seneolas.bsky.social
medievalist, heretic, (mostly) human disaster, with strong opinions about cú chulainn. known for extremely niche fanfic on ao3, ulster cycle memes on tumblr, and absolutely nothing on bluesky. yet. mostly lurking, occasionally posting
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whenever i try to use anki i spend the whole time wanting to stop. it never ticks over into fun and addictive and therefore i never stick with it. i need my gamified flashcards i fear
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the worst part is i got it like. 10 seconds too late to laugh. so now this poor guy thinks NOBODY got his joke but i did! it was funny! sorry for being too slow to react
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and yet. despite all of that. sometimes the only thing i recognise in discussions of evangelicalism is the worship songs/style of music.
like yeah i guess we did have s drumkit at church and the songwriters all thought going up an octave counts as harmonic progression. you got me
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we were so protestant our youth group once had an interfaith session with the catholic kids from down the road
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once as an adult i mentioned growing up evangelical and my sibling was like "no we didn't" because that term for them evoked right wing american megachurches and that's not what we grew up with but. by official definitions we nevertheless grew up evangelical. baptist, mostly, with extras added on
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they were not safe spaces and they were not always positive spaces for me, especially once i realised i was queer and once i became disabled. but they were ... complex spaces. they taught me a lot. they equipped me with a lot of skills i still use. i have complicated feelings about all of it
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i learned to oppose and campaign against child labour in the cocoa industry in these spaces. i learned to oppose the death penalty and other punitive justice systems in these spaces. i learned the necessity of wealth redistribution in these spaces. in tents and marquees and at fucking butlins
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i grew up very evangelical in ways that aesthetically were pretty similar to a lot of what i see discussed online but socially and theologically weren't. because all my earliest awareness of social justice issues, inequality, labour rights, etc came from those spaces also
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other members of my youth group used to go to hillsong regularly. i have seen people get baptised in wheelie bins in a park. i have been in 5000-person worship services in a festival marquee. i didn't go to the church that met in a cinema but some of my friends did
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for example the social and political position of the catholic church is wildly different in ireland (esp in recent/20th c history) than in england or the us so talking about "catholics" or even "anglophone catholics" and their position in society as if they're a single thing is bound to be reductive
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i do think very broad generalisations about denominations and believers are probably unhelpful. also treating groups as monolithic when regional differences in history and political situation massively affect how groups interact with society in different places ends up ignoring a lot of nuance!
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yeah it's mostly on here cos i ended up following a weirdly large number of very religious people for somebody who isn't, and a lot of them have Opinions that they expound upon at length. which is fine, it's just perplexing when the "facts" they are having opinions about are unfamiliar to me
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most of the catholics i know are irish and they also don't seem to be doing anything i recognise from what some people say so maybe it is just a regional thing
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like idk i was in enough hillsong-adjacent spaces as a teenager to feel like i have a pretty good insight into how evangelical protestantism goes but it wasn't anything like half of what i see people say. not even better/worse just different
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okay that makes sense 😅 would be Interesting wording otherwise
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skdkdjskd lucky escape there
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misinformation that serves your agenda is still misinformation i'm afraid
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it annoys me because if you try to correct it, you get accused of making excuses (... for history??) or denying women's struggles or whatever and it's like. no you're just wrong. and a certain kind of people really WANT to believe that stuff and will repeat it forever and ever
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if morrisposting is how i end up revealing my identity to twenty local tumblr users i didn't otherwise know existed i will... okay realistically that's very funny. But Also
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The fact that you're more likely to hear Kneecap on the news than on the pop radio stations underlines their significance. If I was a softbaby songwriter and I heard a radio exec say "Kneecap are huge but we can't play them, too controversial, play Darach’s single instead" I'd be radicalised.
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The apology is dignified in the context of the entire statement. Everything is directed back to their anti-genocide position and its popularity with audiences.
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i love/hate it when this happens bc on the one hand i'm good enough to be able to see the gap between what i want to write and what i wrote and that takes skill in and of itself. on the other hand that means i still gotta do it. maybe i could be less good at it for a minute and therefore relax
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after reading HOTE and ATFOTS twice each and also all of greenwing & dart twice, as well as all the others once, *and then* burying myself in fanfic, i finally feel like i have enough of a grasp on it to explain things to a first time reader, which is pleasing 😆
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i love the Dr pins. can't wait to finish my phd so i can get one of those lol
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"leave the country" is not useful or viable advice. i moved back to this country because i couldn't get adequate healthcare in ireland because the government refused to acknowledge i even existed. now i'm here and settled and have family here whom i won't leave behind. leaving isn't an option
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ah i see! that all makes sense. thanks for clarifying.
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both! couldn't figure out the context
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my GP can have a record of what vaccines i've had so they can also have a record of what organs i've got and that's going to give them more reliable info than any single letter would anyway. everyone else, it's none of your business
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self-declaration with only binary options is still exclusionary but then a third option is just creating a Freak Category so you can be more easily identified as a target and eventually it's like. why is this information even needed. by anyone
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i don't want to self-declare myself to fit in a specific box. i want to undeclare myself. it's none of your business. why does anyone need to know that
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i DO want to know in advance if the whole plot is gonna revolve around a dying parental figure but I Don't Know You so i don't want you talking to me like you do. give me a brief, factual note and move on.
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what do you mean by this?
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also sidenote: i agree the "separate but equal" bullshit is shitty and unisex toilets are not an acceptable alternative to being able to use appropriate gendered toilets. as a nonbinary person who doesn't have an appropriate gendered toilets though i would still quite like unisex toilets as well
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seen a few people saying that unisex toilets solve no problems and that inclusive gendered toilets are the only acceptable goal but like. they do solve *a* problem. even if it's not *that* problem. please don't forget that nonbinary people exist. we shouldn't have to pick a gender to pee, esp. now
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i deleted the posts at the start of this thread because i don't think i worded them well enough not to be misunderstood in unhelpful ways but this has kind of broken the whole thread as it's now just replied to nothing. oops