Hello. I am not a Buddhist, but I am someone with I think some religious OCD and I worry that my existence is negative toward the world. I care deeply for the environment and like to feed birds and plant native gardens to help pollinators and other native fauna and flora. Do these acts generate good karma?

Edit: I have realised that I am uneducated and my perception of karma is inaccurate to how it is viewed in Buddhism. I apologise for this. I am trying to educate myself more in Buddhism and I am reading more about this.

 

Hello! I'm a cis person, but I'm trying to write a story about a character who is non-binary. I'm asking some of my non-binary friends and doing research to figure out how to best represent this in my writing and how the character might go about realising that they are non-binary. If you also have any tips for writing a good representation of a non-binary character, please do share them! Thank you.

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I personally find it quite... off... to be using the Star of David for this even if it has Israeli ties. The Star of David is not a symbol of Israel but of Jews in general, and most Jews around the world aren't in support of Israel. It would be best to just use the Israeli flag instead of tying Israel to Judaism.

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    Doing research into online cults has been a bit difficult, with 764 and children of the waning star being the biggest examples that overshadow smaller accounts (the former not being religious at all), as well as spawnism. So, people of Lemmy, what are your experiences with online cults?
    Edit for clarification: I am looking for cults in the traditional sense of the word: a closed off community with a distinct power structure and leader that is revered, with some sort of ideology (preferably spiritual but am open to all stories.)

     

    Yesterday, when trying to use anikai.to, i got the message that it didn't work with firefox or something. No worries, I gave it time to fix. Today, I got this image.
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    Recently, a data centre was burned down in the Netherlands, it is likely the one they used (I remember it saying they used megaup.nl)
    https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/08/almere-data-center-fire-control-caused-outages-throughout-netherlands
    Hopefully, they will be able to find another server soon.

     

    I'll go first: Romance is extremely overrated. I am far down on the aroace spectrum where I feel no attraction, so I don't really understand the point of romance fics. I've read a few that were good, but I usually avoid them unless it's something I really want to read. I exclusively write gen except for one crackfic I made. No hate to authors of romance fics, I just find them boring and overdone.

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