Dave, Aspiring Peasant
@aspiringpeasant.com
"fundamentally too earnest" Wendell-Berry-Pilled father+husband. Compoasting, gardening, Christopher Alexander and Antoine de Saint-Exupery. SOF veteran.
I read replies to one of my tweets today and, after about 30 seconds, I realized it was like drinking drain-o.
I used to use this website for *connection* but it's gotten so bad that it's barely usable unless I want my insides to feel like toxic sludge.
I mean, look how broken:
I used to use this website for *connection* but it's gotten so bad that it's barely usable unless I want my insides to feel like toxic sludge.
I mean, look how broken:
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I read replies to one of my tweets today and, after about 30 seconds, I realized it was like drinking drain-o.
I used to use this website for *connection* but it's gotten so bad that it's barely usable unless I want my insides to feel like toxic sludge.
I mean, look how broken:
I used to use this website for *connection* but it's gotten so bad that it's barely usable unless I want my insides to feel like toxic sludge.
I mean, look how broken:
That the most performative American Christians have lined up, almost en masse, alongside ICE - directly contrary to the words, wishes, and values of Jesus Christ himself - tells us that we were correct to distrust the story they've been telling the world about themselves.
December 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
That the most performative American Christians have lined up, almost en masse, alongside ICE - directly contrary to the words, wishes, and values of Jesus Christ himself - tells us that we were correct to distrust the story they've been telling the world about themselves.
Heros exist
“One of the agents told us that sometimes the press, or perhaps protesters posing as press, will follow them around and tell them to kill themselves.”
God bless America
God bless America
December 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Heros exist
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On the one hand it is horrifying to watch American conservatives openly embrace the most deranged fascism imaginable but on the other hand their lack of inhibition in displaying their malice to all the world is only going to win a few converts and drive many more away
December 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
On the one hand it is horrifying to watch American conservatives openly embrace the most deranged fascism imaginable but on the other hand their lack of inhibition in displaying their malice to all the world is only going to win a few converts and drive many more away
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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This is how the natural world upon which we depend begins its collapse.
December 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is how the natural world upon which we depend begins its collapse.
LOL nothing says "Elon leaning on the algo" like this shit, where Trump's numbers are record lows too.
December 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
LOL nothing says "Elon leaning on the algo" like this shit, where Trump's numbers are record lows too.
It is December 19th, nearly the Winter Solstice, and the lilacs think it is Spring.
Probably nothing. Definitely not a sign that Things Are Breaking.
Let's not pay attention to this and, instead, invade another country for its oil (and for the distraction)
Probably nothing. Definitely not a sign that Things Are Breaking.
Let's not pay attention to this and, instead, invade another country for its oil (and for the distraction)
December 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It is December 19th, nearly the Winter Solstice, and the lilacs think it is Spring.
Probably nothing. Definitely not a sign that Things Are Breaking.
Let's not pay attention to this and, instead, invade another country for its oil (and for the distraction)
Probably nothing. Definitely not a sign that Things Are Breaking.
Let's not pay attention to this and, instead, invade another country for its oil (and for the distraction)
Never ever fails
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Never ever fails
Big things are being born this month in the Peasant Home.
The boys have started writing songs together and, chat, they're putting up absolute bangers I'm not even kidding.
I feel like a midwife, in the best way, these days.
The boys have started writing songs together and, chat, they're putting up absolute bangers I'm not even kidding.
I feel like a midwife, in the best way, these days.
December 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Big things are being born this month in the Peasant Home.
The boys have started writing songs together and, chat, they're putting up absolute bangers I'm not even kidding.
I feel like a midwife, in the best way, these days.
The boys have started writing songs together and, chat, they're putting up absolute bangers I'm not even kidding.
I feel like a midwife, in the best way, these days.
Anyone wishing the United States government to be taken seriously by its own people again will start by removing Trump's name from all this bullshit.
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Anyone wishing the United States government to be taken seriously by its own people again will start by removing Trump's name from all this bullshit.
Calling "human ceremony" "silly mysticism" is so exsanguinated I don't know what to say.
December 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Calling "human ceremony" "silly mysticism" is so exsanguinated I don't know what to say.
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Always bring receipts
December 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Always bring receipts
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Hurt people hurt people.
