#captainawkward — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #captainawkward, aggregated by home.social.
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"Your plan to tell the server “Hi, I’d like to be on my own check please” at the start of any group dining experience is the least awkward or complicated way to go in my opinion
" Your job is not to fix everyone’s feelings or reset their expectations about how this should work. Your job is to keep doing what you know works for you. "
#1448: “Paying the check when you are the Dinner Puritan.” – CaptainAwkward.com
https://captainawkward.com/2024/11/11/1448-paying-the-check-when-you-are-the-dinner-puritan/
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CW: Captain Awkward quote
"If quiet quitting The Holidays™ Industrial Complex feels like self-care or best way to honor your own integrity and peace, you’ll get no arguments from me, this year or any other year. If you want to show up to be in solidarity with others who can’t opt out, or because you want to leave the door open for things to be different someday, or because you’re one of the many people who needs to camouflage for your own safety, I have only love to offer you."
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Captain Awkward has a post up on navigating family relationships when people in your family voted against your rights.
How to extricate yourself from plans you don't wanna do any more? How to survive family gatherings if for some reason you do need to be there?
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Captain Awkward on using "weird" in a derogatory way to describe fascism (and two other nuanced ways we use "weird"), and great tactical advice on not engaging because it feeds the beast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108872534
#politics #weird #WeirdPride #CaptainAwkward #fascism #fascists #WordsMatter #words #weirdness
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"Be polite when forced to encounter them, but stop making extra effort to fit in or minimize your own discomfort.
"My social skills, such as they are, improved 1000 percent once I stopped trying to fit in with people who just weren’t interested in the same stuff as me and when I stopped trying to get people who radiated indifference or dislike to stick around in my life.
"Turns out, the more I like where I am and who I’m with, the more likable I am."
https://captainawkward.com/2024/07/01/1435-friendship-after-work/
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CW: making friends / Captain Awkward
Captain Awkward's latest post is rather lovely - good advice for making friends!
"stop making extra effort to fit in or minimize your own discomfort... My social skills, such as they are, improved 1000 percent once I stopped trying to fit in with people who just weren’t interested in the same stuff as me... Turns out, the more I like where I am and who I’m with, the more likable I am."
https://captainawkward.com/2024/07/01/1435-friendship-after-work/
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"What are the best lessons you've learned from Captain Awkward?
"1. l can survive people being mad at me. 2. Having good boundaries is mostly really boring internal work. 3. Setting boundaries very rarely involves saying the words "boundaries" out loud. 4. If Reasons are for reasonable people."
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CW: Captain Awkward being insightful as usual
inc a story about how her brother used to wind her up & get her into trouble...
https://captainawkward.com/2024/03/22/1424-my-sister-shouts-at-her-boyfriend-and-i-hate-it/