Emily Baselt

@cenedella But it’s also not possible to grow perpetually. We only have so many resources. “Shrinking gracefully” to within the capacity of the earth to sustain us is exactly what we should be trying to accomplish. Growth for the sake of growth is what got us into this mess in the 1st place

@privilegelog PTO is part of your compensation package as an employee. This is like telling people not to take their full salary if their department is facing a budget crunch.

Wow, my life has changed a lot since I last logged in. 👋 Hi, I’m Emily, I’m a Buddhist lawyer in Methodist divinity school & my company Bad Weather is building an eco-spiritual wellness retreat center in Costa Rica. I think that about covers it? 😎

I emerge from my long deeper Twitter hibernation to complain that in the last week, I have watched Toy Story 4 more often, more closely, and in more languages than I would really recommend, and I do not even know any children.

@mhames Oh god, who’s the Greek prophet who kept warning people about the future but nobody believed her? Cause I relate.

This is me very cautiously dipping my little toe ever-so-slightly into the water to see if I actually want to dive into Twitter again, or if instead I want to...not do that.

@charlotteirene8 Hmm, but Triton also doesn’t want Ariel around humans because they’re dangerous. Humans are destroying the ocean, killing the animals who are Triton’s subjects. Ariel is obsessing over colonizers stripping her home of resources. From that lens, I’d end my kid’s Nazi hobby too 😂

THIS. King Triton shamed Ariel for being interested in humans and destroyed her artifact collection. Maybe if he encouraged her hobby she wouldn't have tried to run away from home.

Update on the mural progress!

Since a few people have asked: the reason I’ve mostly gone silent on social is 60% pandemic-related news fatigue & 40% the fact that I’m interning for a judge (yay!!) and it’s easier to follow the strict judicial ethics rules about appearance of bias if I stay offline entirely.

I posted something on Facebook at 8:00pm and by 8:07pm it only had 1 comment and 0 likes so I deleted it and now you know the kind of person I really am.

Somehow I have won my husband @jpaul_ortiz over & convinced him we need to go wild on the apartment walls, so now we’re 8 hours into a rainforest mural. 😍

We’re rewatching You’re The Worst and I’m realizing Sunday Funday is easily one of my all-time favorite episodes of television.

We’re watching #TheLastAirbender and JP just noticed that if you listen closely to the forest soundtrack they use in the background, it’s clearly a rainforest soundtrack. You can hear toucans calling to each other. So apparently there are toucans in the Avatar world 😂

This woman shutdown her business and laid off her 13 employees because her husband said he couldn’t handle being the primary caretaker for their 3yr old. 😐🥴🤦🏾‍♀️ In the words of ⁦@tressiemcphd⁩ “some of y’all do a whole lot to have a husband.” thelily.com/i-had-to-choos…

Tweeps, I am working on the most awesomest piano project and I am SO EXCITED about it. 🤩

@Meeannimal @charlotteirene8 I LOVE the show and have for years but couldn’t make it through more than 20 min of the movie. So yeah movie is awful but show is a delight, as is the sequel series Korra.

Okay Twitter I'm starting Avatar: The Last Airbender. I've never seen it before but I know a lot of people who love it.

I spent almost all of today not on Twitter and now that I’m on Twitter again, I’m realizing that not being on Twitter was the better choice. Don’t even explain the Trump taking risky drugs thing to me, I don’t want to know.

If you don’t own that thing, then you may not care for it right.