Mutual Paradox
@mutualparadox.bsky.social
Me, I rant in poems and prose, while trying to catch a little senseless beauty here and there with phone or camera.
My partner in crime is a 30lb labrahuahua rescue. She provides the laugh track.
My partner in crime is a 30lb labrahuahua rescue. She provides the laugh track.
📛Name It to Tame It
What: Label what you’re feeling or name your inner critic.
How: Say to yourself: “That’s just Anxious Annie again.”
Why: Naming creates distance — psychologists call it “cognitive defusion.” It softens the emotion’s
grip.
What: Label what you’re feeling or name your inner critic.
How: Say to yourself: “That’s just Anxious Annie again.”
Why: Naming creates distance — psychologists call it “cognitive defusion.” It softens the emotion’s
grip.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
📛Name It to Tame It
What: Label what you’re feeling or name your inner critic.
How: Say to yourself: “That’s just Anxious Annie again.”
Why: Naming creates distance — psychologists call it “cognitive defusion.” It softens the emotion’s
grip.
What: Label what you’re feeling or name your inner critic.
How: Say to yourself: “That’s just Anxious Annie again.”
Why: Naming creates distance — psychologists call it “cognitive defusion.” It softens the emotion’s
grip.
The Universe just left a “Customer Satisfaction Survey.”
1)Current incarnation? Meh → neato → are you kidding me.
2) Life-forms? 1-10 scale.
3) Ease of Navigating the Meaning interface?
4) Recommend existence? y/n.
5) features suggestions?
Your answers?
Idea credit: ChatGPT prompt
1)Current incarnation? Meh → neato → are you kidding me.
2) Life-forms? 1-10 scale.
3) Ease of Navigating the Meaning interface?
4) Recommend existence? y/n.
5) features suggestions?
Your answers?
Idea credit: ChatGPT prompt
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The Universe just left a “Customer Satisfaction Survey.”
1)Current incarnation? Meh → neato → are you kidding me.
2) Life-forms? 1-10 scale.
3) Ease of Navigating the Meaning interface?
4) Recommend existence? y/n.
5) features suggestions?
Your answers?
Idea credit: ChatGPT prompt
1)Current incarnation? Meh → neato → are you kidding me.
2) Life-forms? 1-10 scale.
3) Ease of Navigating the Meaning interface?
4) Recommend existence? y/n.
5) features suggestions?
Your answers?
Idea credit: ChatGPT prompt
Auntifa, UncleFa, and many, many cousinFas were out in force in Santa Maria. They barley kept in line with honks from passing cars and free water.
Happy to say I escaped fully intact, but loaded with flyers.
Happy to say I escaped fully intact, but loaded with flyers.
October 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Auntifa, UncleFa, and many, many cousinFas were out in force in Santa Maria. They barley kept in line with honks from passing cars and free water.
Happy to say I escaped fully intact, but loaded with flyers.
Happy to say I escaped fully intact, but loaded with flyers.
How's your skin?
🚩 Red Flag:
My skin flares, and slow healing weren’t “aging”—they were diabetes. By the time I pushed for labs, my A1C was 12.9%.
🟩 Green Flag:
Turning it around meant changing what and how I eat, experimenting and taking notes, not Ozempic.
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🚩 Red Flag:
My skin flares, and slow healing weren’t “aging”—they were diabetes. By the time I pushed for labs, my A1C was 12.9%.
🟩 Green Flag:
Turning it around meant changing what and how I eat, experimenting and taking notes, not Ozempic.
open.substack.com/pub/resistan...
Diabetes! Red Flag/Green Flag
Keep an eye on your skin, and once you've got it, get ahold of a CGM.
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October 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
How's your skin?
🚩 Red Flag:
My skin flares, and slow healing weren’t “aging”—they were diabetes. By the time I pushed for labs, my A1C was 12.9%.
🟩 Green Flag:
Turning it around meant changing what and how I eat, experimenting and taking notes, not Ozempic.
open.substack.com/pub/resistan...
🚩 Red Flag:
My skin flares, and slow healing weren’t “aging”—they were diabetes. By the time I pushed for labs, my A1C was 12.9%.
