Amelia Brown

Amelia Brown

@projectgenesis.bsky.social

I was one of those kids who read dictionaries when they were bored and there wasn't a new book in the house (I'm awkward, old school, and still figuring this out. Couldn't ever stand the Other Place so I'm a complete noob here)

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"We've known Dad didn't have to die. They just made it official." Fucking fundamentalist bullshit. They didn't care that he still had children at home. They preferred to have a matyr. #exjw

I've had two playlists, that up until now I've kept separate. One, a list of my anger music which serves as my "protest playlist." Two, a list of the Vietnam protest music I got introduced to by my dad. Today they got smashed together. I'll be in this space until further notice.

When you're old enough to predate AO3, still have the first "grownup" email address you claimed and you get a ping from ffn that somebody followed something that hasn't even been looked at in good knows how long #fanfiction #godimold

My Nazi Germany/Holocaust education was some thing of a drop a newborn into a pool and see how they swim exposure. Parents were Jehovah's Witnesses so we had those VHS in the house that our access to wasn't limited. 1/2

Bookshop, library, whatever- go, go, go!

Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social

She’s in her AUTHOR ERA! It’s publication day for LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes! As a forever book nerd, I had so much fun writing this-I hope you have fun reading it! Get it at your local bookstore today!! bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...

It's lovely when you're just trying to find something to put on for noise while you fall asleep and the channel plays next a made for TV documentary from 2017 about how Hitler used Christianity and it's imaginary to strengthen his position. </S> Oh god, the echos. I just wanted something benign.

My relationship with formalized religion is difficult. Personal faith that I can understand and empathize with. But formal systems of religion; can't really help it they rub me weird. But for some reason I could never exactly put a finger on Pope Francis struck me as different. I think this is why:

apnews.comPope Francis bestowed a special nickname on AP's Vatican reporter for her often-tough questionsAssociated Press reporter Nicole Winfield, who covered Pope Francis at the Vatican during his entire pontificate, earned the nickname “la prima della classe” -- or “the first in class” -- from him in ...

Do something, say something. Punks have been punching Nazis forever. Don't let them encroach on your scene: chances are they don't get it; they're trying to co-opt and they'll chase out our loving weirdos in the process

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Replying to @janecoaston.bsky.social

I think someone said this on here previously but to have a broad movement for good things you need to have some casuals and first timers, unless you are only in this to feel superior to those people, in which case...

Can't decide if the instinct to stand straight when I am wearing heels is influenced more by the simple fact you have to hold your weight differently or the trauma of having the little old ladies of the congregation say I needed to stand straight so I didn't show cleavage starting when I was ten.

I was raised by Jehovah's Witness parents. I can't exactly say when I first came to understand what the Holocaust referred to. The yellow Star of David, the Purple Triangle; they were a part of history that intertwined with my childhood. 1/4

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Ask me now for the honest answer and I will tell you I am personally atheist, philosophically agnostic. My personal lack of greater faith does not matter when faced with the idea of evolutionary relevancy. Religion has provided something to us, else we would have discarded it a long time ago. 3/4

It's from that place that the only word I can find for the idea that we humans can create true artificial intelligence is blasphemy. And when I face history with honesty for the moment we are in, I can only call the actions of this administration fascist. 4/4

I was raised by Jehovah's Witness parents. I can't exactly say when I first came to understand what the Holocaust referred to. The yellow Star of David, the Purple Triangle; they were a part of history that intertwined with my childhood. 1/4

There was a woman with a number tattooed on her arm in our congregation. She was elderly and I was young, she passed before a serious conversation could be had about why, which path had made her anathema, but she did gently explain she got it "during the war." 2/4

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Being not from Tulsa, with no familial connections, Daddy in particular had no hesitation when asked about "what happened" in Greenwood. I grew up going to the jazz fest there, and had classmates whose family were "cross the old lines" 2/3

And while things varied from congregation to congregation, circuit, district, and regional to national as to how it was, it was preached we were to live: no matter skin color or ethnic or national, to be human is as if all are brothers and sisters. 1/3

Being a JW kid, I knew from the moment I entered kindergarten that I couldn't be forced to say the pledge of allegiance​, or put a hand over my heart. That they shouldn't even force me to stand, though we were told that it was best to show a minimal level of respect and at least rise to our feet.