A Fox's Sky 🌌
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A project @aeris.baby is working on to explore accountability and repair - not shame, not prisons. Focused on agency, capacity, and non-domination.
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Hello, I'm Aeris. 🦊✨️
"Therefore, I’m beginning to see that agency eroding dynamics without domination emerge at the system level even as individuals make reasonable choices, as their behaviors aggregate together."
Reading and Learning: Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons — Pt. 1: Concepts & Application - A Fox's Sky
“You weren’t calling people ‘the commons’?” my friend asked, chuckling. I decided then to share my notes. 😂 I was trying to understand the translation between individual choices and institutions, so I...
aeris.baby
January 2, 2026 at 12:07 PM
"Therefore, I’m beginning to see that agency eroding dynamics without domination emerge at the system level even as individuals make reasonable choices, as their behaviors aggregate together."
"... the person she was responding to said, 'the alternative to shame is criminalization,' but shame is not an alternative. It is part of criminalization already. Criminalization uses shame to enforce norms, so it makes no conceptual sense to call shame an alternative to it."
Shame Is Not An Alternative to Prison - A Fox's Sky
What started this train of thought was seeing Gwen Snyder on BlueSky post, “If you don’t believe in prison you really have to believe in shame if you want a functioning society.” And bestie reposted i...
aeris.baby
December 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"... the person she was responding to said, 'the alternative to shame is criminalization,' but shame is not an alternative. It is part of criminalization already. Criminalization uses shame to enforce norms, so it makes no conceptual sense to call shame an alternative to it."
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There is no true love of space without love of this Earth and the life upon it. As we look up at the stars with awe, may we always extend our hands to one another in committed solidarity for the life and freedom of all who may be oppressed and downtrodden upon this world.
Better is possible.
Better is possible.
October 17, 2024 at 8:02 AM
There is no true love of space without love of this Earth and the life upon it. As we look up at the stars with awe, may we always extend our hands to one another in committed solidarity for the life and freedom of all who may be oppressed and downtrodden upon this world.
Better is possible.
Better is possible.
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A shot of the Orion and Running Man #nebulae from my driveway during the last new moon #astronomy #astrophotography 🌚
December 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A shot of the Orion and Running Man #nebulae from my driveway during the last new moon #astronomy #astrophotography 🌚
Hello, I'm Aeris. 🦊✨️
December 31, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Hello, I'm Aeris. 🦊✨️
Non-zero-sum dynamics exist, but only above a certain regulation threshold. Below that, systems revert to zero-sum perception even when they are materially non-zero-sum.
December 31, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Non-zero-sum dynamics exist, but only above a certain regulation threshold. Below that, systems revert to zero-sum perception even when they are materially non-zero-sum.
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"By showing that the dominating party is also constrained and degraded by the arrangement, it opens a personal path to voluntary surrender — not as punishment, but as a human step toward mutual repair and collaborative accountability."
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aeris.baby?p=221
Could We Both Be the Oxen? Debt, Agency, and Care - A Fox's Sky
Since I’d been thinking about Graeber earlier, I opened Debt again. There was a parable that struck me as unusual this time. I’m quoting it at length because there’s a contradiction within the passage...
aeris.baby
December 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"By showing that the dominating party is also constrained and degraded by the arrangement, it opens a personal path to voluntary surrender — not as punishment, but as a human step toward mutual repair and collaborative accountability."
aeris.baby?p=221
aeris.baby?p=221
The emphasis on unstructured play really resonates. It's not just leisure, but more like how people learn coordination and self-regulation without being managed.
From that angle, #1 stands on its own even if people disagree about the rest.
From that angle, #1 stands on its own even if people disagree about the rest.
Several prominent social scientists have proposed the following four principles to protect the developing brains of our children both at home and at school:
1. More unstructured free play for children,
2. No smartphones before high school,
1. More unstructured free play for children,
2. No smartphones before high school,
December 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The emphasis on unstructured play really resonates. It's not just leisure, but more like how people learn coordination and self-regulation without being managed.
From that angle, #1 stands on its own even if people disagree about the rest.
From that angle, #1 stands on its own even if people disagree about the rest.
Have you ever considered MAGA as an emotional regulation strategy rather than purely an ideology? ❤️
aeris.baby?p=100
aeris.baby?p=100
When Freedom Isn’t Available: MAGA, Cooperation, and the Problem of Capacity - A Fox's Sky
Before I go further, I want to note that I’m not claiming any special authority on this. This is just a first pass at thinking through a topic Kevin Carson raises in “Time for an Old Idea to Come Arou...
aeris.baby
December 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Have you ever considered MAGA as an emotional regulation strategy rather than purely an ideology? ❤️
aeris.baby?p=100
aeris.baby?p=100
"By showing that the dominating party is also constrained and degraded by the arrangement, it opens a personal path to voluntary surrender — not as punishment, but as a human step toward mutual repair and collaborative accountability."
aeris.baby?p=221
aeris.baby?p=221
Could We Both Be the Oxen? Debt, Agency, and Care - A Fox's Sky
Since I’d been thinking about Graeber earlier, I opened Debt again. There was a parable that struck me as unusual this time. I’m quoting it at length because there’s a contradiction within the passage...
aeris.baby
December 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"By showing that the dominating party is also constrained and degraded by the arrangement, it opens a personal path to voluntary surrender — not as punishment, but as a human step toward mutual repair and collaborative accountability."
aeris.baby?p=221
aeris.baby?p=221