There was a young man
From Cork who got limericks
And haikus confused

(Anon. c. 2011)

"Although we can't always choose what happens to us, we can always choose how to respond,"

This is just plain not true.

Trauma changes everything. The Fight/Flight/Freeze responses are autonomic. Which means you can’t always choose how to act when someone traumatizes you.

In this past 12 months, 6 different Sacramento area pastors have been charged AND convicted of sex crimes against children.

In that time, not one trans person has been charged with sex crimes against children.

The narrative the alt-right is clamoring about is egregiously false.

A quick explainer about the Mastodon like (called "favourite" - it's the star). It is a personal message to the writer of the post that you liked it, and it doesn't show on anyone's time line.

If you want to spread the post, that's the boost button. The equivalent of a Twitter like is to do both a favourite and a boost.

If you think this post is useful to you click "favourite". If you think it would be useful for others too, click "boost" as well.

Edited for accuracy.

Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.

We don’t need to treat essential workers like heroes. We need to treat them like human beings with dignity.

Raise their wages. Give them hazard pay. Guarantee health care and paid sick leave.

Quoth the Raven:
"Nevermore."

Quoth Edgar Allan Poe:
"You say that every time you're hungover."