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3 years

It's bonkers that this needs to be said but people aren't out here just randomly going hmm I don't have anything else going on so let me dig into the history of the belief system I was raised in. Or

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

You can tell what a church values by who they’re willing to lose.

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@mcoleyyy

2 years

If I see one more evangelical suggest that everyone should homeschool their kids as an answer to gun violence, without any acknowledgment of how privileged that is, I’ll scream.

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@mcoleyyy

1 year

@HunterVanguard I informed everyone who needed to know. And believe me, if I see him again I’ll be reintroducing myself.

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@mcoleyyy

4 years

My dad is a pastor. If he ran around behaving like a lot of these pastors on here do—being an actual stumbling block—I would drive to his house, take his phone, and change the settings to child mode. Y’all need to come get your dads off the internet. IDK get them flip phones.

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@mcoleyyy

2 years

a meal train for parents of newborns except, instead of lasagna at dinner time, friends will sign up to drop off coffee and bagels at 3:17AM and tell you you’re doing a great job

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4 years

I keep thinking about the "secular dangers" my parents were warned about in the 90s. Evangelical leaders stirred up fear about what could lead children astray. Turns out that Christian Nationalism and their own hypocrisy would be the greatest stumbling blocks to my generation.

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2 years

Some of y’all aren’t ready to talk about how Christians glamorize motherhood.

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

Let me get this straight: -BLM can’t be separated from Marxism so it’s dangerous -Yoga can’t be separated from Hinduism so it’s dangerous -CRT can’t be separated from Marxism so it’s dangerous -But patriarchy is totally separable from abuse and is therefore perfectly safe

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

some evangelicals: yeah, systemic racism is real but this is a fallen world, yaknow. All will be made perfect in heaven. Come, Lord, soon. same evangelicals: THE CULTURE IS UNDER ATTACK BOYCOTT KOHLS AND YOGA PANTS DEFEND JESUS U R A WARRIOR PICK UR SHIELD MAN OF GOD

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3 years

Can confirm there’s no betrayal like church betrayal.

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3 years

Just found my Dear God This Is What I Want In My Future Husband List I had to write in youth group when I was 15 and there are 85 items y’all because we were told that the longer and more specific we made the list, the better our chances would be of knowing him when we saw him.

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@mcoleyyy

2 years

Is it just me or is it too easy for men who have no business pastoring to become pastors?

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

British mystery/crime shows are 9 million times better than any American cop drama. I said what I said.

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2 years

so it’s okay to take little girls to purity balls and present them with purity rings but it’s not okay to normalize puberty?

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

I'm going to write a book called You Don't Know What You're Talking About: Why Younger Siblings Don't Experience Their Parents the Way The Oldest Does, You Weren't Even Born Yet Be Quiet

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

What's happening is Bible-believing Christians raised in white evangelicalism have questions about current events and documented history and are getting told by their pastors that what matters more than unity is the illusion of unity,

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

I haven’t seen Encanto but watching all the patriarchy boys get triggered makes me want to see it asap.

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1 year

I’d like to propose that churches that encourage couples with small children to “prioritize a date night” have a community fund so that millennials can afford to pay these Gen Z babysitters.

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

People I know: Yeah, the pandemic is no big deal. Why is everyone overreacting? Same people: pRaCtIcInG yOgA iNvItEs DeMoNs InTo YoUr PhYsIcAl BoDy ThAt WIlL kIdNaP yOuR iMmOrTaL sOuL Make it make sense.

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2 years

Just told a Gen Z barista that I’m pretty sure I had her horse sweatshirt when I was seven and she said, “I got it at a vintage thrift shop so maybe it’s yours!” 😐

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

The whole point is that we want authentic Christianity, not this bogus, white evangelical ideology that creates conditions in which it's possible for men in church to cover up abuse

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

Listening to the last episode of The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill and I just wanna know when we’re going to talk about all the wanna be Marks who pastored us in the early 2000s.

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@mcoleyyy

2 years

I see a lot of criticism about 20 some year old life coaches (I get it, it’s weird) but not much criticism about 20 some year old pastors. What’s up with that?

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@mcoleyyy

2 years

How many of the folks who want to make this about mental health refuse to fund access to mental health services?

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

So yeah, it's not because we want to feel sexy, @MattChandler74 . You're talking about a bunch of exhausted and heartbroken people with decision fatigue and access to very few elders they can trust.

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@mcoleyyy

2 years

the masculine urge to review Jesus & John Wayne instead of going to therapy

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

HI MANLY CHRISTIAN MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO DO LAUNDRY READ THE WORDS BY THE BUTTONS AND PRESS THEM MEASURING DETERGENT CAN BE SCARY BECAUSE MATH BUT YOU CAN DO IT BOOBOO ALSO THERE ARE YOUTUBE VIDEOS IF YOU ARE FEELING OVERWHELMED SAME GOES FOR IRONING AND BOILING WATER

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@mcoleyyy

4 years

“No, the problem in the church is not strong women, but rather weak men who feel threatened by strong women, and have tried various means, even by dubious exegesis, to prohibit them from exercising their gifts and graces in the church.” —Ben Witherington

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@mcoleyyy

2 years

The Muppet Christmas Carol is one of the greatest movies of all time. Tell me I’m wrong.

