Musings about relationships, communities, and plant-based medicine
I've been reflecting on my desire to live a better life and the fact that this is not a life I can create in isolation and I have decided that I want to create a distributed, autonomous, and asynchronous network of content creators who share a similar vision and are willing to contribute their own …
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I noticed that Facebook’s feed seems to have been updated yet again. I’m starting to see a lot more posts which are not sponsored but are not from my friends or from any of the pages or groups that I follow. Just idle recommendations that take the place of the content that I came to …
I woke up feeling sick today. It started with my guts expressing their displeasure with the shit that I can't seem to stop eating despite how bad it is for me. Despite knowing how good I could feel. My willpower (and perhaps even my will to live) feels drained by the events of my life …
Ashe and I got home from our vacation to North Carolina yesterday. It was a lovely trip and we visited all sorts of places and ate lots of interesting food. We even managed to get all of the way to Folly Beach one day and Ashe and I got to meet a bunch of possums …
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Hi, I'm Rose. For those of you who don’t know me, I'm an autistic, queer, polyamorous, nonbinary human and psychedelic mushrooms and cannabis have changed my life. I am the complete stereotype. I'm half joking but it's not untrue either. Cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms changed my life because they gave my former partner Wren and …
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I've been getting a lot of traffic to my Degrowth and Voluntary Simplicity article lately and I want to say that I am absolutely tickled pink. That article was a lot of work and was a complete experiment to see if I could put out something useful while honoring the source materials so I'm really …
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NPR recently published an article titled One's Antifa. One's In A Militia. How An Ancestry Match Led To An Unlikely Bond which talks about two people who are ostensibly on extreme opposite ends of the political spectrum but started talking and realized that they had a lot more common ground than they thought. They obviously …
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Concerns about Climate Change and general climate instability seems to be on everyone's mind right now. It's no surprise considering that we're in the middle of a global pandemic and large shifting weather patterns that seem to be related to our relationship with nature. One of the biggest concerns that the sustainability community is dealing …
How to save the world is a daunting question. The problem is too big and too nuanced for us to entirely comprehend, even if we spent our entire lives dedicated to it. Most of us only have so many resources and our direct influence only stretches to maybe a dozen or so people. Many of …
It's no secret that the world right now is a complete and utter dumpster fire. People who are already marginalized by systems that are hundreds of years in the making are under direct attack by the current administration and the many hate groups around the world. It's easy to feel hopeless, powerless, and depressed by …
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