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To quote an acquaintance:
It’s fucked up to live with the knowledge that any member of your minority can do something horrible and there's an entire media and political apparatus salivating at the chance to use it to take your rights away
This last week, on a trip, while talking with several extended family members, I noticed that I was hearing the same tone in a lot of the conversations.
It was very 🤷🤦🙎🙅😡😤😩...
My partner and I also took psychic chip-damage from unintentional/passive transphobia and sexism throughout the trip.
In response, I decided that it's time to double down...on being kind.
Sure, I'll still loudly call out bullshit when I see it, but I decided that I need to redouble—neigh 🐴—retriple my efforts to be kind and helpful and wholesome(-ish) to everyone.
Because being kind to someone when they need it most is worth more to the community than me yelling at conservatives (but still, fuck those guys).
*this toot may have also been inspired by watching K-Pop Demon Hunters for the third time.
As my partner just put it, her family "trades in negativity and pessimism". It's a way of creating an in group. "The news sucks and other people are stupid."
And I saw myself getting pulled into the conversations—taking on that tone.
And then I thought of the day—not that long ago—standing on the Aurora bridge. As I prepared to jump, I got a chirp from my phone...and then another. I paused to see what they were; two Mastodon notifications—mentions—nothing big, just a couple nice comments.
They're the reason I didn't jump that day. And neither of those people know what impact they had. They were just tooting in the right place, at the precise right moment.
If those had been links to some bullshit conservatives were doing, or some troll shouting hate-speech, or some spambot trying to market to me, then things might have gone very differently that day.
I want to be the reason someone else doesn't jump.
I want to be the kind words that makes someone feel loved and cared about.
Cool, I made myself cry...again 🤦🏼♀️
But I think you get the point. Kindness matters, and you never know how much it might mean to someone.
RE: https://discuss.systems/@dan/116451292767774433
My latest bed for my #cats is coming along although finishing it is a challenge. I’ve learned that puff stitches actually hold up quite well as vertical walls. My previous attempts at bed were a little too soft. This one uses puff stitches in increasing and decreasing numbers. #crochet #catsofmastodon
“I distinctly remember asking the dev manager for permission to halt the worldwide rollout, and it took the teams the entire weekend and half of the following week to roll back the system to the previous version.
In another instance, it took three months, from January to March 2024, to run a file-deletion script across the fleet to clean up leaked files that had triggered a 100GB temporary files threshold on some nodes.”
https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
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George Takei 
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Chuks Awa
Ruth — of systems & design