while we can’t help but fall for this fiction (the need to play along to survive is real indeed), reality always slaps us in the face eventually, perhaps when we attempt to exchange currency for a healed body or a mended relationship and the check bounces

in the same breath, they dismiss the realest matters–health, relationships, environment, basic food and shelter–as “unrealistic” because they consume too much of this measuring unit, money

paraphrasing alan watts, they refuse to build a house because they don’t have enough inches

oh and shoutout to @pmillerd.bsky.social for hosting the convo!

"pathlessness" is an approximation. "creative freestyle" could be great too. above all, i'm trying to define and flesh out a mindset that one can have even while having a "normal job"

this talk has me again questioning the fact that big quit energy has a "negative" starting place, i.e. one guided by what i'm against (a "job" as the dominant institution)and my own workaholism. not as clear: the positive equivalent of that? what I’m embracing instead?

what’s warm is our specialty cause we’re the real ones

everybody out here tryna be a thot leader

you could say attention IS life itself. it’s at the very least how you experience it

Dr Devon Price, in Laziness Does Not Exist, on how our culture conditions is to hate the unhoused: “You’re fighting to survive every single day, and people have the audacity to call you lazy.”

Has always stuck with me.

professional athletes as well. actors. talk show hosts including the ones on fox news telling you that unions are bad and scary. all the "glamour" jobs i guess

kinda like going to those old colonial villages where ppl pretend it’s the 1600s, but less associated with genocide

as someone who didn’t really jump on twitter the first time, bluesky feels like a second-chance time machine just to see what it used to be like

i knowww it’s like seeing them in the green room or some shit