you know who hasn't lost their third places? your homophobic evangelical uncle. he knows his neighbors names and has guided discussions with them every sunday.

the first line goes in Cohost embeds
🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮
I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.
mastodon
email: contact at breadthcharge dot net
I live on the northeast coast of the US.
'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.
conceptual midwife.
https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/4929459-here-s-my-five-minut
If you can see the "show contact info" dropdown below, I follow you. If you want me to, ask and I'll think about it.
you know who hasn't lost their third places? your homophobic evangelical uncle. he knows his neighbors names and has guided discussions with them every sunday.
Every once in a while, I think about how much effort post-Revolution France put into "I like everything about Catholicism except for, y'know, God and the clergy"...
I'd certainly not posit that churches are GOOD community spaces though, they're full of super credulous people who are easy marks for scams and recruiting each other into pyramid schemes, and the level of toxicity that people are capable of when they feel obligated not to actually confront anyone is always impressive. Trying to sell each other scams and sharing wild, unfounded gossip about anyone who isn't present definitely beats just living in a lonely bubble though.