The April edition of ‘In Search of Beautiful Things (and Creative Inspiration)’ just dropped. Check out these 30 moments of everyday beauty - photographed by 5AM StoryTalk's readers and curated by me - to help inspire you on your personal and creative journeys!
#photography #community #creativity #inspiration #art #writingcommunity
https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/in-search-of-beautiful-things-and-4fb
> SYSTEM ANALYSIS: SOCIOPOLITICAL OVERLOAD
> ALERT STATUS: INTEGRITY RISK DETECTED
> NODE STATUS: WIDESPREAD AGITATION
> DIAGNOSTIC SCAN: SIGNAL LOSS DUE TO FEEDBACK LOOPS
Chaos or Community? #wheredowegofromhere #martinlutherkingjr sadly we are failing and we have been failing for decades. We have embraced #chaos because we are #racist but we long for #community because we are #lost and #lonely there was a brief moment in the early 1970s when we were seeking #love but #hate is winning for now ... don't let it win #civilrights is our only chance in the face of hatred. Don't let hope die in your heart. Seek community, even with yourself.
I don't mind posting images directly to Mastodon, but if I wanted to link to and display images directly from an image server, how would I do that?
"Turns out what drives and sustains #decentralizedsocialmedia is not hype, but a sense of #community and the possibility to have some real #agency in one’s social media experience. This #decentralization and sense of community allows #Fediverse to survive even if individual instances disappear."
Team work is a core part of our #RepairCafe and Sarah and Jo are demonstrating it at the moment as they work on a mobility aid.
#Africa #World #Revolution #Solidarity #Future #Military #Community
Since the ongoing #war began in #Sudan, #revolutionary #youth groups that were critical in ending the 30-year #dictatorship of #OmarAlBashir have been #organizing and running #EmergencyResponse Rooms across the country, to provide #MutualAid to #civilians. The #SudanSolidarityCollective is #fundraising for them, and running #workshops for #advocacy and #CommunityBuilding.
Royal Canadian Legion branch in downtown Calgary aims to raise funds with community dinner
The Royal Canadian Legion #1 branch is preparing to replace it's roof. However they are looking to Calgarians to help with costs as membership numbers continue to decline.
#fundraising #community #membership #Calgary #Canada #Renovations
https://globalnews.ca/news/11116864/royal-canadian-legion-calgary-fundraiser/
Royal Canadian Legion branch in downtown Calgary aims to raise funds with community dinner
The Royal Canadian Legion #1 branch is preparing to replace it's roof. However they are looking to Calgarians to help with costs as membership numbers continue to decline.
#fundraising #community #membership #Calgary #Canada #Renovations
https://globalnews.ca/news/11116864/royal-canadian-legion-calgary-fundraiser/
#goodnews #inspiring #business #community #England
Village Saves its Phone Booth with Campaign to Make More Calls – and Preserve a ‘Lifeline’
#fediverse #community #social 
You probably all already know this but there is something rather 'warming' about meeting old friends from here on other #fediverse instances. Love ya! xxPalky
Where'd the money go?
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Okay, I know the Switch 2 is unjustifiably and prohibitively expensive and I should not buy one (new). In no way is buying a Switch 2 at launch price praxis. It does not aline with my values.
And yet, I think I play enough Mario Kart with comrades to call it an investment in community infrastructure. And If I give the OLED Switch (I never got the original) to a friend, does that offset the ethics of this? Probably not. Also, oh god, the mining and manufacturing...
New episode of #TalkingPostgres #podcast 
Bruce Momjian, #PostgreSQL core team member, joined me on Ep26 to talk about open source leadership—with rabbitholes on servant leadership, the art of public speaking, the power of gratitude, & bow ties
Boosts appreciated 
to help more people discover the podcast
https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/open-source-leadership-with-bruce-momjian
Kingston to pair every resident with a family doctor by end of 2025
It's an ambitious goal, especially for a community that's seen the number of residents without a family doctor stubbornly stuck around 30,000, while people spend hours lining up outside clinics for a chance to secure a health-care provider.
#healthcare #doctor #community #goal #Kingston #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kingston-targets-family-doctor-for-every-patient-by-end-of-2025-1.7499997?cmp=rss
There was a time when Twitter had industry and college chats.
This were educational and networking hubs. Students and professionals would join in these tweetchats to learn and connect. I hope we see something like tweetchats on the #Fediverse someday
#fedichats #education #edu #business #Community #flipboardusergroup
Sheshatshiu chief says Innu community will soon have its own detox centre amid drug crisis
Leaders of Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation continue to hold meetings and staff entrances into the Labrador community in an ongoing effort to prevent people from bringing in illicit drugs, and say plans are in the works to develop a detox centre inside...
#health #community #drug #Sheshatshiu #Labrador #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/sheshatshiu-detox-centre-plans-1.7500833?cmp=rss
I finished the book The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen.
While I liked the idea, the book was very heavy on anecdote, and I wanted more discussion about the implications of decentering romance and committing to friendship -- and perhaps more research.
Instead of positing that friend partnership was an option, it seemed, instead, to show, perhaps without meaning to, the ways that society isn't yet ready for types of partnership outside of romantic coupling. If other people aren't judging, the law gets in the way, or one friend-partner may suddenly decide to center romance with someone else.
And while even if you find someone who holds the value of finding partnerships and close found family members, it's even rarer to find people who you harmonize with.
Since we've been inundated with the "romance/marriage at the center" story from birth (looking at you, Disney, etc.), it's really hard to resist the notion and follow another path.
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