I've spent years working on this and it really comes down to this:
Any single tiny thing you can do to feel like you're helping build a better future is more productive than 10,000 hours of dread.
in 1969, theodore roszak — who coined the term counterculture in his book, “the making of a counterculture”—warned us of the dangers of technocracy.
50+ years later, as we watch elon’s (and other tech billionaires’) meteoric influence over the american govt… it hits hard.
refusing to join Bluesky not because I love Twitter (lol no)
not because I think Twitter is still alive (RIP bestie)
but because if I could turn back time I would have never done any of this in the first place
When I say "my team" I mean my therapist in Brooklyn, my psychic upstate, every Taurus born between April 19-28, my gynocologist downtown, and my parents' elderly chihuahua
i love everybody’s niche halloween costumes!! i love the specificity I love the creativity i love when you put a lot of time and effort into something that is quite literally just to make yourself laugh and i genuinely love when i don’t understand it and have to have it explained
I think some of the birthrate decline can be attributed to two forces happening everywhere: increasing complexity, and decreasing hardship. Life is too complex and too 'good.' I'll try to explain
As someone who very much does want a village and indeed has it (I currently have 4 neighborhood kids under 6 at my house joining us for dinner. Part of a baby swapping system I started in 2021), after having pretty painstakingly built it over years, I want to make two points...