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Lucid
@allwaysobserve.bsky.social
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I am a polymath & I contain multitudes. 🏳️‍🌈

Naturalist
Physicist [Plasma Physics, Aero/Astro Engineering, Geology]; Scientist/Engineer
Activist
Mycologist 🍄
Occultist
Surrealist
Hedgelord
Bioregional Animist
Club Kid 🐐
Artist
Photographer 📷
Skater 🛼
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Complicated feelings when a professor of mine was in the #BlueAngels jet that caused me a major panic attack yesterday morning...
#NoToBlueAngels #N2BA #PTSD #Seafair #Seattle
Screenshot of UW Aeronautics & Astronautics FB story sharing that one of their professors, Professor Hermanson is "going for a little ride", pointing to Blue Angels with a yellow arrow, inferring he is going to be a passenger in a Blue Angels jet. A photo of Professor Hermanson is at bottom left, cropped onto a blue sky photo of Blue Angels flying above.
July 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I reached my 2025 #Reading Goal last night, and about 5 months ahead of my pace! Previous years in my adulthood, I felt grateful to complete 1-3 #books a year. Tracking my reading progress in #StoryGraph has been so much fun & helpful to see my improvement. @thestorygraph.com 📚💙
Screenshot from the StoryGraph app, that reads: "2025 Reading Goal" with 3 celebration emojis; "Reading goal of 15 books met!" above a green progress bar. Below the progress bar, it reads: "100% (15 books)"
July 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Reading this #anticapitalist primer makes me want to share small quotes from it every day, so that everyone can reflect on how #Capitalism is a major source of our suffering. For me, this #book has been so validating. 📚💙
#pagan #godsandradicals #beautifulresistance
Photo of the cover of the book "A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer" with contrasting art in black paint of a fist with roots and leaves against a white background. I am holding the book from the bottom, in front of a large shrub.
July 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Another #book finished! Been working thru this book since Feb. It's small, but very mighty with the wisdom inside. "The Wisdom of Insecurity: A message for an Age of Anxiety" by Alan W. Watts
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Photo of the book, "The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety" by Alan W. Watts. The book cover has a slightly psychedelic pattern to it in green and purple with the title and author in the center. I am holding the book in front of a window with a rhododendron on the other side.
June 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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This is a fantastic guide on how to #microdose & deeply informs the reader on everything we know about #microdosing to date! Proudly participated in the Microdose.me study mentioned inside. I started microdosing in 2022. It drastically improved my life! TYSM Jim & @jordangruber.bsky.social!
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Photo of a book with a white cover and blue lettering, "Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance" by James Fadiman, PhD and Jordan Gruber, JD. I am holding the book while outside, with a background of wood chips and foliage.
June 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Finished another #book tonight! I am so far ahead of my anticipated #reading journey this year. I made a modest goal of finishing 15 books by December, & I know I will exceed that. #Dyslexia had made it so difficult to finish just ONE book! I seem to have overcome a huge challenge for me! 📚💙
Screenshot of part of The StoryGraph app, showing my 2025 Reading Goal of 15 books. It shows that I am 67% finished, having read 10 books. At the bottom it reads, "Brilliant! You are ahead by 4 books!"
June 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Finished another book! 3 books ahead of schedule to reach my #reading goal of 15 #books by the end of the year. 💙📚
#StoryGraph
Cropped screenshot from The StoryGraph app, showing my 2025 Reading Goal of 15 books. This image shows I am 60% complete, as I've read 9 books so far. At the bottom, "Brilliant! You are ahead by 3 books!"
May 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Meant to share this earlier, but here are my stats for the #books I read in April! #StoryGraph @thestorygraph.com 📚💙
Screenshot of The StoryGraph app for tracking books, for the month of April 2025. From the top of image: @magisterlucid's April 2025 Wrap-Up 4 books. 669 pages. Average rating 4.63. Highest rated reads: The Language of Birds 5.0, The Poison Garden Issue #1 Purpose of Poison 5.0, and Cascadia Field Guide 5.0. "Average book length: 176 pages | Average time to finish: 87 days" Below the book ratings are several different graphs; a pie chart showing I've only read nonfiction genre, a bar chart showing the number of books read that correlate to different tags of books (Nature: 3 books, Essays: 1 book, History: 1 book, Poetry: 1 book, and Art: 1 book), a line graph with Pages Read as points for each day through the month, and finally another pie chart showing I've only read printed books (no audiobooks or ebooks).
May 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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You need this guide! Yes, you!
Build a #solidaritynetwork with your friends, & expand from there! Tips for surviving the empire collapse! Let's keep us safe! ✊

