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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 09:06:39 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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   @bsmall2 Reason magazine gives me a fight or flight response but stephenson ... well at least stephenson said a lot of things

   second paragraph 12 minutes later i'm not entirely sure what it means

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 09:06:39 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @bsmall2 One day later I think maybe I meant we're too exhausted to show compassion and vulnerability because we're under pressure to be heroes and do everything ourselves, save the world on our own as if we could do it without working together with the rest of the world.

     I'd like to think I'm reasonably good at seeing through that toxic masculinity nonsense and ask for help, but maybe I felt differently last night.

   • bs2 (bsmall2@mstdn.jp)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 09:06:40 UTC bs2

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     @clacke You lost me in the second paragraph. Maybe we should exchange posts again when it's not so late at night...

     But your first paragraph got me thinking of Walter Wink and Non-violent resistance. He talks about how important it is to allow yourself to be vulnerable while organizing the sort of non-violent struggle for human aims that is more effective than violence... A lot of Wink's stuff seems important to think about. Neal Stephenson mentioned him in Reason(?)magazine on-line interview.

   • bs2 (bsmall2@mstdn.jp)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 09:06:41 UTC bs2

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     @clacke Everyone seems beautiful to me when I'm drunk in a social setting too... It's a shame we have to get drunk to feel appreciative of everybody...

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 09:06:41 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @bsmall2 you know, we've been burned of showing weakness and appreciating others

     it's this break from being the all-knowing all-constructive paladin and the rest of humanity just peasants who can't lift their gaze

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 09:06:42 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     so i had 1–3 more drinks than is advisable

     with my development team

     so, you know, be kind, be ... considerate

     and if i say i love you that means you're alright

     i'm a kind drunk, not a nasty drunk