Dead Turle Karma
@deadturtlekarma.bsky.social
Dedicated to digging in the oubliette of Self to deconstruct the circle of our stuckness.
December 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
December 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
After years of following the Grateful Dead around I was unable to see the changes in myself until I finally took my parents to a show. When I tried to explain what was happening as Mickey Hart started tearing holes in the fabric of spacetime with The Beam their looks at me explained it all.
Weirdo
Weirdo
December 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
After years of following the Grateful Dead around I was unable to see the changes in myself until I finally took my parents to a show. When I tried to explain what was happening as Mickey Hart started tearing holes in the fabric of spacetime with The Beam their looks at me explained it all.
Weirdo
Weirdo
In the area I live they spray a salt solution on the roads before it snows. It helps keep the roads drivable. Not only that, it also makes the trout taste like halibut.
But now our children, and our children’s children will never experience that sacred right of passage we called:
Bumper Jumpin’
But now our children, and our children’s children will never experience that sacred right of passage we called:
Bumper Jumpin’
December 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In the area I live they spray a salt solution on the roads before it snows. It helps keep the roads drivable. Not only that, it also makes the trout taste like halibut.
But now our children, and our children’s children will never experience that sacred right of passage we called:
Bumper Jumpin’
But now our children, and our children’s children will never experience that sacred right of passage we called:
Bumper Jumpin’
December 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
-THE HEALTHY DEPRESSION-
what does it say if you're secretly hoping your swedish crispbread had an ergot fungus?
#depression
what does it say if you're secretly hoping your swedish crispbread had an ergot fungus?
#depression
December 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
-THE HEALTHY DEPRESSION-
what does it say if you're secretly hoping your swedish crispbread had an ergot fungus?
#depression
what does it say if you're secretly hoping your swedish crispbread had an ergot fungus?
#depression
A Grateful Dead Thought:
You know that in ‘74 there was some guy who decided to take a lot of acid and go check out the Grateful Dead. He walked into the Jai Alai Fronton in Miami on June 23. The music and the acid were indescribable. As he began to peak the band took a break.
Then Seastones began
You know that in ‘74 there was some guy who decided to take a lot of acid and go check out the Grateful Dead. He walked into the Jai Alai Fronton in Miami on June 23. The music and the acid were indescribable. As he began to peak the band took a break.
Then Seastones began
December 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
A Grateful Dead Thought:
You know that in ‘74 there was some guy who decided to take a lot of acid and go check out the Grateful Dead. He walked into the Jai Alai Fronton in Miami on June 23. The music and the acid were indescribable. As he began to peak the band took a break.
Then Seastones began
You know that in ‘74 there was some guy who decided to take a lot of acid and go check out the Grateful Dead. He walked into the Jai Alai Fronton in Miami on June 23. The music and the acid were indescribable. As he began to peak the band took a break.
Then Seastones began
heating up some miso paste in hot water and adding a few pieces of seaweed is a full dinner, right?
-THE HEALTHY DEPRESSION-
i would start a new product line, but that’s gotta be right up there with honest lawyers and jumbo shrimp.
#depression
-THE HEALTHY DEPRESSION-
i would start a new product line, but that’s gotta be right up there with honest lawyers and jumbo shrimp.
#depression
December 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
heating up some miso paste in hot water and adding a few pieces of seaweed is a full dinner, right?
-THE HEALTHY DEPRESSION-
i would start a new product line, but that’s gotta be right up there with honest lawyers and jumbo shrimp.
#depression
-THE HEALTHY DEPRESSION-
i would start a new product line, but that’s gotta be right up there with honest lawyers and jumbo shrimp.
#depression
A Grateful Dead Thought:
I was listening to an early version of Cryptical with Bill only. The band built to peak crescendo, and dropped into a drum solo. Not the drum thunder the Dead are known for, just a Billy kit solo. It showed that Bill is just a sloppy jazz cat, like a slow Buddy Rich on LSD.
I was listening to an early version of Cryptical with Bill only. The band built to peak crescendo, and dropped into a drum solo. Not the drum thunder the Dead are known for, just a Billy kit solo. It showed that Bill is just a sloppy jazz cat, like a slow Buddy Rich on LSD.
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
A Grateful Dead Thought:
I was listening to an early version of Cryptical with Bill only. The band built to peak crescendo, and dropped into a drum solo. Not the drum thunder the Dead are known for, just a Billy kit solo. It showed that Bill is just a sloppy jazz cat, like a slow Buddy Rich on LSD.
I was listening to an early version of Cryptical with Bill only. The band built to peak crescendo, and dropped into a drum solo. Not the drum thunder the Dead are known for, just a Billy kit solo. It showed that Bill is just a sloppy jazz cat, like a slow Buddy Rich on LSD.
Fear of dying is grief in reverse.
It all boils down to attachment.
Grief is the ego's response to the loss of something that you have great attachment to.
Fear of dying is great attachment to things of this reality and the fear of being separated from them.
#fear
#mortality
#grief
#death
It all boils down to attachment.
Grief is the ego's response to the loss of something that you have great attachment to.
Fear of dying is great attachment to things of this reality and the fear of being separated from them.
#fear
#mortality
#grief
#death
December 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Fear of dying is grief in reverse.
It all boils down to attachment.
Grief is the ego's response to the loss of something that you have great attachment to.
Fear of dying is great attachment to things of this reality and the fear of being separated from them.
#fear
#mortality
#grief
#death
It all boils down to attachment.
Grief is the ego's response to the loss of something that you have great attachment to.
Fear of dying is great attachment to things of this reality and the fear of being separated from them.
