Social Media App store privacy and device permissions comparison. 👍

Isn't it interesting, that you don't realize someone has a mask on until you step back. You'd think it would be the other way around.

Helpful hint: take a moment to step outside of whatever frame you're in. Not just to get a better perspective, but also to re-center your life.

Have a fantastic Friday, beautiful people! 💖

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"They're just going to get my data anyways."

Sorry, but nope. There is a *MASSIVE* difference between background data collection methods and the direct metadata feed that is your use of major social media company services.

It's a bit like comparing a red-light camera to an unsecured internet-connected camera that happens to be in your bedroom.

My tribemates have been encouraging me to do more ... to put myself out there more ... to speak up ... to be myself. To share myself.

And I am thankful to be able to do so on CoSo without fear.

The environment here has (for the most part) been welcoming and I'm grateful for the positive engagement I receive here.

Thanks everyone for your encouragement always and of course thank you @th3j35t3r for creating a space for openness and kindness❤️

I learned to live in isolation and silence and if it wasn't for social media I would still be ...

I use social media to ... express. To remind myself that I exist and that I have a voice still. That I am a person.

It may not seem like much for people who are not #agoraphobic, who are not housebound, who are not isolated, who are fine speaking up and being free, who are not crippled by #chronicpain, anxiety, and depression ...

But I do have to remind myself sometimes ... to try and thrive.

As I got older things only became harder and I thought I would give in and just quit trying to be myself in a world that didn't want me to.

Or ... I thought people would stop demanding conformity and compliance ... that there would be more understanding and more lenience and more appreciation for those who walked their own path and spoke with unique voices ...

Neither happened of course ...

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When I look back at my journals from age 11-15 ... I had a BLEAK outlook on life; on the UNCHANGING things.

I would die alone or I'd be killed by someone who hated me for existing. I wrote about this constantly solely based on how I was being treated back then.

I wasn't even able to drive and yet I was convinced I wouldn't live long because there was so much hatred and disgust towards me.

I think I believed it would change as I got older.

Of course that was nonsense thinking.

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When I stopped playing those games and stopped trying to fill roles that other people decided for me ... when I started speaking my own mind ... I got cast out of lives because I wasn't conforming ... because I wasn't silent ... because I didn't agree ... and, not surprisingly, because I asked "too many questions" of those that pretended they had answers but really didn't have much other than ego.

For the longest time ... maybe into my 30s? I thought either I would change or people would.

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#FirstCoffeeThoughts

Older people often say that they hit a point at whatever age when they just stop caring what people think or they stop caring about playing certain times of social games etc.

I hit that point before I was out of junior high and it made for a pretty horrible existence in a world that rewards you for doing exactly those kinds of things just to succeed in a world run by people who want to control you, keep you silent, keep you in the place they have designated for you.

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#CrappyFriends #podcast

Best friends #KristanHiggins and #JossDey discuss the good, the bad and the ugly that comes with friendships.

Clingy friends, jealous friends, amazing friends who have helped their pals through difficult experiences with grief and sexual assault – they discuss them all.

Nothing is off limits, and with over 161 episodes delving into the complexities of human relationships there is something for everyone to relate to.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/crappy-friends/id1337782083

Protect.
Your.
Peace.

My tribemate sent me this. 🤣 I could totally hear it in my head ❤️

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The increased vegetation helps absorb carbon dioxide and improves air quality.

#TheGreenhouseBuses Project by #EmilioAlarcón aims to transform intercity mobility by turning electric buses into mobile greenhouses addressing the challenges of global warming and the lack of green spaces in cities.

The digital art series proposes the utilization of the available space inside buses for growing plants, shrubs, and small trees, and their conversion into itinerant oases in the middle of urban environments.

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@sumpnlikefaith thank you ❤️

I think "othering" is such a pervasive problem and, when coupled with willful ignorance, is a recipe for making other people miserable.

At the same time othering is important in recognizing that people's experiences day to day differ greatly sometimes from those around them, in ways that may be shocking for people to think about.

The other is someone to LEARN about. The other can TEACH you about yourself. The other can expand your knowledge. The other is epic.

The whole ... "life isn't like that FOR ME, therefore it can't possibly be like that FOR YOU" nonsense seems to be pervasive in places ... also along with the idea that there is something wrong with people who experience the world in x,y, or z way, because the world can't possibly be how they describe it ...

Oh it is.

Pessimism. Negativity. Anger. Fear.

These words are often used to DISMISS and DIMINISH the reality and truth that others are trying to express about their actual lives.

And yeah sometimes those feelings are dark and hard to read about and even harder to accept ... but it is someone's truth and someone's expression of their pain or their difficulties thriving.

It doesn't deserve to be dismissed or devalued simply because someone else is too cowardly to face it.

Listen. Believe. Assist.

For many people and even my family ... my reality COULDN'T be real. My realism COULDN'T be truth.

That would mean that they would have to see something of themselves in it. That would mean they would have to face some kind of level of responsibility in what pain and misery I was expressing ... and there was no way in Hell that was happening.

This is true for those who deny the pain, hardships, and anger of others. They would have to recognize their contributions to it or their ignorance.

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Everyone's reality is specific to them ... it's DIFFERENT from others around them.

Think about people who live with #chronicillness or #disability or who are #neurodivergent or people who have #aphantasia or #faceblindness or whatever it may be.

Their worlds are, in many ways, impossible for you to comprehend living in and difficult for you to relate to.

The reality of living is different for everyone. You can only hope to scratch the surface of it ... but it doesn't make it less real.

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