RantWoman's usual grab of YouTube links.
RantWoman is also buying a T-shirt, partly because she needs to replace a slightly different shirt from a LONG time ago.
Friday, March 21, 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025
Climate Choir flashmob calls for rewilding for 30% of Church of England properties
RantWoman finds this video VERY cheering..
RantWoman STRONGLY advises any faith community considering property changes to consider what it can do for LEED gold or silver, carbon sequestration, biodiversity within the locations and projects under consideration.
Friday, March 7, 2025
Quaker Parrot Talking
RantWoman is in some respects a very bad Friend. That is "faithful to divine leading sometimes RantWoman in directions not immediately comprehensible. Or perhaps the faithfulness comes across as too much of the Truth.
Consider for example the quaker parrot.
Sooner or later when one goes about grazing via search engine, one encounters not the inspiring historical background or varieties of Quaker Practice.
And sometimes one encounters ... Quaker PARROTS.
Quaker parrots earned their name because they do indeed shake their heads in a way labelled quaking. RantWoman has decided to take various YouTube channels' word for this and not try too hard to see for herself.
Quaker parrots are known to be cantankerous but also responsive to humans.
RantWoman is not even going to go near matters of habitat vs life in captivity. Save that for some other research excursion.
RantWoman invites readers to cleanse their frazzled nerves with some Quaker parrot videos
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Positively Brezhnevian Address to Joint Session of Congress
RantWoman has not found the intestinal fortitude to attempt to interact with very much of #DelusionalDonOld President #FartsALot Velveeta Voldemort's address to the joint session of Congress.
Digression: RantWoman does not exactly apologize for the cutesy wootsey nicknames. He started it and RantWoman strives to avoid euphemisms that she considers too objectionable.
RantWoman is pretty sure that voters did NOT vote for the President to go toe to toe in speech length against Russian President Putin let alone the late great Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. RantWoman is not sure she wants to know what would happen if someone were to congratulate the President on being positively Brezhnevian.
RantWoman actually thinks it's FINE that Democrats could not come up with a unified protest strategy. The more people on ALL sides able and willing to vote their conscience, the better.
With that, a video and a bit of snark as a chaser.
RantWoman's comment
3 things that Trumpty Dumpty could say that would THRILL this Democrat:
1. I refuse any longer to let the richest man in the world whose wealth is built heavily on suckking at governments' teats tell me that the only way to federal budget sanity is maximal screwing of poor peiople.
2. I hereby rescind all my illegal executive orders and resolve to work WITH Congress instead of against it.
3. I resign!
Leaving analysis to late night comics
Monday, March 3, 2025
Russia GO HOME. Get out of Crimea.
#Russia #Ukraine #BlackSea #Crimea
Okay, Friends, RantWoman knows perfectly well that many Friends might not consider the course of military campaigns standard peace testimony fare. This video is also clearly propaganda mde by someone but RantWoman is not going to track down who. The video reflects a number of points RantWoman has seen addressed in other, as yet unposted videos. RantWoman considers the video credible and reliable enough to post as partial counterpoint to the disinformation disaster in the Oval Office last week.
RantWoman has more to say about the MANY ways that Putin's "Special military operation" is going VERY badly for Russia. This is partly due to Ukrainian military genius, partly ever tightening international sanctions, partly intelligence help from Elon's Starlink satellite system, and of course US military aid. This video for instance if anything understates the meaning of Ukraine successfully driving the Black Sea fleet back to Russian waters.
RantWoman is VERY tired of "Rah Rah America" about events in the White House. Multiple commentators have pointed out that usually diplomatic negotiations occur behind closed doors, but the Friday events were clearly designed to make a public splash with the President trying to browbeat President Zelenskyy into signing a bad giveaway deal about mineral wealth.
Pin here, from the wayback machine, the President in his first term both trying to withhold aid Congress had designated for Ukraine and getting snared in blowback from trying to get Pres. Zelenskyy to lie about Hunter Biden. In other words, the President is still big mad.
