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On the idea of “doom spending”: I’ve noticed that hobbies I used to enjoy, spectating sports, trading card games, video games, and just about anything else seen as a leisure activity have been destroyed by unreasonable men. Sports are now synonymous with gambling over every possible outcome on any given play. Trading card games are…
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Today I’m going back to looking at the Sublime app, and there were a couple things I wanted to talk about. One was about “feed bankruptcy.” Yeah, I used to love feeds, too, but there is just so much content to consume now that you’re never really able to “keep up” with all the sites…
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May 1st 2025 My card for today is fitting: Nine of Sea reversed I’ve gotten this before and it’s definitely on point. The Mystical Cats Tarot guidebook reads: “Do you believe you deserve happiness? Do you truly believe that the universe holds goodness and joy for you? The unwillingness to express your wishes and set…
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This is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time, and certainly the best on economics. I thought Morgan Housel’s book was good, but this one went so much deeper and more in depth about the real problems facing our world. And I agree with about 95 percent of what she says,…
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Anna of Wild Geese has a great video about personal curriculum. This is something I thought about doing but like Anna, if I give myself too strict of a plan, I’ll rebel against it. I love this “research as ceremony” as a way to reframe learning, getting away from “colonialist” and individualistic learning. Also it’s…
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I became intimately familiar with Whitney Hanson’s poetry recently, thanks to an Instagram reel I was shown by the Algorithm. I IMMEDIATELY pre-ordered her newest poetry book “the love of my life” and it arrived on the evening of its release day, July 7th, 2026. It showed up while I was taking a much needed…
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Skillet has a new song called “Scream.” It’s pretty good, which is not surprising because they are a great band. And they are CHRISTIANS (obviously, they are a Christian rock band.) … ODB reading today: Genesis 50:22-26 This passage is the very end of Genesis. In particular 50:25. “Then Joseph made the sons of Israel…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AUDRA! Today we’re celebrating the 25th birthday of the greatest cover artist of all time, Audra Miller, and also the 10th anniversary of her band First to Eleven. Here’s her “birthday cover” from this week: “FLORIDA!!!” by Taylor Swift and Florence the Machine. It features one of her besties Alexis Federici, who is…
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I was doing a lot of thinking about why I find certain women so attractive. It isn’t one thing, and while yes there are certain things I like – heart shaped faces, cute face framing hairstyles, and big expressive eyes – these are not any sort of requirement. I just want to find a girl…
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Bible Study with Loisa: When Anxiety & Loneliness Hit… the ASMR is top-notch too. She is only the world’s greatest ASMRtist after all <3 John 14:27 (NAS): “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you, not as the world gives, do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor…
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As I said to Emily this morning, without the influence [of a certain content creator, I would’ve deleted my entire website and archived everything and spent the rest of my life as a total ghost. But because of [them], I rethought a lot of things, learned about Anna [Corinne], Sublime, and digital gardening. I think…
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“I am alive in a life that would have seemed almost impossible to explain to certain earlier versions of myself, and some part of me had apparently decided that 5 AM was the correct time to contemplate the distance between then and now.” – Emily Slatin, “Measuring the Distance Between Then and Now … I…
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I’ve actually ALWAYS felt this way. Now I have no choice because I was literally completely unable to digest meat products anymore and dairy products make me stop breathing. And I live in an area where vegan options are brutally limited. Fun times. This needs to change! GO BILLIE! PREACH GIRL! … I’m having BIZARRE…
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I’m thrashing journals for anything worthy of keeping. It’s that or start punching holes in the wall, and good luck getting the drywall fixed ‘round here. “Don’t give into the dopamine rush of creating featherweight content rather than struggling to create something worthy of being printed on real paper.” – APD, 2025-11-04 … Pulled this…
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Audra is a Material Girl, apparently. And very passionate about that, too! XD ,,, I have to very much DISAGREE with Anthony Fantano on MUSE. He is NOT a fan! But I respect his opinion. I will say, the idea that The Resistance was a bit of a Rorschach test actually makes some sense. And…
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This is the kind of amazing human being that Audra Miller is. This is why she should be a superstar and not just singing in a cover band. … I’m making a new Instagram account for the podcast/newsletter. It’s time. https://www.instagram.com/ameliadesertsong … I’m going to see MY QUEEN ELLA LANGLEY in Gilford NH later this…
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BTW I met this girl at a free show at Big Bar in Erie, PA around St. Patty’s day last year. I have one of those hoodies she’s got there. She handed it to me. Best night of my life. … “We’re numb to our own knowledge.” It’s lines like that which make Anna Corinne…
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I am wide awake, YES, Like Katy Perry. So I may as well get up and be productive at getting my geese in a row. … Gorgeous girl and I am sure her story is far too common with a much less desirable ending. … The universe told me to listen to album 1, track…
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On this day June 28, 2026, around midnight, I finally broke the many-layered mask I wore over my true personality for over thirty years. It took a lot of hard work over the past three weeks, but I finally have become the Phoenix I was intended to be. I’ve rediscovered my true voice. I am…