Average Joe

Ooh, and you could put breath mints and individual packets of instant coffee

A little free library but it’s newspapers and periodicals. Little free news stand.

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Banning Black history limits public access to the truth

People don’t realize this but you only have to do one thing to feel welcome in Maryland

@knonX__ @DChadwickAuthor It’s not.

@DChadwickAuthor Not a chance. I have seen the tide turn since this inspired directive. Hold the course. Correct others when inspired. This is the Church of Jesus Christ. Any other title is offensive to the Lord.

My fellow Latter Day Saints, respectfully, it’s time to let this one go. This is an initiative whose time has passed. I know many people still deeply admire President Nelson and wish to carry on his teachings and wishes. I understand and respect that impulse. But policing people’s language in this matter, both inside the church and out, is not only rude but also intellectually disingenuous. We leaned into the term Mormon since the days of the prophet Joseph Smith. We owned it and took it on ourselves as our identity. We did that, nobody else. We call our belief system Mormonism. This is how language works. Not only that, it makes us distinct from other denominations. This was the whole point of the restoration. Joseph Smith restored the gospel away from the apostasy that had been happening for almost two thousand years. A distinct and defining term for this is appropriate. Nobody believes we worship Mormon. This is absurd. There is no confusion of who members of the church actually worship. We worship Jesus Christ. I have never, not once in my life, been ashamed of being a Mormon. And neither should we. With all due respect to President Nelson, I implore you to heed President Hinckley’s wise words on this matter. But not only his, also President Monson’s: Dare to be a Mormon; Dare to stand alone. Dare to have a purpose firm; Dare to make it known.

@DChadwickAuthor @ShmoeDad It’s almost like there’s something called agency and independent thought.

@ShmoeDad This is an excellent question. Which is it?

Uh oh NYmag not great

Sigh. Almost every time I read modern literary fiction I’m just so… underwhelmed. I’m a few hundred pages into this, and it’s just blah and clunky. Interesting premise made boring.

Classic GOP move.

@stargirl752 Yeah the whole metallurgy system is so inventive and impressive

@planetJoseph The Mistborn series is great. I haven't read the other two but I've heard Red Rising is good.

I’ve entered the manisphere of booktok. But having a great time, honestly. Books. I haven’t finished red rising but the other two were good. Def recommend Mistborn more.

@shesbonky Boo to the teacher

i am deceased 🤣 my 5th grader has to do a presentation in her class on a US state. she chose virginia today her teacher said CAN'T SHARE AN IMAGE OF THE STATE FLAG in class because it's not appropriate for school the flag:

@scottew Pre-suburb? Give it 6 years haha

@planetJoseph Ah yeah good point. I wonder what it would qualify as...maybe right on the line

I think Utah does very well on this, with a strong social norm of letting kids roam around independently at a fairly young age.

@scottew Either way, a fantastic place to develop the experience you have. But other parts of the state aren’t quite like that.

@scottew Maybe where you live is more suburbs now but I’ve always considered it exurbs: A little further out and almost rural.

@pimomormon Most of the ones who stay full believing and active. Yep. Very Orwellian.

This is why I say that most Mormons will take what the church says as truth, no matter what it has said about things in the past. The church is the Orwellian ministry of truth for most Mormons. Not all, but most. 3/f

A friend of mine read about the rock in the hat before the church had anything out on it. He told another friend and was told “that sounds anti Mormon. You shouldn’t believe that.” Then, the church admitted Joseph used a rock in a hat to translate. 1/

When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?

@DemzDeliver Is this the kind of news that has development directors at storied institutions out of a job? lol. It’s a good thing though.

🚨 NEW: Zohran Mamdani to permanently fund NYC libraries and parks. Libraries will no longer have to plead for funding each year.