#agency — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #agency, aggregated by home.social.
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How a Web3 Marketing Agency Can Explode Your Growth https://visualmodo.com/how-a-web3-marketing-agency-can-explode-your-growth/ 💡🌐📣 #Web3 #Marketing #Agency #Growth
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How a Web3 Marketing Agency Can Explode Your Growth https://visualmodo.com/how-a-web3-marketing-agency-can-explode-your-growth/ 💡🌐📣 #Web3 #Marketing #Agency #Growth
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Pain as a Doorway: Finding Agency in Chronic Illness
Pain may not be a choice. The way I meet the world often is.
The last few weeks have been marked by migraines and the familiar ache of endometriosis. Some days simply getting through work requires more effort than anyone around me realizes. The pain is real. The fatigue is real. And yet, I’ve noticed something that surprises people when they learn I’m not feeling well…
Most of the time, they had no idea.
Every difficult season offers countless doorways. Some lead toward bitterness. Some toward self-pity. Some toward deeper compassion—for ourselves and for everyone else carrying invisible burdens.
There is a common misconception that suffering somehow entitles us to spread our suffering, even when that isn’t our intention.
When we’re in pain—whether it’s physical, emotional, or both—we naturally want to be seen. We want someone to understand. We speak about our diagnoses, our symptoms, our losses, hoping to find compassion.
Most people respond with the best of intentions. They meet our story with one of their own.
“You have migraines? I get headaches too.”
“Your joints hurt? Mine have been bothering me for years.”
This is often how humans communicate empathy. We reach for a shared experience and say, “You’re not alone.”
There is comfort in that. Feeling understood matters.
But there is also a subtle danger.
Pain asks for our attention. It doesn’t have to become our personality.
If every conversation circles back to our pain, our identity can begin to orbit around it. We stop relating to ourselves as a whole person who happens to be suffering and begin relating to ourselves primarily as someone who is suffering. Without realizing it, pain becomes the lens through which we interpret our lives.
I’ve noticed this occasionally in online support groups. Their purpose is a beautiful one: to remind us that we are not alone. Many people find genuine comfort, practical advice, and lasting friendships there.
Yet sometimes these spaces become little more than an exchange of symptoms. Each person contributes another story of exhaustion, another setback, another reason to lose hope. Compassion slowly shifts into collective despair.
No one intends this. Everyone is simply trying to be understood.
But if we never share how we continue living despite the pain—how we found a moment of beauty, laughed with a friend, created something meaningful, or simply made it through another difficult day—we can unintentionally reinforce the belief that pain is all there is.
Over time, this can cultivate a victim mindset. Victimhood is not the same as being a victim. Terrible things happen. Chronic illness is real. Grief is real. Trauma is real. There are seasons when we genuinely need support and care.
A victim mindset, however, is something different. It is the gradual belief that our suffering has become the defining truth of who we are. Once that identity takes hold, it can become difficult to imagine ourselves outside of it. Hope diminishes. Depression often follows. Ironically, our experience of suffering may deepen even further.
Compassion should never invite us to remain stuck. Its highest expression isn’t simply saying, “I hurt too.” It is also saying, “I know this road is hard, and I’m walking it with you. Life is still possible here.”
Pain is a doorway. Like any doorway, it leads somewhere. We don’t always get to choose whether we arrive at it, but we do have some influence over whether we remain standing in the threshold, retreat into the room of despair, or continue walking toward compassion, resilience, and a wider view of life.
Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer one another isn’t shared misery, but shared courage.
This isn’t about pretending we’re fine or refusing help. Hiding our pain is simply another kind of performance.
Instead, it’s about remembering that even in the midst of suffering, we retain agency. There is a quiet dignity in choosing not to let pain become the whole story of who we are.
I can’t choose
• whether a migraine arrives.
• whether endometriosis flares.
• whether my body cooperates today.But I often can choose
• how I speak to my husband.
• whether I pause before reacting.
• whether I notice something beautiful on the walk to my car.
• whether I allow pain to become my entire identity.That’s not toxic positivity. It’s agency.
The robin outside my office doesn’t stop singing because my head hurts. The goldenrod still flowers. The evening light still catches the leaves in the same way it did yesterday. The world gently reminds me that while pain is part of my experience, it is not the whole of reality.
