Awooest Mawr @mawr@awoo.space
- Pronouns
- They/She
- Location
- Seattle
Dragony plush thing! Friendly, non-binary, anarcho-syndicalist, ace.
Check out @mawr for my public account.
Joined May 2017
@typhlosion I love you too. ♥️
@rowkey@mastodon.art What a cutie!! I love the bottlecaps, too :D
@knightly Welcome! ♥️
re: Birdsite politics
@korosarum Yeah, Birdsite's allegiances are tied to money out of necessity, and of course the majority of the super wealthy are extremely conservative, so their policies are only going to trend toward the conservative, even if they don't want them to.
Late Capitalism sucks.
@Felthry !!! This is so beautiful and enchanting!
@leafnoodle Aaaaa!! That's adorable! :D
Remember in these times of grief that it's absolutely okay to make normal posts.
A lot of people are mourning today, and for many of those people, this is a space they come to for positive interactions. This space may be part of someone's self care plan.
I encourage you to post as you need and want to today, and if you have the spoons, interact with others even more than you normally do.
Tragedy in a community reinforces the importance of community. Let's all care for one another together. ♥️
@Draekos *hugs tight*
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You are not alone
@Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town I'll reach out to you over Telegram. ♥️
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If solving depression and suicide was as easy as telling someone to find a conversation partner, it wouldn't be a problem. The problem is that someone in that position has already considered and discarded the possibility that talking is an option.
Sitting here urging people to talk isn't helpful. Reaching out to the quiet people in your life and talking to them is. You can't just expect that people want to bring their problems to anyone, especially people they care about.
@Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town oh... oh hon...
*sends the tightest hugs*
If you need to get away this weekend, we'd love to have you. I'm so sorry.
Purgative (CW: Suicide Discussion)
@literorrery *gentle hugs on offer* :<
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Re: My understanding of the U.S. (cw: snark, negative)
@ElectricKeet "We're the greatest country in the world!"
Translation: "I think all other countries are inferior to this one"
Correlation: They probably take no issue with exploiting other countries, even to the point of killing foreign citizens, so long as it provides a net benefit the US
Proposed translated statement with correlative context: "Other countries exist to serve at our pleasure and we're entitled to the fruits of their labor."
@dzuk@a.weirder.earth Because I would buy the heck out of that, that's why. XD
Re: Community rambles
@IrisKalmia (I've spent a lot of time over past 3 years thinking about this problem specifically, and I've developed a lot of thoughts and strong opinions about it. ^^;)
Re: Community rambles
@IrisKalmia As a community scales up, inevitably some users will find divisions around the very definition of toxicity. When two sides of a community define the other as toxic, that's a division, and you can't moderate around that. At that point, the only way to keep things together is to take a less hands-on approach to moderation. That's where we're at with Twitter and Facebook.
Re: Community rambles
@IrisKalmia Good moderation stems the tide of toxicity. In smaller communities, it can eliminate it near entirely, and have procedures to keep it at bay when it inevitably returns.
The larger scale, though, is way more complicated. The healthiest solution is to let communities branch off naturally as their members find points of division with one another. Mastodon is probably the healthiest model I've seen for keeping large scale communities healthy and connected.
Re: Community rambles
@IrisKalmia Forums that grow popular quickly develop a social condition similar to the "5 Monkeys and a Ladder" experiment, except almost everything is a different type of ladder with different levels of punishment associated.
Point systems help alleviate this by making it easier to find the ladders ahead of time, though they also more rapidly condition users to mirror the dominant culture.
Generally speaking, the larger the space, the more toxic that culture becomes. :x
- Pronouns
- They/She
- Location
- Seattle
Dragony plush thing! Friendly, non-binary, anarcho-syndicalist, ace.
Check out @mawr for my public account.
Joined May 2017
