...the feeling of feeling powerful because the world has you feeling very small and destabilized."
--Rob Bell,
https://robbell.podbean.com/e/the-ongoing-and-intimate-relationship-between-grief-and-imagination/
The whole episode is well worth listening to. #recommendation
#RobBell
#podcast
#Robcast
#CurrentEvents
#fascism
#TemporaryPresident
#DonaldTrumpIsTemporary
#BuildALongerTableNotATallerFence
#BuildALongerTableNotATallerWall
5/5
#CurrentEvents
#grief
#fascism
#BuildALongerTableNotATallerFence
#BuildALongerTableNotATallerWall
"Ungrieved grief doesn't do that well with the discernment that this moment is requiring.... The discernment of reflection, the discernment of sitting on what we're living in and going, 'Okay, what do we take into the future, what do we leave behind, what about the new?'
"Ungrieved grief doesn't do that well with discernment. It does very well with blame. It does very well in victimhood....
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"The most common—but usually not the only—response, cited as a primary or secondary reason in about 75 replies—had to do with feeling unwelcome, being scolded, and getting lectured. Some people mentioned that they tried Mastodon during a rush of people out of Twitter and got what they perceived as a hostile response."
https://mas.to/@kissane/110793942888550843
Y'ALL. WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS.
#MakePeopleFeelWelcomeAgain
#StopFuckingGatekeeping
#BuildALongerTableNotATallerFence
#TwitterExodus
#TwitterDiaspora
This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching. https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt #meta
Court Cantrell does not comply