Xen
@thewayofxen.bsky.social
"Take a breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone." - Alan Watts
Software developer, native plant gardener, learning Dutch. Ann Arbor, MI.
Software developer, native plant gardener, learning Dutch. Ann Arbor, MI.
Sometime soon, someone will write a very insightful article about how the concept of intersectionalism elevated a bunch of disparate progressive ideas into a dogma where your entire morality hinges on perfect compliance on a dozen loosely related issues, and I'm going to read the heck out of it.
January 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Sometime soon, someone will write a very insightful article about how the concept of intersectionalism elevated a bunch of disparate progressive ideas into a dogma where your entire morality hinges on perfect compliance on a dozen loosely related issues, and I'm going to read the heck out of it.
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This is a big country — hundreds of millions of people — with just two parties.
Everyone ends up voting for a presidential candidate they disagree with about a lot of stuff.
Whichever coalition positions itself as more chill and friendly to heterodoxy will win almost by default.
Everyone ends up voting for a presidential candidate they disagree with about a lot of stuff.
Whichever coalition positions itself as more chill and friendly to heterodoxy will win almost by default.
January 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This is a big country — hundreds of millions of people — with just two parties.
Everyone ends up voting for a presidential candidate they disagree with about a lot of stuff.
Whichever coalition positions itself as more chill and friendly to heterodoxy will win almost by default.
Everyone ends up voting for a presidential candidate they disagree with about a lot of stuff.
Whichever coalition positions itself as more chill and friendly to heterodoxy will win almost by default.
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I listened to Carl Sagan last night to fall asleep and I did not fall asleep. 🥲😬😳
January 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I listened to Carl Sagan last night to fall asleep and I did not fall asleep. 🥲😬😳
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We're making all your websites shitty and evil. What are you gonna do, log off and spend time with your family
January 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We're making all your websites shitty and evil. What are you gonna do, log off and spend time with your family
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To an asshole, all virtue is "virtue signaling."
January 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
To an asshole, all virtue is "virtue signaling."
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The thing is, you can replace “cruel” in this sentence with funny, artistic, thoughtful, thoughtless, compassionate, greedy, kinky, creative, or any of 1000 other adjectives.
Why are so many of us only able to see us as exceptional in our faults?
Why are so many of us only able to see us as exceptional in our faults?
True statement that often makes me feel terribly sad ashamed of the world we live in. 😪🙏
December 29, 2024 at 6:37 PM
The thing is, you can replace “cruel” in this sentence with funny, artistic, thoughtful, thoughtless, compassionate, greedy, kinky, creative, or any of 1000 other adjectives.
Why are so many of us only able to see us as exceptional in our faults?
Why are so many of us only able to see us as exceptional in our faults?
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if you follow like 5000 people on here youre fucking stupid and your feed looks like a hoarder house
December 29, 2024 at 9:36 PM
if you follow like 5000 people on here youre fucking stupid and your feed looks like a hoarder house
"Behind every emotion is the nagging sense that none of this is real, that you’re making it all up, and that everything is actually fine. The problem, this feeling tells you, is you."
Narrative truth is how I finally beat this feeling.
#CPTSD #Trauma #TraumaRecovery
Narrative truth is how I finally beat this feeling.
#CPTSD #Trauma #TraumaRecovery
The Power of Narrative Truth in CPTSD Recovery
A persistent challenge of CPTSD recovery is trying to make sense of a childhood you can barely remember. When memories exist as wreckage…
medium.com
December 1, 2024 at 12:21 AM
"Behind every emotion is the nagging sense that none of this is real, that you’re making it all up, and that everything is actually fine. The problem, this feeling tells you, is you."
Narrative truth is how I finally beat this feeling.
#CPTSD #Trauma #TraumaRecovery
Narrative truth is how I finally beat this feeling.
#CPTSD #Trauma #TraumaRecovery