#fear
#mortality
#grief
#death
somewhere along the way
i didn’t the focus the beam
I let it stray, defused the ray
and now wish to exit clean
- dtk
#poem
#poetry
#depression
i didn’t the focus the beam
I let it stray, defused the ray
and now wish to exit clean
- dtk
#poem
#poetry
#depression
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
somewhere along the way
i didn’t the focus the beam
I let it stray, defused the ray
and now wish to exit clean
- dtk
#poem
#poetry
#depression
i didn’t the focus the beam
I let it stray, defused the ray
and now wish to exit clean
- dtk
#poem
#poetry
#depression
Hippie Salad
a blunderbuss of acid
over all is patched and fried
patchouli dawns the leg hair bloom
and we done shared all of mine
karloff crowds a young man’s mind
transcending to paint his why
in darkness bloomed the colors of awe
til bedouin legions stared back to the eye
- dtk
#poetry
#lsd
a blunderbuss of acid
over all is patched and fried
patchouli dawns the leg hair bloom
and we done shared all of mine
karloff crowds a young man’s mind
transcending to paint his why
in darkness bloomed the colors of awe
til bedouin legions stared back to the eye
- dtk
#poetry
#lsd
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
too depressed for words
i sit in grey decay ball
too depressed for words
- dtk
#haiku
#poetry
#depression
#migraine
i sit in grey decay ball
too depressed for words
- dtk
#haiku
#poetry
#depression
#migraine
November 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
too depressed for words
i sit in grey decay ball
too depressed for words
- dtk
#haiku
#poetry
#depression
#migraine
i sit in grey decay ball
too depressed for words
- dtk
#haiku
#poetry
#depression
#migraine
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
“Why did the chicken cross the road?"
"Cuz it was a nice day and it looked like rain."
- Bob Weir
#gratefuldead
#bobweir
#dadjokes
"Cuz it was a nice day and it looked like rain."
- Bob Weir
#gratefuldead
#bobweir
#dadjokes
October 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“Why did the chicken cross the road?"
"Cuz it was a nice day and it looked like rain."
- Bob Weir
#gratefuldead
#bobweir
#dadjokes
"Cuz it was a nice day and it looked like rain."
- Bob Weir
#gratefuldead
#bobweir
#dadjokes
I just realized that the thing my teachers used to call daydreaming is very much like that thing we now call augmented reality.
- dtk
#neurodivergence
#imagination
- dtk
#neurodivergence
#imagination
October 1, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I just realized that the thing my teachers used to call daydreaming is very much like that thing we now call augmented reality.
- dtk
#neurodivergence
#imagination
- dtk
#neurodivergence
#imagination
For years I had trouble getting an MRI for my thoracic spine. ANTHEM wouldn’t t allow it since we were looking at cervical issues.
NOW they are refusing to treat my thoracic because (get this) I recently had cervical treatment and it’s the same body part.
Slimeballs
#healthinsurance
#anthembcbs
NOW they are refusing to treat my thoracic because (get this) I recently had cervical treatment and it’s the same body part.
Slimeballs
#healthinsurance
#anthembcbs
September 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
For years I had trouble getting an MRI for my thoracic spine. ANTHEM wouldn’t t allow it since we were looking at cervical issues.
NOW they are refusing to treat my thoracic because (get this) I recently had cervical treatment and it’s the same body part.
Slimeballs
#healthinsurance
#anthembcbs
NOW they are refusing to treat my thoracic because (get this) I recently had cervical treatment and it’s the same body part.
Slimeballs
#healthinsurance
#anthembcbs
Jimmy Kimmel’s returning monologue was fantastic, funny, and always brave.
Like Pete Seeger when he was allowed back on tv after being blacklisted for almost 20 years, Jimmy still made sure to still say what was important as soon as he could again.
@jimmykimmel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJ...
Like Pete Seeger when he was allowed back on tv after being blacklisted for almost 20 years, Jimmy still made sure to still say what was important as soon as he could again.
@jimmykimmel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJ...
Pete Seeger: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
YouTube video by PopulistParty
www.youtube.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Jimmy Kimmel’s returning monologue was fantastic, funny, and always brave.
Like Pete Seeger when he was allowed back on tv after being blacklisted for almost 20 years, Jimmy still made sure to still say what was important as soon as he could again.
@jimmykimmel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJ...
Like Pete Seeger when he was allowed back on tv after being blacklisted for almost 20 years, Jimmy still made sure to still say what was important as soon as he could again.
@jimmykimmel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJ...
September 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Today’s migraine is brought to you by:
- LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS -
“When it comes to pain, misery, and vertigo… We deliver to you!”
#migraine
#migraines
- LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS -
“When it comes to pain, misery, and vertigo… We deliver to you!”
#migraine
#migraines
September 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Today’s migraine is brought to you by:
- LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS -
“When it comes to pain, misery, and vertigo… We deliver to you!”
#migraine
#migraines
- LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS -
“When it comes to pain, misery, and vertigo… We deliver to you!”
#migraine
#migraines
the odor of eggs
as we recapture silver
but it is a trap!
- dtk
#haiku
#poetry
#darkrooms
#photography
#graphicarts
as we recapture silver
but it is a trap!
- dtk
#haiku
#poetry
#darkrooms
#photography
#graphicarts
September 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
the odor of eggs
as we recapture silver
but it is a trap!
- dtk
#haiku
#poetry
#darkrooms
#photography
#graphicarts
as we recapture silver
but it is a trap!
- dtk
#haiku
#poetry
#darkrooms
#photography
#graphicarts