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jordinn

@jordinn@zirk.us

I'm a parish minister in covenant with a progressive denomination, currently taking a walk on the wild side through academia. I live in both Vermont and Newfoundland, study the political economy of public and public-adjacent institutions, and am extremely not into austerity or genocide (and I don't find a lot of daylight between the theology that allows either of those things to occur).

Wondering what happens to make just peace politically tenable. Here for futurity, yours and theirs.

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[don't yuk people's yum ... don't yuk people's yum ...] - me, to myself, every damn day of rhubarb season

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Most of the US middle and professional classes still hugely underestimate the differential impact of state policy, funding and governance as dependent on where you live

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I'm noticing (in recent followers) a pattern of scam accounts that look more 'normal' or 'ordinary' than most but something just feels off and then I notice that a few sentences don't parse correctly, and in ways a native English speaker would not accidentally phrase things. To make things more fun, three of those accounts have posted THIS SAME EXACT MESSAGE

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Saw this in the bathroom of the Queer Friendly Coffee House:

jordinn,
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@RickiTarr it's the crimethinc poster! Our UU fellowship in Kansas had one in both (gendered) bathrooms, above diaper changing tables in both rooms. I KID YOU NOT, THE MEN TOOK THEIRS DOWN AND HUNG UP JAYHAWK BASKETBALL. 😂 🤦🏻‍♀️

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@RickiTarr FOR EVERY WELL MEANING CHURCH STAFF MEMBER WHO HANGS UP A CRIMETHINC POSTER THERE IS A MAN SELF AUTHORIZED TO REMOVE IT

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This morning my last surviving grandparent died in Cheyenne. She would have been 91 next month. It's the end of an era for my family and I am definitely feeling some kind of way.

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Actual text from my mom

Good morning, my sweet. Thanks for the gift card. I have never been very successful with herbs but have been wanting to try again so need both pots and herbs.
Also wanted to give you a heads up that your grandmother has stopped eating and drinking.
Hope you are enjoying your home time. Love you

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BOOMERS WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

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Also for the record, I did just talk to this person, on the phone, for an hour, on Sunday afternoon. I know it sounds otherwise. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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me, texting back: [um, hi and wtf]

my mother: you're right, sorry. you could text your dad for more info!

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Maybe it's that we should not have let them have devices?

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@CedarTea Yes. I get this. I am just saying that its' all well and good until you get the one that's like

Hey, these are really interesting tracks. I think they are a badger. Also I've been seeing someone and we got married last weekend. She's 21. Your soup and sandwich pictures looked tasty! Have a good day

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Last week I agreed to interview for a contract ministry gig, during which the interviewer shared 'We're talking with three other people, but we think you're the one. Prove it to us!' Me: lol. lmao.

I asked to be taken off their consideration list (I have already had that kind of job and it's not what I have time for this year) but I'm still marveling, a bit. They are either WAY out of touch or the ministry job market is turning around. As obnoxious as that was, I sincerely hope it's the latter.

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I wonder if we are going to need to teach people other skills. The person interviewing me is, like many members of our congregations, a business heavy hitter who has had a lot of financial success. He cares a lot about our movement and is deeply involved, but I suspect sees truly no other reasonable way to interact with the actual human who is their potential minister than as a cog in an efficiency/austerity business model. I am super unwilling, and I wonder what else is possible.

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@jonobie The people with whom I'm interested in working will understand (collectively, and also individually in terms of who they put forth to be their representative in a search) that we are in an unfamiliar place, sociologically and institutionally, and that they are looking for a thought partner and accomplice in what primarily is their own work. Thus, the conversations will be about their dreams and what ours might be together, and they will use the reference process to check admin creds.

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Things I am zero percent convinced anyone accounted for in climate change forecasts: the impacts of war (carbon costs of aerial campaigns, destruction of greenspace, weapons production), Canada's entire boreal forest burning over a 10 year period, AI water and energy usage

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Academics, have you ever been accepted to give a talk about something you're not yet sure that you know enough about? (To present your early research thinking, for example?) After having a minor heart attack, what did you do next?

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Y'all continue to really underestimate how immediately and truly life-threatening it feels to people to cut against their own belonging in extremely visible ways. Even people who DO feel at risk aren't going to mask rn, for the most part, and it's literally because of this. Those of us who are willing to walk into a gathering and put a mask on and be the only one are FEW and my hunch is, we can do this because of constant muscular practice (including of the self-justifications behind it).

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Those around you and out in the world aren't stupid (ok, some of them are, but no more than usual) ... they are surviving in bodies that believe that group belonging IS survival. People have done incredibly asinine things FOREVER because of this truth. It might be relationship-preservative to remember it. It's not personal. People are doing what helps them survive, and many (truly, astonishingly many) would do the exact same even knowing and believing their covid risk. They feel stuck.

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What this means, in my view: *where you can mask, you are providing meaningful visible solidarity to someone else who has to *at this point, you are protecting YOU, so are you masking in a way that does that? *rules and enforcement at higher levels (all church service attendees, all wedding guests, all choir members, whatever) than individual choice get followed because they provide social cover *all of this also pertains to other things

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While I'm on the subject, the world is (still, yet, now) beautiful and I want to experience it. There are some things that are just worth it to me; I have no particular sense of a guaranteed number of years left in my life and I'm going to make it quality with what I have. Often that means masking. It also means participating broadly in my relationships and being in place(s). You don't have to choose similarly, but the 'everyone engaging with the world is an idiot' thing is pretty intense.

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@dave Are they living without care, or are they prioritizing (and stacking priorities & values) in a way that's different from yours? My personal experience is that nearly everyone will put a mask on for me one on one or in a small group, and that almost no one can or will go to bat for me (/ others) against the actual system. Asking the former extends relationship and can sometimes enhance it; asking the latter nearly always breaks it. I can moralize about this, but I think it's just capacity

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@dave I'm reminded of the time my therapist told me, as I expressed incredible frustration about people not stepping up and taking care of each other (way, way before covid- this was probably about stuff in my intensive feminist internet modding days): 'Jordinn, people are basically cowards.'

I hated this explanation, but I don't observe it to be untrue. And I genuinely like people, in the specific and also in general. I'm here to figure out how to lead and help we who are basically cowards.

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@dave Can't they equally argue (and might) that it is you who isn't manifesting adjustment to current circumstances, which involve a willingness to absorb some risk to get the benefits of group play?

I won't push you any farther; I offer this only because I wonder if a different grace framework in your relationships could bring you more connection and depth and joy even as you (rightly, in my view) continue to protect yourself.

No one would be wrong in asserting that simply living is risky.

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I really love May. Adore it. Profusions of beauty and interesting things afoot and not yet one thing or the other. Occasionally dangerous. Mostly mild. Raindrops and sunshine. Real local produce. Hope everywhere. I know y'all are like I loooooove October, but I say unto you May May May.

jordinn,
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@APBBlue I find this super confusing (the seasons are a cycle- isn't everything what comes next?) but I hugely resent it when we fall back to standard time, largely on the basis of 'what comes next,' so maybe I am just oriented more in this direction

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