I've started edits on my most recently-drafted story, and... you ever get the feeling that you were born to create something, like not solely for that purpose or anything, but that this would never have come into being if you weren't formed in this specific whirl and flow of life, and that your existence and this creation fit like a puzzle making connections across time and space? This was a hard story to write but I'm glad it exists through me, that I was here to be its conduit. I feel a sense of rightness deeper than happiness, a sense of meaning and having answered a call from the heart of Life itself. #amWriting #spirituality #LjWrites
A Tokyo-based pastor from California preaches tolerance and inclusivity and muses on history, coffee and vinyl records. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/12/12/our-lives/pastor-hector-herrera-tokyo-union-church/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #ourlives #christmas #religion #expats #vinyl #coffee #spirituality
Angela Antunovic
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I'm looking to migrate my account to another instance.
Can anyone recommend Mastodon instances with a focus on #healing or #shamanism or #spirituality ?
Failing that, somewhere where there are friendly #softwareengineers especially #Java?
Asking the #Fediverse so boosts would be appreciated!
I'm looking to migrate my account to another instance.
Can anyone recommend Mastodon instances with a focus on #healing or #shamanism or #spirituality ?
Failing that, somewhere where there are friendly #softwareengineers especially #Java?
Asking the #Fediverse so boosts would be appreciated!
The Monks in the Casino
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-monks-in-the-casino
#HackerNews #Monks #Casino #Gambling #Culture #Spirituality #Stories
Ahem...*taps mic*
This here be my beige.party #Introduction
I'm a Gen X (1967) American who works in security for a living. I feel fortunate to have grown up through the 70s, 80s, and the 90s. I kinda look at that as the Yahtzee! of pop culture. What a time to be a nerd!
Music defines me. I don't have just a soundtrack to my life, I have a boxed set, including rare demos and unreleased live recordings. Wanna get to know me? Hang around for my music posts.
A song that's...me?
I am ADHD, and have Dysthymia to boot. I live an unmedicated life, and am kind of a mess as a result. I'm not anti-medication, it's just that I can't seem to stay on the wagon. If you follow me, and I don't immediately follow you back, don't take it personal. I'm trying to deal with over stimulation.
Politically...jeebus. To make it easy, I'm a Democratic Socialist. Honestly, I hate trying to define myself.
What I am (consider the following "AF"): Pro-choice, Pro trans rights, as well as a firm believer that women can do whatever the blue hell they want. I'm pro-sexwork, and pro pineapple on pizza (DO NOT COME AT ME ON THAT ONE).
I DO NOT. LIKE. NAZIS.
If you are a nazi, I do not like you. My great uncle put bushels of you in the ground in WW II. Follow Hitler's example and suck on the end of a loaded Luger.
I'm religious, and by that, I shall refer to a quote attributed to Gandhi: "I consider him religious who recognizes the suffering of others." I am a bit all over the place, and do not blindly follow any specific dogma. I have my thing. It's not everybody's thing, but that's okay. Everybody else has their thing. It may not necessarily be my thing, but that's okay. Whatever your thing is, may it bring you comfort and peace of mind. Just don't be a wanker.
I am very pro Fediverse, and pro FOSS. Technology can be very cool and wondrous, if we choose to make it that way. I'm a Linux user, and have shed all but two mainstream social media platforms. I am attempting to de-google my life. I am VERY anti-AI.
Be kind. Always.
Lord, but I did ramble a one. That's ADHD for ya, folks: LOADS of bonus content!
And now, hashtags...
#Introductions #Mastodon #adhd #MentalHealth #Dysthymia #Music #FreePalestine #FuckCapitalism #FOSS #Android #GrapheneOS #FuckAI #AnarchoCooperativism #Kropotkin #KurtVonnegut #WilliamGibson #EmmaGoldman #TTRPG #StarTrek #GraphicNovels #Comics #Languages #History #Ireland #IrishHeritage #CelticLanguages #DnD2e #GURPS #Skyrim #ElderScrolls #ElderScrollsOnline #Battletech #MechWarriorOnline #CozyGaming #WilliamGibson #Linux #LinuxMint #PopOS #Ubuntu #PCGaming #Tolkien #LOTR #Film #Runequest #Talislanta #HeroSystem #ChampionsRPG #Writing #France #French #Spirituality #Religion #Agnosticism #Books #PhysicalMedia #SciFi #Fantasy
The first non-Japanese Shinto priest recognized by an official association talks about the past, present and future of his spiritual journey — and some of his favorite foods. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/10/24/our-lives/florian-wiltschko-shinto-priest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #ourlives #shinto #shintoism #expats #mieprefecture #spirituality #hayaomiyazaki
What is your position on #spirituality?
