AmberWavesoFlame @AmberWavesofFlame@qoto.org

Our bodies are temples— we pour way too much focus on the outside, but it is the inside that matters, and what defines us.

Our bodies are tools— if an eye or hand or any other body part distances us from God, it is better to cut it off and throw it away. Again, what is sacred is the spirit inside, and our flesh is diametrically not, it is a means to an end. The end of course of loving God, which He tells us means we feed His sheep. Not of winning a human consensus of propriety.

Our bodies are garments— and we are not meant to wear one wrong for us.

On this #TransVisibilityDay, let’s remember that what God sees is far beyond what man sees, because God sees our hearts. It’s time the #Church sees our trans brothers and sisters, too.

Like immediately after I posted that I saw another example:

I’ve been seeing a genre of post on #Mastodon where the poster just spams every popular hashtag they can think of, most clearly unrelated, paired with deliberately hateful memes and ugly remarks about how [slurs] should die and so on. Since they aren’t on my instance and I’m only seeing them from hashtag abuse, what happens when I report them? Who does the report even go to— my admins or theirs? And does it do any good if they can keep reaching everyone the same way?

#moderation #hatespeech

@futurebird

@futurebird my cat supervises and also appointed herself Morale Officer when I work from home.

#cats #catsofmastodon #WFH

@maxleibman I have an ever-shortening list of holdouts important enough to me to keep going back for since they aren’t crossposting regularly yet, but while I’m there anyway fuck yeah I’m stealing Elon’s content to enrich his competition. And screenshots >> links, for obvious reasons. When the person does also have a 🐘account, even a defunct one, I tag it. I also constantly evangelize for 🐘while I’m there, with some known successes!

@twitterisgoinggreat

Via @kt_so_it_goes :

#twitter #NYT #TwitterBlue #fail

As reported by Oliver Darcy of CNN:

Simply egg-stortion.

#economics

#cats #pets #memes #oops

My heart breaks for yet another #schoolshooting. It is an everywhere problem in the US: private or public, red state or blue, small town or large. We all have to face these tragedies together.

But there are some commonalities with all of these #massshootings. One is that they aren’t impulse-control lapses; they’re planned out well in advance, despite the shooters fully expecting they will die during it. And therefore, fear of retribution won’t deter them any more than it will suicide bombers.