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  1. We Didn’t Get Ruder—We Just Stopped Noticing Each Other: A Pagan View of Everyday Harm

    Rudeness isn’t just bad manners—it’s a breakdown in how we relate to each other and the spaces we share. From everyday frustrations to deeper disconnection, this piece explores how awareness—not rules—can restore balance in modern life.

    pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/

  2. We Didn’t Get Ruder—We Just Stopped Noticing Each Other: A Pagan View of Everyday Harm

    Rudeness isn’t just bad manners—it’s a breakdown in how we relate to each other and the spaces we share. From everyday frustrations to deeper disconnection, this piece explores how awareness—not rules—can restore balance in modern life.

    pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/

  3. We Didn’t Get Ruder—We Just Stopped Noticing Each Other: A Pagan View of Everyday Harm

    Rudeness isn’t just bad manners—it’s a breakdown in how we relate to each other and the spaces we share. From everyday frustrations to deeper disconnection, this piece explores how awareness—not rules—can restore balance in modern life.

    pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/

  4. We Didn’t Get Ruder—We Just Stopped Noticing Each Other: A Pagan View of Everyday Harm

    Rudeness isn’t just bad manners—it’s a breakdown in how we relate to each other and the spaces we share. From everyday frustrations to deeper disconnection, this piece explores how awareness—not rules—can restore balance in modern life.

    pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/

  5. We Didn’t Get Ruder—We Just Stopped Noticing Each Other: A Pagan View of Everyday Harm

    Rudeness isn’t just bad manners—it’s a breakdown in how we relate to each other and the spaces we share. From everyday frustrations to deeper disconnection, this piece explores how awareness—not rules—can restore balance in modern life.

    pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/

  6. I don't know for sure but I think I just lost a #friend over being too #forgiving in the moment.

    Sorry not sorry. I don't stand for what I can't #become as such.

    I do what I can to #embrace all #people who #appreciate who I am. It's all I can do, and if that #means my #contribution towards #friendships isn't meant to #last then so #be it. But if it does, they're really #rare and I #cherish them because they're very easy to #lose over #something you thought you could #understand at the time.

    I'll #say this.

    All #echo #chambers are the #primary #reason as to why a #friendship falls apart. Because I've seen this #effect everyone to the point of no #return possible, and honestly...you can't get along with people who spend more of their #time invested into something other than what you are doing with that person together. And I don't think I'm alone in wishing that at times, such an #investment cultivates #familiarity over #routine on a continuous basis.

    But you know what? I still appreciate the chance to #care for all it is #worth as such. I do my best to live #life with no #regrets to count on #growing without me there to #manage them.

    It's my own #fault for putting a bit of my #soul into everything I do alongside my #heart and #mind accordingly. And as afar as I #know there's no #changing that, at least in a very easy way.

    If you ever truly #need #friends by your side, you'll know whether they're people you can #count on or not, by the way they #treat your #ambitions as an #individual person.

    You can still #respect someone if they do not #acknowledge that you have any. But the chances of you becoming #close, are not as great.

    With that being said, you do not need to #support the same #ambition someone else does, in order to be friends. You just need to set your #ego aside so that such a person can fulfill their #desire the best way they know how to.

    That's what I do, and I carry a lot of #weight because of it. All of the #memories set aside because the soul wasn't ready to let go of the ones #entrapping their #conscious #focus throughout seemingly more #important issues outside of my #control in all of the #moments they last.

    Putting my best #self forward, means respecting that and not forcing the #matter at hand. It doesn't make that #feeling go away, born of lost #opportunity at the #core of #potential #reciprocity as such.

    But yes #indeed I know #hope is not so easily broken by #fragile #futility alone. Which is why I continue to #forgive but not #forget all of the ways life makes a different #path #unfold into #being by the #presence of #purpose for everyone.

  7. I don't know for sure but I think I just lost a #friend over being too #forgiving in the moment.

    Sorry not sorry. I don't stand for what I can't #become as such.

    I do what I can to #embrace all #people who #appreciate who I am. It's all I can do, and if that #means my #contribution towards #friendships isn't meant to #last then so #be it. But if it does, they're really #rare and I #cherish them because they're very easy to #lose over #something you thought you could #understand at the time.

    I'll #say this.