I still have migraines. I still have endometriosis and lupus. Tomorrow may be another difficult day.
None of that is within my control.
But every morning I am offered a quieter choice.
Not whether I will suffer, but who I will be while I suffer.
Will pain become the story I tell the world?
Or will it simply be one part of the story of a life still capable of kindness, wonder, creativity, and love?
Pain may not be a choice. The way I meet the world often is.
If this reflection resonates with you, I’ve also recorded a guided meditation, Easing Pain: A Meditative Journey, that explores this practice more directly. It isn’t about pretending pain isn’t there or trying to force it away. Instead, it offers a gentle invitation to meet discomfort with awareness, kindness, and presence—perhaps discovering that even in difficult moments, there is still space to breathe, to soften, and to choose how we respond.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0aAbwS4h06BaL9GSyYlaQk?si=5e188abef1d74d47
#agency #awareness #compassion #healing #livingWithDiscomfort #livingWithPain #meditation #migraine #mindfulness -
Pain as a Doorway: Finding Agency in Chronic Illness
Pain may not be a choice. The way I meet the world often is.
The last few weeks have been marked by migraines and the familiar ache of endometriosis. Some days simply getting through work requires more effort than anyone around me realizes. The pain is real. The fatigue is real. And yet, I’ve noticed something that surprises people when they learn I’m not feeling well…
Most of the time, they had no idea.
Every difficult season offers countless doorways. Some lead toward bitterness. Some toward self-pity. Some toward deeper compassion—for ourselves and for everyone else carrying invisible burdens.
There is a common misconception that suffering somehow entitles us to spread our suffering, even when that isn’t our intention.
When we’re in pain—whether it’s physical, emotional, or both—we naturally want to be seen. We want someone to understand. We speak about our diagnoses, our symptoms, our losses, hoping to find compassion.
Most people respond with the best of intentions. They meet our story with one of their own.
“You have migraines? I get headaches too.”
“Your joints hurt? Mine have been bothering me for years.”
This is often how humans communicate empathy. We reach for a shared experience and say, “You’re not alone.”
There is comfort in that. Feeling understood matters.
But there is also a subtle danger.
Pain asks for our attention. It doesn’t have to become our personality.
If every conversation circles back to our pain, our identity can begin to orbit around it. We stop relating to ourselves as a whole person who happens to be suffering and begin relating to ourselves primarily as someone who is suffering. Without realizing it, pain becomes the lens through which we interpret our lives.
I’ve noticed this occasionally in online support groups. Their purpose is a beautiful one: to remind us that we are not alone. Many people find genuine comfort, practical advice, and lasting friendships there.
Yet sometimes these spaces become little more than an exchange of symptoms. Each person contributes another story of exhaustion, another setback, another reason to lose hope. Compassion slowly shifts into collective despair.
No one intends this. Everyone is simply trying to be understood.
But if we never share how we continue living despite the pain—how we found a moment of beauty, laughed with a friend, created something meaningful, or simply made it through another difficult day—we can unintentionally reinforce the belief that pain is all there is.
Over time, this can cultivate a victim mindset. Victimhood is not the same as being a victim. Terrible things happen. Chronic illness is real. Grief is real. Trauma is real. There are seasons when we genuinely need support and care.
A victim mindset, however, is something different. It is the gradual belief that our suffering has become the defining truth of who we are. Once that identity takes hold, it can become difficult to imagine ourselves outside of it. Hope diminishes. Depression often follows. Ironically, our experience of suffering may deepen even further.
Compassion should never invite us to remain stuck. Its highest expression isn’t simply saying, “I hurt too.” It is also saying, “I know this road is hard, and I’m walking it with you. Life is still possible here.”
Pain is a doorway. Like any doorway, it leads somewhere. We don’t always get to choose whether we arrive at it, but we do have some influence over whether we remain standing in the threshold, retreat into the room of despair, or continue walking toward compassion, resilience, and a wider view of life.
Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer one another isn’t shared misery, but shared courage.
This isn’t about pretending we’re fine or refusing help. Hiding our pain is simply another kind of performance.
