Today's #Lent Without Borders newsletter features Rwandan doctor Dr Evrard Nahimana and he focuses his #reflection on solidarity in #healthcare:

"I strongly believe that solidarity rather than charity is the antidote to despair..."

Puts #solidarity in a new light and spins it into the realm of #affective responses / mitigation of negative feels. We can expand to #climate #anxiety, #political #despair, overwhelm etc.

#Affect #AffectTheory #ThinkyThoughts #PWRDF #religion @academicchatter

#hob #thinkythoughts
I just got to the part in Heaven's official Blessing Volume 2 when the Chief State Preceptor asks Xie Lian if he remembers his answer to the riddle.

Question: "Two walked the desert about to die from thirst and there was only one cup of water. The one who drinks lives. The one who doesn't dies."
His answer "Give them another cup."

Too often we act as if resources are limited when we have the ability to give another cup. #mxtx

@ksclarke
I agree.
I occasionally try to go off line for long times, although I often fail.

I think it is the only way to compose long works. Your mind is like a cup constantly being filled by a trickle of water. If you pour out some every few minutes, you never fill the cup.
#boredom #thinkythoughts

Was reading that old fic you recced (How to fall in love with a catfish, https://archiveofourown.org/works/24028141)when I hit this sentence.
" I look forward to seeing where the future takes you. Congratulations, graduating class of 2020.”

The last of his words are drowned out by the roar of hundreds of grads as they rise to their feet,"

Then I realized this was truly fiction, because in May 2020 there were no crowds rising to there feet...none anywhere.

What a memorable time we are living in.
#thinkythoughts

I think the coming year will be when I make the jump to #Linux as my daily driver. I want to go with #LinuxMint because it's familiar, and just works out of the box.

Next will be a new phone. I'm thinking an unlocked Pixel loaded with #GrapheneOS is a way to go.

I'm just kinda done with big tech.

#thinkythoughts #personaltech

I was at a Christmas party/ building opening and I was rushing around, looking at all the shiny, shiny rooms, before they closed. I reached out to take a brownie off of the snack table that someone was in the process of cleaning up and one of the hosts asked me to "just leave".

So I left, and in my car, I had to take deep breaths because I felt hurt that she had told me to get out.
Then I realized.

When I am excited or in an unfamiliar place, I am more sensitive to criticism. #thinkythoughts

I’m going to assume you did your research before you followed me, because I am self-certified very fairly unhinged, so you’ve been warned.

My fandoms are listed in my profile.

I try to tag as much as possible, but sometimes things slip my mind. Feel free to blacklist/filter any of hashtags that you don't want to see from me.

My meta: #thinkythoughts

My random writing which may not be on AO3: #mywriting

For my own ref: #mytowritelist

My AO3 account: https://archiveofourown.org/users/eleven_xi/works

For laughs because everyone needs a laugh every now and then, search #laughrule

Or for cute animal videos, search #animals.

I have come to the realization that many, many people do not like the concept of equality and would rather have hierarchical systems of governance than flatter structures that are more free.

#thinkythoughts #politics #philosophy

I don't watch broadcast television, or listen to broadcast radio (unless it's a local emergency).
I don't follow any pundits.

If you want to get to know the world, connect with the people in it.

That's why I'm enjoying #Mastodon. I feel like I'm actually connecting with people, and not just talking into a dead mic via some centralized, institutional platform.

"Without people, you're nothin'." ~Joe Strummer

#thinkythoughts

I don't watch broadcast television, or listen to broadcast radio (unless it's a local emergency).
I don't follow any pundits.

If you want to get to know the world, connect with the people in it.

That's why I'm enjoying #Mastodon. I feel like I'm actually connecting with people, and not just talking into a dead mic via some centralized, institutional platform.

"Without people, you're nothin'." ~Joe Strummer

#thinkythoughts

I had grand plans for 2022. I was going to write so much original fiction, publish something every week (or close to it). Art and sewing and gardening and just tons of stuff.

Yeah, no, that's not what happened.

I mean, I did publish exactly one short story this year: Hometown Mercy, which I'm very proud of. But anything else? Didn't happen.

#writing #thinkythoughts #2022recap

There is a wonderful book written by the late Spider Robinson titled "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon".

Above the bar in Callahan's, there's a sign that reads " Shared pain is lessened. Shared joy, increased."

I kind of like to think of the Fediverse as our own Callahan's.

#mastobooks #books #authors #thinkythoughts