ABEAUTIFULRESISTANCE.ORG
#emergencysurvival #mutualaid #directaction
Photo of a book, Solidarity Networks & Emergency Survival: A Practical Guide For Surviving The Collapse Of Empire With Others
May 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I made it to 100 days of #reading, by tracking at least 1 page/day on @thestorygraph.com app! 🥳
As a #dyslexic person, some days it's a challenge to read more than one page, but I set my goal low so it's achievable and encourages me to read onward. 📚💙

#storygraph #booknerd
A dark theme screenshot of the StoryGraph app, showing a graph of pages read over the past 28 days. X-axis are the days (showing April 6th thru May 4th); Y-axis are the pages read. At the top of the image, it reads "Streak" and "1 page every day" with a button to access the detailed Journal on top right of image. Below that is what my "Current Streak" is, which is 100 days; with my "Longest Streak" next to it, which is also 100 days.
May 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Spring Fieldcap, Agrocybe praecox. I adore these edible #mushrooms. They create some incredible designs on their caps as they grow. Always reminding me of a fancy pastry, not dissimilar of pan dulce! 🤤🍄
#fungifriends
Top view of a brown mushroom cap that is splitting as it grows, creating deep white crevices/canyons that make a unique design on the cap. Surrounding the mushroom is woodland forest floor duff, with pinecones and moss. Side view of a brown and white mushroom, showing more detail of the mushroom cap with its deep grooves and ridges. Cones, moss, and some branches surround the mushroom.
April 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Western Panther, Amanita pantherinoides
#fungifriends #PNWmushrooms #mushroom
Close up of a cap of an agaric mushroom, Amanita pantherinoides, the Western Panther. The cap is a rich brown color with white irregular shaped patches of white spaced out all over. Surrounded by soil and mulch, with some green foliage around the edge of the photo. Side view of Western Panther mushroom, Amanita pantherinoides. The white stem/stipe is visible coming out of a cup shaped part of the stipe, the volva. Dirt remains at end of stipe. Surrounded by soil and mulch, with some green foliage around the edge of the photo.
April 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Working through this brilliant publication of #poison wisdom, Poison Garden issue 1: Purpose of Poison -> spiritdirt.com

Just finished a piece inside called The Mithridatic Method by Parker Thorn - useful to read for #queer folks w/ estranged family! 📚💙

#poisonpath #venificium #pharmakon
I am holding up a book, Poison Garden Issue 1: Purpose of Poison, in front of a Pacific Yew tree
April 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Reading every day, for 83 days now, I am doing well with my personally set 2025 Reading Goal in @thestorygraph.com app. 5 books read with a goal of 15 read by the end of this year. I might surpass it, who knows! As a #dyslexic person who has struggled with finishing books, I am so proud! 💙📚
Screenshot of StoryGraph app, showing my progress on my 2025 Reading Goal of 15 books (a personally set goal). It shows that I am 33% towards that goal, as I've read & finished 5 books. At the bottom it reads, "Brilliant! You are ahead by 1 book!"
April 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Finished this book yesterday, Cascadia Field Guide: #Art | #Ecology | #Poetry edited by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Derek Sheffield.

