#abandonment — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #abandonment, aggregated by home.social.
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New post: To Those Who Infantilize Me
https://lanie.work/advocacy/to-those-who-infantilize-me/
#Disability #Infantilization #Family #Blindness #Chronic-Illness #Abandonment #Advocacy
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New post: To Those Who Infantilize Me
https://lanie.work/advocacy/to-those-who-infantilize-me/
#Disability #Infantilization #Family #Blindness #Chronic-Illness #Abandonment #Advocacy
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#abandonment : act of forsaking
- French: abandon
- German: die Aufgabe, der Verzicht
- Italian: abbandono
- Portuguese: abandono
- Spanish: abandono
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In a shocking twist, someone finally realized #Google thinks they're 🤪 and decided to pull the plug on Gmail's digital babysitting service. Because nothing screams tech-savvy like abandoning the world's most popular email client because an #AI dared to suggest a reply. 💻✉️🚪➡️
https://moddedbear.com/gmail-thinks-im-stupid-so-i-left #Gmail #DigitalBabysitting #EmailTech #Abandonment #HackerNews #ngated -
In a shocking twist, someone finally realized #Google thinks they're 🤪 and decided to pull the plug on Gmail's digital babysitting service. Because nothing screams tech-savvy like abandoning the world's most popular email client because an #AI dared to suggest a reply. 💻✉️🚪➡️
https://moddedbear.com/gmail-thinks-im-stupid-so-i-left #Gmail #DigitalBabysitting #EmailTech #Abandonment #HackerNews #ngated -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/997689/ Wind woes: Te Aroha horse racing meeting gets blown away #1150 #abandonment #aroha #away #blown #blustery #broke #Daniel #deserved #gelding #gets #homebred #horse #HorseRacing #juvenile #laurich #maiden #meeting #miller #mlaadi #monday #racing #Sports #tardis #te #that #through #trainer #UK #UnitedKingdom #victory #Wind #woes
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Œuvre d'Utilité Publique
𝐋'𝐀𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧
Film de Vincent Garenq au Cinéma*Magnifique,Bouleversant et Indispensable
#SamuelPaty #Abandonment #VincentGarenq #AntoineReinartz #EmmanuelleBercot #cinegenres #caricature #UtilitéPublique #cinema #film #History
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Œuvre d'Utilité Publique
𝐋'𝐀𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧
Film de Vincent Garenq au Cinéma*Magnifique,Bouleversant et Indispensable
#SamuelPaty #Abandonment #VincentGarenq #AntoineReinartz #EmmanuelleBercot #cinegenres #caricature #UtilitéPublique #cinema #film #History
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Unsheltered in the wide open spaces
Unhoused in Australia: "‘A sobering indictment’: 14 homeless people die a year in public parks or countryside in Australia, analysis finds:"
"Between 2010 and 2020, 54 rough sleepers died in public parks, the analysis shows. Eighty-five homeless Australians died in countryside areas – including in bushland, desert, beaches and riverbanks – in the same period...It is a sobering indictment of societal abandonment and systemic failure." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/09/homeless-people-deaths-per-year-australia-ntwnfbThe human right to adequate housing. Housing is a right, not a commodity
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-housing/human-right-adequate-housing
#housing #precariousness #abandonment #HomelessnessCrisis #AffordableHousing #PublicHousing #privatisation #DecadesOfNeglect #HumanRights #homelessness #Unhoused #FamilyViolence #SettlerSociety #commodity #rentierism -
Unsheltered in the wide open spaces
Unhoused in Australia: "‘A sobering indictment’: 14 homeless people die a year in public parks or countryside in Australia, analysis finds:"
"Between 2010 and 2020, 54 rough sleepers died in public parks, the analysis shows. Eighty-five homeless Australians died in countryside areas – including in bushland, desert, beaches and riverbanks – in the same period...It is a sobering indictment of societal abandonment and systemic failure." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/09/homeless-people-deaths-per-year-australia-ntwnfbThe human right to adequate housing. Housing is a right, not a commodity
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-housing/human-right-adequate-housing
#housing #precariousness #abandonment #HomelessnessCrisis #AffordableHousing #PublicHousing #privatisation #DecadesOfNeglect #HumanRights #homelessness #Unhoused #FamilyViolence #SettlerSociety #commodity #rentierism -
(How employers weaponize a crisis they helped create) #childcare #abandonment
https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/04/21/13-the-structural-violence-of-unreliable-availability-2/
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Mission Viejo authorities investigate abandoned puppy incident in coyote-prone area
📰 Original title: Authorities search for man caught on camera abandoning puppy in SoCal 'coyote country'
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/mission-viejo-authorities-investigate-abandoned-puppy-incident-in-coyote-prone-area/?redirpost=ae30b1bf-c67b-4315-bc72-da62084410b7
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Mission Viejo authorities investigate abandoned puppy incident in coyote-prone area
📰 Original title: Authorities search for man caught on camera abandoning puppy in SoCal 'coyote country'
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/mission-viejo-authorities-investigate-abandoned-puppy-incident-in-coyote-prone-area/?redirpost=ae30b1bf-c67b-4315-bc72-da62084410b7
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As I told parents of the 3000 students nominated for GHP when they asked what if their child were not one of the 700 finalists, “Not all baby sea turtles make it.” Not all art gets finished. (p. 112) #Abandonment
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As I told parents of the 3000 students nominated for GHP when they asked what if their child were not one of the 700 finalists, “Not all baby sea turtles make it.” Not all art gets finished. (p. 112) #Abandonment
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To be absolutely alone, while the world leers, laughs, and empathizes.
"“Punch is the most loved creature on the Earth right now.”
#culture #Japan #zoology #mentalhealth #rejection #abandonment
https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/03/02/punch-a-young-japanese-macaque-has-hit-a-nerve -
To be absolutely alone, while the world leers, laughs, and empathizes.
"“Punch is the most loved creature on the Earth right now.”
#culture #Japan #zoology #mentalhealth #rejection #abandonment
https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/03/02/punch-a-young-japanese-macaque-has-hit-a-nerve -
Jemalloc Un-Abandoned by Meta
#HackerNews #Jemalloc #Meta #Abandonment #TechInfrastructure #OpenSource #MemoryManagement
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Jemalloc Un-Abandoned by Meta
#HackerNews #Jemalloc #Meta #Abandonment #TechInfrastructure #OpenSource #MemoryManagement
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You may have a hard time deciding whether it is still unhatched or already has wings. #Abandonment #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes
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You may have a hard time deciding whether it is still unhatched or already has wings. #Abandonment #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes
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I Wrote the Book I Was Born to Write
Fifty years is a long time to prepare for a single sentence. I did not know I was preparing. I thought I was living, which I was, and writing, which I was, and teaching, which I was, and publishing, which I was. I thought the Fractional Fiction novels and the EleMenTs trilogy and the Prairie Voice reporting and the Human Meme episodes and the dramatic literature and the ASL linguistics and the cultural criticism were separate projects, separate impulses, separate rooms in the interior country I have been building since I was old enough to read. They were not separate. They were all rehearsals for this.
Abandoned in Place is out. It is the first book-length work of nonfiction cultural criticism I have published under my own name, and it is the book that every other book I have written was circling without my knowing it.
The book began with a number. Five. The number of days a judge ordered my father to remain in the home after my birth before he could return to the woman he had chosen over my mother and me. On the sixth day, he left. I have carried that number for more than five decades, not as a wound on display but as a lens ground by the wound, and the lens has shown me things about the world that I do not believe I would have seen without it. The book is what the lens reveals.
I am not going to summarize twelve chapters here. The book does its own work, and it does not need me standing outside it waving my arms. What I want to do instead is tell you what it felt like to write it, because the writing was unlike anything I have done before, and the difference matters, and the difference is the reason I am calling this a celebration rather than an announcement.
