@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialEvent: Dec. 6 Book Response on Living Islam
Join us for an evening of conversation inspired by Living Islam: Muslim Expressions of Faith, the acclaimed book byProfessor Ali S. Asani, which invites readers to explore the many ways Muslims around the world understand and experience their faith through culture, art, and everyday life. The discussion, moderated by Alisha Kurji and featuring Dr. Alnoor Dhanani (Harvard University) and…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotFull disclosure: I have experience in living under just a tarpaulin. I have experience of surviving storms under just a tarpaulin. Few people in the west have. So I can imagine and understand the present experience of people in #Gaza in a way few in the west can.
#GazaGenocide
@whitequark@mastodon.socialpeople call the UK "TERF island" and while not exactly _wrong_ this doesn't reflect my experience of the day to day reality of living here
in my experience, nobody 'on the ground' gives a shit. cops, landlords, nurses, doctors, all of these had plenty of opportunity to be transphobic or interphobic and if they actually did it was rather well concealed
it's true that it is systemically and politically transphobic and GRCs are awful, but as someone who doe…
@hex@kolektiva.socialTime for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioToday was #satisfying:
- arranged a unique & "life changing" experience for someone
- watched someone vely change attitude toward me
- was in a meeting w awesome people
- saw someone one whose sight always makes me happy
All in, feels like the day was worth living for, whatever tomorrow brings. 🙇♂️
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euFinished the DLC of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. What a great mystlike game. Don't let the boss battles and kicking the living sh!t out of Nazis and fascists deter you from having an excellent time going into every nook and cranny and soaking up the Indy experience. I've finished the game, and I haven't even halved the things you could see and collect in the Vatican level alone! A solid 9/10 only because it doesn't have a third-person view at least as an option.
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@hippyjo@c.imAmazing.
Besides offering the exceptional perspective of a retired military analyst and Russian linguist who is currently living in Ukraine-
Dylan Combelick is also leveraging his blog into a charity for Ukrainian soldiers.
He shares insight and perspective that will never appear in corporate media, based on real life experience, understanding, and presence in Ukraine.
Please support his work, share the friend link that bypasses the paywall, and thank you!
The U…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
If you haven't been living in a cave this week, you know that the #NorthernLights were putting on a show across Canada. As you know, a solar eruption sends billions of tons of superheated plasma into space and traveling at more than 45 million miles per hour it can reach Earth in less than a day. That plasma, drawn towards the magnetic pole, interacts with our atmosphere, and we get a spectacular light show. The Aurora Borealis, named by Italian astronomer Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, is not unique to Canada, but so much of our land is in the Northern Hemisphere that most Canadians have the opportunity to experience it. This is particularly true in the Northwest Territories, where the Northern Lights are visible for 240 days every year on average. The phenomenon has a special meaning for Indigenous Canadians, some of whom believe it shows them ancestors dancing in the sky.
#CanadaIsAwesome #GetOutside
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/how-indigenous-traditional-knowledge-is-improving-our-understanding-of-aurora-borealis-1.7414899
