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I am an atheist, & I believe religion has a net negative impact on humans. I also think supernatural beliefs are ultimately harmful, & can prevent ppl from making healthy choices, so I speak against them if it suits me.

If you may be offended by my occasional vitriol about , , , or other forms of magical thinking/ superstition, you may want to filter tags like I use in this post, mute me, or block me entirely (so I can't comment on your posts).

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Since is rather dedicated to ad revenue, and they tend to hide certain options from you (ever tried to find alternate engines?), it can pay to have some alternatives bookmarked.

This is especially true if you are looking for proper info. I often find myself fact checking claims & assumptions. For example:

worldcat.org/ Search 20k libraries worldwide, find the rare reference work you need.

pdfdrive.com/ Huge resource of free PDFs.
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TEN THINGS MEN CAN DO TO PREVENT GENDER VIOLENCE

๐Ÿ”‘ The list I am about to thread is not my work, but I think may be valued by some people in this community. It's originally from jacksonkatz.com/wp-content/upl

โš™๏ธ Although this post is public, I will post the 10 items as individual replies Unpublished to avoid spamming the hose. Each reply will also be tagged if you want to set up filers before it gets under way.


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Update time.

Hey, I'm Fern. This is my Nov 2022 updated

โšง Feminamoric/Trixic
:neurodiversity: Neurodivergent
โ™€๏ธ
:blm: BLM supporter
โš›๏ธ Agnostic
โ’บ Egalitarian
๐ŸŒฟ Plant-based life form
๐“ข Guinness drinker
๐Ÿ–– Trekkie
๐Ÿค“ Nerd/Geek
๐ŸŽฒ -er (, )
๐Ÿ“– Reader & autodidact
๐Ÿ’€ Ex-con/revenant
๐ŸŽฎ Discord: (@)FernLovebond#1748
๐Ÿˆ Cats & guinea pig ๐Ÿ’š
๐Ÿง  Ponderous, man. Really ponderous.
๐ŸŽถ addict
๐ŸŽญ lover
๐ŸŽƒ nut
๐Ÿ’ฌ Verbose

That's most of it.

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It's surprising how much this advice on violence prevention needs to be restated nine years after it was given. One of his key points it that bystanders need to speak up when we see victimization, bigotry & sexism. He says that this is not about "sensitivity" but leadership.

โ€œIn the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.โ€
โ€• Martin Luther King Jr.

youtu.be/KTvSfeCRxe8

from The UnVirgin Mary @theunvirginmary.bsky.social

Maybe Hell would be nicer?

There are times, occasionally, when I'll stop the alarm, and let myself laze about a little longer, try to ease into my day. The traffic is a pleasant background noise on the street below, the coffee self-brews and fills the air with its invigorating aroma, birds warble and chirp outside my window, and I think to myself...

"I'm gonna poison those fucking birds."


20 albums that greatly influenced your taste in music.

One album per day, for 20 consecutive days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Not in any order

Day 3

TikTok creator lennnie has been offering continuously positive & compassionate messages for several years now, so I really like the little blob.

And recently lennnie featured a short sing-along with the person I consider to have been the most decent & wonderful human being I've ever seen: Fred Rogers.

This moment kind of chokes me up.

youtube.com/watch?v=R1uTKcrqXm

Also, I'm going to toot my own horn a second and point out that I'm very pleased with the kinda-subtle spoofing on the screenshot I took.

So, because I'm a citizen of the U.S., I find myself torn between following and maintaining my . Often I'll pace myself by getting summaries on the weekends, & otherwise avoiding it.

I just now watched the response to the from Sen. Katie Britt (R, AL).

Um... what? She is disturbing. This is not doing much for my mental health. I want a restraining order.

This shit is fire af. It's stuck in my head, bumping around in my brain, making me move.

Connor Price & Haviah Mighty - Trendsetter

youtube.com/watch?v=PyrX8c1HGZ

"But here is the problem, the very processes that make you intelligently adaptable, make you perpetually prone to self deception. A reinterpretation of the first noble truth."

"Ask yourself, where do you go for information, most will answer the net. Where do you go for knowledge, most will answer science. Where do you go for wisdom, most have no clue."

~ John Vervaeke

Interested in textual criticism of the texts? is offering a class for a "pay as you may" fee.

A 1-hr class w/ 30-min Q&A titled "Is Jesus God? The Christologies of the New Testament"

He'll cover how ideas about the divinity of & his relationship to Israelite , how the idea of the trinity was developed out of a broad variety of perspectives.

Signing up for the live allows access to the recording for as little as $1. Or post-live for $25

didaskaloi.com/

Do note that Proton's paid VPN plans are a little on the expensive side ($5/mo) with no live chat if you need it; NordVPN is probably the best if you're willing to pay for a service, but if you're a broke bish like me, the Proton VPN is the best package around, generally. Even has an audited, certified policy that is strictly no-logs, even though it allows streaming access and torrents.

They use OpenVPN protocols with AES-256 cipher encryption, if you're a little & wondered.

To be clear, here's why you should care about the 5/9/14 Eyes Alliance:
veepn.com/blog/5-9-14-eyes-all

And Proton VPN's free plan offers unlimited data (for reals), but might provide slower connections. Still, it is one of the absolute best free VPNs out there. It has apps/clients for Windows, Mac and many breeds of Linux. Top shelf.

I don't know how many of you already know it, but proton.me has email, storage, calendar, password management and a free VPN, all in one place.

They are also based in Switzerland, allowing them to bypass the privacy-defeating 5/9/14 Eyes alliance, so the VPN actually allows you serious privacy, as recognized by CERN scientists who founded the service.

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๐Ÿชด Fern Lovebond ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ‘ญ

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