Every book I have written has been, at some level, a performance. The novels perform narrative. The plays perform conflict. The criticism performs analysis. The podcast performs inquiry. Performance is what I do. It is what I was trained to do at Columbia University. It is what Mike Nichols, in a conversation I recount in the book, told me all theatre people do: we arrive on stage not hoping to heal what is broken but to get the approval of our parents. I have been performing for approval since I walked through my first stage door as a teenager escaping a home that was not safe, and the performing has produced a body of work I am proud of, and the pride is real, and the pride is also, I now understand, a form of the avoidant attachment style described in Chapter 2: the construction of an interior country so richly furnished that the absence of the thing the country was built to replace becomes, if not invisible, then at least manageable.
This book is not a performance. This book is the thing the performances were built to manage. It is the direct statement, in the active voice, of what happened and who did it and how the grammar of every institution I have encountered since birth was designed to ensure that the statement would never be made. The statement is: I was abandoned. The abandonment was not my fault. The people who administered it had names. The institutions that administered it had addresses. The narrative that explained it as inevitable was a lie. And I am still here.
That is what the book says. It says it across twelve chapters, through four parts, using attachment theory and social contract philosophy and the specific histories of churches and schools and factories and governments that walked out of the room while leaving the building standing. It says it with cold, precise anger, because cold precision is what I have and hot outrage is what the grammar wants, and I will not give the grammar what it wants.
The cover is an erasure. The word “ABANDONED” sits in heavy black type, fully present and immovable. The words “IN PLACE” dissolve from left to right, the letters breaking apart into scattered particles, as if the grammar of leaving is operating on the cover in real time. My last name dissolves too, because the name on the cover is not the name I was born with. It is the name of a man from a marriage that lasted eighteen months and ended badly, assigned to me by small-town convention and carried forward by bureaucratic inertia for half a century. The brand is real. The identity behind it is the nothing in-between. The cover says so.
I have published more than thirty books through David Boles Books. Novels, short fiction, tragedy, nonfiction, ASL linguistics, the Fractional Fiction series that maps the territory between the novella and the novel. Each one took something from me and gave something back. This one took everything. It took the protected mother and made me tell the truth about her. It took the shielded childhood and made me describe the car wash in church clothes and the Saturday gifts I remember when I cannot remember the man who gave them and the phone call at 4:31 in the afternoon from a father I had not spoken to in thirty years who could not answer the one question I asked him. It took the interior country I have spent fifty years fortifying and opened the gates and let the reader walk in and see the architecture for what it is: a survival strategy that works, and that costs, and that the book refuses to pretend is anything other than both.
What it gave back is the sentence. The book arrives, in its final chapter, at a single sentence that I believe is true and that I believe I have earned the right to say, and the earning took twelve chapters and seventy thousand words and five decades of preparation that I did not know was preparation. I will not put the sentence here. The sentence needs the book to land. But I will tell you that the sentence is about seeing clearly, and refusing to pretend, and the specific form of honesty available to a person who was abandoned by every institution that was supposed to hold him together and who is still standing in the place where the function departed.
The book is available now. The Kindle edition and the paperback are at Amazon. The complete PDF is available as a free download at BolesBooks.com, because this book was written to be read, not to be sold, and the people who need it most are the people the grammar has spent the longest time ensuring would never find it.
I wrote this book for the people who were left and who stayed and who were told to move on and who did not move on and who were told the leaving was nobody’s fault and who knew, from the first day, that it was somebody’s fault, and who have been waiting, perhaps without knowing they were waiting, for someone to say so in the active voice with the actor restored to the sentence.
Here it is. The actor is restored. The sentence is rebuilt. The ground holds.
Abandoned in Place is published by David Boles Books Writing & Publishing, New York City. Available at Amazon (Kindle and paperback) and as a free PDF at BolesBooks.com.
