lobster @Lobster@social.cleverlibre.org

"Whatever you do, do it slowly and intentionally. You will enjoy it more and become happier" - Haemin Sunim

First bad experience with a carer today. My nightmare scenario of telling me how filthy my house is and why does she have to help me clean anyway? 🙁 Feeling very attacked and very small and ashamed. A great opportunity for my Buddhist practice, I guess, but it feels crap.

#disability #SocialCare #ChronicIllness

"Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience" - Carl Sagan

The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual, slow beat; always inching its way forward, change remains faithful to itself until the new unfolds in the confidence of true arrival. Because nothing is abrupt, the beginning of spring nearly always catches us unawares. It is there before we see it; and then we can look nowhere without seeing it.

John O'Donohue, Benedictus - A Book of Blessings

But the money, power, space and peace that we get from looking after one another has another benefit: freeing us up to demand *more* change, more equality, more democratic accountability.

Quart's case-studies of organizers and rank-and-file in different movements are prescriptions for systemic changes, while her urgent case for reframing how we think of ourselves and our society present an individual-scale project for all of us.

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Nashville council votes to reinstate Black Tennessee lawmaker (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/10/nashville-council-justin-jones-expulsion/
http://www.memeorandum.com/230410/p119#a230410p119

Pussy willow catkin #wildFlowers #catkin #willow #PussyWillow

When I make videos with willing aware volunteers, I'm judged for not paying them the money that I don't have.

When putting art out in the world, I'm judged for advertising as if that's what I do.

When speaking my truth and lived experiences about gender, mental health and the climate emergency, I face people who try to silence me while preaching freedom of speech.

But when I get one person a day telling me that what I do inspires them, I know I can reach millions and I'm here to stay.

My favourite from this mornings walk around Stockers Lake is this cheerful singing little Wren. Photo taken through the thick shrub, but that's nothing new when photographing Wrens 😂

#nature #NaturePhotography #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon

@blackenbylesbo 🔗 https://mas.to/users/blackenbylesbo/statuses/110149626119301689
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Can everyone reblog this to help me find more black and/or lgbtq or disabled Mastodon users to be friends with 💛

@BlackMastodon@chirp.social
@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe
#BlackMastodon

Morning dewdrops make this dragonfly magical

#Photomonday #Fotomontag Amazing shot ❤

I’m realizing that growing up as a wired magazine-reading cyberpunk believer— a kid who thought adbusters and the internet could save the world— and then watching as every technological miracle was turned not towards revolution or saving humanity but instead more pernicious and intractable methods of exploitation has made me uncomfortable with technological optimism. “assume all new technology will be used against you” —

I’d been thinking recently that I didn’t have much anger in me anymore…but of course that’s not true. It just turns out that my anger, instead of being directed at any particular person, is mostly buried, seething rage at the social injustices of society of which pandemic denial is just the tip of the iceberg. I just don’t let myself feel it very often, which is something for me to work through.