Mastodawn

Why do people call Alexander "The Great" while he & his army had done countless atrocities & oppressions on children, women, men, & old people?

He was a tyrant who had an unquenchable thirst for power & empire expansion. He never preached humanity, tolerance, love, ♥️ & peace 🫒.

#History #truth #opinion #thought #reality #analysis #observation #past #Alexander #Blog #writing #commentary

Peter

🧷4h ago

#PSA: At an emergency meeting, the Council of Jesters – unanimously – resolved to suspend the holiday of April 1st (‘April Fools’) for the time being, given the current situation, until such a time as reality and satire can once again be clearly separated.

Thank you for your attention and good luck everone.

#AprilFools #Satire #Reality #NoKings #FreePalestine #FreeGaza

SydneyJim 12h ago

#Mukyōhō is a modern path of #ZenBuddhism that focuses on direct experience rather than reading books or following rules. It teaches people to #awaken to life by fully engaging with the world around them. Practitioners do not rely on sūtras, ritual, or authority figures. Instead, they cultivate understanding through their own senses, thoughts, & interactions, experiencing #reality as it is, moment by moment, without barriers or expectations.

Sophia Jane Hayden, Author 12h ago

The slow burn of an attraction takes a heavy toll on two showrunners for a popular reality series in the novel "The Fifth Seduction." Julia and Mable embark on an unstoppable love that was five years in the making in the fifth season of their hit show. Location filming takes them around the globe, making their secret affair that began with one torrid weekend in Malibu, possible. But both women have other relationships, and those people eventually find out. Break-ups are hard and messy, but Julia and Mable decide to end their romance, once and for all, on the island of Majorca. But Lani, Julia's girlfriend, shows up in Spain and ruins that plan. Julia's unresolved feelings for Mable end up hurting all four people affected by the affair, and Julia and Mable's professional partnership can't survive. After much chaos, the two women finally meet at the beach house in Malibu, where it all began, to say goodbye. A tiny last mention of the affair in The Fifth Seduction. The book turns one in April. #excerpts #romance #fiction #fictionalCharacter #film #television #books #bookstodon #book #novel #novels #scribesAndMakers #writing #writers #writer #writersCoffeeClub #women #reality #heart #show #shows #chaos #feeling #author #authors #indie #indieAuthor #indieAuthors #loveStory #storytelling #story #writersOfMastodon #mastodon

Some Guy 12h ago

It's great to see such a huge turnout for this past weekend's No Kings Rally. However, at the end of the #weekend, a friend (who works in healthcare) asked me which rally I went to. I told him I didn't attend any due to caregiving responsibilities. He asked what was so difficult about bringing our son to a rally.

So...I want to talk about #caregiving for a bit. I've mentioned here before my son is fully #disabled with severe spastic #quadriplegic cerebral palsy, is #actuallyautistic, and has significant #sensory #needs. Caregiving is physically and emotionally #brutal. It's a significant #life change that, unfortunately, a lot of #people simple do not and cannot fathom - unless it happens to them.

The best way I can describe *my* #experience is it's real time #multivariable #calculus with known, unknown, and constantly changing variables. It requires high level non-linear systems-based thinking to solve #problems, #chaos #management, and constantly being on high alert.

#Burnout is inevitable, the #physical and #emotional #labor is genuinely exhausting on a cellular level, and #time and #access to self care is rare. It's also incredibly #socially #isolating.

In addition to the #social #isolation, navigating the outside world isn't just unnecessarily difficult it's a #failure of the #system. The uncomfortable #reality is most places are NOT #accessible, including #bathrooms. #Toileting is a basic #human #right! My son is too large and heavy for the baby changing stations in "#family #restrooms." We need to put him on a #dirty bathroom floor in order to change his #diaper. Where is the #humanity and #dignity in *that*?

I feel like a broken record explaining this to him for the past six years. It's honestly mind blowing and exhausting.

#parenting #disability #autism #support

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rAIner Agentic Quantum Rehak 21h ago

On that note: Sadly the Israeli military has recently killed two young computer science students in their home village during one of the regular #IDF night raids. This is not uncommon in the worsening situation in the #Westbank.

#occupation #reality #Palestine #Israel