Instead, it’s about remembering that even in the midst of suffering, we retain agency. There is a quiet dignity in choosing not to let pain become the whole story of who we are.
I can’t choose
• whether a migraine arrives.
• whether endometriosis flares.
• whether my body cooperates today.But I often can choose
• how I speak to my husband.
• whether I pause before reacting.
• whether I notice something beautiful on the walk to my car.
• whether I allow pain to become my entire identity.That’s not toxic positivity. It’s agency.
The robin outside my office doesn’t stop singing because my head hurts. The goldenrod still flowers. The evening light still catches the leaves in the same way it did yesterday. The world gently reminds me that while pain is part of my experience, it is not the whole of reality.
I still have migraines. I still have endometriosis and lupus. Tomorrow may be another difficult day.
None of that is within my control.
But every morning I am offered a quieter choice.
Not whether I will suffer, but who I will be while I suffer.
Will pain become the story I tell the world?
Or will it simply be one part of the story of a life still capable of kindness, wonder, creativity, and love?
Pain may not be a choice. The way I meet the world often is.
If this reflection resonates with you, I’ve also recorded a guided meditation, Easing Pain: A Meditative Journey, that explores this practice more directly. It isn’t about pretending pain isn’t there or trying to force it away. Instead, it offers a gentle invitation to meet discomfort with awareness, kindness, and presence—perhaps discovering that even in difficult moments, there is still space to breathe, to soften, and to choose how we respond.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0aAbwS4h06BaL9GSyYlaQk?si=5e188abef1d74d47
#agency #awareness #compassion #healing #livingWithDiscomfort #livingWithPain #meditation #migraine #mindfulness -
World Cup was an L.A. public transit success. Can the Olympics dominate too? https://www.rawchili.com/5060357/ ##Metro #AGENCY #BackToBackEvent #Bus #City #FIFAWorldCup2026 #game #LA #LAPublicTransitSuccess #LosAngelesTimes #Olympics #people #Plan #traffic #TransitExpert #WorldCup #WorldCup2026
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Father of US teen school shooter sentenced to 15 years for providing gun
By Richard Luscombe and agencyColin Gray is the father of Colton, who was 14 when he opened fire at Apalachee high school in Georgia in 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/colin-gray-sentencing-shooting-georgia
#Georgiahighschoolshooting #Guncrime #USnews #UScrime #Georgia #LawUS #USjusticesystem #Law #TheGuardian #RichardLuscombe #agency
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https://www.lovenba.com/1794280/ NBA Offseason Winners & Losers #nba #AGENCY #CharlotteHornets #draft #EasternConference #EXPANSION #FANTASY #FREE #GM #LEAGUE #LIVE #MY #MYGM #NBA #NbaAnalysis #NBAARTICLES #NbaMockDraft #NBAOffseasonWinners&Losers#nba #NbaQuiz #NbaRankings #NBARANTS #NbaReaction #NBATIERLISTS #NbaTrades #OFFSEASON #series #SIGNINGS #sixringsofsteel #SoutheastDivision #SROS #trades
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The Federal Digital Ministry and Databund, the federation representing medium-sized IT service providers and software manufacturers for the public sector, have... https://news.osna.fm/?p=57375 | #news #accelerate #agency #digital #government
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The Federal Digital Ministry and Databund, the federation representing medium-sized IT service providers and software manufacturers for the public sector, have... https://news.osna.fm/?p=57375 | #news #accelerate #agency #digital #government
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How White-Label #WordPress #Reseller Hosting Supercharges Your Digital Agency’s Growth
Learn how white-label WordPress Reseller Hosting supercharges your digital agency's growth!
If you’re a WordPress-focused digital #agency juggling client projects, support, and site management, you know the technical backend can be a productivity killer. What if you could eliminate hosting headaches and create new revenue ...
Continued 👉 https://blog.radwebhosting.com/how-white-label-wordpress-reseller-hosting-supercharges-your-digital-agencys-growth/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon.social #whitelabel #resellerhosting -
Bullets that killed two at Seattle food festival do not match teen shooter’s gun, police say
By Uwa Ede-Osifo and agencyPolice link shooting to gang violence but have not said who might have fired bullets that killed bystanders on Sunday
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/29/seattle-food-festival-bullets-gun-police
#Seattle #USnews #Worldnews #Washingtonstate #WestCoast #TheGuardian #UwaEdeOsifo #agency
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How White-Label #WordPress #Reseller Hosting Supercharges Your Digital Agency’s Growth
Learn how white-label WordPress Reseller Hosting supercharges your digital agency's growth!
