Want to read: Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals by Lori Gruen (ISBN 9781590564875)

via https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-80-animal-rights-as-media-and-pop-culture-punchline

The United States is operating concentration camps.

No, that is not hyperbole. No, that does not water down the term. I recommend this article about the history of concentration camps: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/06/21/some-suburb-of-hell-americas-new-concentration-camp-system/

I have been really disheartened this week. I am trying not to get bogged down, though, and to do something productive to help. Here are some ideas:

• Call your representatives. @resistbot on Twitter makes it easy to call or send letters.
• Donate to RAICES, a non-profit offering legal services focusing on under-served immigrant children, families, and refugees. Any amount helps! Search Twitter for “RAICES match” and see if anyone is matching donations. Here is one person I saw doing that today: https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1142463637426253824
• If you are near one of the camps, join a protest on July 12
• Take action against ICE profiteers July 8-12th
• Spread the word. Share other ideas and resources!

Though YMMV with that - people have run into some 500 errors. I think we are moving away from that on indiewebify.me in favor of using Telegraph (and maybe webmention.app, too!)

Jealous!

Currently reading: The Gospel of Inclusion by Brandan J Robertson (ISBN 9781532676093)

Finished reading: The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen: Opening Your Eyes to Wonder by Lisa Gungor (ISBN 9780310350439)

Want to watch Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture]

What's ridiculous is you thinking a single website is "playing god" or that this situation in any way silences the homophobic voices.

I think the short answer is the platforms like making money off the offensive content. :/

Giving EveryPlate a try thanks to Sheryl. First three meals coming next week:

• Garlic Rosemary Chicken
• Apricot-Sriracha Pork Chops
• Beef Bibimbap Bowl

We’ll see how this goes. I liked Blue Apron; the food was delicious, but the prep time was usually more like 45+ minutes. That got old since I’m only cooking for myself. It was nice having lunch the next day, though, since they’re meals for two.

'MURICA!

I set up https://indiebookclub.biz to post books you’re reading/want to read to your own site.

Want to read: Eve's Revenge: Women and a Spirituality of the Body by Lilian Calles Barger (ISBN 9781587430404)

★ http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/8519-IndieWeb-Summit-2019

I'm glad to hear you are ok and taking steps to get better. And hoo boy, do I feel that "not good at being loved" thing. Thank you for your vulnerability. <3

Rachel Held Evans’ funeral was today. Her loved ones were gracious enough to arrange for it to be livestreamed so people around the world who were impacted by her could watch. I’m not sure the video is going to remain on YouTube long-term, so I recommend watching it soon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyoxUwdSnzA

Nadia Bolz-Weber’s words were powerful and I loved her benediction:

“Blessed are the agnostics.
Blessed are they who doubt.
Blessed are those who have nothing to offer.
Blessed are the preschoolers who cut in line at communion.
Blessed are the poor in spirit.
You are of heaven and Jesus blesses you.

Blessed are those whom no one else notices.
The kids who sit alone at middle-school lunch tables.
The laundry guys at the hospital.
The sex workers and the night-shift street sweepers.
The closeted.
The teens who have to figure out ways to hide the new cuts on their arms.
Blessed are the meek.
You are of heaven and Jesus blesses you.

Blessed are they who have loved enough to know what loss feels like.
Blessed are the mothers of the miscarried.
Blessed are they who can’t fall apart because they have to keep it together for everyone else.
Blessed are those who “still aren’t over it yet.”
Blessed are those who mourn.
You are of heaven and Jesus blesses you.

I imagine Jesus standing here blessing us because that is our Lord’s nature. This Jesus cried at his friend’s tomb, turned the other cheek and forgave those who hung him on a cross. He was God’s Beatitude — God’s blessing to the weak in a world that admires only the strong. Jesus invites us into a story bigger than ourselves and our imaginations yet we all get to tell that story with the scandalous particularity of this moment and this place. We are storytelling creatures because we are fashioned in the image of a storytelling God. May we never neglect that gift. May we never lose our love for telling the story. Amen.”

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

She just said: thumb.

Such beautiful, holy words being shared at Rachel's funeral. Sending love to her loved ones and all mourning. https://youtu.be/XyoxUwdSnzA #becauseofRHE #RememberingRHE