maybe they’ll come back!

yeah, makes sense. I can't shake the feeling that bsky is like a party with a lot of wonderful people, but you just know that some really personally interesting meaningful conversations are being had in some small corner or nook somewhere, but you don't know where it is

what does ‘quality’ mean to you? I’ve been feeling this too, and wondering what other people have been thinkjng

in general, it’s meaningful to have ownership, to feel like one can have a positive stake in a place. the distributed atprotocol and the portability of connections seems to actually mean that this has potential beyond a “service” or “platform”.. so you’re seeing people letting themselves care

it’s ok Brooke! the words were emblematic of a particular cruelty that’s popular these days - ‘proudly joking about righteously inflicting harm’…

which it seems like maybe was the point of your joke, too, so I guess we might on the same page. thanks for clarifying.

magic lies within a practice that you might never share

yes! the right lessons emerge when they’re needed… whether we like it or not! :) thanks again.

hi! we haven’t really interacted but I wanted to thank you for sharing your story. it’s beautifully written and an important one. as someone who has been on both sides, it resonates deeply. I’m now so glad to have learned what I did when I did, and your piece is a helpful reminder this morn. thanks.

good luck!

(upon reread my comment feels like a disagreement, which it isn’t - more of a “yes, and i think knottedness might be a helpful metaphor”)

mmm - my opinion is that modalities that offer theories of wrongness risk pathologizing parts of the self. instead of wrongness, I think of a knot - which isn’t made of anything, but the rope getting in its own way. I think therapies should/do have theories of knottedness, instead

noticing

thx mr skeletal!

..!!!

yes.