I cant teach without a degree

laughs in Oklahoman

I’m so glad I went 40k into a job that expects me to spend $1000/yr to fund my own classroom, and also is basically illegal as a trans person now, and now effectively requires no qualifications at all.

The explanation everyone is missing here is the Hays Code.

Pre code movies from the 20’s and 30’s can be quite racy, even occasionally including things like gay people.

It’s my favorite place to make friends ( ° ͜ʖ °)

Grindr has it so you can’t screenshot photos anymore. I can understand why, but I wish there was a way that you could turn it off. Sometimes I ask friends to take pictures of me and send them to me, I should be able to keep them!

He gave a lecture series last year (put on by a crazy Christian nationalist group) about how the antichrist is actually anyone opposed to AI.

My UU ordained friend is a nonbinary activist who was in Minneapolis during the ICE shit.

The first time I went to a UU service, I was invited to a rationalist group that meets there.

It’s all of the good things about religion (ie - community. People who will meal train for you when you are in trouble, people who will teach your kids good shit) without much of the baggage.

I’m personally going to start attending either a UU or a really loosely Methodist group just for the social aspect. I think one of the failures of atheism is the lack of acknowledgment of the benefits of community and ritual. There’s not enough “third places” in the world, and churches can fill that roll quite well. Perhaps this is just my own recent near death experience speaking, but it’s good to have a community that cares about you.

Was married to someone from a billionaire family:

They had so many tricks to get out of paying taxes. There’s an amount of money you can give as “gifts” to your family tax free, there’s ways of playing real estate where you never get taxed, and they always would donate a specific amount right before taxes were due to a specific charity that aligned with their right wing wants.

They can afford lawyers to do whatever they want. I had it in writing that my ex husband and I would split our $200,000 that they had given us evenly, but then that somehow got turned into an “inheritance” for him that I had no access to (despite being there when we set up the account, and having my name on it.) My ex also maxed out my credit cards before he kicked me out (with the help of the police, who apparently have no report of helping kick me out.)

So despite having worked full time to support my ex husband while he attending college free on his family’s dime, I will spend the rest of my life in poverty and debt. (He made sure to marry me after I graduated, so of course my student loans are also all my own)

Money gives people too much power.

They do this to trans guys too. Recent hospitalization was 50/50 “she” versus “he” from the nurses and docs of course.

They refused to put me out and barely gave me pain meds while I was screaming as they stabbed and dug around to drain an abscess. Worst pain I have ever experienced was “anxiety.”

I had a friend that was really involved in UU (now ordained), and one of the great things they do is sex education. Age appropriate and queer affirming, better than anything you get at public school.

The impression I get is some UU congregations lean more pagan, while some lean more Jesus, but in general they’re all willing to welcome everyone. My local one hosts atheist meetups even. The sermons are usually more focused on social justice and history than focusing on holy texts - I've attended just for some medieval history lectures.

Really, it seems the perfect space to get all the social connections of church without all the extra baggage. If I had kids I’d be 100% taking them every Sunday.

No one has mentioned special 2, 两! It’s only for counting certain things.