Professional diplomats would also not give away the entire Ukrainian store without demanding something from Putin. Today's proffer from the US administration: lift international sanctions on Russia. Uhhhh, suppose Russia were to just pull back. Partial lift. Pull back further and STAY longer: more sanctions go away. In other words, Putin is scared. RantWoman is not a professional diplomat and has no reliable off-the-cuff read about all the complexities of different European and NATO countries' positions. RantWoman is also DEEPLY alarmed by other reports, but for now, RantWoman invites readers just to chew on this video.
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Book Presentation: To Hear and Respond- the Quakers’ Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation. TODAY March 2 HYBRID
Via FLGBTQC
This Sunday Brian Blackmore director of Quaker Engagement from AFSC will give a presentation about his book: To Hear and Respond- the Quakers’ Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation. This will be a hybrid presentation from 09:30-10:30am PST.
In preprint, according to Amazon Amazon.com: To Hear and to Respond: The Quakers' Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation, 1946-1973 (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences): 9789004727601: T Blackmore, Brian: Books
RantWoman's plea as long as the book is in pre-publication, Please, PLEASE make sure there is an audio or e-reader version available and / or that readings can be found on an audio channel such as YouTube. RantWoman KNOWS this may be a lift for some authors and publishers, but RantWoman is NOT going to recommend the book unless she can also recommend it to other queer blind / print disabled people.
More about the book:
Despite the prevailing assumption that religious groups are antagonistic towards LGBTQIA+ people, in the mid-twentieth century Quakers established the first social service organization for gay people in the United States, wrote the first public and positive evaluation of homosexuality from a religious perspective, and composed the first public statement in support of bisexuality from a religious assembly.
In the 1960s and 1970s, many gay rights activists were trained by Quakers in nonviolent resistance, some influential gay rights leaders were Quakers themselves, and a few important gay rights organizations operated out of Quaker-owned properties. Eye-witness reports state that Quakers were present at the Stonewall riots. They were also the only religious group to march in the first gay pride parade.
This book tells the story of Quaker support for gay liberation between 1946-1973 as demonstrated through Quaker experiments in criminal justice reform, challenges to Christian moral codes, and advocacy for attitudinal change within the Religious Society of Friends.
If anyone wants to join, the zoom link is https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2065476449 .
If anyone wants to join, the zoom link is https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2065
AND from AFSC Quaker Engagement
Dear Friend,
You are invited to join an AFSC presentation hosted by University Friends Meeting on Sunday, March 2. Brian Blackmore, AFSC's Director of Quaker Engagement, will provide an overview of AFSC's work to build peace around the globe, and share opportunities for Friends to engage with our work and programs.
As the Director of Quaker Engagement, Brian's work concentrates on leading AFSC’s efforts to build nurturing, trusting, and engaged relationships with Quaker faith communities, schools, and organizations in the U.S. and around the world.
Friends from Seattle are welcome to join for meeting for worship at 11 a.m. before the presentation at 12:30 p.m. Please feel free to share this invitation with members of your community.
Sunday, March 2: University Friends Meeting 12:30 p.m. 4001 9th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105 |
In Peace,
AFSC Quaker Engagement |
Putin in Pink Hair! Russia is more WOKE than Trump's America, if virulent rhetoric doesn't count
RantWoman has A LOT to say about this week's Oval Office meltdown featuring the US President, Vice President and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky.
All RantWoman is going to say here: MAYBE events would have made more sense if the vibe were just Professional Wrestling and everyone were in tights and the level of trash-talking were obvious to everyone. At least professional wrestling usually does not involve a total body count of over a million counting both sides.
In any case, RantWoman directs readers' attention to a rant by one of RantWoman's favorite YouTube from exile channels and a guy named Roman. AT LEAST FOR NOW, while the US military is busy trying to rid itself of trans troops and the current administration is finding every way it can to erase transgender identities, Russia is a TINY bit ahead of the US about one small civic recognition of the existence of trans people.
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