    All #echo #chambers are the #primary #reason as to why a #friendship falls apart. Because I've seen this #effect everyone to the point of no #return possible, and honestly...you can't get along with people who spend more of their #time invested into something other than what you are doing with that person together. And I don't think I'm alone in wishing that at times, such an #investment cultivates #familiarity over #routine on a continuous basis.

    But you know what? I still appreciate the chance to #care for all it is #worth as such. I do my best to live #life with no #regrets to count on #growing without me there to #manage them.

    It's my own #fault for putting a bit of my #soul into everything I do alongside my #heart and #mind accordingly. And as afar as I #know there's no #changing that, at least in a very easy way.

    If you ever truly #need #friends by your side, you'll know whether they're people you can #count on or not, by the way they #treat your #ambitions as an #individual person.

    You can still #respect someone if they do not #acknowledge that you have any. But the chances of you becoming #close, are not as great.

    With that being said, you do not need to #support the same #ambition someone else does, in order to be friends. You just need to set your #ego aside so that such a person can fulfill their #desire the best way they know how to.

    That's what I do, and I carry a lot of #weight because of it. All of the #memories set aside because the soul wasn't ready to let go of the ones #entrapping their #conscious #focus throughout seemingly more #important issues outside of my #control in all of the #moments they last.

    Putting my best #self forward, means respecting that and not forcing the #matter at hand. It doesn't make that #feeling go away, born of lost #opportunity at the #core of #potential #reciprocity as such.

    But yes #indeed I know #hope is not so easily broken by #fragile #futility alone. Which is why I continue to #forgive but not #forget all of the ways life makes a different #path #unfold into #being by the #presence of #purpose for everyone.

  8. I don't know for sure but I think I just lost a #friend over being too #forgiving in the moment.

    Sorry not sorry. I don't stand for what I can't #become as such.

    I do what I can to #embrace all #people who #appreciate who I am. It's all I can do, and if that #means my #contribution towards #friendships isn't meant to #last then so #be it. But if it does, they're really #rare and I #cherish them because they're very easy to #lose over #something you thought you could #understand at the time.

    I'll #say this.

    All #echo #chambers are the #primary #reason as to why a #friendship falls apart. Because I've seen this #effect everyone to the point of no #return possible, and honestly...you can't get along with people who spend more of their #time invested into something other than what you are doing with that person together. And I don't think I'm alone in wishing that at times, such an #investment cultivates #familiarity over #routine on a continuous basis.

    But you know what? I still appreciate the chance to #care for all it is #worth as such. I do my best to live #life with no #regrets to count on #growing without me there to #manage them.

    It's my own #fault for putting a bit of my #soul into everything I do alongside my #heart and #mind accordingly. And as afar as I #know there's no #changing that, at least in a very easy way.

    If you ever truly #need #friends by your side, you'll know whether they're people you can #count on or not, by the way they #treat your #ambitions as an #individual person.

    You can still #respect someone if they do not #acknowledge that you have any. But the chances of you becoming #close, are not as great.

    With that being said, you do not need to #support the same #ambition someone else does, in order to be friends. You just need to set your #ego aside so that such a person can fulfill their #desire the best way they know how to.

    That's what I do, and I carry a lot of #weight because of it. All of the #memories set aside because the soul wasn't ready to let go of the ones #entrapping their #conscious #focus throughout seemingly more #important issues outside of my #control in all of the #moments they last.

    Putting my best #self forward, means respecting that and not forcing the #matter at hand. It doesn't make that #feeling go away, born of lost #opportunity at the #core of #potential #reciprocity as such.

    But yes #indeed I know #hope is not so easily broken by #fragile #futility alone. Which is why I continue to #forgive but not #forget all of the ways life makes a different #path #unfold into #being by the #presence of #purpose for everyone.

  9. I don't know for sure but I think I just lost a #friend over being too #forgiving in the moment.

    Sorry not sorry. I don't stand for what I can't #become as such.

    I do what I can to #embrace all #people who #appreciate who I am. It's all I can do, and if that #means my #contribution towards #friendships isn't meant to #last then so #be it. But if it does, they're really #rare and I #cherish them because they're very easy to #lose over #something you thought you could #understand at the time.

    I'll #say this.

    All #echo #chambers are the #primary #reason as to why a #friendship falls apart. Because I've seen this #effect everyone to the point of no #return possible, and honestly...you can't get along with people who spend more of their #time invested into something other than what you are doing with that person together. And I don't think I'm alone in wishing that at times, such an #investment cultivates #familiarity over #routine on a continuous basis.

