Greetings, fellow Fedizens. Winter solstice has passed and the days are getting longer, hooray. (Those of us in the Southern half, your time will come.)

Another hour, and the first slightly longer day will begin in my part of the world. The sky is already brightening, and the birds in the garden are busy announcing the new day.

This is as good a day as any to celebrate Joan Mastodon's special ambassodor in the Arctic, the wonderful @NunavutBirder. He too has reason to rejoice: for him up in #Nunavut, it's only six weeks until the sun will rise again, ending the long unbroken arctic winter night:

https://mas.to/@NunavutBirder/115759119915106138

May 2026 be the year where the ever extending political and cultural darkness begins to recede.

#WinterSolstice #MayTheDarknessEnd #KindnessWillPrevail

@NorcalGma2

"An unexpected and much appreciated bridge between people of goodwill."

Very well put! The Fedi in one word. And you've got wise grandchildren.

My whippet Castorp says hello to your Summer.

#KindnessWillPrevail #BridgeBetweenPeopleOfGoodwill #DogsOfGoodwill

#NoFediWithoutSummerOpenbracketTheDogCloseBracket

Kindness will prevail.

#kindness #resistance #KindnessWillPrevail

Hold your position, make tactical retreats if necessary, but keep the core of truth alive.

The tide is moving against us, in so many dimensions. Covid brought upon us a new wave of eugenicism; the far right is on the rise everywhere; genAI threatens our mental autonomy. The US constitional arrangement disintegrates. Big Business has taken over the UK Labour government. The horrors of the Middle East.

All of these developments amplify each other. There is no way for us to succeed against this powerful confluence of developments just right now. Things will get worse still.

But the tide will turn, eventually.

Our task is to maintain islands of integrity, wherever we can. To maintain a living memory of what it means to speak the truth, to be kind, to be authentic, to recognise facts, to listen.

That will not always be possible, but try we must.

#resistance #kindnesswillprevail #WalterBenjamin #DerEngelDerGeschichte #AngelusNovus #PaulKlee #PeterWeiss #DieAesthetikDesWiderstands

John Harris on the dangerous and anachronistic views on disability that are so deeply entrenched in western culture.

Virginia Woolf, John M Keynes, so many others whom we admire for their work: they all were part of that dark trait in our history.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/20/learning-disabled-people-book-winterbourne-view

#disability #ableism #eugenicism #JohnHarris #eachofusisonestepawayfromdisability #standupforeveryhumanbeing #KindnessWillPrevail

Behind him, survival. Before him, disappointment.

#SixWordStories
#HangingOnInThere
#KindnessWillPrevail

His guardian angel smiled and left.

#SixWordStories
#angels
#KindnessWillPrevail