Jon of the Dead

Grew up in Beirut and Tehran. Knitter, potter, meditator. Severe hearing loss and making friends with silence. Living with #lupus. Trauma therapist. Married to the lovely Scott Perkins (npub1pqy…4gcq) 🏳️‍🌈 #BLM #TransRights

Website: https://jonkirkendall.com
Pronouns: He/Him/His

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2026-10-18 18:18:50 UTC

It is such a deluge of hard news these days, and I find myself not wanting to add to it. But I want to close the loop on this one.
Many of you shared my post about my friend’s contractor, who was kidnapped by ICE last Wednesday on his way to his immigration appointment.
Taken Wednesday. Sent to Louisiana Thursday. On Friday, he called his family from Honduras, the country he left as a small child.
It’s over. No appeals.
#ICE #USPol

2026-10-16 21:43:17 UTC

Just in case you're wondering how repair of the Reflecting Pool is going...🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️
#WashingtonDC #USPol #ReflectingPool
https://www.washingtonsun.com/metro/reflecting-pool-liner-damage-inspection

2026-10-15 15:21:30 UTC

My best friend's contractor didn't show for work yesterday.
Last night, his brother showed up and knocked on his door.
"My brother was picked up by ICE at his immigration hearing. When he called me, he told me to come to your house and finish the job." They gave him money and told him to go home.
My friend found a lawyer for the contractor last night, but as he said, "I'm not sure if I'm more shaken as an American or as a Jew."
We have to end this nightmare.
#ICE

2026-10-03 21:26:54 UTC

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Hey I'm thinking about you getting ready for the firing tomorrow. Hoping it's a huge success!

2026-10-02 01:30:07 UTC

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This makes me so happy. Can't wait to hear about Sunday!

2026-10-01 12:57:49 UTC

There's a restaurant/bar down the street from my office* where they are hosting a Great British Bake Off watch parties. The first one was on Tuesday of this week. I wandered down after work, and it was so crowded I couldn't even get in the front door! And everybody brought cake!
It was a wondrous site and made me happy. Probably the first time an overly crowded venue brought a smile to my face!
*Duke's Grocery, for those of you in DC.
#BakeOff #DC #WashingtonDC

2026-09-20 14:44:21 UTC

Wonderful, quiet day yesterday home by myself. I spent 4.5 hours on the sofa reading the The Rataban Betrayal by Stephen Alter (thanks, @npub1p75…9xk6!).
It's a spy/whodunit novel with so amazing elements: missionaries, the CIA, Vajrayana Buddhism, a boarding school that I almost attended as a missionary kid in India, Tibetan freedom fighters, and the Dalai Lama.
I love it when a good story takes over my mind and I just can't get enough!
#Books #Bookstodon #mystery

2026-09-13 16:24:44 UTC

#SilentSunday #FallColors
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2026-08-19 15:03:16 UTC

Disabled people are often judged according to how closely we approximate nondisabled life. Can we work a conventional schedule? Leave the house? Attend in person? Perform independence in a form other people recognize?
When we cannot, our lives are interpreted as failed versions of normality.
But a person who builds a workable life around severe limitations has not failed to live normally. They have solved a problem the standard design ignored.
@npub1y86…hq9h
#disability
https://onlys.ky/future-in-bedrooms/

2026-07-29 15:55:06 UTC

Y'all! A friend from St. Louis just sent me this picture of her new kitten asleep in one of my bowls! 🥰
#Catsofmastodon #Pottery
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2026-07-24 14:35:01 UTC

Bainbridge Island, Washington
#FungiFriday
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2026-06-30 22:15:11 UTC

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I failed miserably today!

