#reciprocity — Public Fediverse posts

Dating apps.
Whispers: you'll find a partner
Reality: a minefield of getting ghosted

(Poll version)

#datingapps #ghosting #modernromance #digitalexhaustion #livedexperience #mentalhealth #vulnerability #relationships #reciprocity #reflections #authenticity #boundaries

Dating apps.
Whispers: you'll find a partner
Reality: a minefield of getting ghosted

#datingapps #ghosting #modernromance #digitalexhaustion #livedexperience #mentalhealth #vulnerability #relationships #reciprocity #reflections #authenticity #boundaries

Sending an honest expression of interest only to be met with total silence—while the app shows they are online and viewing your profile—exposes the cold, dehumanising reality of modern ghosting culture.

https://the.kalvin.click/the-silence-of-the-screen-reciprocity-asymmetry-and-the-modern-dating-loop/

#dating #ghosting #communication #reciprocity #livedexperience #mentalhealth #vulnerability #rejection #boundaries #authenticity #modernlove #relationships #empathy

Ghosting on dating apps—when one’s online, views your profile, but never replies—exposes its hypocrisy: the ghoster still expects respect despite dismissing the other.

https://the.kalvin.click/the-silence-of-the-screen-reciprocity-asymmetry-and-the-modern-dating-loop/

#dating #ghosting #communication #reciprocity #livedexperience #mentalhealth #vulnerability #rejection #boundaries #authenticity #modernlove #relationships #empathy

You don't expect it, but any time you've actually had a hand in making something — a friendship, an idea, a shared meal — it ends up remaking you, too.

Further reading: https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/your-self-care-action-items-f1c98bcedca6

#BenKadel #LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #Reciprocity #Practice

Diplomatic Talks: Rubio and Chinese Counterpart Discuss Strategic Stability

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held discussions with his Chinese counterpart, as confirmed by the U.S. State…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #China #diplomacy #diplomaticrelations #diplomatictalks #fairness #internationalrelations #marcorubio #reciprocity #secretaryofstate #strategicstability #U.S.StateDepartment
https://www.europesays.com/3104305/

Sweet Lady Violet is blooming again in France and I will never forget how this plant once helped me to get back one of my lost senses: https://www.cronenburg.net/sweet-lady-violet/ Yes, you can talk to plants and become friends.

#bloomscrolling #florespondence #HesperisMatronalis #wildFlowers #gardening #reciprocity #reconnectWithNature #scent #scentTherapy #hope #senses #NaturePhotography #FlowerPhotography #friends #lazygardening #summervibes #magicInTheMundane #treasure

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

https://pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/we-didnt-get-ruder-we-just-stopped-noticing-each-other-a-pagan-view-of-everyday-harm/

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.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Toadlyturtle/115554755824379271

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!!

#pablopicasso #reciprocity #metacrisis #wereallinthistogether #artofliving

#indyjohar #metacrisis #reciprocity #ClimateAction #ArtOfLiving

#perrinehervégruyer #perrinehervegruyer #metacrisis #EcologicalFarming #metaphysics #artofliving #reciprocity #fermedubechellouin

'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: https://www.moniquewittig.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-in-AOC-english.pdf 🧶

#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

I only just started this book and I fucking love it. Please read. Thank.

https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/indigenous-critical-reflections-on-traditional-ecological-knowledge

but no srsly, thank you for considering it. It feels like talking to a friend who Knows how fucked up your family is.

You've been away for a while, so you're shielded from the worst of their damaging tantrums, but uncompromising bare facts of the situation still sober you up somehow.

#book #BookTok #BookLovers #libro #libros #leer #read #books #books2025 #BooksWorthReading #indigenous #IndigenousMastodon #IndigenousPeople #MVSKOKE #eco #ecology #PoliticalEcology #BehavioralEcology #land #learn #learning #pedagogy #teacher #sustainability #sustainable #env #environment #critical #comm #comms #communication #culture #ethnicity #meaning #philosophy #sociology #colonialism #SolarPunk #punk #critique #relationships #responsibility #reciprocity #interpersona #accountable #accountability #restoration #EcosystemRestoration #HabitatRestoration #conviviality #cooperation #cooperative #MutualAid #HelpPeople #CoCreation #collaboration #Community #CommunalDecision

[Short film] #Tahnaanooku'

Justin Deegan (Arikara, Oglala, and Hunkpapa) with Jennifer Martel (Cheyenne)

"A grandmother. A source of existence. A portal to other worlds. For thousands of years, the Indigenous Peoples of what is now known as North and South Dakota co-existed reciprocally with the Missouri River, its waters offering life while also inspiring legends and languages. In Tahnaanooku’, filmmaker Justin Deegan takes an experimental approach to the severing of this relationship between his community — the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara — and the river, the result of over 80 years of US government efforts to control the Missouri, including via the Garrison Dam.

"Seen through the eyes of Deegan’s mother, Darline, Tahnaanooku’ intertwines past, present, and future, land and language, dreams and reality. The staunching of the Missouri contrasts with a fluid streak of horses, the diminished river currents interweave with the light of the aurora borealis. In dreams, Darline — a designer, activist, mother, and grandmother — receives messages from the original Mother, Earth itself. Meanwhile, the stark visual backdrop of the Garrison Dam offers an immovable reminder of the ruinous history of the Pick-Sloan Plan, deemed by legendary historian Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) to be 'the single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States.'

"Glimpsed in ceremony, Darline (one of the last speakers of the critically endangered ancient Arikara language) offers care to a fellow grandmother and shares hope for the generations to come."

Watch: https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tahnaanooku

#Arikara #StandingRockSioux #Mandan #Hidatsa #Arikara #MotherEarth #MissouriRiver #GarrisonDam #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity

[Short film]: Pili Ka Moʻo

Justyn Ah Chong with Malia Akutagawa (#KanakaMaoli)

"The #Fukumitsu ʻOhana (family) of #Hakipuu are #NativeHawaiian #TaroFarmers and keepers of this generational practice. While much of #Oahu has become urbanized, Hakipuʻu remains a kīpuka (oasis) of traditional knowledge where great chiefs once resided and their bones still remain. The Fukumitsus are tossed into a world of complex real estate and judicial proceedings when nearby Kualoa Ranch, a large settler-owned corporation, destroys their familial burials to make way for continued development plans."

Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/pili-ka-mo%CA%BBo

#DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #ReciprocityProject
#Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom
#RealEstate #KualoaRanch #CorporateColonialism #SettlerColonialism #NativeHawaiians #Hawaii #KingdomOfHawaii #Development #CulturalGenocide #FukumitsuOhana #ʻOhana #SolarPunkSunday