Mastodon: November 7, 2024 at 9:15:18 PM UTC

from blog Zach Leatherman’s Activity Feed, | ↗ original
Having a sizeable following on social media hardens you—in the same way that any small measure of power might.At our worst we think of this as a suit of armor, a sort of mental toughness.At our best we mourn this as a loss of compassion, a subtraction of our humanity and connectedness.