Stevi Deter

@stevideter.bsky.social

Code! Cocktails! Cannibalism! she/her

Anyway, for the dozenth time: I’ve seen a lot. I believe our struggles are intersectional & shared regardless of if they manifest differently or hit with varying degrees of severity. I align with the oppressed even if they aren’t philosophically or intellectually where I’m at. Simple as for me.

There’s a term for this experience (which I imagine many of us are having): Moral injury. Moral injury is the distress that occurs in response to betrayal by authority structures and being unable to prevent acts that go against one’s deeply held values and moral beliefs.

Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A sense of betrayal is a very tricky kind of grief to manage, because you're grieving someone who never really existed. I've always held a pretty dim view of the US establishment & its institutions. After Trump's reelection and the Epstein files, though... I realize that even so, I feel betrayed.

It’s my birthday - please tell me one nice thing you did for yourself today! I’ll start! I took myself to Pike Place Market for breakfast where I had both a sweet (kouign Amman) and savory (bbq pork hum bao) pastry. And saw Tahoma!

Selfie of me at Pike Place Market with the Great Wheel, stadiums, and if you zoom in, Tahoma (aka Mt Rainier)