Optimus Prime

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[Optimus Prime @lyss_the_priss]

@NWSSanAntonio sudden thunderstorm here in kerrville, right off of ranch road 783, throwing pea sized hail on us for 5 minutes.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Imagine taking a few Bible verses on human sexuality and demanding they be legislated over our entire country, yet reducing the +3,000 Bible verses calling for a generous use of wealth that prioritizes the poor, the vulnerable, and the refugee to a private, personal choice.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

One of the biggest things that made me question the Evangelical Christianity of my past was actually meeting all the people I was told to fear, distrust, and treat as my “enemy,” only to find that they were incredible, kind, thoughtful, complex and beautiful people loved by God.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

If your version of Christianity wants to put prayer in schools but take free lunch out of them, you are worshipping something other than Jesus.

[Kendall Brown @kendallybrown]

I keep seeing articles about a woman suing Disney after getting a “wedgie” on a water slide.

To be clear: the woman was injured so badly that her intestines protruded through her abdominal wall & blood gushed out of her.

Disney is trying to downplay her VERY SERIOUS injuries.

[Optimus Prime @lyss_the_priss]

@taknthelonghway

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

Fahrenheit 451 was never my favorite Bradbury/dystopian fiction because it felt a little too blunt, too far-fetched in its metaphor— the state deploying high-tech 'firemen' to burn books to maintain its censorship regime? A bit on the nose.

Currently reevaluating that assessment

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Some Money Talk...

Because of how the P4A works, we raise money all throughout the year now, but don't send it out until after the livestream. That means that we can have as much as a million dollars in the bank for over six months. So we put that money in a CD so that it can generate a little extra income. It's 5% for six months so a meaningful amount...maybe $25,000.

The thing is, you can look at that and say, "Oh, why not just do that? Why not take all of the money the P4A has ever raised and, instead of donating it, you could earn 5% on it and then donate the 5% forever?"

This is what endowments are and that's how they work. If we did this (WHICH WE WOULD NOT (which i'll get into)) then there would be like $15M in that account and we'd be donating $750,000 per year...theoretically forever. That sounds amazing!

There are a lot of people who are very compelled by endowments like this, because the main nugget of money never goes away and is always throwing off more good into the world.

This misses something very important. It imagines that donations are one-time goods while capital throwing off money in an endowment is a forever good.

But that's not the reality. The reality is, when you donate money, the good that money does does not vanish the moment the money is spent, it continues to do good forever, you just can't see it anymore.

If you help a mother not die in childbirth, then that doesn't just do good that one time, it does good for her and her community and her children for the rest of her life...longer than the rest of her life! Her children will have the support of that person who otherwise would have died. They will continue to live healthier and better lives because they did not lose their mother as children. They will be better prepared to serve their own community and their own children. Those returns continue /forever/.

There is economic return on donations, they are just returns that you can't see as a number in your bank account. And those returns are MUCH BIGGER than 5% per year.

If you are a person with money and you have a charitable giving account and you can see that there is currently more money in that account than you have ever donated...I'm sorry but you are doing it wrong. The money needs to get out and do good now. There isn't some future time when it will be more capable of doing more good because it has grown.

It needs to get into the world. It can be doing so much good. And if you don't know what to do with it, just send us an email at [email protected]. We've got you.

[R.L. Stollar @RLStollar]

Lol, yep. 😅

[Optimus Prime @lyss_the_priss]

@miss_vickilla No one pose like Gaston, wear cute clothes like Gaston, no one’s fancy aura can glow like Gaston, she’s especially good at self actuating!!! Oh what a girl that Gaston

[Optimus Prime @lyss_the_priss]

lil life threatening mass

[Braindead Bird App @tragicbirdapp]

lil skate injury

[Philip DeFranco 👊🏻 @PhillyD]

I finally got a chance to watch the Barbie movie.

If you think it's a man-hating movie, your victim complex is showing.

[Optimus Prime @lyss_the_priss]

@gimmeydatbeki No matter what happens, he is so loved and he knows it. I’m sending every good vibe I can

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Again, it is a profound failure of our society that Nazis feel comfortable waving swastikas around.

[Optimus Prime @lyss_the_priss]

@rebekahmalieb Girl, I could never imagine doing anything like this to someone

[Optimus Prime @lyss_the_priss]

Didn’t think I’d need to say this 7 months in, but if you still have any contact at all with my ex, do not message me about him.
Do not go out of your way to send me information about what he is or isn’t doing with his life.
Do not send me anything you find online about him.

[Optimus Prime @lyss_the_priss]

Unless there is something directly related to my safety, or the safety of those I love, DO NOT TALK TO HIM ABOUT ME. DO NOT SEND ME ANYTHING ABOUT HIM
I am so very happy with where I am at, and have done so much therapy to get there. Please respect me, It took a lot to get here

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Imagine claiming that a few Bible verses on human sexuality are literal divine commands from God for all of society, all while claiming the +3,000 verses calling for the care of immigrants, the marginalized, the oppressed, and the poor should just be a personal choice.