As a conservative Christian college student, it’s my firm religious belief that the correct answer to every question—in this test or any other, whether multiple-choice, essay, or oral examination—is C, and if you don’t give me full credit then you are taking away my freedom of religion and secret police should take you away to protect free speech.
CBS really Bari'd the story, huh
lady looks like she's about to ask the ghostbusters if they're gods.
Today I wrote about what it means to write a free newsletter with voluntary subscriptions, and the delicate gift that it is to have a readership, and re-shared 12 essays from the year that was.
https://www.the-reframe.com/goodbye-to-2025/
Goodbye to 2025
State of the newsletter, an invitation to upgrade, and an end-of-the-year round up of essays.
“Say I tell you, ‘If I tell everyone my father is an attempted murderer, I am leaving him no path for redemption.’ You might conclude that I have decided that this is not a story about the danger of my brother being choked, but rather a story about danger to my father's spirit and reputation, and how it might be saved.”
By @JuliusGoat
Cultures of abuse center focus on the abuser’s story. https://www.the-reframe.com/f/
Stories We Tell
Recognizing victims and villains is not creating victims and villains. A series on living in a culture of repair, against a culture of abuse.
This is exclusively a Gaston live-action prequel account now, sorry.
To be clear, not super excited about a 2026 Gaston live-action prequel, but I am looking forward to the 2033 photorealistic all-CGI remake based on the 2029 animated remake of the 2026 Gaston live-action prequel.
Looking forward to the Gaston prequel where we learn that as a boy he watched helpless as a gang of books murdered his parents, and begins eating 4 dozen eggs every morning so he can get large enough to wage war on libraries everywhere.
Have you noticed? When someone points to our responsibility—individual and personal, or collective and societal—to end an abuse, the question asked next is very rarely about *how* to do it, but how to *prevent* us from doing it, for fear of doing it the wrong way.
https://www.the-reframe.com/f/
Stories We Tell
Recognizing victims and villains is not creating victims and villains. A series on living in a culture of repair, against a culture of abuse.
I began answering the common question "How do we stop abuse without becoming abusive ourselves?"
Point 1: "What is it about stopping abuse that you think puts us in such danger of becoming abusive that it is the first question you ask in response to the call to do so?"
https://www.the-reframe.com/f/
Stories We Tell
Recognizing victims and villains is not creating victims and villains. A series on living in a culture of repair, against a culture of abuse.
Steve Lekowicz 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