I did a parachute jump 20 years ago. Therefore I've taken off in a plane more times than I've landed in one. Which has bugged me for two decades. It gnaws at me and I can never correct it. It's maddening.
160 years ago today, the state of Georgia refused to seat 33 Black elected officials from the state legislature, sparking a series of events that led to one of Black Twitter's most celebrated memes.
A thread.
I think of Jesus and that famous question--"Who is my neighbor?"
I didn't know when I first saw them sitting there outside my local grocery store--but it's them.
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[group therapy]
ME: [stands] hi, im brittany & im deeply embarrassed by things which i shouldn’t be—like walking into the grocery store or simply having arms—& NOT by things i should be, e.g. being on twitter, ordering 2 entrées for myself on a date
EVERYONE: hiiii, brittany
every friend group chat has the person in it that thinks the others don’t have the internet or watch the news. like six hours after the Statue of Liberty fell over due to old bolts they’re in the chat like “statue of Liberty fell down. bolts are fucked”