2026-06-28 22:03:38 UTC

Seeing my husband using the ball winder when I entered the yarn store made me realize that I had totally succeeded at life.
#knitting #weaving #fiberarts
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2026-06-23 13:58:52 UTC

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This really touched me! Thanks for sharing this. ❤️‍🩹

2026-06-21 18:59:36 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-06-16 15:57:41 UTC

Insurance company: You need pre-authorization to start PT.
Surgeon’s office: we don’t provide prior authorization for PT. You’ll have to get that from the physical therapist.
Physical therapy office: what’s a prior authorization?
🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️
The American healthcare system is eating me alive.
#healthcare #chronicillness

2026-06-12 21:39:58 UTC

Honestly, watching the live stream of the workers take down Trump‘s name from the Kennedy Center, all conversing and yelling instructions to each other in Spanish, may be the most inspiring thing I’ve seen since #BadBunny’s Super Bowl performance.

2026-06-10 17:38:01 UTC

LOL I just re-read a message I sent to my PCP regarding a prescription.
I sent it just days after surgery, when I was still on pain killers and clearly I was sooooo high!!! 😆

2026-06-10 01:25:43 UTC

TIL my husband and I can still sing the lyrics of Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclpise of the Heart from beginning to end!

2026-06-01 22:40:45 UTC

Current nursing staff.
#dogs #DogsOfMastodon
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2026-05-19 19:48:28 UTC

Ooooooh! Becky Chambers has a new book coming out - the first in a duology! 🥳
As You Wake, Break the Shell is scheduled for release on October 13, 2026.
#BeckyChambers #ScienceFiction #books #Bookstodon

2026-05-19 14:42:02 UTC

Yesterday the temperature went from the 70s straight to the upper 90s. Summer showed up like a dramatic diva — hot, humid, and very proud of itself. "Ta-dahhh!"
My lupus, never one to be upstaged: "Hold my beer."
Struggle bus weather has officially arrived.
#lupus #autoimmune #ClimateChange

2026-05-17 18:08:59 UTC

Went to Trader Joe's in DC today. Parked in a handicapped spot, got out with my cane, found the elevator broken — stairs only.
Talked to store manager. No repair date. No alternative access plan. But I did get a "disabled customers are a priority."
The ADA passed in 1990. Thirty-six years later and "have you tried the stairs?" is still a thing. 😤
#DC #DMV #Disability #Accessibility #DisabilityRights

2026-05-09 19:04:42 UTC

Woah - this link is gold!
If you have access to Libby through your public library, you can type in your local library system and this will tell you all other Libby systems you’re eligible for!
https://reciprocard.com
#Libby #libraries #books #bookstodon

2026-05-04 22:57:50 UTC

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If you see any witches blowing by seek shelter.

2026-04-12 14:30:03 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-03-31 14:47:51 UTC

#TextureTuesday
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2026-03-22 12:58:55 UTC

#SlientSunday #BloomScrolling
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2026-03-18 01:09:23 UTC

Seen on my way home this evening in Washington DC.
#WashingtonDC #EpsteinFiles #USPol
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2026-03-17 01:17:58 UTC

Spring doesn't wait for winter to finish.
#DC #WashingtonDC #BloomScrolling
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2026-03-15 20:48:20 UTC

Hats off to my best friend who planted about a 100 of these bulbs in our backyard last fall.
#BloomScrolling #Spring
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2026-02-22 16:26:49 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-02-15 14:49:09 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-02-12 03:32:25 UTC

Hey #fiberArts, #sewing, and @npub1nd7…p8lj Do any of you make and sell messenger bags? Or perhaps knows someone who does? Extra points for expertise in designing bags for those with mobility issues.
Please feel free to boost if you think someone in your part of the galaxy could help.
Thanks!
#lupus #Autoimmune #knitting

2026-02-04 13:59:03 UTC

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This is so much fun!

