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“[I]f a person just refuses to think that he has an inside problem, he’s not going to work the thing out. Nobody can do it for him. You have to learn how to recognize your own depths." ~Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey

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I think we’re entering a period of what you might call “cognitive obesity,” akin to what the development of processed food and car culture systematically did to our bodies at the population level. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

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Since we're all talking about dogpiles now, and I had mentioned my own experience dealing with them a few times in the last couple days, I figured I'd write a longer thread explaining my experiences with them and specifically why they're specifically worse than just "a bunch of people being mean"

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It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Bluesky has been a net negative for US politics. They corralled everyone on the left into a little glass fishbowl where they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them. Meanwhile, all the pols & institutions stayed on X & are being dragged farther right.

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