Hey organizational scholars, do as the Beatles did, visit Hamburg:
https://www.icos2025.com/program/

I have met people, so consumed and deluded by neo-capitalist #authoritarianism that they would persecute anyone who dares produce anything outside the corporate oligarchy. People who are furious and disgusted at the very ideas of #plurality #federation and even #opensource

This is something about our plurality

> The foreword to the landmark 1980 DSM-III was appropriately modest and acknowledged that this diagnostic system was imprecise - so imprecise that it never should be used for forensic or insurance purposes. As we will see, that modesty was tragically short-lived.
- The Body Keeps the Score (p. 33) by Bessel Van der Kolk

WHAT THE FUCK?! EXCUSE ME?! THE DSM DID _WHAT_?!

And yet here we are. LOLOLOLOLOL

If I come across anyone who invalidates self-diagnosis again then I'm gonna smack them with this quote so hard that they get knocked out of our solar system. -Vox

#neurodivergent #DSM #psychology #psychiatry #diagnosis #selfDiagnosis #ADHD #actuallyADHD #autism #autistic #actuallyAutistic #AuDHD #actuallyAuDHD #plural #plurality #actuallyPlural @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @actuallyaudhd

does any entity here has a ready summary that explains (from "our" perspective) for the following:

- not all human-shaped creatures identify as "people" or "persons"
- relationship between (personhood) vs. (plurality and therarians/otherkin identities)
- how diagnoses like depersonalisation and DID can affect the above

We just had a lengthy conversation about the challenges of being plural, of sharing this body albeit we're so different, and it made me wonder about how difficult it is to navigate contradictory feelings and how even just I as a single person have them.

Being part of a system exacerbates that many times.

I was clicking around the blog after months in a dormancy coma and I’ve gotta say…

I love what my headmates have done with the place.

Pretty neat.

Have Allēna’s and Eight’s masterpiece album Mago as a treat before you go. If you’re finding the system via the MadMastodon tag or related ones, I think you’ll like what it has to say. It’s all about deconstructing a high control faith, surviving psychiatry and long term abuse, and finding ourselves. Enjoy.

-Castor (he/it), the system’s original host.

I'm doing something I'm slightly uncomfortable with. I'll be sharing the newly created profile of one of our system members because he asked me to.

Nicor is the "regular dude" (his words) in our system. But he has been growing a lot the last year and it's been very beneficial for many of us. More acceptance is good and all that.

If you wanna learn more about us then maybe follow him? You do you. I have no clue what he plans to write about but he is a good bean (albeit he can be dense):

https://undefined.social/@nicor/113908348553470604

-Vox

This goes out to everyone who invalidates people after they were vulnerable by being open about their pain:

Fuck you

(The more privileged you are the better you are not pulling this shit, or I'll personally rip you a new one.)

#trauma #neurodivergent #queer #bigotry #neuroqueer #neurosupremacy #minority #marginalized #ADHD #actuallyADHD #autism #plurality #actuallyAutistic @neurodiversity @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd

Alright, this is gonna be fun. Hi, I'm Void. I'm part of this plural system. I usually lay back but I am responsible for our career. I'm not really interested in social media.

The one who is interested in social media and is tooting basically everything is our system host: Vox.

Vox is the nonbinary mess of a person. They are good with people, which is why they host. I'm not. I'm unapologetically blunt. Works great in our job though because we can abuse our white male-read privilege.

So why am I tooting? You know, this account has always been a system account. It's just been Vox's plaything. And Vox has qualms to be open about our plurality. But I do not. In fact I'm tired of hiding.

So hello world. I'm Void. I'm part of this system, as are five other headmates. All distinct and unique people. We call ourselves "the Pack" for reasons that are our own.

And in case you know us in real-life: welcome to the life of a plural system. Read this: https://morethanone.info

…i think we should properly introduce ourselves.

We are a system of… Currently five, possibly more, headmates. We are still learning as a plural system (and still learning other things, too), and we will take all the advice we can get for sorting through these thoughts.

Since we’ve recently set it up, you can check out this page to learn more about each of us we’ve found so far:
https://sleepingholly.neocities.org/bios

(...still a work in progress, we've never created a site before...)

So, we're a plural system of 5! We each use a different emoji when we feel like actively identifying ourselves, but we don't always unless either it's relevant or we feel like it. We're very interconnected and don't have any memory separation, and we're all alright being called Pirca just as a general name we use online and having she/her pronouns used for us unless you're specifically trying to talk to/about one of us in particular. Also, we're all therian!

Mew (She/Her)
Wisp (She/They/It)
Melody (She/Her)
Raichu/Rai (She/It)
Pirca (He/Him)

More detailed descriptions in the reply~

This visual depiction of #plurality and being #plural , is one of the most relatable ways of explaining it. This was shared via a Discord I'm in, but originates from https://www.tumblr.com/digital-pawprints/771777170851938304/it-can-be-a-bit-difficult-at-times-to-explain-how and I believe them to be the author

This is toot 1/2

in #plurality discourse there is a lot of talk about "front" conceived of as a singular place that, solely occupied, mutually excludes other aspects of self, and this is hard for us to grasp because for us it's all about degrees to which each aspect is facing front, as if we are collectively all present in a space oriented to our body

Options to the TDG Electoral Structures

https://medium.com/tiered-democratic-governance/options-to-the-tdg-electoral-structures-8b1768fe5d75?sk=289498b7719b2c1827d94f7b6840f05a

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#plurality #rankedchoicevoting

My headmate tails wanted me to draw a picture to help her feel euphoric. Plus, there needs to be more cute transfem Tails art out there! #furry #furryart #plural #plurality #pluralpositivity #gendereuphoria

"Harmony in this context is not about uniformity. The true transformative potential of #harmony can be realized by embracing the tensions inherent in #plurality."

Man Fang, Post Growth Fellow, explores how #Chinese #philosophy can complement current approaches to rethinking progress: https://medium.com/postgrowth/rediscovering-harmony-how-chinese-philosophy-offers-pathways-to-a-regenerative-future-07a097b237a0?source=friends_link&sk=421799945cafb5f700d196cfabfe3306