2026-02-01 14:50:02 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-01-26 22:58:02 UTC

I can't recommend this read enough! Thanks to @npub1f5n…2tcs and @npub1jwy…dm35 for getting it in my timeline!
"We didn’t even get to the full distribution phase before they freaked out. The mere presence of one dildo at their feet was enough to trigger chemical weapons. That’s how paper-thin their authority is. That’s how little it takes to make them go full riot-cop meltdown mode."
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
#resist #minneapolis #minnesota

2026-01-06 21:04:13 UTC

Snow and sand.
#TextureTuesday
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2026-01-04 16:55:38 UTC

I missed this news in December. Rest in peace, rise in power, Barbara Walker: knitter, feminist, and fierce proponent of the separation of church and state.
https://pieceworkmagazine.com/honoring-a-knitting-legend-barbara-g-walker-in-her-own-words/
#knitting #FiberArts #BarbaraWalker @npub1nd7…p8lj

2026-01-04 15:26:10 UTC

#SilentSunday #LakeMichigan
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2025-12-30 17:42:28 UTC

When you're trying to collaborate on a Mastodon post but one of you has checked out.
#dogs #dogsOfMastodon
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2025-12-28 22:20:44 UTC

#SilentSunday #Michigan
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2025-12-28 15:57:58 UTC

My nephew's wife, Abby, learned to knit off the internet during the pandemic. She made these for my mother-in-law (her grandmother-in-law) this year for Christmas, and I am absolutely blown away by the level of detail.
(The photograph looks like one is slightly bigger, but that is a trick of the camera - in real life they are the same size!)
#Knitting #FiberArts #Yarn @npub1nd7…p8lj
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2025-12-27 02:32:36 UTC

Foggy day on Lake Michigan today.
You’re seeing mounds of ice and snow covered in sand at the shore, which meets the crashing waves of Lake Michigan.
#PureMichigan #LakeMichigan #Michigan
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2025-12-21 21:29:41 UTC

#SilentSunday #Michigan
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2025-12-19 00:25:46 UTC

Ok. It took the dogs once—ONCE—to learn that a transparent glass door stands between them and the outdoors at this place we’re staying.
I’ve walked into it twice. 🙄

2025-11-21 15:26:39 UTC

Roanoke, Virginia
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #ICE
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2025-11-19 14:49:34 UTC

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Yay Team Piggy!!!
I got complemented on your pig sticker that I have on my laptop cover yesterday at the hardware store!

2025-11-14 17:55:38 UTC

#FensterFreitag in North Carolina.
#dogs #DogsOfMastodon #NorthCarolina
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2025-10-30 13:29:09 UTC

DC life.
#WashingtonDC #DC #DMV
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2025-10-16 18:50:31 UTC

These two crack me up. Because of work happening in the backyard, they have not been able to get outside and play. Instead they follow me around all day telling me how bored they are! 🤣
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
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2025-10-16 12:40:31 UTC

Totally becoming an Aunt Tifa (although I believe I'd call myself Auntie Fa!).
Posted by the National Organization for Women on another site.
#antifa
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2025-10-04 14:42:03 UTC

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I was so angry. I went into CVS, honestly couldn’t remember what I was there for, gave up, and left. They were all congregated outside the CVS so I had to walk through them to get out. Again, I stopped. “I want you to know where I’m coming from. I grew up in Beirut. I’ve witnessed civilians being shot. And this is how it started. I worked with military families for 12 years - I know you, I know your partners, I know your children. THIS is your legacy? Shame on you.”
2/2
#FreeDC #WashingtonDC

2025-10-04 14:41:02 UTC

Y'all, I lost it.
I was walking to CVS a block from my office in Dupont Circle. a group of eight NG were crossing the street and we all had to wait for the light together, and then crossed. Someone yelled "Fuck you! Go home" and one of the Guardsmen yelled back "Have a nice day!"
I stopped and said "NO! We are not have a nice day. And you know why? It's because YOU ARE HERE. Stop telling us to have a nice day. It's offensive and you know it's insincere."
1/2
#FreeDC #WashingtonDC #DC
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2025-10-03 14:34:32 UTC

#FungiFriday #mushtodon #mushroom
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2025-09-21 16:24:39 UTC

This potted calamansi lime has been the belle of the ball this past summer! It winters in the south facing window of my office. In the summer it sits outside in our back yard, reveling in the heat and humidity of D.C., filling the heavy night air with it's lovely perfume.
This is the second time it's bloomed this season. Already, limes are forming from the June bloom.
I think I may have just enough to make some marmalade this year!
#gardening #Bloomscrolling #HousePlants
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2025-09-10 13:20:28 UTC

