Dagmar the Maggie

☦️ Christian. Nerd. History know-it-all. T1 Diabetic. Pro-life,🌹🍞, feminist. Talks radical game but mostly chases toddlers. 'Gross' - some Orthobro. She/her.

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

Combating Bluey with the power of DnD by convincing my 2yo that the "Heavy" spell lasts 60 seconds and she only has 2 spell slots.

[Lake Eater @lakeeater]

sometimes i pause and think about how the background hum of my entire life, like the rest of my generation, has been nonstop news images of grey rubble and grieving strangers screaming in languages i don't know while all the reasonable people explain "that's just how it is there"

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

It's truly amazing how much of my day-to-day stresses disappeared when we moved-in with my MiL.

[eat shit elon @SurrendertoVi]

Children were never meant to be raised by just two people and it's deeply selfish and problematic as a society that we've completely lost community and interdependence is seen as something to shame. It does take a village, parental isolation should not be the norm. We need to go back to when we all had enough empathy to look after each other and lose the egocentric "not my child, not my problem" attitude

[Sifi (Kenso) @SifiReturned]

Every EO convert that disparages OOs shames their baptism.

EO and OO have been preserved through 1400 years of faithfulness through martyrdom, we share that heritage, you as converts are given that pearl of great price for free. Learn to respect those immense sacrifices.

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

@o_rcharddweller I love how when I watched that movie I knew that part must've actually happened because it's exactly the kind of wierd a medieval would come up with, not a modern writer.

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

@dune_watching @o_rcharddweller Edward II, though in reality it was his father who swore on the swans: https://t.co/SlzOg1eEut

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

I lost some medication last week. I had left it in my purse, I thought, but when I checked it had disappeared.

Days later guess what my husband found in my purse.

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

@sidhepleroma Memory eternal. I'm so sorry 😞

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

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[Ohio AFL-CIO @ohioaflcio]

Thanks to the #DropkickMurphys for showing their support of the @UAW members on strike. We look forward to seeing you in Toledo Oct. 22 for #Ohio @AFLCIO #union night. #StandUpUAW

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

One of my favorite comic artists has gotten caught in the LA Eviction Tsunami. Help if you can: https://t.co/joZXrrfZok

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

@DeaconSober - A solid, normal, older mom-friend at my parish
- A good prayer book + approachable prayer rule
- The Theotokos (basically the Ultimate Solid, Normal, Older Mom-friend)
- Regular confession & communion
- Fr. Cassian Sibley
- Sr. Vassa Larin

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

I would not be Orthodox if not for

- St. Ignatius of Antioch
- Fr. Peter Gilquist
- Rando I matched with on eHarmony
- Bookclub run by peeps who became my godparents
- Ancient Faith Radio circa 2008
- Frederica Mathewes Green

Basically the 2011 Cringe Convert starter pack 😬 😅

[sober deacon @DeaconSober]

I would not be Orthodox if not for:
- friend Peter
- Met Kallistos (Ware)
- Fr Peter Gilquist
- Clark Carlton
- Archbishop Dimitri
- Fr Seraphim Rose
- Steve Robinson
- Fr Michael & Kh Jeanne Harper
- Fr Gordon & Kh Mary Sue Walker
- Fr Thomas Hopko
- Fr Michael Pomazansky

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

@francesjdobbs @eHarmony We did NOT end up dating very long but he DID invite me to aforementioned bookclub, through which I found Orthodoxy, through which I found my husband so ... it worked! 😆 😉

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

@libirb I miss the Onion Dome.

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

@walkthesunnyway How does he react when other men rib him? Does he respond with subtle confidence or does he peacock/roll over?

How does he respond to disappointment? How does he respond when you ask for help?

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

One of the interesting things about the Fetterman dress scandal is that the suit itself was once the gym shorts and hoodie of its day.

This part got cut from my Politico op-ed (for good reason; it was getting long and tangential). But when Keir Hardie—a Scottish union leader and co-founder of what would later become the Labour Party—was first elected to Parliament in 1892, he wore a tweed suit, a red necktie, and a deerstalking cap to his first day of work.

Today, we think of the suit as a formal garment, the very glass of respectability. But as I've mentioned here before, this was not always so. In the late 19th century, men in high positions—such as those in banking and law—wore the more formal frock coat. Working-class clerks and administrators wore the fustian lounge suit.

When Hardie was elected, the proper Parliamentary uniform was a black frock coat, a starched wing collar, and a black silk top hat. Hardie, who was elected to represent the people of West Ham South—a working-class seat in Essex, now Greater London—rejected this uniform because he felt it was the symbol of capital. Instead, he opted to dress like his constituents.

Polite society was scandalized. The press was so offended that he wore a deerstalking cap—a flat cap style associated with members of the working class, rather than the silk top hat worn by MPs—one paper wrote: "A cloth cap in Parliament!"

I'm not convinced Fetterman is dressing to signal anything (if he was, he would be more vocal about it). As I mentioned in my op-ed, I think he should not only wear a suit in the Senate chamber but even when walking through Congressional halls. Not doing so creates a distraction from more meaningful matters. But being "respectful" of our political system is much more than dressing up. It's about how you serve honorably. You can signal this through your clothes, but someone not wearing those clothes does not necessarily mean they are not fulfilling the more important duties. We should focus more attention on actions, not clothes.

But it's an interesting historical point that the suit was, at one point, causing a very similar controversy.

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

@teresakalisz @wavykino_x I dunno ... I remember certain conservatives hinting at this stuff 20 years ago. We were all taught to suspect direct-democracy because "all men are basically evil" (my mother taught this as a bedrock truth of our faith). They're just saying it less quietly now.

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

After being raised on the Crunchy Side you realize that the "Thing That's Gonna Fix All Your Problems" just changes every 5 years. When I was a kid it was garlic and echinnacia root, when I was a teenager it was St. John's Wort and ACV ...

[ADHD Designer 🟣👩🏻‍💻 @ADHDdesigner]

I put off taking magnesium for literally YEARS after hearing over and over how it could be helpful for sleep, ADHD, anxiety, everything I was struggling with!

Turns out… I didn’t have magnesium deficiency and those things are all still present in my life.

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

Of course for this to work, "Derek Guy" has to be a fake name :P But I can definitely think of wierder stories than "intelligent man joins the Marines in his early thirties, gets recruited into Naval intelligence, gets given a new identity." 😆 🤣

[Dagmar the Maggie @maggery1381]

I have this pet theory that @dieworkwear is actually a guy I used to date 😆 I mean how many sartorially-obsessed, aesthetically-trad-but-politically-sensible, not-gay-but-had-to-think-about-it, half-Asian men can there be in California? 😜