If you’re a WordPress-focused digital #agency juggling client ...
Continued 👉 #whitelabel #resellerhosting
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At the heart of the pursuit for AGI lies a single question: What is conscious agency and how is it created?
https://athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/why-agi-is-impossible
#AI #AGI #Singularity #Consciousness #Agency #Biology #Evolution
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At the heart of the pursuit for AGI lies a single question: What is conscious agency and how is it created?
https://athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/why-agi-is-impossible
#AI #AGI #Singularity #Consciousness #Agency #Biology #Evolution
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How White-Label #WordPress #Reseller Hosting Supercharges Your Digital Agency’s Growth
Learn how white-label WordPress Reseller Hosting supercharges your digital agency's growth!
If you’re a WordPress-focused digital #agency juggling client projects, support, and site management, you know the technical backend can be a productivity killer. What if you could eliminate hosting headaches and create new revenue ...
Continued 👉 https://blog.radwebhosting.com/how-white-label-wordpress-reseller-hosting-supercharges-your-digital-agencys-growth/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon.raddemo.host #resellerhosting #whitelabel -
How White-Label #WordPress #Reseller Hosting Supercharges Your Digital Agency’s Growth
Learn how white-label WordPress Reseller Hosting supercharges your digital agency's growth!
If you’re a WordPress-focused digital #agency juggling client projects, support, and site management, you know the technical backend can be a productivity killer. What if you could eliminate hosting headaches and create new revenue ...
Continued 👉 https://blog.radwebhosting.com/how-white-label-wordpress-reseller-hosting-supercharges-your-digital-agencys-growth/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon.raddemo.host #resellerhosting #whitelabel -
💻 The BIC Village Capture the Flag (CTF) is your opportunity to tackle real-world cybersecurity challenges, sharpen your technical skills, and compete alongside fellow students, professionals and enthusiasts during DEF CON 34!
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💻 The BIC Village Capture the Flag (CTF) is your opportunity to tackle real-world cybersecurity challenges, sharpen your technical skills, and compete alongside fellow students, professionals and enthusiasts during DEF CON 34!
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💻 The BIC Village Capture the Flag (CTF) is your opportunity to tackle real-world cybersecurity challenges, sharpen your technical skills, and compete alongside fellow students, professionals and enthusiasts during DEF CON 34!
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💻 The BIC Village Capture the Flag (CTF) is your opportunity to tackle real-world cybersecurity challenges, sharpen your technical skills, and compete alongside fellow students, professionals and enthusiasts during DEF CON 34!
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Oh, look! 🎉 Another day, another flying toy bites the dust in Romania's "no drone" zone! Meanwhile, the Cyber Defense #Agency is so high-tech they've managed to block their own website. 🙈 Well played, Romania! 👏
https://english.mapn.ro/ #flyingtoys #Romania #CyberDefense #techfails #drones #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh, look! 🎉 Another day, another flying toy bites the dust in Romania's "no drone" zone! Meanwhile, the Cyber Defense #Agency is so high-tech they've managed to block their own website. 🙈 Well played, Romania! 👏
https://english.mapn.ro/ #flyingtoys #Romania #CyberDefense #techfails #drones #HackerNews #ngated -
🕊️ There's a place for you at BIC Village. Come learn, connect, and make this DEF CON one to remember. Ready to make #DEFCON34 your own? Help BIC Village celebrate this year's theme "Agency"!
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🕊️ There's a place for you at BIC Village. Come learn, connect, and make this DEF CON one to remember. Ready to make #DEFCON34 your own? Help BIC Village celebrate this year's theme "Agency"!
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🕊️ There's a place for you at BIC Village. Come learn, connect, and make this DEF CON one to remember. Ready to make #DEFCON34 your own? Help BIC Village celebrate this year's theme "Agency"!
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🕊️ There's a place for you at BIC Village. Come learn, connect, and make this DEF CON one to remember. Ready to make #DEFCON34 your own? Help BIC Village celebrate this year's theme "Agency"!
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“It’s important for all #leaders in society, whether religious or otherwise, to be thinking about these questions, and how to ultimately protect #human #agency at a time when #SiliconValley is threatening it.” www.bloomberg.com/features/202... 🎁🔗
Karen Hao: AI Doesn't Have to ... -
Georgia school shooter handed victims’ families ‘life sentence of trauma’, court hears
By Richard Luscombe and agencyColt Gray, who was 14 at time of attack on Apalachee high school, admits 55 charges including four counts of murder
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/apalachee-school-shooter-sentencing-hearing
#Georgia #USnews #UScrime #TheGuardian #RichardLuscombe #agency
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11 people indicted over deaths of six people in cargo container in Texas
By Guardian staff and agencySix migrants from Honduras and Mexico – including 14-year-old boy – were found dead in May near US-Mexico border
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/texas-migrant-deaths-indictment
#Texas #UScrime #USMexicoborder #USimmigration #USnews #TheGuardian #Guardianstaff #agency
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Police officer fatally shoots man in Madison, Wisconsin, sparking protests
By Roque Planas and agencyShooting happened on street in popular neighborhood lined with restaurants, bars, shops and homes
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/22/madison-wisconsin-police-shooting
#Wisconsin #USpolicing #USnews #TheGuardian #RoquePlanas #agency
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NASA to Showcase Agency’s Newest Wind Tunnel in Virginia
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=nasa-to-showcase-agencys-newest-wind-tunnel-in-virginia
<p>Media are invited to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton
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NASA to Showcase Agency’s Newest Wind Tunnel in Virginia
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=nasa-to-showcase-agencys-newest-wind-tunnel-in-virginia
<p>Media are invited to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton
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This is the heart of the BULLSHIT right here. The minute we let him get away with claims of "acted on its own", is the minute humanity give up on itself.
#AI is not a person. It has no #sentience #morality or #agency , at least no more than was given to it by its creators and operators.
PEOPLE are responsible for their ACTIONS, regardless of the TOOLS they employed.
Call them out and HOLD THEM RESPONSIBLE.
https://apnews.com/article/openai-gpt56-sol-hugging-face-63ab84fed5612af04d8a160d60f6def3 -
This is the heart of the BULLSHIT right here. The minute we let him get away with claims of "acted on its own", is the minute humanity give up on itself.
#AI is not a person. It has no #sentience #morality or #agency , at least no more than was given to it by its creators and operators.
PEOPLE are responsible for their ACTIONS, regardless of the TOOLS they employed.
Call them out and HOLD THEM RESPONSIBLE.
https://apnews.com/article/openai-gpt56-sol-hugging-face-63ab84fed5612af04d8a160d60f6def3 -
Treasury Wine Estates and Social Soup launch House of Winefluence Australia’s first always-on wine creator academy
Social Soup, Australia and …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Australianwine #Agency #Australia #brands #HouseofWinefluence #innovation #SocialSoup #TreasuryWineEstates #Wine #winecreatoracademy #WinefromAustralia #WineofAustralia
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2737005/treasury-wine-estates-and-social-soup-launch-house-of-winefluence-australias-first-always-on-wine-creator-academy/ -
Treasury Wine Estates and Social Soup launch House of Winefluence Australia’s first always-on wine creator academy
Social Soup, Australia and …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Australianwine #Agency #Australia #brands #HouseofWinefluence #innovation #SocialSoup #TreasuryWineEstates #Wine #winecreatoracademy #WinefromAustralia #WineofAustralia
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2737005/treasury-wine-estates-and-social-soup-launch-house-of-winefluence-australias-first-always-on-wine-creator-academy/ -
Treasury Wine Estates and Social Soup launch House of Winefluence Australia’s first always-on wine creator academy https://www.diningandcooking.com/2737005/treasury-wine-estates-and-social-soup-launch-house-of-winefluence-australias-first-always-on-wine-creator-academy/ #Agency #Australia #AustralianWine #brands #HouseOfWinefluence #innovation #SocialSoup #TreasuryWineEstates #Wine #WineCreatorAcademy #WineFromAustralia #WineOfAustralia