Someone on here was singing the praises of RSS feeds so I finally added one and am eternally grateful to whoever that person was.
A big ol' thank you!
#RSS

2025-08-30 14:54:10 UTC

Cafe du Monde cold brew with sweetened condensed milk.
Shaken, not stirred.
#coffee #SaturdayMorning
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2025-08-30 00:44:41 UTC

Y’all. People in DC are walking behind national guard playing the Darth Vader theme and filming it.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6sa64AL/
#FreeDC #washingtondc #DC

2025-08-27 20:10:32 UTC

The grand jury refused to indict The Sandwich Guy who had been charged with a felony for throwing a sandwich into a group of federal officers in DC!
He's become the symbol of resistance in DC, and here he is, tossing a sandwich and hitting Steven Miller. This is in the Howard University neighborhood.
#FreeDC #DC #WashingtonDC #resist #StreetArt
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2025-08-17 21:22:18 UTC

Shenandoah Valley
#SilentSunday #Shenandoah #Virginia
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2025-08-14 22:21:46 UTC

Never give up, Stumpy, never give up!
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2025-08-08 22:14:37 UTC

Sometimes the light hits just right!
#FensterFreitag #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #poodle
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2025-08-08 21:01:10 UTC

My little front porch garden has given me so much joy! We’ve enjoyed fresh basil now for a month and enough left to make some pesto; fresh rosemary, chives, and tarragon, mint for tea, and the jalapeños are coming in.
In the backyard, the raspberries are so heavy that the canes are drooping over from the weight. Clearly they are thriving on neglect!
#gardening
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2025-08-01 20:55:07 UTC

Basil lemonade tonight, with basil from my incredibly prolific front porch herb garden!
#basil #lemonade #Herbs #gardening #garden
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2025-07-27 13:38:01 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-07-23 12:39:35 UTC

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Or quite possibly therapists, but I'm guessing librarians would do a better job.

2025-07-21 16:25:34 UTC

Cool and dry enough for a morning walk! After about 15" of rain in 2 1/2 months, these are popping up everywhere!
#fungi #mushrooms #MushroomMonday
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2025-07-20 19:03:22 UTC

Summertime.
#SilentSunday
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2025-07-13 15:29:55 UTC

Chesapeake Bay, Maryland
#SilentSunday #Chesapeake #Maryland
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2025-07-11 20:44:47 UTC

Back from my old life when I used to get invited to the White House every so often for work events.
They don't want me now, and I'm fine with that.
#FensterFreitag
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2025-07-06 18:29:14 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-07-01 00:22:36 UTC

It was really fun for me to walk into my friend's kitchen this past weekend in Staunton and see one of my bowls from 2014 or 2015!
This what my pots look like in the wild. 🙂
#pottery #handmade
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2025-06-19 16:21:13 UTC

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I hear this little fellow every day, but I've not seen him yet! Thanks for the photo!

2025-06-14 16:01:18 UTC

D.C. is under a flood watch from 2 pm to midnight. ⛈️ 🌩️ 🌩️
#NoKings #NoKingsDay #WashingtonDC
cwg.live

2025-06-05 18:42:38 UTC

My second attempt in the Zojirushi bread maker got very good reviews! Chocolate cake with chocolate chips with a texture somewhere between pound cake and a yeasted loaf. Not too sweet, and deeply chocolate.
#breadmachine #baking
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2025-06-04 19:13:21 UTC

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You are definitely one of the cool kids now!

2025-06-01 22:16:47 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-05-30 14:36:04 UTC

#FungiFriday #Fungi
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2025-05-29 17:30:23 UTC

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2025-05-29 13:38:57 UTC

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The fact that the term originated with the Wall Street Journal makes it doubly funny.

