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(She/her) Catholic US/UK techie & bookbinder living in the Netherlands. 🦣evilrooster@wandering.shop; 🟦 @evilrooster.bsky.social; G✉️: the obvious handle.
Dec 5, 2021 17 tweets 3 min read
I've been listening to a podcast outside my usual orbit: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill (christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/ri…), about an evangelical church in Seattle that cratered in 2014. (1/n; CN: religion) Very much outside of my own Catholic tradition, to the extent that I'm not sure they (or Christianity Today) would consider me a Christian.
Not listening to it for the schadenfreude, not here for delighting in the suffering of other people.
But a few thoughts have arisen:
(2/n)
Jan 30, 2021 12 tweets 2 min read
Randomly thinking about Sarlacc divers, who put on acid-resistant suits and went down to rescue victims after the Hutt finally fell.
(And the people who counseled those victims through the PTSD.) Started as a bunch of weekend thrill-seekers out of Mos Eisley. Mid-level administrators who were bored with rock climbing and wanted a real challenge. Most of them got bored and wandered off, but a few were hooked.
Nov 21, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
Non-Dutch Twitter, what do you think is happening in this image, which was tweeted by a Dutch government agency? Not that Dutch Twitter is having a better time figuring it out, but I'm interested in some outside perspectives.