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Books and zines for cultural resistance.
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🔥 Subscribe to read Balancing Boredom & Busyness, Part Three —
and discover more warmth in Embers.

Read. Reflect. Resist.

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October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Writers, artists, and makers — Embers is open for submissions year-round.
We welcome essays, reflections, visual, and experimental works.

📬 submissions@torchandtinder.org

Details → www.torchandtinder.org/p/submissions
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October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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How do you stay off the treadmill of mindless repetition?
What are your checkpoints for real progress?

🕯️ Read the complete Balancing Boredom & Busyness series in Embers:
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Warm amber tones with layered text. “How do you stay off the treadmill of mindless repetition? What are your checkpoints for real progress? Read all of Balancing Boredom & Busyness by Amber Hammargren in Embers now. Embers is where reflection meets craft—a shared space for stories, essays, poems, visual arts, and other creative works that kindle understanding and keep us human. Torch & Tinder Press — Books and zines for cultural resistance.”
October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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“By allowing ourselves to vary our speeds—to not always be in flight—we offer our minds and bodies all the different sensations we need to thrive.”
— Amber Hammargren

🔥 Learning and living each have their own tempo.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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The finale of Balancing Boredom & Busyness is here.
🔥 Part Three: The Value of Going Slow, to Go Fast.
A guest series by Amber Hammargren — now live in Embers.

Read here →
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October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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You are the signal. Keep your torchlight burning.
Signal Dispatch: www.torchandtinder.org/t/signal-dis...
Torchlight Praxis: www.torchandtinder.org/t/torchlight...
Embers: www.torchandtinder.org/t/embers
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October 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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🔥 Embers — Warmth for the long winter.
Balancing Boredom & Busyness, Part Three: The Value of Going Slow, to Go Fast drops tomorrow.
Follow the lane: www.torchandtinder.org/t/embers
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October 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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🔧 Torchlight Praxis — Tools you can carry.
The Four Domains continues: Community Resistance — Rebuilding Trust in an Age of Division is out now. Start small. Build together.
Read: www.torchandtinder.org/t/torchlight...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Issue 3: The Quiet Capture of Election Security. Not one dramatic takeover but a steady repurposing of federal posture.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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This week from Torch & Tinder Press. Follow this thread for what’s new in Signal Dispatch, Torchlight Praxis, and Embers—free to read.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Read. Subscribe. Contribute.
Signal Dispatch is now accepting submissions year-round.

Join the growing network of readers, writers, and artists building cultural resistance:
www.torchandtinder.org/p/submissions

#SundaySignal #SignalDispatch #OpenSubmissions
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October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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THE IMPRINT
“The best response isn’t a louder performance.
It’s a steadier practice.”

This week’s Imprint celebrates the quiet, repetitive labor that keeps freedom ordinary.

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#Boredom #ArchivesMonth #FreedomIsAPractice
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October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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THE FRONT MATTER
“The pattern here is not a single, dramatic takeover.
It’s institutional capture—steady repurposing of the federal posture on elections.”

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#ElectionSecurity #CulturalResistance
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October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Signal Dispatch — Sunday Signal, No. 3
This week we map the quiet capture of election security and celebrate the people who keep democracy boring.

Read it now:
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#SundaySignal #SignalDispatch #TorchAndTinderPress #FreedomIsAPractice
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October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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🔥Signal Dispatch—Sunday Signal · Issue 3
This week we map the quiet capture of election security, share tools you can use tomorrow, and celebrate archives doing the work.

torchandtinder.org/p/sunday-signal-issue-3-october-26

#Embers #SundaySignal #ElectionSecurity #ArchivesMonth
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October 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Part II of Amber Hammargren’s guest series is live now in Embers.

What practice or craft has taught you to slow down enough to see clearly again?

Read the full feature → www.torchandtinder.org/t/embers

#Embers #TorchAndTinderPress #CulturalResistance #Learning #Mastery #EducationReform
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October 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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“You may grow in miles, and you may grow in millimeters—both are worthy of recognition.”
— Amber Hammargren, Balancing Boredom & Busyness
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October 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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True growth doesn’t follow a factory schedule.
It grows deeper through practice, patience,
and the courage to move at a human pace.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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In a culture that measures progress by speed and sameness, what happens to mastery?

When every lesson becomes a data point, the craft of learning loses its soul.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Balancing Boredom & Busyness, Part II — Consistency, Mastery, and the Industrial Model
by Amber Hammargren

When repetition becomes data, we forget that learning is meant to make us more human, not more efficient.

Read here → www.torchandtinder.org/p/balancing-...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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“Mindful repetition builds the pathways with compelling destinations, where mindless repetition keeps us on a treadmill that goes nowhere.”
— Consistency, Mastery, and the Industrial Model

Read more reflections that warm, steady, and challenge the spirit in Embers.
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October 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Balancing Boredom & Busyness — Part Two: Consistency, Mastery, and the Industrial Model.

Amber Hammargren explores how the pursuit of mastery differs from the demand for sameness—and what happens when education trades growth for conformity.

Tomorrow in 🔥Embers.
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October 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Every practice of freedom has its domain: Narrative, Economic, Community, Personal Resilience.

Your practice begins now.

More in Torchlight Praxis: www.torchandtinder.org/p/economic-r...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Economic resistance = rerouting money, time, and skill from extraction to neighbor survival. Not just boycotts—groceries, bills, repairs, the hands you hire.

Read the new chapter: www.torchandtinder.org/p/economic-r...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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🔧 Torchlight Praxis — Tools You Can Carry

Part Two of The Four Domains of Cultural Resistance is out today.

Economic Resistance — Reclaiming the Means of Survival
Where the money goes is a story too.

Read: www.torchandtinder.org/p/economic-r...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM