This Douglas Adams quote from 'The Salmon of Doubt' never stops being relevant, especially in a time where we've witnessed the damage disinformation and hate speech can cause. Lives have been literally lost, both by people spreading lies during the pandemic, and by bigoted rhetoric targeting women and marginalized groups. Legitimizing such views as just "difference of opinion" instead of challenging them for what they are only causes further harm.
“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.”
Hello! As the bird app has become an absolute dumpster fire, I've decided to try out Mastodon. I'm hoping I'll like it, but I'm still trying to find my way around so I thought I'd try an #introduction. I'm an Artist and Illustrator in the Niagara Region (Ontario, Canada). I work in coloured pencil, watercolour, ink, and acrylic. I'm currently working on illustrations for my own tarot deck! As well as my love for #art and #tarot, I'm also a lifelong #geek, a #book worm, a #horror fan, a lover of #myth & #magic, a #quote collector, a #cat enthusiast, and a list maker. I would love to connect with other creatives and people with similar interests so please say hi if any or all of these apply to you!
“The simplicity of HTML and CSS now feels like a radical act. To build a website with just these tools is a small protest against platform capitalism: a way to assert sustainability, independence, longevity.” — Jarrett Fuller
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
So true here on the #Fediverse. Solid advice for those starting out here. Be interested in other people. 😊
“I didn’t make up the problems. All I did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.“
— Octavia E. Butler, who would've been 76 today, on not being a prophet
Was reminded of this Discworld quote and it holds so much truth. Not because the uber-privileged aren't heavily to blame, they are. But the inclination to mentally place the issue far away from us is also real. We want it to be some other men, some other white people, some other communities that are "bad", not ours, not here, so we are safe from the problem and free of the responsibility. But a major part of change and growth is self-reflection.
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
OK, but what if you had #quote toots and trending posts from across the fediverse and it was all happening within Mastodon's existing privacy framework? Check it out at https://elk.fedified.com
What we commonly call #dementia "behaviors" actually are communication about confusion, pain, distress, or for other wants or needs to be addressed. We must view them compassionately and listen for the message.
Sharing because this is pretty cool and it's making the rounds on several places uncredited, and also because it's spot on and very true and worth remembering.
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Trump is not being "booted off" the Maine ballot or "deprived of access" to it. He has, rather, been found unqualified to appear on the ballot because he orchestrated an attack on the U.S. Constitution. He is, simply, ineligible to run for POTUS because of his own misconduct. — @Delavegalaw#quotes#quote#14thAmendment#Insurrectionist#TrumpCrimes
It needs to be said again: Trump is not being indicted in the middle of his campaign. Trump is campaigning in the middle of his indictments. Are we clear on this? — @bruce_steiner#quote#Trump#TrumpTrial