    But you know what? I still appreciate the chance to #care for all it is #worth as such. I do my best to live #life with no #regrets to count on #growing without me there to #manage them.

    It's my own #fault for putting a bit of my #soul into everything I do alongside my #heart and #mind accordingly. And as afar as I #know there's no #changing that, at least in a very easy way.

    If you ever truly #need #friends by your side, you'll know whether they're people you can #count on or not, by the way they #treat your #ambitions as an #individual person.

    You can still #respect someone if they do not #acknowledge that you have any. But the chances of you becoming #close, are not as great.

    With that being said, you do not need to #support the same #ambition someone else does, in order to be friends. You just need to set your #ego aside so that such a person can fulfill their #desire the best way they know how to.

    That's what I do, and I carry a lot of #weight because of it. All of the #memories set aside because the soul wasn't ready to let go of the ones #entrapping their #conscious #focus throughout seemingly more #important issues outside of my #control in all of the #moments they last.

    Putting my best #self forward, means respecting that and not forcing the #matter at hand. It doesn't make that #feeling go away, born of lost #opportunity at the #core of #potential #reciprocity as such.

    But yes #indeed I know #hope is not so easily broken by #fragile #futility alone. Which is why I continue to #forgive but not #forget all of the ways life makes a different #path #unfold into #being by the #presence of #purpose for everyone.

  10. I don't know for sure but I think I just lost a #friend over being too #forgiving in the moment.

    Sorry not sorry. I don't stand for what I can't #become as such.

    I do what I can to #embrace all #people who #appreciate who I am. It's all I can do, and if that #means my #contribution towards #friendships isn't meant to #last then so #be it. But if it does, they're really #rare and I #cherish them because they're very easy to #lose over #something you thought you could #understand at the time.

    I'll #say this.

    All #echo #chambers are the #primary #reason as to why a #friendship falls apart. Because I've seen this #effect everyone to the point of no #return possible, and honestly...you can't get along with people who spend more of their #time invested into something other than what you are doing with that person together. And I don't think I'm alone in wishing that at times, such an #investment cultivates #familiarity over #routine on a continuous basis.

    But you know what? I still appreciate the chance to #care for all it is #worth as such. I do my best to live #life with no #regrets to count on #growing without me there to #manage them.

    It's my own #fault for putting a bit of my #soul into everything I do alongside my #heart and #mind accordingly. And as afar as I #know there's no #changing that, at least in a very easy way.

    If you ever truly #need #friends by your side, you'll know whether they're people you can #count on or not, by the way they #treat your #ambitions as an #individual person.

    You can still #respect someone if they do not #acknowledge that you have any. But the chances of you becoming #close, are not as great.

    With that being said, you do not need to #support the same #ambition someone else does, in order to be friends. You just need to set your #ego aside so that such a person can fulfill their #desire the best way they know how to.

    That's what I do, and I carry a lot of #weight because of it. All of the #memories set aside because the soul wasn't ready to let go of the ones #entrapping their #conscious #focus throughout seemingly more #important issues outside of my #control in all of the #moments they last.

    Putting my best #self forward, means respecting that and not forcing the #matter at hand. It doesn't make that #feeling go away, born of lost #opportunity at the #core of #potential #reciprocity as such.

    But yes #indeed I know #hope is not so easily broken by #fragile #futility alone. Which is why I continue to #forgive but not #forget all of the ways life makes a different #path #unfold into #being by the #presence of #purpose for everyone.

  11. Reciprocity? If Americans can live freely in parts of Europe, shouldn’t Europeans expect fair access too? Equal treatment shouldn’t stop at the border. #Reciprocity #Transatlantic #Fairness #VisaPolicy #EU #USA #Equality

  12. I love changing my #perspective by slipping into the most impossible roles. It helps me see everyday things with new eyes. When I became this cute little green #alien, this is the result:

    🐸 a downloadable mini #zine as #HowTo #shift your perspective: ko-fi.com/s/700d3d3138

    🌱 a photo reportage about a #space #moss #expedition: steady.page/en/naturematchcuts

    🐸 more infos about #zines and how to fold them: cronenburg.net/zines/

    #reciprocity #natureWriting #nature #solarpunk #cartoon #education

  13. Distressed friend demands help: Even support systems need clear boundaries. Demanding emotional labour without consent violates the Principle of Reciprocity and drains energy. We move from Corrupted Code (Force) to Clean Code (Power).

