I was gonna say, this isn’t unique to the USSR, or even to openly authoritarian states. It’s the oldest trick in the book, it seems :/

6, consistently, for 2 months

Is there somewhere to buy these? I’d love to send them to about 75 relatives.

Is the joke that they got there too late…?

I don’t know very many Buddhist quotes. I’m just beginning to learn about buddhism in earnest. But a religious studies class I took a while back had one story that I loved, and have taken to heart since.

Super paraphrased, and but I’m going for spirit of the message here.

Two monks were walking down a path one day, and came across a bridge that had fallen. A woman stood at the banks of the stream, and asked the monks to carry her across, because she could not swim. The younger monk immediately said no, as the monks were forbidden from touching a woman. The older man agreed, and carried the woman across the water, and the two monks went on their way. The younger monk stewed over this, becoming more and more upset about, until finally that night, as they went to rest, the younger monk exploded, “Why did you touch that woman? You know we are forbidden to touch a woman! You have broken you vow!”

And the older monk replied “I carried the woman for a moment. You have carried her all day.”

… is Charlie brown threatening to euthanize snoopy‽

What’s the hardest part of being out as trans, other than the obvious transphobes? The subtle stuff most people don’t think about, I mean.

Adding this to my bookwyrm!

I was a prolific reader as a kid. Homeschooled, single mom who worked, so I would spend sometimes 6 or 7 hours a day at the library while she was at work. Once I went through the entire kids section, the librarian caught me in the adult section and I thought I’d be in trouble. Instead she showed me this collection of fairy tales that were dark and when my mom came to pick me up, she explained I’d been through everything and asked my mom to sign consent for an adult library card. Which she did, because my mom rocks. Lol. Only book she wouldn’t let me read was the color purple when I was 10. Had to wait a bit for that. Lol.