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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 16m

Wickety wickety!

a close up of a furry animal with the words sailorslayer on the bottom right

Alt: a close up of an Ewok named Wicket

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 1h

Enjoying this!

Getting to know Fallen London and upping some skills so I can properly win over the various groups of rats on behalf of the Prince.

Good times!

Really excellent, congrats on the release of this.

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Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @lookitup.baby · 4h

Sickos meme with a Frenchman saying “oui… hon hon hon… OUI!”

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve been working on winding this down, and ooooh, as much as people say they dislike people appeasement, watch what certain people do when you let them handle what belongs to them.

Heart-shaped box of chocolates on the doorstep, a vacuum ready behind the door along with fear, obligation and guilt.

PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 7h

What if I no longer offered my service—free of charge to all but me!—of custom designing a personality catered to a set of wants and needs, with aims to rarely offend, provide emotional support and labor, perhaps at times a laugh and a lark, for those who my mind decides merits one?

What then, hmm?

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 7h

Also this implies that Mariah Carey is the guardian of holiday cheer and all things jolly, which frankly I’m here for, as long as Dolly Parton is the defender of merry making and holly joely days being festive and gay! ✨💖✨

a woman is singing into a microphone and saying joely joely joely joely .

Alt: a woman is singing into a microphone and saying joely joely joely joely .

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 8h

We’re already living in a nightmare, seems only fair.

Crockett Houghton @crocketthoughton.com · 9h

I know October is over but listen, there’s no reason we can’t extend spooky season all the way to Christmas. Who’s going to stop us? Mariah Carey? The guardian of holiday cheer and all things jolly? Possibly… but we won’t know if we don’t try.

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Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @lookitup.baby · 8h

I’m raising money for Groveland Emergency Food Shelf, a South Minneapolis nonprofit that provides emergency groceries for those in need. They’re currently struggling to keep up with demand, and they’re getting their first $16k in donations matched.

I’ve got $50 on it! Can anyone match me?

Support Groveland Emergency Food Shelf on GiveMN

Groveland Food Shelf is a non-profit 501(c)(3) providing emergency groceries for those in need.

www.givemn.org

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

What I’m getting at affects us within our personal lives and society as a whole.

These are merely my musings from concepts I’ve come across. None are set in stone.

To me however shifting these sands brings comfort.

May it perhaps bring a measure of relief to you as well.

PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

That terror of being judged as flawed is the source of our need for pursuing perfection, as well as a refusal to ever admit to error, for to do so is to put a chip in armor, that if it were to fall apart would render one subject to punishment and a fall from grace.

I’ve strayed far from Mamdani.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

Yet if we acknowledge how we all have worth, no matter what, then it becomes easier to accept others in all their humanity.

How many of us are wracked with guilt over mistakes we’ve made, fear of failure, a belief that if we do not get everything just so, we’ll have angered the world and so suffer?

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

In a conditional world, once their worth is undermined, so your need to treat them with any respect, to honor their dignity, to even see them as human.

Once you’ve done that, all becomes fair in pursuing destruction of what is after all simply a pest to someone who believes they tower over all.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

Pinning all your hopes on one individual who will change everything can be perilous, as we are all human and fallible. A reality some would deny, demanding a life lived without flaws, foibles, flops, and failure.

If you can find the errors of a person, then you can disprove their worth.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

Personally I find the veil of ignorance far more interesting than the trolley problem, because rather than looking at who must we sacrifice, it asks how may we build a society with more justice and fairness, more liberty, more egalitarianism, community and care.

We cannot build that overnight.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

To ensure all can preserve their dignity, their safety.

A truly just society considers if you did not know who you were, a veil of ignorance hid that from you, how would you design a world you’d want to live in *regardless* of who you are.

I’ve loved that thought experiment from John Rawls.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

It really is true how a few setbacks can upend your life. I understand how scary that can be.

Perhaps because I’ve been through at least some of that, maybe that makes it easier to accept this idea of inherent worth,

For if that’s true, then it is incumbent upon us to treat everyone well.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

Misfortune comes to those who fail to follow a righteous path, however that’s defined, while luck lands with those who work smarter and harder than others.

That’s what I learned in my life, what I was taught, and I certainly did my best to do as much as I could, while having compassion as well.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

If I do the Right Things, what is Good, I am at least more likely to live a bountiful life then if I did not, and thus I *deserve* all that stems from that.

Those who do Wrong, or more importantly fail to earn a pilgrim’s promissory note, to carry out Weber’s social contract, deserve what happens.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

*That* is what’s terrifying for so many, that a roll of dice from Lady Fortuna might determine so much of our life.

Living knowing that all of us are only a few crises away from what we knew of life crumbling away?

We build edifices, social structures, beliefs, to assure ourselves no, not so.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

If we acknowledge how much of who we are rests upon mere chance of our circstances, our social and cultural context, then that admits not only can good fortune come from the whims of the wheel of fortune, but also, another spin could bring everything crashing down, regardlesss of our own skills.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

Sone reject it, because they believe they’ve earned their worth, their dignity, their value, the right to be respected.

If others have not, they should simply do more… like they have.

Meritocracy has always been a myth. Its original usage, a criticism of the notion of how conditional worth works.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

His conclusion stays with me: we each have infinite worth. Simply because we exist.

Not because of what we do or say, how we act act or sit back.

A person’s worth, their dignity, is not earned, their right to be treated with respect, those are all inherent to everyone.

That’s a radical idea.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

Everyone you meet has their own life, their own story, brimming with bountiful joys, dark disappointments, dreams, fears, wounds, and whimsies.

I’ll always remember a TED talk from a social worker on his project to photograph hundreds, perhaps thousands, of individuals with their own sorrow.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

Mamdani seems to understand that *everyone* matters.

What do you want, friends? One where through whatever circumstances, some people have a voice worth listening to, while the teeming masses are dismissed as irrrlevant?

Or instead, ponder the sonder of how all of us have unique, worthwhile lives.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 9h

As a night owl, insomniac and fan of we all do better when we all do better… love seeing this and so much more Mamdani is doing.

Looking forward to seeing what happens with such an inspirational and frankly sensible leader for New York City. Our cities *matter*, and a heartbeat depends on a pulse.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h

Without the night shift, there is no morning.

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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