Notices by Kate (katebowles@mastodon.social), page 13

@Sargoth I’m following this with interest. Just letting you know.

@actualham oh I am truly so sorry to read this.

It makes me think about the new Twitter account thosewecarry, where health professionals are sharing stories of patients who stay in their hearts. I think we have the same feeling sometimes, and we hope to honour it.

@lauraritchie I’ve been watching all the comings and goings of people in this conference season and really feeling it for all of you.

@ashkyd Thank you! Honestly there is a moment in this kind of deep rearranging of life where you need someone to clap.

@sikkdays learning to accept edits is a tough and underestimated thing. I honestly think it’s ok to find it hard, but you’re right to press on. It’s your craft.

My role model is @RussSharek learning to plank a few months ago. That was hard to watch.

#clownskills (which always looks unfortunately like clowns kills)

So this weekend day, blustery and cold, I sequestered myself from family and finally wrote a blog post which now makes me want to lie down for a week to recover.

In between sentences I cleaned windows for the first time in years, and mopped floors and took down curtains, and somehow in these small ways our home is piecing itself back together.

@pautasso @sandro This came across my timeline through federation’s loose coupling, so welcome! I’m a communications academic in Australia. There are all sorts here, across so many small subcultures there’s a genuinely welcoming ethos.

@tellio @lauraritchie I noticed the word, and slipped it into my pocket. I’ve been turning it over since: solidarity, solidarity.

I believe in it. Like you I feel it as a source of hope. Sometimes I find it on Twitter but there it feels against the grain, in spite of. Twitter is too often a vanity culture or a call out mob for solidarity to be practised reliably.

Here I feel it as a culture, a resource.

Mine to you in return.

@skiring This is a beautiful essay that thinks about similar things: https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-recovering-a-narrative-of-place-stories-in-the-time-of-climate-change-95067

@ekaitz_zarraga I love it, I didn’t know about it.

@tellio I keep coming back to this, it’s so beautifully expressed.

We all know.

@dogtrax And she is for me too. #blessings

So my day: students slowly pivoting from “international students can’t speak English” to “wow, ok, international students are often trilingual” to “specifically this guy, this guy who’s been sitting quietly right here in our class all semester has Yoruba as his first language, English as his education language, and also speaks Russian.”

Learning isn’t the plan, it’s the bird that flies into the room because the window was open.

#smallstories

The thing that continues to unfold for me here: the endless scroll of art I wouldn’t see anywhere else. All this energy, this craft. It’s so inspiring.

Thanks masto-artists everywhere.