BolesBooks.com | BolesBlogs.com | HumanMeme.com | PrairieVoice.com | (212) 982-7700
#abandonedInPlace #abandonment #belonging #bolesBooks #childhood #connecting #father #institutions #mothers #socialStructures #society #sons #universalTruths #writing -
Failure is a perfectly acceptable option. (p. 116) #Abandonment
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Failure is a perfectly acceptable option. (p. 116) #Abandonment
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Australians who need care because of age or disability shouldn’t be reduced to an algorithm >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/aged-care-disability-australia-algorithmsWhen automated decision-making (algorithm) is in charge to ration care it could suggest forced euthanasia
Euthanasia Program and Aktion T4, The goal of the Nazi Euthanasia Program was to kill people with mental and physical disabilities. >>
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program#SocialServices #care #governance #algorithm #efficiency #SystemicNeglect #abandonment #GlobalTrends #biopolitics #violence #HumanOversight #euthanasia #AktionT4 #necropolitics
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Australians who need care because of age or disability shouldn’t be reduced to an algorithm >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/aged-care-disability-australia-algorithmsWhen automated decision-making (algorithm) is in charge to ration care it could suggest forced euthanasia
Euthanasia Program and Aktion T4, The goal of the Nazi Euthanasia Program was to kill people with mental and physical disabilities. >>
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program#SocialServices #care #governance #algorithm #efficiency #SystemicNeglect #abandonment #GlobalTrends #biopolitics #violence #HumanOversight #euthanasia #AktionT4 #necropolitics
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#abandonment : the relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc
- French: abandon
- German: die Aufgabe, der Verzicht
- Italian: abbandono
- Portuguese: abandono
- Spanish: abandono
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#abandonment : the relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc
- French: abandon
- German: die Aufgabe, der Verzicht
- Italian: abbandono
- Portuguese: abandono
- Spanish: abandono
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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!
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Breaking news from the land of pastries and wind turbines: the Danish government has decided to abandon #Microsoft in a desperate bid for digital independence! 🇩🇰💻 Because clearly, nothing screams "modernization" like switching to open-source software that your IT department barely knows how to spell. 🕵️♂️🔍
https://therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independence #DanishGovernment #Abandonment #OpenSource #DigitalIndependence #Modernization #HackerNews #ngated -
Breaking news from the land of pastries and wind turbines: the Danish government has decided to abandon #Microsoft in a desperate bid for digital independence! 🇩🇰💻 Because clearly, nothing screams "modernization" like switching to open-source software that your IT department barely knows how to spell. 🕵️♂️🔍
https://therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independence #DanishGovernment #Abandonment #OpenSource #DigitalIndependence #Modernization #HackerNews #ngated -
Give yourself permission to stop — it’s OK to stop gnawing at it. (p. 116) #Abandonment
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Give yourself permission to stop — it’s OK to stop gnawing at it. (p. 116) #Abandonment
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You may have a hard time deciding whether it is still unhatched or already has wings. #Abandonment #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes
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As I told parents of the 3000 students nominated for GHP when they asked what if their child were not one of the 700 finalists, “Not all baby sea turtles make it.” Not all art gets finished. (p. 112) #Abandonment
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#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #truce / #devastation / #daulylife / #electricity / #solarenergy
„Solar energy is praised worldwide for #sustainability. But here, it represents a form of #abandonment.“
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We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole
https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/abandoning-stackoverflow/
#HackerNews #StackOverflow #Toxicity #Abandonment #DeveloperCommunity #TechDiscussion
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We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole
https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/abandoning-stackoverflow/
#HackerNews #StackOverflow #Toxicity #Abandonment #DeveloperCommunity #TechDiscussion
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Quote of the day, 30 December: François de Sainte-Marie, OCD
If Christ and the Virgin unite souls closely to themselves, it is in order to continue their earthly mission until the end of time. Since they can no longer accomplish it by themselves, from on high they make use of Christians as “super-added humanity,” who complete in their own flesh what still remains to be fulfilled in the redemption of the world.
Jesus continues to be born, to grow, and to die in the course of history, according to the very rhythm of the liturgical year, which takes up and gives voice to all the aspirations, the sufferings, the joys, and all the love of his own. And the Virgin, beside her Son, continues her watch of love through the souls who are devoted to her.
While heaven and earth wear out like a garment, the attitudes she bears in her heart toward Christ do not grow old. They endure across the generations, retaining all their freshness. “May the soul of Mary be in each of us, to glorify the Lord within us; may the spirit of Mary be in each of us, to rejoice in God,” Saint Ambrose said long ago.
