David Coletta

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Member of Fresh Pond Monthly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) in Cambridge, Mass. https://freshpondquakers.org Attender at Three Rivers Meeting. https://threeriversmeeting.org. Parent of trans kid. 🏳️‍⚧️
Websitehttps://techministry.info

I'll be shutting down quakers.social at the end of 2025. Thanks for participating, and I hope you continue to use Mastodon even if not here.

It is possible to move your Mastodon account from quakers.social to another server! Here is a guide on why you might want to do this, and how to do it. You must do this in advance of the shutdown date, i.e., some time in 2025.

https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/

Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Judge grants “critical victory” to trans people suing Trump for his anti-trans passport policy

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/judge-grants-critical-victory-to-trans-people-suing-for-his-anti-trans-passport-policy/

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

"When Mount St. Helens erupted in May of 1980, it lost 1, 300 feet of elevation and gained a new mile and a half wide crater. Debris and ash from the volcanic blast devastated the mountain for miles, crushing, burning, killing, and coating everything. Everyone assumed life could not return to this death zone, maybe for several human lifetimes."

https://www.threeriversmeeting.org/messages-and-news/you-are-part-of-refugia

#quaker @quakers

You Are Part of Refugia — Three Rivers Meeting

Prepared message given as part of Three Rivers worship on Zoom, 14 November 2024.

Three Rivers Meeting
Our Task Is Clear

Breathe in, breathe out.

Plain Speech with Philip Gulley
Not one conservative in a thousand understands this.
It's up to us:
Friends. Most of us have lived through difficult weeks before. But we haven’t lived through a week that is difficult in the way this one is. In the run-up to this U.S. Election Day, we fight against the prospect of a fascist in the White House and for the first woman, a champion of freedom and democracy, to become President of the United States. So much is on the line. Be patient with yourself and with allies as we go through this week. 1/

If you tell the story of the burnt ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver this week (an important story that warrants attention), also tell how good fire-suppressant design saved all but three ballots in the Portland box, and the efforts of the election workers who contacted those three voters and arranged for replacement ballots.

Things are scary and bad, and often literally on fire. But there are good people and good systems too. Making us forget that is always a win for the worst ones.