SpinachMountain

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[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

Dog park energy ☺️

[Greg Dutra @DutraWeather]

This wasn’t in the training manual! @TBrownABC7 @valwarnertv and I go OFF THE RAILS when I discovered the TV is a touch screen while on-air on @ABC7Chicago 😂

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@Bloof07024049 @SailorHaumea You led me to find a video of Adams interviewing Nikki Clyne, one of the remaining members of NXIVM, a high demand organization led by a guy fascinated by NLP and serving 120 years in prison. And I’d been just about to mention him

(the doco on HBO about NXIVM is amazing btw)

[DAPPER DON DHARSHI • K A M I L • @SoloFlow786]

The staff at Oregon zoo took the elephant around the zoo, she liked the sea lions the best.

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@Bloof07024049 @SailorHaumea Huh. That reminds me of how creepy people are who get really fascinated by neuro-linguistic programming.

(NLP is pseudoscience, but some folks claim it can be used to influence people without their knowledge)

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@KProtein19 @abughazalehkat I’ve always thought stereotypes were worse than useless; they’re harmful. They vary wildly across history and across the world and therefore are created by society, not biology.

Why, then, do so many people say “I feel like a woman” or “I feel like a man”?

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@AlexPetrovnia TERFS have typical authoritarian/controlling behavior: think in black and white, try to control others’ bodies, invalidate others’ thoughts & feelings, claim superiority, demonize "outsiders," and act possessive & entitled

[Eric Ball @DrEricBall]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone except for this coyote who took a huge dump in our front yard this morning.

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@KProtein19 @abughazalehkat I agree and at the same time disagree because

1. To me the phrases “runs like a girl” and “writes like a man” make no sense

2. I was assigned female at birth and feel like a tomboy

Maybe “feminine” and “masculine” are different from “like a woman,” “like a man?” But how?

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@PaulB3677 @cwillardsmoot It doesn’t happen on such a large scale in all denominations.

The denominations that have had a large problem with not reporting, what do they have in common?

catholic, southern baptist, LDS, jehovah’s witnesses, the haredi community in Brooklyn

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@SJHollist @DLaferson @cwillardsmoot @SJHollist, the Church says that at Joseph Smith’s time polygamy was illegal.

On their official website it says it was illegal.

You can read it yourself underlined in this screenshot or read it on their website, linked here:

https://t.co/QcC7zOI0d4

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@MxrkTT @cosplayed7 @GoraniNekishon @ehisilozobhie At 30 I started to follow football and was surprised to find the commentary was sometimes about the personal lives of the players. All people, it turns out, are sometimes interested in the ups, downs, twists and turns of strangers lives

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@KProtein19 @abughazalehkat Some girls are girlie and some are tomboys. Think about how you have short and tall friends, but you don’t have a friend under four feet. There’s 7,836 million people on the planet and you’ve had heart-to-hearts with like 30 of them. Trans ppl exist

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@KProtein19 @abughazalehkat There are very roughly 1000 gender confirmation surgeries on kids (mostly top surgeries on kids over 16) each year. And very roughly 200,000 plastic surgeries on non-trans kids each year.

https://t.co/fdG10BoWWa

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@KProtein19 @abughazalehkat Look it up: Straight parents get boob jobs for their straight kids. They’re so obsessed with gender that to make their girls “more feminine” they get surgery for girl’s noses. They’re always saying, “boys are like this” “girls are like that” It’s a fixation.

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@postguycore @timerollsby @cursindaily @abughazalehkat It’s just the tip of the iceberg. Conservatives, men especially, are creepy about the bodies of girls. I’ve seen it over and over. Sometimes it’s just talk in front of adults, but sometimes they discuss girls’ bodies while the kids are right there in front of them.

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@EverydayFinance @abughazalehkat Jokey onesies hint at the way a lot of conservative men talk about sexy teens and younger, sometimes right in front of the girls. I had that happen to me. Conservatives also scoff at “consent culture.” Again, I’ve seen that myself.

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@nadine_bonnett @austwitnerd @joeolivermd And dare I say, paid sick-leave. People need to be able to stay home when they are contagious

[Leslieoo7 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @Leslieoo7]

Gay people aren't shooting up straight night clubs.

Black people aren't shooting up white grocery stores.

Latinos are not shooting up Walmarts.

Jewish people are not shooting up Christian churches.

The violence is coming from one demographic: Alt-right radicalized men.

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@comradeaux WTF is this line? "[Obama’s] roots to American values and culture are at best limited"

The racism doesn’t surprise me it’s the sheer incompetence of both Penn (who wrote this) and whoever made him the campaign’s chief strategist. Is “chief strategist” just an honorary title?

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@comradeaux Yeah, sounds like Democrats who supported her started it. I can’t find evidence her campaign questioned his citizenship, but some people, including her chief strategist Mark Penn discussed using Obama’s perceived foreignness against him (here’s ABC on this, and Wikipedia on Penn)

[SpinachMountain @SpinachMountain]

@comradeaux oh, 100% they are both sacks of shit*. It’s just that Trump’s wrong here. (I’m going off what ABC and PolitiFact say)

*honestly this doesn’t even begin to cover it but there’s only so many characters available in a tweet