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

Why do so many Christian men from the anti-woke brigade seem unhinged, unhealthy and mean? These boys need some veggies and a nap.

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@mcoleyyy

1 year

@ericascarica Really regretting not taking video but I took his picture.

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3 years

The middle part just isn't working for me so lemme put all my relationships on the line and talk about what I learned reading Jesus and John Wayne, just so I can feel sexy. That's just not what's happening.

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

so let's just pretend that 2016 and 2020 didn't happen and make sure we have a person of color on the stage singing backup every Sunday.

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

So we're super sorry if this makes your job more difficult. You might have to think through some tough topics that are outside your wheelhouse--or, the horror, you may even find that some of the questions that it raises are things that you're just not competent to speak to.

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

and politicians to pretend that the distribution of wealth and opportunities in our society is based entirely on merit--or that it ever has been.

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@mcoleyyy

2 years

weird how the obnoxious boy brigade who’s constantly on Twitter, who responds to anything @kkdumez or @bethallisonbarr tweet within minutes, are suddenly quiet.

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

But that presupposes of course that what we're deconstructing is an instance of authentic Christianity, which is the very thing that has been called into question.

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

I will never understand the way evangelicals scoff at saints in the Catholic tradition but then name all fifteen of their kids after Protestant theologians.

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@mcoleyyy

4 years

Shut it down everybody. My mom found me.

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@mcoleyyy

2 years

Can’t wait for the WHAT WE NEED ARE MORE COMPLEMENTARIAN MEN think pieces tomorrow I’m so angry

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@mcoleyyy

2 years

normalize coffee being included on a baby registry

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

Because, in order to to keep keep the big givers giving, we have to keep everyone happy because how else are we going to rent a bunch of bounce houses for our summer festival or pay for pastor's summer sabbatical.

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

After seeing the commentary coming out of #sbc21 regarding sexual abuse, I have 0% interest in ever hearing anything any of these @BaptistNetwork boys say about parenting, family, or marriage. Somebody call their mommas to come pick them up from Nashville.

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

Some evangelicals say that corporate repentance for racism is inappropriate but I’ve never heard them criticize calls for our nation to repent for abortion.

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@mcoleyyy

4 years

Here’s the other thing. My dad travels around the world to minister to the *actual* persecuted church. All you American pastors who still have your limbs, who‘ve never feared for your wife or your life need to stop your bellyaching: you are an embarrassment to the Church.

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3 years

For a lot of these guys, complementarianism *is* their religion. That’s why they’re freaking out about Barr and Du Mez.

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

(And by everyone, what we mean are the older people, who have established careers and beach houses--not the millennials who are up to their eyeballs in student debt. You guys don't tithe that much so you can just go ahead and put your comment cards in the special file.)

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3 years

Blaming Women: An Evangelical Pastime

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And that just doesn't compute with a lotta folks. Because we're the ones whose best friends are having to talk to their kindergarteners about police brutality.

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3 years

And then people like you come along and say that, if we really believed, then we wouldn't have any appetite for deconstruction.

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1 year

How much of this whole pastor thing is really about men being able to condition girls to think less of themselves so that they are willing to marry men who were told they’d get to be king of their castle but who can’t even figure out how to iron their own shirts?

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And while we're at it, we're just going to let Regina spam everyone in the women's ministry with her blog post about how all lives matter because she really has a point.

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BREAKING NEWS: Tom Ascol gets riled up about sexual abuse… wait… hold on… scratch that… he’s ranting about women being pastors. Carry on. #sbc22

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We're the ones having to explain to our 7th graders what Joey meant meant in 2nd period when he chanted "build the wall."

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1 year

How many of these Get Married ASAP Guys were not at all marriage material and only have a spouse because of a church culture that pressures people into getting married whether they’re ready or not?

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And we're the ones having to explain to our sons why their friends' dads don't know how to do laundry.

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2 years

Men will literally write think pieces about beards instead of going to therapy.

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“Beards protest against a world gone mad. They testify, in their own bristly way, that sex distinctions matter.” —Greg Morse

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1 year

Pastors, if you have concerns about the attendance or punctuality of specific congregants go talk to them. Don’t make the rest of the church sit through your Mad Dad act.

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3 years

BREAKING NEWS: Mothers who read TMBW are abandoning their homes in droves. Babies are weeping on beaches. Men who never learned to change diapers are in crisis. This book has single-handedly caused deceived Christian mothers to abandon their posts. God help us.

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@mcoleyyy

1 year

Celebrating 10 years with @scott_m_coley today! 💕

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@mcoleyyy

2 years

I’d be looking for another church if my pastor had time to cyclically tweet and blog and gnash his teeth over his big feelings about Beth Moore.

