For now.
“The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. … And unexpectedly, our exchanges strengthen each of us in our conviction that what is happening to the world today is wrong, and that what is often said about it is a lie.”
— John Berger
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“The process of writing is a matter of making a mark, staking a small claim on the world, seeing how the world looks from the vantage of that claim.”
This is so important, to see writing as process that makes a place (holds a space) for looking out further—not just as what got written.
Thanks @bonstewart for these #WordsWorthWriting I read today.
https://bonstewart.com/belonging/posts/beyond-here-there-be-dragons/
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This morning I started my post-university life reading this short post from @kfitz.
Holding space towards a better moment is the detail that’s really struck me. Holding that space is the work of crafting and then conserving readiness, like throwing a pot. It’s Rebecca Solnit’s wise thought that hope is not a door “but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before that way is found or followed.
[#]WordsWorthWriting
https://kfitz.info/holding-space/
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Updating my #introduction to celebrate changed balance of life things. I live and walk by the sea in Wollongong, and I’m a gardener. In 2025 I joined up with a small organisation focused on compassionate ways of working in healthcare. I’ve been on here since 2016 and I’m still here, listening and thinking.
I believe we have to work together differently to face the future we’re facing. Life is fragile.
[#]compostodon #transrights #safework #codesign and curious about most things
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To be clear, I’m leaving calmly and safely, and I love what I’m going to be doing. Everything is fine for me, but not for others — right across higher education things are really tough.
I’ve just had quite enough of the moral insufficiency of workplace communication. Of all institutions, universities should know better and do better, and we don’t.
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Last day at work. Yesterday I was emailed by the corporate provider engaged by my employer to help staff think ahead from a redundancy departure. You might think the penultimate day at work is too late for us to be offered help to plan ahead. You might think that.
Today, the remaining staff are encouraged to attend a course in navigating uncertainty. As I’m designing exactly this thing myself, I went looking for details.
Hilarious, higher education. Never change.
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There’s the state of the world, and there’s also #asstodon which is comforting if you need a consolation break.
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Another way of thinking about it: the place where you are, what’s it called? Who called it that? What power did they claim, and whose naming language was overthrown by their use of that dirty power? New South Wales, as opposed to regular South Wales? Queens-land?
The Gulf of America isn’t a new trick. What are you doing where you are to point out and protest renaming histories, to notice how quickly land (and sea country) appropriation naturalises itself through maps? It’s laughable and life-threateningly serious all at once. It’s always about power.
Now think about the place we’re all calling Greenland.
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On maps. On maps that change the names of places, that always see the world in parochial and self serving ways. On maps that express the grasping nature of colonising power. On maps that grapple with bodies, things, mortality. On maps as exquisite pointless vanity. On maps as ways of seeing in the world.
https://saulsteinbergfoundation.org/essay/view-of-the-world-from-9th-avenue/
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Observing what is happening in the US, don’t think: it doesn’t affect us. Don’t think: it wouldn’t happen here. It does, it can. Many of the seeds of what is happening are already here, not deeply hidden, stirring themselves into growth.
[#]auspol
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If you’re curious about the original prompt to this little search it was this.
https://assemblag.es/@rustlab/113896455367106320
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Thanks to @rustlab and @mistertim and the right measure of curiosity and time I ended up on the website of digital ethnographer Paula Bialski, who is thinking about the idea of “good enoughing” as a way of working.
This is how the good web can still work: nudges from the collective human wisemind, searches that deliver, links that work, destinations that get you thinking, ideas that emerge. We’re all each other’s paths to small discoveries.
https://paulabialski.com/#page-0
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[#]silentsunday
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Hey @camwilson this from @neil brought you to mind.
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/113893687681767671
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Clearing out my office this Sunday afternoon, this is the insight from the desk drawers: if you want to thank someone for anything, and you have the spoons to write an actual card, it’ll be kept. Years later opening it again will still have that good effect you wished it to have.
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@lornamcampbell Just thinking aloud here. Thank you for your wonderful blog, always.
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@lornamcampbell For so many people, it still “felt like” Twitter/X was a space of community until perhaps the salute, or maybe some other thing yet to be worse. Everyone waits until their own line is crossed.
So sometimes “feels like” is also the languaging of your own experience limits.
If somewhere feels safe to me, or welcoming to me, that’s not an assumption I can extend to anyone else. The reason why it “feels like” a certain way to me is likely what’s preventing me from grasping that it’s set up precisely to exclude or harm or oppress others.
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The other thing that @lornamcampbell says in this post:
“I like the different pace of the two platforms. Bluesky feels like the place to keep up to date with news and events, while Mastodon provides space for slower, quieter, thoughtful conversations.”
Like illness experience, user experience of any system or platform (or bike lane or store or tarot deck) lives in this space of “feels like” which is much more precarious and changeable than the space of “is”.
It’s so hard to think beyond what we know through experience, to reflect with the tentativeness of “feels like” in a world of proscription. But if we can own that what feels a certain way is because of who we are, the possibility that opens up is change.
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This beautiful reflection on a year by @lornamcampbell brings up so many issues, but for me it’s that diagnosis is never one thing because of the way illness shows up in the full scope of life, work, place, love. The medicalisation of illness seeks the common, but the experience of it is always at the scale of n=1. It’s then up to us to make the common.
“Across all these different spaces, it feels like little dormant shoots of community are reemerging. We need these human connections now more than ever.”
https://lornamcampbell.org/higher-education/2024-end-of-year-reflection/
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As the #corpseflower start her graceful droop, here’s a bit of news media from the Australian ABC that explains the efforts to help keep this endangered plant and unlikely social media star in a hopeful state.
[#]bloomscrolling
https://youtu.be/1UKMzLBW7to
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