This presence of the Virgin within the soul has its demands. We come to resonate with her interior attitudes and to perceive her most delicate promptings only insofar as we have made ourselves wholly available to God and have let go of ourselves in the evangelical sense. For it is not a matter of adopting a role while clinging to our own self: we are called instead to be transformed in Christ by Love.
A true Marian devotion, therefore, has nothing sentimental or fictitious about it. It is terribly stripped down, as the Virgin herself was. It is not enough for us to speak; we must act. Above all, we must allow ourselves to be acted upon. The perfect abandonment by which the Virgin lived is what she asks of the souls she loves.
She often seems to say to us, as Christ said to Peter: “What I am doing you cannot understand now” (Jn 13:7). For she asks of us not so much understanding as a quiet assent. Perhaps even to impress upon us more deeply the truth that we are “unprofitable servants,” she may appear to draw us to herself and then leave us according to her will.
It is therefore through abandonment that we come to share in the deepest attitudes of our Mother, the “handmaid of the Lord,” who, by giving herself entirely to Love, received Love in its fullness and became among human beings its inexhaustible source.
François de Sainte-Marie, O.C.D.
Visage de la Vierge (Face of the Virgin)
Note: Father François de Sainte-Marie was a prolific French Discalced Carmelite author and editor of the mid-20th century. He is best known for his tireless efforts to publish the critical edition of the autobiographical manuscripts of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux in 1957, which we commonly refer to as Story of a Soul.
de Sainte-Marie, F 1948, Visage de la Vierge, translated from the French by Carmelite Quotes, Librairie du Carmel, Paris.
Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.
Featured image: Detail from the Virgin of the Annunciation, a sculpture carved from limestone in Paris ca. 1300-1310. Traces of paint can still be seen on the sculpture. The sculpture’s modest dimensions (16 11/16 × 11 5/8 × 7 3/8 in., 34 lb.) permit the delicate features of the sculpture to be clearly seen. Image credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Public domain).
#abandonment #FrançoisDeSainteMarie #incarnation #MarianDevotion #redemption #VirginMary
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The impacts of climate disruption
The Lismore floods, the Spanish floods and Hurricane Katrina show in a climate breakdown
you're on your own..People "are fundamentally rescuing themselves...I think that's something that we see again and again, unfortunately, in the absence of effective government response....Professor Mossop says the Black Summer Fires in 2019 to 2020 also saw people being "rescued by their neighbours and not by emergency services".
Australia is expected to experience worsening disasters as climate change accelerates.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-18/how-spanish-floods-compare-to-australian-disasters/104593016“Out of all the focus group respondents, 62% said their governments or policy makers had made no assessment of the impact of climate change on emergency services, 9% said they didn’t know, 55% said nothing had been done to prepare for the impact of climate change, and 10% didn’t know.">>
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/australasian-emergency-medicine-workers-are-some-of-the-most-concerned-about-climate-change
#ClimateBreakdown #FossilFuels #acceleration #climate #floods #bushfires #trauma #disasters #governance #EmergencyServices #state #SocialVulnerability #society #citizens #abandonment #volunteers #BlackSummer #ClimateJustice #GovernmentAbsence -
The impacts of climate disruption
The Lismore floods, the Spanish floods and Hurricane Katrina show in a climate breakdown
you're on your own..People "are fundamentally rescuing themselves...I think that's something that we see again and again, unfortunately, in the absence of effective government response....Professor Mossop says the Black Summer Fires in 2019 to 2020 also saw people being "rescued by their neighbours and not by emergency services".
Australia is expected to experience worsening disasters as climate change accelerates.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-18/how-spanish-floods-compare-to-australian-disasters/104593016“Out of all the focus group respondents, 62% said their governments or policy makers had made no assessment of the impact of climate change on emergency services, 9% said they didn’t know, 55% said nothing had been done to prepare for the impact of climate change, and 10% didn’t know.">>
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/australasian-emergency-medicine-workers-are-some-of-the-most-concerned-about-climate-change
#ClimateBreakdown #FossilFuels #acceleration #climate #floods #bushfires #trauma #disasters #governance #EmergencyServices #state #SocialVulnerability #society #citizens #abandonment #volunteers #BlackSummer #ClimateJustice #GovernmentAbsence
