#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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The kindest hands aren't the ones trying to stop time; they're the ones that know every living thing is only ever passing through them.
Further reading:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/a-waking-dream-43fbf5c25327#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #JoannaMacy #Belonging #Reckoning
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The kindest hands aren't the ones trying to stop time; they're the ones that know every living thing is only ever passing through them.
Further reading:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/a-waking-dream-43fbf5c25327#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #JoannaMacy #Belonging #Reckoning
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The kindest hands aren't the ones trying to stop time; they're the ones that know every living thing is only ever passing through them.
Further reading:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/a-waking-dream-43fbf5c25327#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #JoannaMacy #Belonging #Reckoning
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The kindest hands aren't the ones trying to stop time; they're the ones that know every living thing is only ever passing through them.
Further reading:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/a-waking-dream-43fbf5c25327#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #JoannaMacy #Belonging #Reckoning
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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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Light for My Path (Christian Music) = Share in the joy ❤️ of this new worship song! - #God #Jesus #TheLord #Praise #ChristianMusic #Bible #Music #Song #Faith #Hope #Trust #Light #Path #Guidance #Strength #Journey #Purpose #Truth #Love #Devotion #Praise #Worship #Discipleship #InnerPeace #SpiritualGrowth #Community #Unity #Belonging #Transformation #Uplift #Grace #Mercy #Salvation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WI3kWyEhp8
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Rise in Grace (Christian Music) = Worship the Lord 🎼 with this new Christian release! - #God #Jesus #TheLord #Praise #ChristianMusic #Bible #Music #Song #Faith #Grace #Strength #YoungChristians #Church #Love #Community #Prayer #Worship #Hope #Bible #Spiritual #Inspiration #Fellowship #Blessing #Joyful #Purpose #Christianity #Peace #Devotion #Trust #Salvation #Growth #Belonging #Encouragement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzEzOa8weDA
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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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Social cohesion and gritted-teeth tolerance
"In 2022, for the first time in decades, the government commissioned a review of multiculturalism, Towards Fairness. It found Australia had muddled on, but squandered its world-leading status and recommended the government create a minister, a permanent commission and department for multiculturalism. Labor MP Dr Anne Aly was appointed multicultural affairs minister in 2025."
She delivered a powerful speech last November:
"Aly declared it was time to end “the conditional form of multiculturalism, that kind of gritted-teeth tolerance that,
'You are welcome here as long as your food tastes good,
your celebrations are colourful, and
your music is present to the ears.’"
"But any questioning, any speaking out, any disruptive participation in any practice of citizenship will not be tolerated. Instead, acts of citizenship afforded to the broader community are viewed as acts of defiance when performed by the other and are met with cries of, ‘Go back to where you came from,’ and ‘Love Australia or leave it.’ " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/mar/23/social-cohesion-meaning-has-lost-feelgood-vibeFull speech: Reimagining Multiculturalism in Australia, The Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, Minister for Small Business, Minister for International Development, and Minister for Multicultural Affairs 2025 >>
https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/anne-aly-2025#SocialCohesion #ethnonationalism #Anglosphere #SettlerSociety #mainstream #belonging #diversity #IndigenousPeoples #CALD #hate #racism #silencing #culture #entertainment #SongAndDance #ScarilyDiverse #representation #participation #Australia #culture
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Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia
"We are a perennially anxious nation, seemingly unable to come to terms with the reality of our geographic position. We reflexively identify with faraway members of the Anglosphere, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. But even more consequentially, we outsource responsibility for our foreign and security policy to one great and powerful friend or another. "
Others "view us as an appendage of America’s grand strategy, with little capacity for independent thought, much less action...This may spare our policymakers from the challenge of thinking independently. >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-strategic-infantilisation-by-the-us-is-undermining-our-security-in-asia-278068
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #belonging #Anglosphere #anxiety #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny -
JUN-KAN PERMACULTURE IS ON A MISSION OF REPAIR
Just off Notre-Dame Rd. in Petersburg, Ontario is the Jun-kan Permaculture Garden. The garden sits on one of 20 acres in the Petersburg Community Garden, and volunteers tend permaculture food forests and annual vegetable terraces.
The garden was started in 2022 when the land’s owner, Daryl Dore decided he no longer wanted to rent his fields to cash-cropping commercial farmers. Dore contacted Doug Jones of the Waterloo Regional Community Garden Network and proposed that his land be available to individuals, especially new Canadians.
While the proposal was eagerly accepted, years of cash cropping and heavy pesticide use had left the soil damaged.
“In a word, this soil was dead. And poisoned,” Barbara Hankins, one of Jun-kan’s volunteers, said.
Permaculture gardening operates on the basis of symbiosis and diversity. A wide array of individual species are planted in cooperative guilds to work in concert with each other and the environment. Together, they thrive and improve the quality of the land they are growing on.
This is where the name Jun-kan comes from. The garden’s website explains, it is a Japanese word that translates roughly to “the universe,” or “the cycle of life”. In accordance with the principles of permaculture, Jun-kan’s first step was to plant swaths of five distinct cover crops: clover, alfalfa, buckwheat, field peas, and rye. Quickly, the earth began to heal and the gardeners started producing food, still with permaculture in mind.
“[We ask ourselves,] ‘what does the ground need? What do the plants need? How can I give to them because they are giving to me?’,” Hankins said.
In turn, the land gives back to its farmers, not just in food, but in a more existential way as well. This is especially helpful at Jun-kan, where many of the volunteers are new Canadians and do not own their own land. People are given the opportunity to form a relationship with the land they may not otherwise have been able to. This is crucial for a sense of belonging.
“This garden supports a huge diversity of growers from around the world, and it’s nourishing to see how the diversity of culturally relevant foods, approaches, skills, stories…the diversity enhances our resilience as a community of gardeners,” Nikola Barsoum, one of Jun-kan’s founding volunteers, said.
The ethos of repair and repurposing extends beyond physical gardening and the dignity of the volunteers as well. In 2023, ongoing war in Lebanon put Hankins’ family in danger, and here in KW, her house burned down. The garden provided the family with relief, repairing them in the wake of the tragedies. The bricks from their home were salvaged and used to cobble Jun-kan’s community fire pit.
“We went through so much that year. This was my therapy. Coming out here, and just being with the land, with the earth, with the butterflies, and feeding the insects and the birds… Watching things grow is very therapeutic,” Hankins said.
Restoring the land, offering a dignified community for newcomers and a sanctuary for its volunteers, Jun-Kan is on a mission of repair. For more information, the garden can be found on Instagram @junkanpermaculture, or on their website.
#agriculture #BarbaraHankins #belonging #dougJones #Gardening #junKan #nikolaBarsoum #Ontario #permaculture #Petersburg #RandyMoore #waterlooRegionalCommunityGarden #ZackMason
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Hello #Mastodon! I too have undergone my #TwitterMigration. Thrilled to be here - and still there too. Me: Scientist, Executive, NED | Director, STEM Careers Strategy, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering | Cofounder, Women in STEMM Australia | at the interface of industry, academia, education, government | She/Her #ElevateSTEM #IMNIS #STELR #STEMCareers #womeninSTEM #womeninSTEMM #Diversity #Inclusion #Belonging #Allyship 👋🏻👋🏾👋🏼