Kate @katebowles@mastodon.social
Face in the crowd. #smallstories. Australian.
This deli actually used to be the Hollywood Video where I worked when I was 19. It's changed a lot.
Here’s another workplace moment.
There’s an Indigenous teacher who has developed a program to help us all rethink how knowledge is shared. Yesterday I was working in a yarning circle of maybe 15 women and him.
Before we started, he said that he was the only man, and if we needed him to get out of the way at any point, we could just ask.
The exact opposite of how things typically work in universities.
Thanks mastodon, seriously. I’m assisting a student who wants their record changed to reflect their chosen gender and the everyday way this is practised here has taught me how to use the language needed to get this done.
I’m better at my job because I’ve been included here.
Today at work I was happy when an older colleague asked me about meditating. "Big market in wellbeing", he said.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/05/10/notes-on-doing-things/
this actually makes a lot of sense to me. maybe i should get my life into a position where i'm just doing things too. :p
like, often i find that while i think i want to do things or should want to do things, i never actually get excited about doing them and so don't do them
*singing*
Hello new people!
It's one in the morning
I'm a little bit tired
But I'm glad that you're here!
It's so wonderful to meet you
And I hope you enjoy this
Community we've built
On the ASHES OF OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
...so have fun!
You really should follow @Altruest. He's weird and so pleasant. The quality of your feed improves instantly if you make him a part of it.
So today in a meeting I watched my colleague, a quiet lawyer, graciously refuse food that was passed round the table. Each latecomer had another go at offering the plate of cake to him. All the thoughts were kind.
I saw in that moment, and in his grace, what it means to him to fast, to be the solitary Muslim in our not-Muslim workplace, to have no one ever remember what time of year it is, to not remember who he is.
I think we can do better.
Goodnight friends! Those tall grey looming pillars collapsed into a stuffy, pale blanket of low cloud overnight, swathing everything as far as the eye could see in a rheumy not-quite-full daylight.
I felt very creaky & sore in the morning, cloaked in heavy lethargy, so I only felt easy enough in my body to walk in the evening. There was an aura of incipient rain, the feeling of tiny droplets crystalising out of the air against my skin.
May we value & take care of ourselves & each other today!
tech bros on twitter arguing against libraries in favour of "spotify for books" because authors/publishers (or rather VC investors) can't use libraries as their primary source of profit is just a perfect example of silicon valley's willful ignorance or complete contempt for the ideas of public service and the commons.
rather than everybody creating a public space and sharing resources they'd have us all completely separated and paying countless times over for the same thing.
Goodnight friends! There's something special about a tropical-feeling sun-drenched day framed by glowering thunderhead walls—and not just the ominousness or the juxtaposition.
It helps me reflect that everything is provisional & in flux, so many things loom full of potential dread. How do we live compassionately in those storm shadows? So many grim cloudy days must be bracketed by unseen blue skies.
May we find ourselves unafraid of uncertainty & filled w/a spirit of joyful exploration today!
"I can't convince my friends to come to #mastodon because it is too complicated to set up!"
And
"We need a decentralized federated #Facebook #twitter replacement!"
2 different issues. We don't need something at the scale of Facebook. Mastodon and federation work because it is people coming together in instances that connect to other communities, think neighborhoods to cities to provinces. It took a long time to build these nations, give Masto time to create more shared interest instances.
Talking about “the community” in a singular way is a move made in many sociopolitical conflicts. Community is good for gardening, but it can very quickly become conditional upon loyalties. What appears then is a kind of institution.
In institutions, even informal ones, generosity is difficult. It feels like weakening of the cause, diminishing of what’s just.
In general, humans are better at negotiating creative solutions in less polarised situations.
We don’t yet know all that we can do.
What #forkoff really needs is not to ragequit, but to federate *development*.
What if instead of a project fork happening because there was a big fight, a project fork happened because some people like to work solo (hi!) and other people like to work in groups with a specific goal.
And instead of developing competing, fragmenting forks, everybody worked with the intention of keeping everything compatible. Plugins, optional features, add-ons, etc.
FEDERATE ALL THE THINGS
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
tired: "I'm not good at <thing>"
wired: "I haven't had as much practice or training as people I think are good at <thing>"
Time to heal & purify the tl with some sanctifed dog energy
@dogtrax This is my issue with honors ceremonies and valedictories. Let us now hear the untold stories or at least let us not revile them with faint praise. We need more #smallstories writ larger.
This is me, writing. I seem to be not writing at all, really. Just drifting. I am lost in remembering, itself an act of invisible writing. Only I can see the swoops and sweeps of the lines of the words inside my mind. Until I sort and resort them, moving memory around like puzzle pieces, seeking something worth saying in a way worth reading. Or I remain silent. Some of what we write is only for ourselves, a mental moleskin where our alternative editor whispers to us all day long. #smallstories
I don't know the number, it's local. I'm in bed but I pick up.
My daughter is out at a silent disco. "Mom, I can't find my phone but I'm ok. I'm going to call it now; can you tell me if it's home somewhere?"
I hear it ring, but by the time I figure out which floor it's on, the call ends. So I dial it from the phone in my hand. Chase its tune to the sofa. Pick it up.
The screen is lit with the picture she's given me and the name.
It's Yoda, in meditation.
Name: Birthgiver.
Decided to take some pictures of my garden for the new sunbeam.city account! Here's some pictures of my garden bed, plus a few of my adventures in basic container gardening.
Currently growing:
-Leeks
-Broccoli
-Mixed leafy greens / salad greens
-Onion pearls
-Carrots
-Thyme
-Garlic
-Microgreens
-Not pictured: basil plants (still sprouting)
I'm still a fledgling gardener, so tips for further expansion into growing food at home are appreciated!
