shel

The Transsexual Chofetz Chaim

Mutant, librarian, poet, union rabble rouser, dog, Ashkenazi Jewish. Neuroweird, bodyweird, mostly sleepy.


I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.


I review Schoolhouse Rock! songs at @PropagandaRock


Website (RSS + Newsletter)
shelraphen.com/

pervocracy
@pervocracy

a nice thing about Cohost is that it hasn't convinced everyone that their role on Earth is to be the Some Schmuck News Network, offering up-to-the-minute updates and opinions on every matter of global import

"Your silence on the matter speaks volumes" culture when the volumes consist mostly of a description of how I'm actually not a political reporter but a nurse in Fucklesburg, Massachusetts and therefore mostly
qualified to commentate on the Fuckle Valley regional healthcare system


shel
@shel

this honestly has been the biggest healthiest mindset change for me when it comes to social media an why cohost has been so much better. there are things i am equipped to write about but for everything else i am simply not the best person for it and it's not actually that important that I perform "caring" as much as possible through relaying every random post I see minute by minute on current events lest people think I don't care, which would be the worst thing really, people thinking an incorrect thing about me due to a lack of information or insight into my inner world. That's what's really important about this war or natural disaster, that everyone needs to know that I'm one of the good ones who cares about it. And everyone else who isn't acting like this is clearly some uneducated or uncaring sheep.


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in reply to @pervocracy's post:

I really hope we can keep this culture going forward. It's so nice to have 95% of what I see be some combination of "Look at thing I found/made/am working on" and "Here is 8 paragraphs of my thoughts on a complex issue that I never posted on other sites because people would've acted Like That about it and all the comments are serious discussion contained to one post"

to no one's surprise, Bluesky has spawned a crop of aggressively negative randos who appear to be topic-searching like on twitter, which is mechanically if not sociologically bewildering, as search on bsky doesn't work very well

in reply to @shel's post:

recently saw something that was like, you know this fun thing you love? Well it was (I'm uh, paraphrasing) produced with puppy blood and if you enjoy it you're being OBTUSE and ---- then I silenced the post, got mad, then got so fucking happy that that kind of stuff is just not the norm here. Look, I'm just some nurse from Fucklesburg!! that's gonna be how I express this from now on!!!