Funny how most people who throw hate usually share three traits:
1. Not exactly blessed in the looks department
2. Give off villain‑energy
3. And life clearly hasn’t been kind to them
Thoughts?
#OnlineCulture #BeKind

When will we #BeKind ?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uo2fna47c4v6zcnklxfhcvjb/post/3mcyhzccf322x

Good morning! ☀️ Bee happy 🐝 (as in be happy) Be kind 💛

Language learning starts with the right mindset—curiosity, kindness, and joy. Every new Hebrew word is a small act of kindness toward yourself.

Let’s welcome the day with positivity and keep learning, one happy moment at a time.

#LearnHebrew #BeHappy #BeKind #LanguageLearning #HebrewByInbal

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#MentalHealthMatters #BeKind #HumanityFirst #SupportEachOther #EndTheStigma #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthSupport #CommunityCare #KindnessCounts"

Just logged into #Bluesky for the first time in what feels like months. Holy hell... it's a cesspool of shrieking and rage-sharing awfulness with zero hashtags, content warnings, etc. Had to disable viewing shares and reposts to make it remotely useable. 😳

Granted, most of them are American and a large percentage of their countrymen apparently wanted what's happening now, but it really confirmed how much like pre-Elmo #Xitter it is.
#USPol #BeKind (to yourself and others)

Civil Discourse – It’s The Cynicism – Joyce Vance

It’s The Cynicism

By Joyce Vance, Jan 17, 2026

It seems to be everywhere you look, across the political spectrum. Far too many people don’t believe in anything anymore. They’ve lost faith in everything: our institutions, our values, and even each other. We’ve become a country of cynics.

One of the first posts I saw this morning on social media was about a well-documented instance where a Minnesota family’s six children were hospitalized after their minivan filled with smoke and tear gas fired by federal agents. Below the news report, someone had dismissed it in the comments: “I don’t believe it.” That was it. No explanation, nothing that cast doubt on the reporting. Just a rejection.

A little bit further down, someone had written about diminishing confidence in the Justice Department. A commentator wrote, “Did anyone believe in that anyway?”

We have become a nation of skeptics, of cynics. We are jaded. It’s all around us.

In her essay, Truth and Politics, Hannah Arendt wrote, “The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed.”

The President spews lies so constantly and so casually that it’s easy to understand how people can lose their bearings. It’s an assumption that Trump lies, not something unusual. That’s the President of the United States!

One manifestation of the lies we’ve become so inured to is the destruction of confidence in our elections. Trump has lied for so long about voter fraud, about non-citizens voting (the evidence does not back that claim up), about voting machines, about stolen elections, that it has permeated the national consciousness and even when people see through the lies, a miasma of distrust for the entire process remains. And of course, it’s not just elections.

Who benefits from a loss of faith in our institutions and in our ability to come out on the other end of this national nightmare with an intact republic? It’s not hard to see. It’s the man who enjoys upsetting the balance of power guarded by NATO because he wants to own Greenland. The man who tears down the East Wing. The man who won’t release the Epstein Files.

At this stage, Trump no longer cares if people believe his lies. He just needs the chaos they generate and the absence of shared truths, shared facts, in our country. People who can no longer discern what’s true from what’s false lose their moral compasses, like the agents who are now shooting at the people they took an oath to protect and serve. It all benefits a leader who wants to take authoritarian control of a democracy.

Giving up your belief in how things should be is dangerous.

I’m not suggesting everyone should have blind faith in our institutions, far from it at this point. But we need to be aware of what’s broken and needs mending without getting stuck on it. Instead of succumbing to cynicism, let’s stay focused on what we can do, even the small things.

Be kind, share joy. Register to vote and make sure everyone around you does, too. We know what this is going to take, but we have to stop the spread of cynicism around us. We’ve come too far in the last year to accept Trump’s success as inevitable.

In the coming week, we will mark the one-year anniversary of the second Trump administration. Find your own way to protest it. Donate to a food bank. Help a neighbor out, or help someone you’ve never met but have empathy for. Sign up to work at a polling place, or decide to run for office. There is so much that we can do. What we cannot afford to do is to let a man who thinks of no one but himself win.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: It’s The Cynicism – Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

It’s The Cynicism by Joyce Vance

Will the #UK government be introducing #SafeRoutes or a special visa scheme for #usa #american #AsylumSeekers ?

