Ⓐ☭⛤Cute Side of the Dark Side @Codeawayhaley@mastodon.starrevolution.org

Hey all! I’m in the process of writing a paper about LGBTQ+ people and their experiences in the Catholic Church. In order to get some more primary sources, I came up with a quick survey. If you identify as LGBTQIA+ and are a part of the Catholic Church, please consider helping me out!

All answers are anonymous and will only be seen by me.

https://forms.gle/YHYWt48kzV3msanX7

Also any boosts are greatly appreciated! ❤️❤️❤️

Under a neoliberal regime that privileges informatics, endless data aggrandizing, and the all powerful power of the metric, it is not an accident that social capital has become a dynamic component of capitalist accumulation and a means to inscribe hierarchal relations.

I hope asexual people are accepted within their communities.

The Esperanto for 'Strain' is 'Streĉi.'

Eggplant #633B54
Mauve #CFB0FA

(Contrast ratio: 4.9:1 | AA)

if you haven't yet, block the instance socnet.supes.com

Because this is mastodon, home to many thousands who was banned from twitter.

And while many here were kicked because they stood against terfs and fascists or couldn't stand the aggro, some were rightly banned because they're dangerous abusers. And those people are free to make their own instances, become kings of their own castle and continue their manipulation.

Those with antisocial personality disorder are incredibly skilled at figuring out people's weak spots and exploiting it. Queer people have so many weak spots, its like a kid in a candy store when everyone has critically poor self worth issues.

So ask yourself, if you're willing to allow "I've got awful mental health" to be a trump card over sustained abusive behaviour and an inability to ever apologise or change their behaviour longterm, at what point is that your overt weak spot.

You're one person, not the entire queer community, not their therapist or counsellor. You dont have to call them out or try to corral your mutual friends to give up on them too. Just shift yourself in a way so that over time they give up on you.

They likely thrive on dramatics and fights to maintain their power so the best response to that is to be as boring as a rock - truly its how you deal with sociopaths, stop being an interesting plaything in their games.

The concept of ones self as a saviour who can fix a serially abusive friend is often a pretence for not having to draw a firm boundary in your mind of "when do i have to actually take action and risk this person attacking me".

I dated a sociopath for 3 years, i was best friends with another for 8. i know how flipping hard it can be to get yourself out of those dark places. Not wanting to the rock the boat, thinking all their problems are yours too. Trained to want their approval.

abusive people often have incredibly bad mental health and/or sociopathy but that doesn't mean you have to sacrifice yourself to put up with them.

You're not the centre of the universe, nor "the only person who knows them / can save them". They'll go on without you and continue to find other people's lives to destroy.

You have to prioritize your safety first.

white people against columbus day like: Fuck YOU these NORDIC RUNESTONES PROVE that Columbus wasn't the first one here!

🙄 so close and yet so far

How #trees secretly talk to each other in the #forest

What do trees talk about? In the Douglas fir forests of #Canada, see how trees “talk” to each other by forming underground symbiotic relationships—called #mycorrhizae—with #fungi to relay stress signals and share resources with one another.

https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/decoder/00000165-61d1-d3b2-a17d-e9f9571f0000

#Biology #Biodiversity

Positive plant–fungal interactions | State of the World's Fungi 2018

It is estimated that around 90% of living plant species have #mycorrhizal #fungi associated with their roots

https://stateoftheworldsfungi.org/2018/positive-plant-fungal-interactions.html

Python script bug throwing doubt on the results of more than 150 published chemistry studies https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/chemists-discover-cross-platform-python-scripts-not-so-cross-platform/

like if you're looking to understand how and why certain issues and behaviour crop up again and again for trans people, its pretty easy when you look at the fact that trans kids will generally learn at the age of 4-5 that basically everything they want (who their friends should be, what sort of approval from adults, what sort of roles in play, what toys, what clothes) is deeply wrong / false and they should never tell anyone and always mask that, eventually into denial.