Disclaimer: When practiced in a way that understands spirituality (or religion) is a deeply personal decision and experience and does not give one rights to devalue or erase others’ choices and experiences, as well as integrates science, especially in health, mental health, and safety, and honours shared messy reality with others.
#Mastodon has come across to me thus far to be a largely #atheist space, hence my curiosity.
Lithuania's Romuva community celebrating earth goddess Žemyna during the Žolinės holiday yesterday
#Romuva#Pagan #pagans #Baltic #Lithuania #folklore #mythology #baltics #witch #spirituality #singing
Howard Rheingold
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LSD and the #Mind of the Universe (Part Two)
LSD and the #Mind of the Universe (Part Two)
Sometimes you just need to sit and think, space out, process. You might call it executive dysfunction, boredom, laziness. Or you could call it sitting, contemplating, recovering.
It may be all those things, but it doesn't matter. So just allow yourself to rest.
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"Too often, history remembers white #Quaker abolitionists, like Robert Pleasants, Warner Mifflin, Anthony Benezet, John Woolman and Benjamin Lay, but forgets the Black people who compelled them to act. The names of those who resisted—James, Grace, Jane, Jack, Dolphin, Ash, Nace and many others—must be spoken aloud." #Quakers#Religion#Spirituality#Justice#History cc: @friendsjournalhttps://www.friendsjournal.org/black-resistance-to-quaker-enslavement/
"Too often, history remembers white #Quaker abolitionists, like Robert Pleasants, Warner Mifflin, Anthony Benezet, John Woolman and Benjamin Lay, but forgets the Black people who compelled them to act. The names of those who resisted—James, Grace, Jane, Jack, Dolphin, Ash, Nace and many others—must be spoken aloud." #Quakers#Religion#Spirituality#Justice#History cc: @friendsjournalhttps://www.friendsjournal.org/black-resistance-to-quaker-enslavement/
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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7.9: Writing (and Doing!) Magical Activism Through Solarpunk Fiction With BrightFlame
In this episode, Ariel talks with BrightFlame: witch, workshop leader, co-founder of the Center for Sustainable Design at Columbia University, and author of solarpunk witchcraft short stories and now a new novel, called The Working. They discuss what solarpunk witchcraft looks like and how, though witchcraft’s manipulation of energy on the astral plane is extremely important, magic is only one half of the equation: the other is activism - actually getting out there and doing the thing, whether it’s attending a protest, contributing to a potluck to strengthen community bonds, or making something with a specific intent in mind.
#solarpunk#podcast#SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #episode#SeasonSeven#MagicalActivism#SolarpunkWitchcraft#Witchcraft#SolarpunkFiction#Intention#Paganism#Spirituality#SolarpunkSpirituality @BrightFlame#TheWorking
7.9: Writing (and Doing!) Magical Activism Through Solarpunk Fiction With BrightFlame
In this episode, Ariel talks with BrightFlame: witch, workshop leader, co-founder of the Center for Sustainable Design at Columbia University, and author of solarpunk witchcraft short stories and now a new novel, called The Working. They discuss what solarpunk witchcraft looks like and how, though witchcraft’s manipulation of energy on the astral plane is extremely important, magic is only one half of the equation: the other is activism - actually getting out there and doing the thing, whether it’s attending a protest, contributing to a potluck to strengthen community bonds, or making something with a specific intent in mind.
#solarpunk#podcast#SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #episode#SeasonSeven#MagicalActivism#SolarpunkWitchcraft#Witchcraft#SolarpunkFiction#Intention#Paganism#Spirituality#SolarpunkSpirituality @BrightFlame#TheWorking