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X Over Zero
Our new 🤭 facebook banner 😆💀 - post 1 of 3. (View it all together on our profile page.)

We've never done a multi-part post before and don't plan on making a habit of this. So apologies for crowding your feed today, but we thought you'd enjoy this.

Even though we've been effectively ghosting facebook since at least 2017, it seemed like a good time to slap a surgeon general style message on our page, lol.

And we know we're preaching to the choir here but still wanted to take a minute to reflect on what makes Pixelfed a far better place to be.

⚬We love that it doesn't optimize for addiction at the expense of authenticity, unlike every centralized platform.

⚬We love that engagement feels real here, not gamified. People actually see and respond to posts—not because the algorithm incentivized it, but because they want to.

⚬We love that sharing on PF is about connection, not metrics.

⚬We love that there are no ads, no doomscrolling, and no pressure to chase trends. Just thoughtful human posts and interactions.

In conclusion: WE ARE ALL IN ON PIXELFED!!! 🫶😘

#community #friendship #connection #authenticity #Fediverse #Pixelfed #Underdog #decentralized #opensource #linux #darktable #SmallWeb #IndieWeb
#indieweb
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TECC 🖖🏼🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱

In her talk, Laura Miele emphasizes that while #socialmedia often leads to increased #loneliness due to shallow interactions and constant comparisons, #gaming offers a remedy. #Games provide genuine human #connection, foster collaboration, and combat isolation. By engaging with 3–5 friends, players can build meaningful bonds, making gaming a powerful tool for combating the loneliness epidemic.

▶️ Watch:
youtube.com/watch?v=p7u1n54_yQ

YouTubeThe Power of Gaming Together in a Lonely World | Laura Miele | TEDBy TED
#GamingForGood#MentalHealth#GamersUnite
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Joe Lafferty

True freedom isn’t endless self-reflection but stepping beyond the self, as Žižek shows. Weil’s selfless attention and Marcel’s focus on availability, (readiness to respond) teach us authentic selfhood grows through connection, not narcissism. Ancient wisdom calls us to self-denial and love. Moving beyond influencer culture’s hollow mirrors, we find meaning in generosity, presence, and radical openness-a path to true fulfillment. #Presence #Authenticity #Connection
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Futurist Jim Carroll

"In an uncertain economy, resilience isn't built alone. It’s built together." - Futurist Jim Carroll

I've long shared this quote on stage: "If I have an idea and you have an idea, we have two ideas. If we share those ideas, we have a movement."

That's the power of collaboration - something that is one of the most important hidden assets of any organization.

And, you know what I am going to say - in an economic downturn, this becomes more important than ever before. It becomes a battle of collaboration vs. isolation, with a simple reality that while crises make teams turn inward, their outward connection creates resilience.

Organizations that build stronger networks during downturns emerge stronger, faster, and future-ready.

Why is that? Ideas are currency, fuel for recovery, and the more ideas flow, the more collaborative thinking flows. That's why in volatility, connection beats isolation. And yet, economic volatility often triggers a dangerous instinct: retreat. Organizations turn inward, teams break into silos, and collaboration shrinks - and as a result, creativity suffocates and the idea factory slows down or worse, stops.

But if history has shown us anything, it’s this: organizations that lean outward—toward partnerships, extended idea ecosystems, and shared ideas—are the ones that not only survive uncertainty but surge ahead when recovery comes.

The fact is that isolation fractures resilience. Collaboration builds it. So the most important thing you can be doing right now is to build your collaborative spirit.

#Collaboration #Resilience #Innovation #Ideas #Partnership #Networks #Connection #Growth #Adaptation #future

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/04/decodin

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Canadian Association For Food Studies

Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation is the open-access, online journal of the Canadian Association for Food Studies.

#OpenAccess #Food #FoodStudies #Environment #Connection #Community #Practice #Scholarship #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodPolitics

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.

Citrus fruit on a blue and white plate with the text. Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation. Vol. 11 No. 3 (2024): Pathways to decolonial governance and planetary health.
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Anthony Baker

The posts that @Brilliantcrank has been writing of late are meaningful and powerful — I highly recommend reading. Good lord, so good.

#wakeup #blogging #kindness #connection #humanity

> There’s nothing broken that needs fixing we simply need to abandon our bad habits and the dependence on technology for human connection. Stop defaulting to detachment, to quit the endless flicker of dopamine-driven interactions that leave no trace of meaning or humanity behind.
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MastodonBrilliantcrank (@Brilliantcrank@mastodon.social)“Somewhere between the launch of the iPhone and the cultural fallout of the pandemic—we lost the human currency of kindness.” Kindness feels radical. https://brilliantcrank.com/kindness-feels-radical/
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Furthering

The last part of the book Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves discusses conversations between people who may not agree. Other books have tackled this subject at length, so I won’t rehash the ideas here.

While some of the ideas in the book aren’t new (to me), I think they could be applied to collective benefit, both in person and on social media. Less one-upmanship, fewer “gotcha” questions, less correction, less ego. More question asking, more connection, and more kindness, most of all.

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#Kindness#KindnessMatters#Connection
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Futurist Jim Carroll

"Compassion can outshine the chaos!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Every day, I start with my image and quote, and then write my post. Today, I started with this image and quote:

“Grant me the ability to avoid the stress, rage & anxiety over things I cannot control, the courage to change the things I can, & the wisdom to know the difference!”

Then I noticed that what I wrote about - leadership empathy - had nothing to do with the original quote! So I changed it! I still like this version of the Serenity Prayer though!

Anyways ... to my original point. Have you noticed that a lot of people seem to be asking one another, pretty regularly: "How are you doing with all this stuff?" I need not explain the "stuff" - suffice it to say, there's volatility, upheaval, uncertainty, disruption, polarization, confusion, destabilization, turmoil, chaos - all of which is quite dystopian.

Aside from providing you with a comprehensive list of disquieting nouns, the fact is a lot of people are feeling discomfort, but are also expressing concern about those around them. At least the ones who have a soul left within their inner core.

Look, I'm from the old school that believes that human kindness is an important personal trait - perhaps one of the most important. I also know that in this current male-machismo-driven world of rage and revenge, there are simply some folks who will never understand that. I don't have any expectations that folks like that follow my writings here.

But maybe the rest of us can work on it a bit more. After all, it matters. Lots of folks might have been having a rough day, and a little expression of empathy can go a long way.

How can we do that? Here are the key elements of what is known as 'leadership empathy', and how to practice them!
.... read the full post.

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Futurist Jim Carroll would like to hear how you are doing. He might be able to offer up a comforting thought or two.

#Empathy #Resilience #Control #Wisdom #Leadership #Understanding #Perspective #Connection #Mindfulness #Growth

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/03/compass

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Tommi 🤯

I have been in Naples for three days now, and I have so many pictures I want to share (publicly and on private chats) but the Internet connection is absolutely terrible here.

It’s excruciating, but it also makes it awfully blatant how dependent I am on real-time communications.

#Napoli#Naples#connection
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Furthering

I had another opportunity to coach on a client's connection to the environment. We are so separated from nature that it can be difficult and a little confusing to understand our connection to it, but it may only take a little gentle probing and holding space to find it and let it into the light and be richer for it.🌱

#Climate#Environment#Connection
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