    Scenario: A friend is in crisis and demands immediate emotional support late at night, despite repeated hints the recipient is busy. The friend replies:

    ❌ Corrupted Code (Force):
    "I need to talk right now, I'm having a crisis. Just drop what you're doing, I can't handle this alone." (Demands immediate, non-consensual labor, ignoring the recipient's boundaries.)

    ✅ Clean Code (Power):
    "I'm having a crisis and need support. Are you in a good space to talk for a few minutes now? If not, please let me know when might work for you tomorrow." (Asks for consent; respects the recipient's agency and energy.)

    The difference? The second message respects the recipient’s energy system. What boundary can you clearly state today?

    #SystemsLeadership #EmotionalLabor #Reciprocity #CleanCode

  14. I am considering this option in my life: the ability for people to pay me money, in return for my opinions and understandings. I believe this is part of the attention economy and the information and data economy, where engagement must be reciprocal and mutually beneficial. It seems that my attention and understanding are not yet widely sought after, so it makes sense to implement this.

    #attentioneconomy #informationeconomy #monetisation #opinion #value #data #reciprocity #business #strategy

  15. RE: mastodon.social/@Toadlyturtle/

    Can we stop seeing #MutualAid as #transactional please? #Reciprocal yes, transactional no. And we must allow that #reciprocity isn't always direct. Otherwise, are we not simply uplifting #capitalist paradigms of #hierarchical value?

    I keep seeing trends wherein those in pain, grieving or ill get dropped.

    I know that I haven't uplifted as much, while ill and grieving and in many ways never have enough, but my loved ones are in danger and they need uplifted. Please!!

  16. Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 102: Teaching about Food Studies

    rss.com/podcasts/digesting-foo

    Learning about food and food systems goes way beyond classroom lectures, involving #power and #justice, #reciprocity and #listening, getting your hands into #soil and getting your heart in a roil. It’s a full mind-body experience!

    This episode features Jennifer Sumner and Michael Classens, two leaders in critical teaching and learning about food systems—and guest editors of the Food Pedagogies issue of Canadian Food Studies (Vol. 8 No. 4)… Alexia Moyer explores the kinds of school environments that support food learning before post-secondary education, and in the “After Taste,” Eric Schofield responds to “Toward a Common Understanding of Food Literacy,” by Kimberley Hernandez, Doris Gillis, Kathleen Kevany, and Sara Kirk.

    #DigestingFoodStudies
    #Pedagogy
    #TeachingAndLearning
    #SchoolGardens
    #Education
    #FoodLiteracy
    #FoodPodcast
    #FoodSystems
    #PaoloFreire
    #FoodJustice

    image: Lucy Godoy

  17. A quotation from The Bible

    If you love only the people who love you, why should you receive a blessing? Even sinners love those who love them! And if you do good only to those who do good to you, why should you receive a blessing? Even sinners do that!
     
    [καὶ εἰ ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας ὑμᾶς, ποία ὑμῖν χάρις ἐστίν; καὶ γὰρ οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ τοὺς ἀγαπῶντας αὐτοὺς ἀγαπῶσιν. καὶ [γὰρ] ἐὰν ἀγαθοποιῆτε τοὺς ἀγαθοποιοῦντας ὑμᾶς, ποία ὑμῖν χάρις ἐστίν; καὶ οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ποιοῦσιν.]

    The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
    Luke 6: 32-33 (Jesus) [GNT (1992 ed.)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/78599/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #doinggood #generosity #love #loveyourenemy
    #loveyourneighbor #quidproquo #reciprocity #transaction #virtue

  18. A quotation from The Bible

    Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
     
    [Πάντα οὖν ὅσα ἐὰν θέλητε ἵνα ποιῶσιν ὑμῖν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς ποιεῖτε αὐτοῖς· οὗτος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ νόμος καὶ οἱ προφῆται.]

