The State the World Pretends Not to See This article, “The State the World Pretends Not to See,” by Shay Gal argues that the international community's refusal to recognize Somaliland is based on outdated assumptions about how states achieve legitimacy.

#Somaliland was built through consent, restraint & local legitimacy—not international permission. In this powerful essay, @ShayGal84 examines why a functioning, democratic polity remains #Unrecognized, & what the world fears learning from its success.

#2026 - #day8

city’s reflection
rippled water holds its weight
unrecognized self

#01082026

~jwebbwrites

#jwebbwrites #reflection #rippledwater #unrecognized #daily #dailyhaiku #haiku #haikudaily #haikuoftheday
#bluesky #blueskyhaiku #write #writedaily #poetry #poems

#scribaland
A WORD CAN SAVE A LIFE It’s #clevertouseapeninthisway, in this #scarytime!

ALWAYS BORDERLINE Finding #boundaries is not your #normality!

FEMALE GENIUS A #humangenius like any #other and so #unrecognized!

FEMALE BISHOP #cerula, a history’s forgotten #woman #bishop?
#scribaland1 #female

#scribaland FEMALE GENIUS
A human genius like any other and so unrecognized! #scribaland1 #female #genius #femalegenius #other #geniuslikeanyother #likeanyother #like #anyother #sounrecognized #unrecognized #readinggroups #readersgroups #readingclubs #readersclubs #writersgroups #lectures #novelists

A silent message to the creatures
that quietly walk upside down
and steal the dreams of unrecognized saints
has been lost again
in the tangle of raindrops.

#poetry #poem #photography #micropoetry #freeverse #photo #lost #unrecognized #dreams

Building Solidarity Amid Hostility: Experiences of Fat People in Online Communities | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Online communities are important spaces for members of marginalized groups to organize and support one another. To better understand the experiences of fat people - a group whose marginalization often...

"...To better understand the experiences of fat people - a group whose marginalization often goes #unrecognized - in online communities, we conducted 12 semi-structured interviews with fat people."

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

This looks amazing. youtu.be/I-RgSPtjZd0?... The untold story of the unrecognized (both the caregiver/parents), and the kids. #hangingbyathread #unrecognized #lonelydownhere #ontheedge #watchthisnow

I also have a #challenge for #everyone. Stop #content #grazing stop #Doomscrolling. Because it's #teaching you to #overlook things. It's not actual #mining for #gems. Because you're just covering up your life and not actually enjoy it.
And those #unrecognized #deserve to be.