Miriam @Angelofthenorth@mastodon.xyz

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A short comic about happiness. (Part 1/3)

there's a reason people in aeroplanes are told to put their own oxygen mask on first before trying to sort out their family's.

if you can't look after yourself, your ability to effect positive change for anyone else is compromised from the outset; worse, you're likely to do more harm than good.

that's why self care reminders are important. that's why it's vital to let people know that if looking after themselves is a struggle that consumes more energy than they have, it's ok that they focus on it.

by all means, call people out for not doing what's inconvenient. but when you conflate that with people not doing what they find impossible, you cross the very line you're so keen to hold.

I look up at the night sky.
"That's a pretty universe, God. You are wearing it well."
"Thanks," I hear in a faint whisper, "it has pockets."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

More and more I think my doctoral research will focus on the process of change. What troubles me is much of my reading list: Foucault, vonHippel, Womack.... today I added Centola.

What troubles me is that it is very white and very, very male. So I’m asking, begging really, for recommendations: Non-white, non-male scholars studying the process of change (any discipline) - Expecting the responses will make me feel embarrassed for having had to ask...

What Ted Nugent did to himself, we can do to the whole country.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/05/28/this-is-what-we-do/

"No."
"But I love you!"
"So you say. That never gives the right to make demands."
"Don't you love me?"
"I do," God said. "That gives no right to make demands either."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Study finds that the benefit sanctions system is working exactly as designed

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/22/benefit-sanctions-found-to-be-ineffective-and-damaging

"Benefit sanctions do little to enhance people’s motivation to prepare for, seek or enter paid work. They routinely trigger profoundly negative personal, financial, health and behavioural outcomes." …exactly as they were intended to. They're there to scare people away from, and push vulnerable people off, the benefits system; getting people into work isn't even a distinct design goal.

Don't believe for a second that this report will change a thing.

Ruth and Naomi, y'all. What do we think?

- gay: favourite
- super gay: boost
- straight: go home and think about your life and your choices

(Source text: https://www.sefaria.org/Ruth.1?ven=Tanakh:_The_Holy_Scriptures,_published_by_JPS&lang=bi)

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Reminder that you have a physical form that requires careful maintenance, and a little bit of water or meds or food or something to make it more comfortable could be small right now and helpful in the long-run.

boost if you would gently pet the mastodon mascot and tuck them into bed for the night

"They say a person is the sum of their experiences."
"I'm not much then, all I've ever done is read."
"You are the sum of all those books!"
#MicroFiction #tootfic #smallstories