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But the entirety of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood can be summed up as: Cultivate empathy. Be curious. It’s ok to have hard feelings. And most of all, love your neighbor as yourself. I think this is all a theological stance. About who we are, and who God is.

While you're in your Mr. Rogers feels, a few things to remind you about his radical theology. 1/x He was a Presbyterian minister whose life’s work was built almost entirely (if not entirely) around Leviticus 19:18 (Love your neighbor as yourself.) Hence... the neighborhood.

then we at least need to have the fucking dignity to die with our teeth in the throat of the fuckers who did this to us.https://twitter.com/pleizar/status/1153465877658050560 …

hobbies include being overwhelmed

I understand that everyone used to play chess, but if the other person starts playing “burn down the house with a flamethrower,” you’re not playing chess anymore, and wanting to isn’t going change that, nor is brilliant chess play going to keep you from getting burned.

Republicans killed 16,000 people, just in the US.https://twitter.com/MaxNisen/status/1153309895942426624 …

Ah yes I remember my first CGI script, the thrill of carving the cuneiform into the wet clay, the fear of getting some syntax wrong and having the runtime compiler toss the tablet back at me with a sneer on his lips

moving is the best reminder to buy nothing, close down your amazon account, move to the woods, use one fork until death.

millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming

Adulting is a full time job. Self-care is a full time job. Being in a relationship is a full time job. Running a business is a full time job. Maintaining a household is a full time job. Nothing positive to end this with. Just trying to figure out how to manage 10 full time jobs.

So when you treat a predator like a force of nature or a fact of life what you're really saying is that we give up on changing the culture that makes predation so prevalent. You've accepted it as unavoidable truth that must be adjusted for rather than fixed.

But a murderer isn't a patch of icy road. A rapist isn't a bucket of water left unattended for a kid to fall face first into. Predators aren't natural phenomenon or accidents. They are people making choices to harm others.

And all of these misguided folks come out and try and do what I just did for seat belts and helmets but with questions about what someone was wearing. What they'd been drinking. Who they met and where and when. How that couldn't happen to their loved one.

So, literally no one asked me for this but I've been thinking about it a lot so this is going to be a thread about victim blaming. I write about death. A lot. Especially when I worked nightside news, if there's a tragic way to die I've written about it.