John Miedema
@johnmiedema.bsky.social
Writes about brilliance and resilience 🐝
https://johnmiedema.art/
https://johnmiedema.art/
Early in the pandemic it was a point of confusion whether or not people should go outdoors at all. In this comic, Jay's shadow leads him outdoors, where he encounters a bee.
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Love your small Canadian press ❤️🍁🦫🐌🐾#booksky
Buy the graphic novel for $1.99 at Snail Books
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Love your small Canadian press ❤️🍁🦫🐌🐾#booksky
If my shadow is flat ...
... the bee will fly through in colour
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December 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Early in the pandemic it was a point of confusion whether or not people should go outdoors at all. In this comic, Jay's shadow leads him outdoors, where he encounters a bee.
Buy the graphic novel for $1.99 at Snail Books
snailbooks.gumroad.com
Love your small Canadian press ❤️🍁🦫🐌🐾#booksky
Buy the graphic novel for $1.99 at Snail Books
snailbooks.gumroad.com
Love your small Canadian press ❤️🍁🦫🐌🐾#booksky
An Excerpt from Me and My Shadow
Buy the graphic novel for $1.99 at Snail Books #booksky #jung
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A review or social post is always appreciated
Love your small Canadian press ❤️🍁🦫🐌🐾
Buy the graphic novel for $1.99 at Snail Books #booksky #jung
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A review or social post is always appreciated
Love your small Canadian press ❤️🍁🦫🐌🐾
December 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
An Excerpt from Me and My Shadow
Buy the graphic novel for $1.99 at Snail Books #booksky #jung
snailbooks.gumroad.com
A review or social post is always appreciated
Love your small Canadian press ❤️🍁🦫🐌🐾
Buy the graphic novel for $1.99 at Snail Books #booksky #jung
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A review or social post is always appreciated
Love your small Canadian press ❤️🍁🦫🐌🐾
Could Canada survive economically without free trade with the United States? It’s a bit like asking whether we could survive without computers and the Internet.
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Could Canada survive economically without free trade? – John Miedema
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December 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Could Canada survive economically without free trade with the United States? It’s a bit like asking whether we could survive without computers and the Internet.
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My Shadow is a Stranger
An Excerpt from Me and My Shadow
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A review or social post is always appreciated
Love your small Canadian press ❤️🍁🦫🐌🐾
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An Excerpt from Me and My Shadow
Buy the graphic novel for $1.99 at Snail Books #booksky
A review or social post is always appreciated
Love your small Canadian press ❤️🍁🦫🐌🐾
johnmiedema.substack.com/p/my-shadow-...
My Shadow is a Stranger
An excerpt from Me and My Shadow
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December 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My Shadow is a Stranger
An Excerpt from Me and My Shadow
Buy the graphic novel for $1.99 at Snail Books #booksky
A review or social post is always appreciated
Love your small Canadian press ❤️🍁🦫🐌🐾
johnmiedema.substack.com/p/my-shadow-...
An Excerpt from Me and My Shadow
Buy the graphic novel for $1.99 at Snail Books #booksky
A review or social post is always appreciated
Love your small Canadian press ❤️🍁🦫🐌🐾
johnmiedema.substack.com/p/my-shadow-...
Cold water immersion is a masterclass in #meditation. In one minute, it teaches you to quiet the mind’s cry for comfort, a skill that carries into every hard thing in life.
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Cold Water Immersion is a Masterclass in Meditation
Shinto turns to cold squatting beneath freezing waterfalls in winter, standing in icy springs, or repeatedly dousing the body with frigid water -- I prefer a winter river
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December 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Cold water immersion is a masterclass in #meditation. In one minute, it teaches you to quiet the mind’s cry for comfort, a skill that carries into every hard thing in life.
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Cold dipping is a masterclass in metacognition. In one minute it teaches you to quiet the mind’s cry for comfort, a skill that transfers to every hard thing in life. Or you could spend a lifetime meditating. 🧊
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Cold dipping is a masterclass in metacognition. In one minute it teaches you to quiet the mind’s cry for comfort, a skill that transfers to every hard thing in life. Or you could spend a lifetime meditating. 🧊
🌿 The Assembly of First Nations voted unanimously to reject the new pipeline deal and affirmed the opposition of coastal B.C. Nations. The resolution urges Canada, Alberta, and B.C. to recognize the climate emergency. ~ CBC #cdnpoli
December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🌿 The Assembly of First Nations voted unanimously to reject the new pipeline deal and affirmed the opposition of coastal B.C. Nations. The resolution urges Canada, Alberta, and B.C. to recognize the climate emergency. ~ CBC #cdnpoli
Read an except from Me and My Shadow
Buy the graphic novel at Snail Books for $1.99
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A review or social post is always appreciated
Buy the graphic novel at Snail Books for $1.99
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A review or social post is always appreciated
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Read an except from Me and My Shadow
Buy the graphic novel at Snail Books for $1.99
snailbooks.gumroad.com
A review or social post is always appreciated
Buy the graphic novel at Snail Books for $1.99
snailbooks.gumroad.com
A review or social post is always appreciated
🧡 I won't be fooled by the Liberals again. It happened with Trudeau and proportional representation, and now Carney and climate. After considerable reflection I joined the #NDP. 🧡
November 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🧡 I won't be fooled by the Liberals again. It happened with Trudeau and proportional representation, and now Carney and climate. After considerable reflection I joined the #NDP. 🧡
Sittings on Google Meet and its Permanent Link
See you at our first sitting on January 4 2026
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See you at our first sitting on January 4 2026
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Sittings on Google Meet and its Permanent Link
See you at our first sitting on January 4 2026
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November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Sittings on Google Meet and its Permanent Link
See you at our first sitting on January 4 2026
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See you at our first sitting on January 4 2026
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Our English literature class was a small circle of Grade 13 students. On the last day he handed each of us prints of a few verses. One of them set my path:
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Thank you, Mr. Coutanche – John Miedema
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November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Our English literature class was a small circle of Grade 13 students. On the last day he handed each of us prints of a few verses. One of them set my path:
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Steven Guilbeault, minister of environment and climate change for four years, resigns from Carney’s cabinet over the pipeline deal with Alberta. ~CBC
#cdnpoli
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November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Steven Guilbeault, minister of environment and climate change for four years, resigns from Carney’s cabinet over the pipeline deal with Alberta. ~CBC
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
A wave, the Buddhists say. Not a soul, just movement.
Parfit calls it a bundle: thoughts, memories, sensations, intentions —
held together by continuity rather than ownership.
A binding
meant to come undone at death.
But how does that binding last a lifetime?
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Parfit calls it a bundle: thoughts, memories, sensations, intentions —
held together by continuity rather than ownership.
A binding
meant to come undone at death.
But how does that binding last a lifetime?
johnmiedema.art/could-some-f...
Could some future technology take a deposit of these thoughts? – John Miedema
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November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A wave, the Buddhists say. Not a soul, just movement.
Parfit calls it a bundle: thoughts, memories, sensations, intentions —
held together by continuity rather than ownership.
A binding
meant to come undone at death.
But how does that binding last a lifetime?
johnmiedema.art/could-some-f...
Parfit calls it a bundle: thoughts, memories, sensations, intentions —
held together by continuity rather than ownership.
A binding
meant to come undone at death.
But how does that binding last a lifetime?
johnmiedema.art/could-some-f...
Google is exploring computing in space because it avoids two big problems on Earth: energy and cooling.
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Google is exploring computing in space – John Miedema
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November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Google is exploring computing in space because it avoids two big problems on Earth: energy and cooling.
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AI is impressive, sure, but data centres are burning through energy at a ridiculous rate. So I asked it for a solution, thinking maybe it would suggest quantum computing or some other brilliant breakthrough.
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AI may save us yet – John Miedema
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November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
AI is impressive, sure, but data centres are burning through energy at a ridiculous rate. So I asked it for a solution, thinking maybe it would suggest quantum computing or some other brilliant breakthrough.
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There is AI slop and there is AI art, two very different things. To put it simply, even chefs use a microwave.
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
There is AI slop and there is AI art, two very different things. To put it simply, even chefs use a microwave.
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Shadow, as I’ve been calling it, is meta and recursive
You can guess, I’ve already decided to publish this work
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You can guess, I’ve already decided to publish this work
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Shadow, as I’ve been calling it, is meta and recursive
You can guess, I’ve already decided to publish this work
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November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Shadow, as I’ve been calling it, is meta and recursive
You can guess, I’ve already decided to publish this work
johnmiedema.substack.com/p/shadow-as-...
You can guess, I’ve already decided to publish this work
johnmiedema.substack.com/p/shadow-as-...
It’s been many a year since I launched Snail Books, and countless manuscripts have crossed my desk. Most arrive quietly, as manuscripts do. But this morning, something different caught my eye.
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Whether Snail Books should publish it … I haven’t decided
It’s Wednesday, and decisions made on Wednesdays tend to be slippery
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November 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It’s been many a year since I launched Snail Books, and countless manuscripts have crossed my desk. Most arrive quietly, as manuscripts do. But this morning, something different caught my eye.
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Buddhist teachings root suffering in the cravings of the mind, while Rousseau locates it in the inequalities of society.
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Quieting the Mind, Equality in the World
A reflection on Buddha, Rousseau, and the two causes of suffering
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November 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Buddhist teachings root suffering in the cravings of the mind, while Rousseau locates it in the inequalities of society.
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How does spying on vaccine production threaten production? Maybe the spies will produce more?!
#cdnpoli #vaccines #rent #housing
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#cdnpoli #vaccines #rent #housing
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Drug company says Toronto high-rises would threaten 'national security' | CBC News
A pharmaceutical company in north Toronto is objecting to a proposed new condo development next door on the grounds that hundreds of residents looking down on its facility represent a threat to "natio...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How does spying on vaccine production threaten production? Maybe the spies will produce more?!
#cdnpoli #vaccines #rent #housing
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#cdnpoli #vaccines #rent #housing
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November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Meditation trains the nervous system for equanimity.
There are many interesting definitions for meditation. The above is my current definition. Practical and positive.
#meditation
There are many interesting definitions for meditation. The above is my current definition. Practical and positive.
#meditation
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Meditation trains the nervous system for equanimity.
There are many interesting definitions for meditation. The above is my current definition. Practical and positive.
#meditation
There are many interesting definitions for meditation. The above is my current definition. Practical and positive.
#meditation