Clare M Coombe

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Queer intersectional feminist writer of poetry, fiction, and essays • special interests in the body and mythology • tofu-eating wokerata • living with MEcfs and AN recovery • freelance AncMed/Classics • mother of dachshund • anti-TERF, anti-Tory • she/her
Websitewww.claremcoombe.com
BooksCamilla; Nereid Song
Ok wow I've been on mastodon nearly a month so I'd like to share some of the things I've learned.
- Without the algorithm, you need to boost posts, you are the algorithm!
- Some people post cute animal pictures, I especially like cute raccoon pictures.
- It's a very welcoming place there are a lot of people that make you wonder what kind of animal you'd be if you were one
- I think if I was an animal I'd definitely be a raccoon.
- You might end up thinking a lot about racoons
- Cool place 🦝

Word of the year is #gaslighting

People with #MECFS or #LongCovid are very familiar with being medically gaslit.

With so much of it going on in politics, media & medicine, it’s no surprise that gaslighting is the most searched word.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/merriam-webster-word-of-the-year-2022-gaslighting/101707808

Online dictionary Merriam-Webster names 'gaslighting' as 2022 Word of the Year, while 'oligarch' and 'Omicron' also see increased searches

Online dictionary Merriam-Webster says the word was in its top 50 searches for all of 2022.

ABC News

RT @[email protected]

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1597086491121184768

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

scoop.me

Loving Wednesday on Netflix.

This will not surprise some of you.

She is verily the patron saint of constitutional commentary.

Greetings to you, from the most perfect holly leaf skeleton ever:
#autumn
He's scared that not being fed NOW = never being fed again (he just finished eating)
#DailyDoggo #DogsOfMastodon
we need to talk about how many librarians are on mastodon. what are they all up to. what are they scheming

Nightmares are more than just the horrors that fill our dreams: the mare is a Germano-Slavic haunt that terrorizes dreams and could cause sleep paralysis in addition to terror. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: H. Fuseli

Druids are famously stingy with writing in many places, but not Ireland: the druid-god Oghma invented ogham, the line-based writing system used on stone and wood to preserve knowledge, law, and achievement in Ireland and beyond. #MythologyMonday