hvee ⏩ @hvee@awoo.space

@fairywren @Krall welcome to both of you, I'm glad you are here!!

@thefishcrow @vahnj thank you all for your compassion and running a respectful space that gives people the opportunity to learn and also negotiate behaviors and expectations in this way <3

feelin awooooooo

good morning awooniverse

hi awoofam

goodnight awoosters

@paralithode hum. i wonder if there's some weird back end server/hosting shifts somewhere in the system that hasn't propagated through the entire world yet. anyone else in, say, the UK getting this?

@paralithode they look live to me over here

@znkd@mastodon.art those silhouettes are so good!

thank you everyone for helping me learn how to be a better version of myself

I'm really happy to be in a place that encourages and values compassion and collective education

please be gentle and good with yourselves and each other :)

@bat there are just so many more descriptive and detailed ways to use language than relying on slurs! slurs are not very specific, and they hurt people.

@vahnj yeah, mental health slurs are another category I'm working on examining in my own usage. so far it's been a harder habit for me to break than the intelligence-based ones, but I'm inching my way there ;_;

@miscellanium it's also fairly revealing to think about the variety of uses/meanings when people default to "stupid" and to examine the implications of what a particular culture attributes to intelligence; basically, it comes down to low intelligence being inherently bad and undesirable, and with the sense that a person can choose their intelligence