(More "Feel Guide" than Field Guide 🫶)

I wish everyone living in #Cascadia could have a copy. An incredible #bioregional #animist resource. 💙📚
Photo of a book, Cascadia Field Guide: Art | Ecology | Poetry edited by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Derek Sheffield
April 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Listening to a Tree being limbed and destroyed in my neighborhood. 😭💔🌲
This Tree has been a communal gathering spot for 100s of birds/year. Snags left standing like this provide food, shelter, and great vantage points for spotting prey. Keep urban Trees standing!
#SaveSeattleTrees
Photo of an arborist in a bucket truck hoisted high in the air to assist the arborist to destroy this Tree. The arborist is holding a limb they freshly cut and waiting to drop it below them. Tree silhouettes surrounding the focus, blue sky with clouds in background, and a power line visible at bottom of photo.
March 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Learning from the best: #Fungi!
"In times of crisis, fungi demonstrate how dominant, centralized, highly technological or exploitative power dynamics and patterns could, and should, be challenged." ✨🍄✨
Let's Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez 📚💙 #mushrooms
Photo of a book, Let's Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez with mushroom art on the cover
March 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I am working thru a poem anthology book, Queer Nature edited by Michael Walsh, and resonating with #poems before knowing the poet. Painfully only just learned of this #Black #queer genius, Claude McKay, thru his poem, 'I Know My Soul'
#BlackHistoryMonth #poetry
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Screenshot of poem, 'I Know My Soul' by Claude McKay on poemanalysis dot com. "I plucked my soul out of its secret place, And held it to the mirror of my eye, To see it like a star against the sky, A twitching body quivering in space, A spark of passion shining on my face. And I explored it to determine why This awful key to my infinity Conspires to rob me of sweet joy and grace. And if the sign may not be fully read, If I can comprehend but not control, I need not gloom my days with futile dread, Because I see a part and not the whole. Contemplating the strange, I'm comforted By this narcotic thought: I know my soul." This poem is in the public domain.
February 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Teaching myself how to bind #zines today. Use what ya got!
"Live Like The World Is Dying"
Skill Series by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness and Riot Medicine
Photo showing binding tools laid out on a zine for Basic First Aid For Emergencies. Background shows cutting mat, scissors, pencil, waxed thread, and a makeshift tool used to make folds and creases. Photo showing the interior binding on the inner most fold of a zine for Basic First Aid For Emergencies. The pages shown, are showing how to do Compression-Only CPR. Background shows cutting mat, awl, scissors, curved needle, pencil, waxed thread, and a makeshift tool used to make folds and creases. Photo showing the exterior binding on the fold of a zine for Basic First Aid For Emergencies. Background shows cutting mat, awl, scissors, curved needle, pencil, waxed thread, and a makeshift tool used to make folds and creases.
February 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I am so ready for Spring!
#fungifriends #mushrooms #foraging
Kermit the Frog holding his knees in a melancholy pose. Meme says, "I haven't foraged for mushrooms in so long I don't even know who I am anymore"
February 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Poetry is challenging. Although I wrote poetry in grade school, I haven't read many #poetry books. Partly due to not finding ones that called to me, unlike #QUEER #NATURE here, edited by Michael Walsh. I can lose the meter in many poems, but this anthology is great practice. 56% complete! 📚💙
February 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Snowing in Seattle
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#snow #seattlesnow
February 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Here's what I'm currently reading and tracking with @thestorygraph.com
Parable of the Shower,
#Queer #Nature #poetry anthology,
#Crow Moon ✨🖤🐦‍⬛🖤✨
& Let's Become #Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts
#booksky 💙📚
A screenshot of a StoryGraph website page for books I am currently reading. There are thumbnails of book covers for Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, Queer Nature: a poetry anthology edited by Michael Walsh, Crow Moon by Lucy H. Pearce, and Let's Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez.
January 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I #upcycled a pair of vintage Pennangalan goth boots into a pair of spats I can wear with different shoes. A project I started 2 years ago, finally complete! Here they are, worn with some hoof boots! #satyr #clubkid
#pennangalanboots #gothboots
Photo of leather boots and hooves worn with legs crossed Photo of leather boots and hooves worn with legs crossed, showing side buckles Photo of leather boots with hooves, shown standing on their own against a white wall. One boot facing forward to show front details, and the other boot facing backward askew to show buckles and straps.
January 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Hauntingly beautiful freezing fog this morning
#naturalist #nature
Ultra-wide lens photo of a foggy urban woodland scene Photo of a foggy treeline in an urban woodland area. Power lines in the bottom half of photo. Foggy Douglas fir trees with a cone of yellow streetlight
January 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM