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midlife crisis enjoyer | fool (maximalist) | crow befriender

United States
Joined December 2017
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This shit is so dumb. why tf does the invoice I’m getting from a roofing contractor have a tip option? We should not be building software like this
I just bought something from a corner store. The kind of place that sells cigarettes, snacks, and lottery tickets and when they rang me up it presented me with a tip screen… 15%, 20%, 25%… I feel like I’m going insane, this is such a bizarre experience, why are we doing this?
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I was telling a friend the other day about a psych hospital in UT that used put on a haunted house this time of year. The residents were responsible for planning and participating in the whole thing. That’s what made it cool, they leaned into it. Haunted house at an insane asylum
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As I was remembering it I had to look it up cause it seems so unlikely in today’s world. Wondered if I misremembered it or something. I guess mental health advocates shut it down in 98, which probably made sense to a lot of people. I think we should have more things like this tho
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It's the fool's job to speak what others dare not. That is his license and his sacred work, and even the gods make room for him in the grove.
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It’s his relationship with truth that compels him to speak, not any need to be understood
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Been hearing about contact improv for a long time and it’s been something I’ve meant to do. Always sat a bit outside my comfort zone, which is part of why I’m drawn to it. Had a chance to go to a workshop this week and it kinda changed my life tbh. I’m into it.
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I’m a big fan of movement practices in general. Ecstatic dance, 5rythms, etc. finding flow state in movement. For me it’s a kind of meditation where nothing else exists, no thought, just movement…
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Contact improv introduces this state to an other, and there’s a deep listening involved. No mind, meditation, feeling out another persons energy and where you meet. Incredibly intimate and playful in a way that is meaningful. I would highly recommend
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Everytime I see a turkey I feel like I’m supposed to do something about it. I mean because they are good eating and they’re dumb af and they look like they’re probably easy to catch. I never have tho
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I just remembered the Raelians claimed to have cloned a baby a number of years ago. It was all over the news for a few days when it happened. Looked it up… that was 2002? Whatever happened with that anyway?
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there’s a whole YouTube rabbit hole here that I’m not going down. These people are fkn weird. The thought of there potentially being a 24 year old clone baby out there raised by this cult is kind of funny to me though.
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I just bought something from a corner store. The kind of place that sells cigarettes, snacks, and lottery tickets and when they rang me up it presented me with a tip screen… 15%, 20%, 25%… I feel like I’m going insane, this is such a bizarre experience, why are we doing this?
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If someone told me this story I’d think, “well maybe there’s a deli in the back where they sell prepared foods too”, just trying to make sense of it, but no, it was not that kind of place. Just a basic corner store.
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I’ve always believed that truth has its own kind of gravity, a weight that we can feel. It’s been my belief that love heals, lions conquer, and magic is real. But my life is marked by failures designed to challenge this too. If there’s a lesson here, I’m too stubborn to see it
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A cricket has found its way into my house. It’s loud af, but stops making noise when it knows I’m looking for it. Not sure how this ends
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My toxic trait is thinking I’m tougher than most people, so when I hear that 90% of people who get hit by lightning live… I believe I am immune
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Happened again. Found myself in the bee yard when they decided it was time to swarm. It’s not great this time of year from the beekeeper perspective… but I can’t help but love the experience and feel glad to have been a part of it.
Replying to @MadParticipant
Been thinking about this and part of what makes being in a swarm such a unique experience. its not just that you're surrounded by thousands of separate bees, you are also inside one organism distributed across thousands, and its actively involved in a decision making process
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The left behind are fanning hard at the entrance in an effort to guide anyone home who got disoriented in this mornings chaos. I’ve never noticed this behavior before, but it makes sense. Releasing pheromones to call back those that lost the queen’s flight.
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I too lost track of the queens flight. The swarm is long gone, which is too bad. Capturing them would have made a fun video. There’s a moment that happens when you can watch the collective’s decision to move into a new hive that’s pretty special to witness
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