🟩 Green Flag:
Turning it around meant changing what and how I eat, experimenting and taking notes, not Ozempic.
open.substack.com/pub/resistan...
🚩 Red Flag:
Federal agents fired rubber bullets & pepper spray at Chicago immigration protesters, injuring a U.S. citizen. When protest meets violence, rights are at risk.
🟩 Green Flag:
Protesters block ICE vans & keep spreading. Resistance grows.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Federal agents fired rubber bullets & pepper spray at Chicago immigration protesters, injuring a U.S. citizen. When protest meets violence, rights are at risk.
🟩 Green Flag:
Protesters block ICE vans & keep spreading. Resistance grows.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Trump authorises National Guard deployment to Chicago despite objections
Trump deploys 300 National Guard troops to Chicago amid protests and criticism from local leaders.
www.aljazeera.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
🚩 Red Flag:
Federal agents fired rubber bullets & pepper spray at Chicago immigration protesters, injuring a U.S. citizen. When protest meets violence, rights are at risk.
🟩 Green Flag:
Protesters block ICE vans & keep spreading. Resistance grows.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Federal agents fired rubber bullets & pepper spray at Chicago immigration protesters, injuring a U.S. citizen. When protest meets violence, rights are at risk.
🟩 Green Flag:
Protesters block ICE vans & keep spreading. Resistance grows.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Outrage is free, but your attention pays the bill.
If you could send one notification back to hell, which one would it be?
Some suggestions tomorrow morning:
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If you could send one notification back to hell, which one would it be?
Some suggestions tomorrow morning:
open.substack.com/pub/resistan...
Hidden Tax: EVERYONE Wants Your Attention
How to quiet the voices outside your head
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October 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Outrage is free, but your attention pays the bill.
If you could send one notification back to hell, which one would it be?
Some suggestions tomorrow morning:
open.substack.com/pub/resistan...
If you could send one notification back to hell, which one would it be?
Some suggestions tomorrow morning:
open.substack.com/pub/resistan...
Some roads don’t take us home. They bend us back toward what we tried to leave behind.
When has the road refused to let you go?
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When has the road refused to let you go?
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Chapter Four - A Failed Return
In which Alex gets nowhere.
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October 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Some roads don’t take us home. They bend us back toward what we tried to leave behind.
When has the road refused to let you go?
open.substack.com/pub/mutualpa...
When has the road refused to let you go?
open.substack.com/pub/mutualpa...
Third Chapter Live-Come join the adventure on Substack.
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#original fiction
#weird fiction
#liminal spaces
#desert gothic
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#original fiction
#weird fiction
#liminal spaces
#desert gothic
September 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Third Chapter Live-Come join the adventure on Substack.
mutualparadox.substack.com/p/the-purgat...
#original fiction
#weird fiction
#liminal spaces
#desert gothic
mutualparadox.substack.com/p/the-purgat...
#original fiction
#weird fiction
#liminal spaces
#desert gothic
“Florida painted over the Pulse memorial rainbow crosswalk overnight. By afternoon, the community had already restored it. They will not be erased. 🌈⚧️ #ForThe49”
August 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“Florida painted over the Pulse memorial rainbow crosswalk overnight. By afternoon, the community had already restored it. They will not be erased. 🌈⚧️ #ForThe49”
What good is a “blue wave” if it just stands there? We need fighters for wages, healthcare, truth, democracy. If you won’t lead, step aside. Full essay:
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Cam S. (@mutualparadox)
A bit outside my usual vein.
An Open Letter to the Democratic Party
The time has come to stop all the infighting, to stop clinging to the delusion of “Business as Usual,” and act. Speak out loudly. ...
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August 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
What good is a “blue wave” if it just stands there? We need fighters for wages, healthcare, truth, democracy. If you won’t lead, step aside. Full essay:
substack.com/@mutualparad...
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#GVerse Watch & Repost!!!
Two criminals made a deal to steal the Presidency to keep each other out of prison. And they’ve been telling us on tape that they did this for months.
