#belonging — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #belonging, aggregated by home.social.
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You notice you're part of a harmony when another voice enters and everything rearranges.
Further reading: https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/your-self-care-action-items-f1c98bcedca6
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When somebody says to you that they like you, will you ghost them if you do not like them?
#dating #socialpressures #livedexperience #poll #reflections #boundaries #neurodiversity #mentalhealth #vulnerability #selfworth #belonging #solitude #relationships
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Past relationships taught me that...
#dating #socialpressures #livedexperience #poll #reflections #boundaries #neurodiversity #mentalhealth #vulnerability #selfworth #belonging #solitude #relationships
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I am considering ceasing to pursue dating, as I feel that the societal message suggests I should not attempt it.
#dating #socialpressures #livedexperience #poll #reflections #boundaries #neurodiversity #mentalhealth #vulnerability #selfworth #belonging #solitude #relationships
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A body learning to walk without armour begins noticing things certainty tended to hurry past, until even the unfamiliar starts feeling less like a threat than an invitation to pay closer attention.
Further reading:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/a-waking-dream-43fbf5c25327#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #MasanobuFukuoka #Belonging #LivingSystems
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry
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The new uncomfortable normality
No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience (report): National security starts at the front door – not at the territorial borders."For most Australians, the 18-month research project revealed, national security starts at their front door – not at the territorial borders of the island continent. It showed they are worried the country is not prepared for the demands of a volatile 21st century in a polluted information ecosystem, where the rules-based international order is crumbling, economic precarity has become uncomfortably normal and trust is more fragile." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/29/surging-anxiety-australia-national-security-patriotism-ntwnfbReport: No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience >>
https://nsc.anu.edu.au/research/no-worries-australian-attitudes-national-security-risk-and-resilience#PublicAnxiety #anxiety #Australia #worries #trust #precarity #inequality #polycrisis #instability #safety #stability #participation #SocialIntegration #FarRight #SocialCohesion #belonging #HyperIndIvidualisation #UncomfortableNormality #climate #NationalSecurity #war
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Americana meets the Aussie bush
Trying to get some bread in a cafe on Bellingen's main drag. Once the obstacle course of the packs of dogs on extendable leads are overcome it is time for waiting in a long queue on a Saturday. Many hipster families are there to have breakfast done for them.
One set was showcasing their three toddlers in a full 'American Western-inspired aesthetic', cowboy hats and boots. Mum had that Instagrammable ‘Mar-a-Lago face’.
Wide-brimmed hats are ideal to protect oneself from Australia's sun, but this was in the comfort zone of a cafe.
The "cowboy core" aesthetic facade harks back to the wide‑open‑spaces where cattle-herders (cowboys, stockmen/ringers) managed grazing livestock, for the pastoral industry, particularly in the Australian outback or American Western frontier.
Already in the 16th century, the Conquistadors and other Spanish settlers brought their cattle-raising traditions to Mexico and Florida.
The Western portrayed the cowboy as an enduring cultural figure representing freedom.
So why are these urban folks from the suburbs running around in 'costumes' looking like pastoralist workers from a mythical past? What 'sense of belonging' do they buy?
Maybe the fashionable habitus points to a vibe shift of the wannabe cowboys expressing preemptive subordination or imperial obsequiousness?
The rise of cowboy core: What's behind it.>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/dr-karl-how-things-work-cowboy-core-fashion/106336574Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/mar-a-lago-face-plastic-surgeryImage :
In 1859 European wild rabbits were introduced into Australia so they could be hunted for sport. Now hats are made out of some of the invasive species.
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/rabbits-introduced#cowboys #pastoralism #SettlerSociety #fashion #WesternWear #CattleHerders #belonging #Bellingen #culture #MiddlePowers #subordination #RupturedGlobalOrder #BellingenObservations
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New Thinkydoers episode today:
For the quiet ones, the deep thinkers, and the socially anxious — this one’s for you.This week, I’m joined by community strategist Carrie Melissa Jones for a conversation that flips the script on what it means to "belong."
We talk about creating spaces for connection that don’t require you to perform, show up constantly, or play pretend at extroversion.
#Thinkydoers #Podcast #QuietCommunity #Belonging #IntrovertLife #Introversion
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“A negative #perception of atheists and #pressure from #family and peers may also cause some atheists to #disassociate themselves from atheism. #Misunderstanding of the term may also be a reason some label themselves differently.”