thepit.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A Mastodon instance populated by the denizens of #bikeDC, #bikeVA, #bikeMD, and various other friends and communities. Share opinions, news, photos of your bike, food takes, and memes. There may be some horsing around. In this house, we #bancars. All hail The Pit!

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“While we tend to talk about loneliness as an inevitable feature of the human condition, it isn’t. Before the 1800s, community was built in, not sought after…
There wasn’t even a word for loneliness as we know it today. The word “lonely” described the state of BEING alone, rather than the exquisite pain of it.” —Marisa G. Franco

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“Perhaps remnants of our evolutionary past lead us to assume that friendship happens organically. Because it once did. But it doesn’t anymore. If we want to make and keep friends, we need to swim against the tides of disconnection that have been gradually contaminating us for centuries...”

“Even if the social landscape doesn’t make friendship easy, we still have agency.”

The research on can be so interesting. Dr. Franco points out that “if we know we might see someone again, we like them more.” Showing up makes a BIG difference. Propinquity