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Podcast @Reportsfrontier. Religious reflections, DnD enthusiasms, sports exclamations, and customer complaints mixed freely.

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@FrontierCare Just noting that @FrontierCare never responded to my DM. Now to see if I'll have to threaten legal action to get a full refund...

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@FlyFrontier just cancelled our flight with absolutely no notice forty minutes before we were supposed to board. They still haven't notified us, we learned through Google.

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@FlyFrontier cancelled our flight forty minutes before boarding and never notified us. What a horrible, horrible experience.

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@republicwirelss Just saw this - thanks for reaching out. We got it fixed (or at least realized that it wasn't fixable!)

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It would be great if @republicwirelss would take its customer service seriously. Lost cell service last week out of the blue, put in a help ticket and am still waiting with a bricked phone. Does social media shaming still work or will I need to look for a new carrier?

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@mellanella My inspiration:

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@gmcalpin @incandescaent I mean, they're both kind of jackasses.

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@Lyndon_M @mellanella @therevallison Furthermore, my parents didn't realize when they arrived that the door to said tunnel didn't lock. (They discovered this when they heard a noise in the basement one day and discovered a church member rummaging through my dad's tools.) They installed a lock very quickly.

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And moreover, God is actively embarrassed by them and wishes deeply that they would stop profaning their name.

And yes, I say this all from direct, recent, and local personal experience.

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When a church decides to worship indoors, without masks, in full knowledge that unmasked, unvaccinated people will be there; and says to parents that their children, "can just say home" or "We'll just quarantine them in a special space in the sanctuary",

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and says to immune-compromised people, "Well, you can just say home until you feel it's safe," and says in general, "Well, people are just responsible for themselves"

They. Are. Not. A. Church

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@mellanella @gmcalpin At one point, I had the beginnings of a Haverhill-focused blog called "Hugging Hannah Duston" for exactly this reason.

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7) (Cont) so for the love of God, if this really isn't your thing, just read the words, pray with people, and let God do the rest. That's what you're supposed to do anyway.

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Because Twitter is the Platform Where You Rant About Things, let me present: How Not to Do a Funeral; a Story of My Grandfather's Service Today, in many parts.

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7) (Cont) No one will remember a word of the most brilliant sermon you preach, but they will remember whether you held that space well or poorly. One of the most enduring memories from grandparents final days will be how badly their funerals were fucked up,