    The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
    Matthew 7: 12, “The Golden Rule” (Jesus) [KJV (1611)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/12104/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jesus #goldenrule #dountoothers #Christianity #compassion #empathy #fairness #goldenrule #Jesus #justice #meme #perspective #quidproquo #reciprocation #reciprocity #wisdom

  19. Reflections on the meaning of reciprocity and relationship with nature. My garden still only tolerates me I think, but I most definitely love it.
    💚💚💚
    #naturepoetry #gardenpoetry #gardenlovers #poetrycommunity #reciprocity #connectwithnature #urbangardener

  20. 'What distinguishes Wittig's theoretical, political and literary project, and makes it an unavoidable pole of intellectual attraction today, is its radical anti-essentialism. It's the radical anti-essentialism that Wittig applies to the most credible of beliefs, because of the strength of its naturalization: the idea that men and women are naturally complementary "natural groups".'

    Sara Garbagnoli explained in 2023: moniquewittig.com/wp-content/u 🧶

    #revolution #reciprocity #radicality #reversibility #materialistFeminism #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #naturalism #essentialism #sexism #heteroSexism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #minorityStudies #queer #nonBinary #culturalHistory #lesbians #otherness #linguistics

  21. I waited for the details, before to talk.
    Results:

    #USA - #UE
    15 - 0 (TARIFFS)

    IS THIS WHAT YOU CALL #RECIPROCITY ?

    NO. NOT AT ALL. SORRY BUT I'M NOT OK.

    I THEREFORE CALL #EUROPEANS , #REAL #EUROPEANS, THAT CARE ABOUT OUR #SOVEREINGTY AND #INDEPENDANCE, TO A #GLOBAL #BOYCOTT OF #ALL #AMERICAN #PRODUCTS

    MORE ESPECIALLY, WE DO NOT WANT :

    * #BLEACHED CHICKEN
    * #HORMONE #TREATED MEAT
    * #POLLUTING #CARS
    * 4TH #REICH #CARS
    * NON #SOVEREIGN #DIGITAL #TOOLS WHOSE CORPORATIONS SHARE #TOXIC #VALUES

  22. #potluck #archeology #reciprocity

    "Have you ever stopped by the grocery store on your way to a dinner party to grab a bottle of wine? Did you grab the first one you saw, or did you pause to think about the available choices and deliberate over where you wanted your gift to be from?

    The people who lived in western Iran around 11,000 years ago had the same idea — but in practice it looked a little different. In our latest research, my colleagues and I studied the remains of ancient feasts at Asiab in the Zagros Mountains where people gathered in communal celebration.

    The feasters left behind the skulls of 19 wild boars, which they packed neatly together and sealed inside a pit within a round building. Butchery marks on the boar skulls show the animals were used for feasting, but until now we did not know where the animals came from.

    By examining the microscopic growth patterns and chemical signatures inside the tooth enamel of five of these boars, we found at least some of them had been brought to the site from a substantial distance away, transported over difficult mountainous terrain. Bringing these boars to the feast — when other boars were available locally — would have taken an enormous amount of effort.

    (. . .)

    We then used this information to measure the composition of enamel secreted at approximately weekly intervals. The variability in the isotopic ratios we measured suggests at least some of the wild boars used in the feast at Asiab came from considerable distance: possibly from at least 70 km, or two or more days' travel.

    (. . .)

    The most likely explanation is that they were hunted in farther reaches of the region and transported to the site as contributions to the feast.

    Reciprocity is at the heart of social interactions. Just like a thoughtfully chosen bottle of wine does today, those boars brought from far and wide may have served to commemorate a place, an event and social bonds through gift-giving."

    livescience.com/archaeology/ar

  23. Seriously though. This is not trivial. A collective, like a community, would take the other horses away from their activities to help this wagon. Then everyone gets back to what they were doing. It's #generous ity and #reciprocity

  24. Basal Ingredients Of Society • ℞
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02

    ❝THE SOCIAL COMPACT❞

    ❝If then we discard from the social compact what is not of its essence, we shall find that it reduces itself to the following terms:

    ❝“Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.”❞

    Reference —

    Jean Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract”, G.D.H. Cole (trans.), Great Books of The Western World, Volume 38.

    #AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
    #Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
    #Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability

  25. Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02

    I settled on the acronym BIOS to suggest the vital elements of life in society, a life in association with others, and not just any association but one whose flickers of life are sustained for more than a few vicissitudes of history. Sustainability in that life requires democracy, a society based on a distinctive form of social compact.

    academia.edu/community/54MZbO
    bsky.app/profile/inquiryintoin
    researchgate.net/post/Basal_In

    #AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
    #Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
    #Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability