Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

Listen, I dislike religion but anytime you get a movement that is "Atheism for Atheism's Sake" it tends to become reactionary and just as dogmatic as the Religious people they oppose.

RT @SuckOpinion@twitter.com

We need an aggressive Left wing Atheist movement that's unapologetic in its approach.

@autistikai

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you are struggling with your transition I highly recommend the vague but great advice of “Just try things.”

Do lots of different things and take stock of how you feel. And then do more things. Listen to yourself. Trust your own psychological and emotional responses. Some things won’t work, they won’t work at all. Stop doing those things

And when you find things you like, do them more. Find more things that give you that positive feeling.

Just, don’t ever give up doing shit.

I find it especially interesting that we were raised in a culture that normalized content warnings in the form of things like the ESRB or the PEGI ratings system, and yet mock and demonize leftist spaces for doing content warnings too. Maybe it's because the way we do it encourages people to think of other folks who might be harmed in unforseen ways, and you can't have that in "normal" society because there's no money in it?

What this mockery really is is white colonialism manifesting in the form of neurotypical chauvinism.

IDK, just do content warnings, it's healthy for your soul and healthy for the community.

i saw someone with a NYYANX license plate and forgot baseball was a thing and thought it was some edgy catboy thing i didn't recognize or something

Remember. Western society tries hard to make us cold and ruthless. An act of kindness is an act of rebellion.

Go. Rebel.

@hax @nilaky @lugh

@daHob
#Hopepunk is the idea that, in this screwed-up world, showing kindness and empathy is a radical act of rebellion.

You don't just give to charity and respect people's pronouns because it's the right thing to do; you do it because fuck the patriarchy.

Once more for the people in the back:

Put content warnings on your politics posts. I come to Mastodon specifically to avoid the horrible things in the news.

I don't care how urgently you want me to see it. In fact, adding a content warning will make me *more* likely to care, because it will give me time to brace myself.

Your message will get further with a CW. By not CWing your politics etc., you're preventing people from boosting them, because people can't always deal with difficult subjects Right Now. Saying 'I don't CW this/that' gives the impression that you don't care about spreading your message in a meaningful way, you just want to force the closest people to look at it, whether that helps or hurts.
It takes a lot of us awhile to absorb this, but please, try to accept it.

please boost.

-Katie

She saw on TV that ghosts made things cold, and she'd always had chilly feet at night.

So she found a stone with a hole through the middle and she waited under the covers until the chill made her toes curl.

Gently, she sat up, closing one eye and holding the stone up to the other.

Shimmering and thin as a beam of moonlight, the cat stretched and resettled on her feet.

She smiled and went back to bed, careful not to kick.

She'd always wanted a cat.

#Microfiction #Tootfic