December 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Hurt people hurt people.
I posted "here a great book on processing trauma" and, like cloockwork, their deeply sick replies prove my point.
People only act like this when they're consumed by self-hatred.
People only act like this when they're consumed by self-hatred.
December 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I posted "here a great book on processing trauma" and, like cloockwork, their deeply sick replies prove my point.
People only act like this when they're consumed by self-hatred.
People only act like this when they're consumed by self-hatred.
*Strongly* recommend anyone interested in processing trauma read "Waking the Tiger" by Peter Levine. It's not the full answer but it's definitely *part* of an answer.
December 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
*Strongly* recommend anyone interested in processing trauma read "Waking the Tiger" by Peter Levine. It's not the full answer but it's definitely *part* of an answer.
Starting to wonder if there's been a public atrocity that Israel *didn't* do.
Like, I used to mock people who said the mossad did 9/11 but I'm not laughing anymore.
Watching Israel commit atrocity after atrocity the past years has given us a taste of how they operate.
Like, I used to mock people who said the mossad did 9/11 but I'm not laughing anymore.
Watching Israel commit atrocity after atrocity the past years has given us a taste of how they operate.
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Starting to wonder if there's been a public atrocity that Israel *didn't* do.
Like, I used to mock people who said the mossad did 9/11 but I'm not laughing anymore.
Watching Israel commit atrocity after atrocity the past years has given us a taste of how they operate.
Like, I used to mock people who said the mossad did 9/11 but I'm not laughing anymore.
Watching Israel commit atrocity after atrocity the past years has given us a taste of how they operate.
Did Scott Adams die while I was offline?
Haven't heard anything about him in a bit.
Haven't heard anything about him in a bit.
December 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Did Scott Adams die while I was offline?
Haven't heard anything about him in a bit.
Haven't heard anything about him in a bit.
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Trump's NSS released shock waves in Europe, the UK, Japan, Korea... and has barely even been reported in US media. Very revealing of what has happened to US media.
December 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Trump's NSS released shock waves in Europe, the UK, Japan, Korea... and has barely even been reported in US media. Very revealing of what has happened to US media.
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An excellent demonstration of Trump diplomacy, which is generally saying "f*ck you" to the world (other, of course, than Russia.)
December 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
An excellent demonstration of Trump diplomacy, which is generally saying "f*ck you" to the world (other, of course, than Russia.)
Important: little girl decorated. Made her room, and thereby our home, very cozy tonight.
December 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Important: little girl decorated. Made her room, and thereby our home, very cozy tonight.
Anyone else almost dizzy from all the internal changes happening right now?
It feels like it would be JUST me, but every person I talk to is going through some SERIOUS shifts in their lives right now.
Feels almost supernatural.
But maybe I'm just *noticing* it more rn?
It feels like it would be JUST me, but every person I talk to is going through some SERIOUS shifts in their lives right now.
Feels almost supernatural.
But maybe I'm just *noticing* it more rn?
December 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Anyone else almost dizzy from all the internal changes happening right now?
It feels like it would be JUST me, but every person I talk to is going through some SERIOUS shifts in their lives right now.
Feels almost supernatural.
But maybe I'm just *noticing* it more rn?
It feels like it would be JUST me, but every person I talk to is going through some SERIOUS shifts in their lives right now.
Feels almost supernatural.
But maybe I'm just *noticing* it more rn?
Anyone out there a handpan player?
I'm looking to buy one for my 12yo son, but it's hard to understand the market (holy shit they're *expensive*) and trade-offs.
He's deeply, *deeply* musical, so tone VERY MUCH matters.
I'm looking to buy one for my 12yo son, but it's hard to understand the market (holy shit they're *expensive*) and trade-offs.
He's deeply, *deeply* musical, so tone VERY MUCH matters.
December 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Anyone out there a handpan player?
I'm looking to buy one for my 12yo son, but it's hard to understand the market (holy shit they're *expensive*) and trade-offs.
He's deeply, *deeply* musical, so tone VERY MUCH matters.
I'm looking to buy one for my 12yo son, but it's hard to understand the market (holy shit they're *expensive*) and trade-offs.
He's deeply, *deeply* musical, so tone VERY MUCH matters.