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

DO NOT TELL ME THAT YOU ARE QUALIFIED TO INTERPRET SCRIPTURE IF YOU CANNOT INTERPRET THE WRITING ON THE BACK OF A BOX OF MACARONI

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2 years

It was the early 2000s and pixie cuts were making a comeback in Hollywood. When some of us girls at the religious school I attended chopped our long locks, you would have thought we’d personally murdered the pets of our male teachers. 1/

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@mcoleyyy

4 years

but CRT guys

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1 year

gosh what would white evangelical men even do if women stopped going to their churches? who would they be the boss of? who would sanitize the toys in the church nursery?

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3 years

And if that's the case, maybe don't.

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1 year

Still blows my mind that parents everywhere were freaked out by Rob Bell and Shane Claiborne when I was a teenager but these same people think DT and Greg Abott are literal messengers from God.

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3 years

Scott got me a bike today. Her name is Moira Rose.

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Here to report that there is nothing cuter or more chaotic than a preschool Christmas program.

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4 years

sometimes I read theobro tweets and think ok let me talk to your wife

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1 year

🧵 That little Sunday morning pep talk making the rounds is not unique. I’ve spent my life in church and heard pastors “challenge” the body with “righteous indignation” over attendance, punctuality, giving and service more times than I can count. Two observations:

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3 years

Who’s writing the book about bad parenting advice in evangelical circles in the 80s and 90s?

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1 year

My girl and sweet Miss @BethMooreLPM

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2 years

Hey @BethMooreLPM , if you ever want to collaborate on a devotional about prayer/gratitude, my 2 year old fervently thanked God for the following this morning: -signs -cars -clouds -stop lights -worker guys -windows -curtains -numbers I can connect you two.

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2 years

Good question. For starters, maybe stop covering up abuse.

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1 year

the same guys who think disparaging jokes about women are funny spent weeks lamenting how men are represented in the Barbie movie

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4 years

It’s clear that some of y’all have wives who aren’t allowed to tell you what’s up because #submission , otherwise you wouldn’t be out here embarrassing yourselves with dumb tweets.

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@mcoleyyy

3 years

One of the bonuses that’s come with moving to a much small house is that Scott and I share an office now. Ask him how much he’s loved this particular brainstorming sesh in which I read him my list. I’m still dyyyying.

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We’re homeowners! 😭💕🏡

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2) These rousing speeches usually don’t land with the intended audience and the over-functioning, type A, folks who are already carrying the success of the church wind up feeling unnecessarily guilty and just work harder to keep the MOG happy.

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@BethMooreLPM Has anyone checked to see where Wayne Grudem was at the time of the crime?

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Are Vacations Worth It? A Story of Traveling with Children

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2 years

a bizarre, authoritarian fixation with control; an anxiety about what women are doing, reading, and learning and from whom. Because they can’t fathom a world in which women just don’t care about their preferences. 7/end

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8 months

If the theobros go after Mr. Rogers for wearing cardigans, I will throw hands.

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2 years

We’re excited to share that we’re expecting! Baby Coley is due in September! 💛

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1 year

Without googling, name a famous historical battle.

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4 years

Do seminary students have to take any classes on developing emotional intelligence? #wct

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4 years

Treating your wife like a housekeeper will absolutely affect how your children view women. Tell me I’m wrong.

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3 years

People start talking to me about Crypto and I’m like okay but do you know about Kohl’s Cash?

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Crypto is essential oils for men

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3 years

If I were the police and I had some time on my hands, I believe I’d start asking questions about SBC pastors and executives who have publicly expressed opposition to investigations into the mishandling of sexual abuse. #sbc21 #sbctoo #sbc2021

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1) The pastors are usually peeved with a handful of people but *would never* speak to them that way one on one. Addressing the entire church gives them a free pass to show how irritated they are.

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The replies to this are fascinating

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The most solid research was done by psychologist John Gottman. He is famous for being able to predict, with 93.6 accuracy, which couples will divorce. "But his most surprising finding is this: The health of a marriage depends primarily on the husband. In his research,

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I was today years old when I learned that the sCrIpTuRe Is SuFfiCiEnT crew think that not spanking your kids is a slippery slope to not believing the Bible. There are some interesting takes in the archives of this website.

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3 years

You know you all are going to have to answer for this, right? Your campaigns against CRT, yoga, and cultural Marxism won't make the millstone lighter.

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2 years

This is what @scott_m_coley writing a book looks like.

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2 years

SBCers coming out with big “don’t let women get their edumacation” energy was definitely on my Bingo card.

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One friend had to ask her husband for permission to log into Facebook to show me a picture. He said no. The entire vibe of that place was spooky, the control of women ran deep, and I wasn’t even a member of the church but it took me a long time to shake off what I learned.

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“You can scream as loudly as you want. I’m not going to let you put the toilet seat on your face. It’s just not one of your options.” @scott_m_coley to the two year old

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Pro tip: tell your toddler you have a Really Important Job for them and ask them to open all the junk mail. It’ll buy you at least 5 minutes. You’re welcome.

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