apotheotic (she/her)

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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • Its a bit peculiar to jump into a thread made by a beehaw user in a beehaw community about beehaw being a nice place to scroll, and say “but we have that too!” Like, yeah, that’s awesome, but this person is a beehaw user and is enjoying this aspect of beehaw. And sharing their enjoyment with other beehaw users in the beehaw chat community.

    We can praise things without it meaning that other things are worse.




  • But by scrolling All on beehaw, I get to see a wide variety of content I might not have known I wanted to see. Beehaw thins out the chaff while still allowing me to have a wider experience than I would scrolling Subscribed.

    Sometimes if I feel particularly low in resilience to bullshit, I’ll scroll Local or Subscribed, but its nice to have the option to scroll All without it being a cesspool.


  • Here is the reality:

    The person is going to use money, whether it is yours or someone else’s, to buy whatever it is that they feel is the best use of that money.

    Disconnect yourself from any ideas of what the money is going to be used for, and just understand that it will be used to reduce their suffering. If that is a satisfactory use of the money that you give them, then give them the money. Consider, at the same time, putting money aside to donate to local causes, some of whom may be helping the homeless.

    Above all though, your money is somewhat valuable, but nowhere near as valuable as your time and effort. Volunteering at these same local causes is even more valuable than whatever spare pocket change.

    Just don’t turn into a “but they’re going to buy drugs with it!” person