#RemoveTrump
#deportelonmusknow
Two criminals made a deal to steal the Presidency to keep each other out of prison. And they’ve been telling us on tape that they did this for months.
#RemoveTrump
#deportelonmusknow
March 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
#GVerse Watch & Repost!!!
Two criminals made a deal to steal the Presidency to keep each other out of prison. And they’ve been telling us on tape that they did this for months.
#RemoveTrump
#deportelonmusknow
Two criminals made a deal to steal the Presidency to keep each other out of prison. And they’ve been telling us on tape that they did this for months.
#RemoveTrump
#deportelonmusknow
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I know the framing is off, but this was me zooming with no stabilization bring leaning against the wall behind me. Has fun trying to shoot the eclipse before the clouds took over!
March 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I know the framing is off, but this was me zooming with no stabilization bring leaning against the wall behind me. Has fun trying to shoot the eclipse before the clouds took over!
Here's his Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/schu...
Let him know EXACTLY how you feel about his leadership of our party, and exactly what his never steps should be.
My personal advice is that he step down to someone who has a spine.
Let him know EXACTLY how you feel about his leadership of our party, and exactly what his never steps should be.
My personal advice is that he step down to someone who has a spine.
March 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Here's his Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/schu...
Let him know EXACTLY how you feel about his leadership of our party, and exactly what his never steps should be.
My personal advice is that he step down to someone who has a spine.
Let him know EXACTLY how you feel about his leadership of our party, and exactly what his never steps should be.
My personal advice is that he step down to someone who has a spine.
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They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.
March 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.
View at various points of yesterday
March 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
View at various points of yesterday
Staying in. Current sitch:
March 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Staying in. Current sitch:
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This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.
March 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.
Other California lawmakers who voted to censure Al Green included Reps. Doug LaMalfa, Tom McClintock, Ken Calvert, Vince Fong, Darrell Issa, Kevin Kiley, Young Kim, Jay Obernolte and David Valadao. They are all Republicans.
Light em up, California peeps! Daily!!!
Light em up, California peeps! Daily!!!
March 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Other California lawmakers who voted to censure Al Green included Reps. Doug LaMalfa, Tom McClintock, Ken Calvert, Vince Fong, Darrell Issa, Kevin Kiley, Young Kim, Jay Obernolte and David Valadao. They are all Republicans.
Light em up, California peeps! Daily!!!
Light em up, California peeps! Daily!!!
Democrats who voted to censure Al Green:
Democrats:
Tom Suozzi, New York
Laura Gillen, New York
Ami Bera, California
Ed Case, Hawaii
Jim Costa, California,
Jared Moskowitz, Florida
Jim Himes, Connecticut
Chrissy Houlahan, Pennsylvania
Marcy Kaptur, Ohio
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Washington
Democrats:
Tom Suozzi, New York
Laura Gillen, New York
Ami Bera, California
Ed Case, Hawaii
Jim Costa, California,
Jared Moskowitz, Florida
Jim Himes, Connecticut
Chrissy Houlahan, Pennsylvania
Marcy Kaptur, Ohio
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Washington
March 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Democrats who voted to censure Al Green:
Democrats:
Tom Suozzi, New York
Laura Gillen, New York
Ami Bera, California
Ed Case, Hawaii
Jim Costa, California,
Jared Moskowitz, Florida
Jim Himes, Connecticut
Chrissy Houlahan, Pennsylvania
Marcy Kaptur, Ohio
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Washington
Democrats:
Tom Suozzi, New York
Laura Gillen, New York
Ami Bera, California
Ed Case, Hawaii
Jim Costa, California,
Jared Moskowitz, Florida
Jim Himes, Connecticut
Chrissy Houlahan, Pennsylvania
Marcy Kaptur, Ohio
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Washington
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March 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
You know who needs a phone call? Ten Democrats
The House of Representatives has officially censured Al Green.
Ten Democrats joined Republicans.
Ten Democrats joined Republicans.
March 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
You know who needs a phone call? Ten Democrats
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Shameful. Especially from Rep. Moskowitz.
March 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Shameful. Especially from Rep. Moskowitz.