2025-05-16 19:59:48 UTC

#FensterFreitag
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2025-05-15 15:49:35 UTC

#DoorsDay
#PuertoVallarta
#Mexico
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2025-05-13 17:02:21 UTC

When both your humans are heading into the office today....
#Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #poodle
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2025-05-09 15:40:44 UTC

Fried right open.
#FensterFreitag
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2025-05-07 13:27:50 UTC

This text from our housekeeper is how my day started. She and her family have been in the US for ten years, legally, as political refugees. They are in the final stages of getting citizenship.
Now they're afraid to leave their house.
#ICE #Immigrants
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2025-05-04 15:34:13 UTC

A friend on Facebook posted this pattern and I wanted to share with my sewing friends in the Fediverse:
Today is launch day for the Loud and Proud Zipper Pouch from K.Azcona Designs Patterns. 50% of the proceeds from the pattern are going to The Trevor Project.
https://www.kazconadesigns.com/products/loud-and-proud-zipper-pouch-sewing-pattern
@npub1v7p…4pnr @npub1kle…neyl
#sewing #PrideFlag
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2025-04-13 14:59:08 UTC

Last year's hydrangea.
#SilentSunday
#Bloomscrolling
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2025-04-11 20:22:40 UTC

Alfred, taking #FensterFreitag very seriously indeed.
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
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2025-04-08 02:00:11 UTC

A friend took this picture and it made me lol.
#handsoff #fiberarts @npub1v7p…4pnr #embroidery
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2025-04-03 18:30:02 UTC

Cool trick: If you store your N95 mask in the same compartment in your car that you keep your wintergreen gum in, it will open your sinuses when you wear it! 😆

2025-03-07 14:56:34 UTC

Not that we've questioned their intellectual prowess, but scrubbing pictures of the Enola Gay for DEI reasons? OMG.
https://www.newsweek.com/military-remove-enola-gay-photos-dei-rules-2041029

2025-02-12 14:41:29 UTC

Does anyone know of anyone who is doing #research on the growth of #autoimmune disorders in people who have had #covid?
Please boost for visibility.

2025-02-02 17:22:08 UTC

Reguliersgracht, Amsterdam, 1968, taken by my dad.
#SilentSunday #Canal #Amsterdam
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2025-01-31 18:58:37 UTC

#Fensterfreitag
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2025-01-30 16:16:19 UTC

30 years ago when I came out to my oldest brother, he was about to be deployed as a chaplain to a Marine battalion. He wrote me back telling me that his heart was heavy - I needed to repent of my homosexuality.
Monday, this former fundamentalist preacher sat on my couch and bemoaned all the "old, white, straight snowflakes" currently running the country who get "butt hurt at the slightest mention of accomplishments of the BIPOC community or women."
Love won.
#exvangelical #lgbtq
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2025-01-16 00:58:02 UTC

- reply

I point to my hearing aids. "Thank you, I'm deaf, and the feedback from your phone...." "OMG it must be driving you crazy! I'm so sorry. Of course!"
I mean thanks dude, but please, be a better human.
2/2
#Deaf #HardOfHearing #HearingAid

2025-01-16 00:56:57 UTC

Dinner at a restaurant tonight. After we are seated, a young man is seated at the table next to us. He makes a video call on his phone. No headphones - so he turns up the volume on his phone to match the noise in the restaurant. This creates a buzz in both hearing aids, and i can't hear my friends.
I turn and ask if he has headphones. He sneers. "No." I don't quite know what to say. "Do you want me to end the phone call?" he throws at me. "Yes! Do you mind?" "Yes, I do," he quips.
1/2
#deaf

2025-01-12 17:59:51 UTC

#silentsunday
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2025-01-09 19:38:33 UTC

"Care tasks are morally neutral. Being good or bad at them has nothing to do with being a good person, parent, man, woman, spouse, friend. Literally nothing. You are not a failure because you can't keep up with the laundry. Laundry is morally neutral."
-KC Davis, How To Keep House While Drowning
#Spoonie #autoimmune #lupus #pots