So, until then, if #smallboats arrive on the west coast of #Scotland or the northern coast of #cornwall .

#BeKind , these #refugees will have made it across the #atlantic

📚 „How to Stay Sane in a World of Division“ („Hört einander zu!“) by Elif Shafak serves as a reminder to us all to #listen and hold space for one another. #BeKind #books

#Bekind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome. -- Marion Parker open.spotify.com/track/042IWv...

Tomorrow Is A Long Time

#Bekind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome. -- Marion Parker open.spotify.com/track/042IWv...

Tomorrow Is A Long Time

I've long be bemused by the notion that being kind is some sort of weakness, that it is a throw away act, something that is only for the vulnerable, the meek, and the quiet ones.

https://blog.mikeriversdale.co.nz/2026/01/being-kind-is-active-brave-and-fun.html

#BeKind #kindness

@hart Ich hätte mir das gut vorstellen können. Einen #Traumzeitwirbelsturm 😀 👯 🌱

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https://troet.cafe/@Lost_Paradise/111089521503872447

#Cannabis #Kamala #KamalaHarris #wepray #Germany #endfossilfuels #nopain #Zukunft #KinderundEnkel #Politik #Wunschdenken #Träume #Systemfehler #systemerror #Klimakatastrophe #Weltordnung #SavePlanetA #THEREISNOPLANETB #Bewegung #Bewegungen #Klima #Wahlkampf #SPD #Grüne #SPD #Gesellschaft #Gesundheit #Menschlichkeit #humankind #Coldplay #bekind #bebrave #nevergiveup

still convinced we need to hold on to this no matter what despite all and everything 🦦 #besilly #bekind

https://mastodon.au/@Heliograph/115827618297517565

kinda glad the #silly wheels haven't entirely come off :blobimfine:

"Parkes Elvis Festival transcends language and culture"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-10/parkes-elvis-festival-toki-toyokazu-singing/106209036

#parkes #elvis #besilly #bekind

Please 2026 Take a little bit gentle & slower 🥺 . . .

Many people already been through alot and much more . .

Some people is still healing & trying best to move forward in life . .

Please be a little gentle & slower . .

🫂😢 :BlobhajHeart:

#Mastodon #Fediverse #BeKind

Joining you in seeking a world where empathy is not a fleeting miracle. 🫂 Follow the light. #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Empathy #Wellbeing #BeKind

Well, it might not have been the wisest choice, doing a snowy area when still working through over-sensitivity, but I have managed to play some #LOTRO.

This also included trying to clear space in my Wardrobe, and only managing 25 slots on the first pass. My current maximum is 420 items and I don't have rational explanations for keeping 390 clothing items, weapons and... an Ent Ladle 🥄 in there.

My eyes are very tired now, though. Sleep time.

G'night // #StaySafe // #BeKind

The internet brings events much closer to home than the days when we read of horrors in a newspaper.
📰
Last week an Australian friend was online with a friend in Venezuela when the call was disrupted by US armed forces. The Venezuelan died in the attack. 😢

Today I'm concerned for a friend in Minneapolis - she wasn't at the ICE attack but it will have affected people in her community. 😢

So many horrors and so little ability for us to stop them. 😢 All I can do today is to try to connect with friends in my neighbourhood and even strangers on the bus, with a smile and metaphorical hug. 🤗 #BeKind

Last five years and covid in particular have greatly increased the amount of us who are poor or disabled. Last five years have made so, so much people tired, scared and stressed.
So.
Of course, this is going to be year of #Linux. But be FFS kind. To yourself! and people around you! 2/2
#FLOSS #GoLibre #BeKind

What do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Me. I try living for the moment!
#QOTD #ThePast #TheFuture #Writerslife #DailyPrompt #LoveMeAnyways #LivingYourBestLife #BeKind #WritersCommunity #LoveYourself #HelpingOthers

https://rickollie.com/2026/01/05/living-in-the-moment-embrace-your-now/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social