Moving my Mastodon posts over here 👉 https://micro.blog/thisness?remote_follow=1
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Thisness 🧘♂️ ☯️ ⛰️
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I’m a support worker in adult social care with an open-ended curiosity in the nature of mind.
by @DGI
"“The police don’t spend their time fighting violent criminals. Instead, they enforce administrative regulations & endless rules. Rather than protecting us against violence they bring the threat of violence to situations where it’d never occurred otherwise. Most incidents of domestic violence, a drunken brawl, or gang fights, they don’t get involved however try driving down the street with no ... https://thisness.one/2025/10/07/by-dgigraebersocial-the-police-dont.html
Thisness…
by @[email protected] “The police don’t spend their …
Cannot wait to see this. Love Paul Thomas Anderson… One Battle After Another 🍿 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1054867
One Battle After Another
Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.
The more one tries to simplify one’s online presence the more complicated it gets! 😂
Joseby @jsonbecker@[email protected]
"The Confrontation Machine: https://json.blog/2025/10/07/the-confrontation-machine.html"
The Confrontation Machine
The right lionized Charlie Kirk because he was confrontational– not because he was correct, smart, kind, or convincing. His entire “doing politics the right way” was being ready to confront anyone to his left with maximum indignation and a disgust. I think the left also rewards this behavior. Which is to say that as a culture we’re surrounded by this kind of rhetorical jousting. This performative, combative form of conversation is not just the norm, it’s what is rewarded and valued.
Jason BeckerThe Confrontation Machine: https://json.blog/2025/10/07/the-confrontation-machine.html
The Confrontation Machine
The right lionized Charlie Kirk because he was confrontational– not because he was correct, smart, kind, or convincing. His entire “doing politics the right way” was being ready to confront anyone to his left with maximum indignation and a disgust. I think the left also rewards this behavior. Which is to say that as a culture we’re surrounded by this kind of rhetorical jousting. This performative, combative form of conversation is not just the norm, it’s what is rewarded and valued.
Zen Every Day ◯"Silence is not the absence of something, but the presence of everything."
– John Grossmann
"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."
— Alan Watts
by @birming
"“They find what’s missing, because they’re not searching.”
https://robertbirming.com/just-be-yourself/"
