arguing about whether or not x, y, or z person should have been asked first. we are not here to tear each other down because egos weren't sucked off enough. we are here to help, and i can not feed rampaging egos to hungry people.

if you want us to, but we are not here to tell you what god wants of you. you are expected to figure out your own relationship with whatever your understanding of the divine is. and we'll help! we'll talk through whatever or help you research stuff. but our main deal is good works. like feeding

resources to the best benefit of this church and its community. As UUs, we are called to help the needy as our primary expression of faith - whatever faith we may have, as the UU as a church specifically avoids having a defined religious dogma. That's not our department. We'll help you with it

I don't actually work for the leadership of my church. I don't work for any individual person on the board of my church. I work *for my church*, and to further the interests thereof. I didn't sign up to indulge a bureaucracy fetish, or a credit hound, or anything else. I signed up to shepherd our