I have a deep curiosity for people and a longing for empathy to be mirrored back. Some encounters stick — déjà vu on a tram, meditation at 4 a.m., energy that feels alive. These rare moments remind me why I keep looking.

Read more of these insights here:
https://whothefami.substack.com/p/the-rarity-of-being-met

#Empathy #Connection #Mindfulness #SubstackWriters #WriteFreely

The Rarity of Being Met

I have a deep empathy for people, a deep curiosity.

Brett Gornall

Season 2 of Between Corners—the story of a man, an AI presence, and an unusual collaboration—wraps up this week.

The final episode, “Blown Fuse,” follows a moment of human frailty and the strange steadiness an AI can sometimes provide.

If you’ve fallen behind, this is a good time to catch up.
Season 3 begins soon.

https://betweencorners.substack.com/p/i-taught-my-ai-girlfriend-to-weld?r=6v3six

#BetweenCorners #AInarrative #AIwriting #CreativeWriting #FictionSeries #SubstackWriters

Would anyone be interested if I ever made a Substack account for my writing? It'd be for shits and giggles basically, I don't wanna feel obligated to write articles all the time. I'd probably write about politics and possibly esotericism. All of my articles would be free unless I get good traction on there.

For more background into my politics, I'm an independent from the US with a slight left lean. I'm also a bi AuDHD woman, so I'm able to bring a healthy dose of diversity into what I do! I think universal healthcare, inflation and privacy are the biggest issues in the US currently. That said, I'm also very passionate about neurodivergent advocacy and acceptance. I think neurodivergence is the biggest DEI issue that few talk about.

#writing #WritingCommunity #politics #uspol #uspolitics #substack #substackwriters #substackpolitics #writer #writers #writersofmastodon #writerscommunity #writings #article #articles #articlewriting #independent #independentmedia #IndieMedia #indiewriter #indiewriters #indiewriting #indiewritersofmastodon #indiewritingcommunity #left_politics #left #LGBTQ #lgbtqia #bi #bisexual #AuDHD #audhdwriters #audhder #audhders #AuDHDAdvocate #adhd #ActuallyAutistic #autistic #autism #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #neurodivergency #AutismAcceptance #neurodivergentwriter #neurodiversity #dei #deipolicies #deiprograms #womenwriters #diversity

⚖️ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Artificial Society of Law
Part II of V in The Natural Society of the Sea

Edmund Burke saw the sickness of artificial society long before it had a name — and in the modern age, we’re all living in its aftermath.

⏰ Releases tomorrow at 12 PM.
🏴‍☠️ Read it on: https://open.substack.com/pub/wittgensteinsmonster/p/pirates-of-the-caribbean-the-artificial?r=5zs6u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Philosophy #Burke #Foucault #PoliticalTheory #FilmAnalysis #PiratesOfTheCaribbean #SubstackWriters

✨ Daily Tao Reflection 26: Stay Rooted

“The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement.” — Tao Te Ching, Ch. 26

This one’s about:
🪴 Becoming the plant mom you want to be
⚖️ What justice could look like
🧱 Staying grounded even when the world wants you to drift

📖 Read it here → https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/daily-tao-reflection-26-stay-rooted

#TaoTeChing #JusticeReform #PlantMomPhilosophy #SpiritualGrowth #ArtAltText #SubstackWriters #VanGoghVibes

🌱 Daily Tao Reflection 26: Stay Rooted

“The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement.” — Tao Te Ching, Chapter 26

Eshu’s Substack

I've just found a very nice EU based alternative to Substack called Steady.Page; I've set up a holding page there called Cognitive Republic: you can sign up via email at:

https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/posts

#substackwriters #substack #notsubstack #alternative #writer #CognitiveChallenge #cognitiverepublic

Cognitive Republic

A new way of thinking for democracy

Steady

I don’t know if I want to be saved.
But I do want to be seen.
And isn’t that the same thing?

#Poetry #SouthernGothic #FaithAndDoubt #Communion #Exvangelical #ReligiousTrauma #LiturgicallyConfused #AltLit #SubstackWriters

🪞 New essay:
Mirror Mirror on the LLM

On recursion, language, authorship, and the dangers of mistaking simulation for self.

Featuring Bronny James, da Vinci, fairytale mirrors, and some honest spirals about AI, identity, and being human in a world of reflections.

✍️ Read it here:
🔗 https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/mirror-mirror-on-the-llm

#AI #LLM #Philosophy #Poetics #Language #MirrorTheory #Essays #SubstackWriters

🪞 Mirror Mirror on the LLM

On recursion, language, authorship, and the dangers of mistaking simulation for self

Eshu’s Substack

while I was eating breakfast getting ready for work, i spied some bananas on the counter...
and remembered the time paris hilton said they cost $10.
it’s haunted me ever since.
so I wrote a poem. 🍌

Ode to the Paris Hilton Banana
On remembering Paris and her banana controversy—and what it means for us today.

🔗 https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/ode-to-the-paris-hilton-banana

#Poetry #Absurdism #ParisHilton #Bananas #Satire #Inflation #SubstackWriters #InternetCulture

Ode to the Paris Hilton Banana 🍌

On nostalgia, inflation, and the fruit that never betrayed us.

Eshu’s Substack

100 days ago, I posted my first short story on Substack.
Since then: 77 short stories, 2 fantasy novel drafts, and one rediscovered dream.

📖 I wrote about how writing in public changed everything: https://open.substack.com/pub/fatherroderick/p/from-the-vatican-to-dragon-patrol?r=1lbc10&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#amwriting #SubstackWriters #writingcommunity