Who is the you? Which is the me?
Waitâare there three?
You may find that you see
everything one way,
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Waiting for yes
“Oh, come on Ryk, you’re being so persnickety with language again. Why don’t you just lighten up and hear what we mean, and not worry so much about how we say it?” Why, thank you for being brave and vulnerable, and for speaking up when you feel the need arise. Here’s the thing: there are…
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Supreme Court 2025 = Spanish Inquisition 1616
It wasnât until 1992 that the Catholic Church admitted their mistake. 376 mfâing years.
Diversity is the truth. Orthodoxy is the lie.
Donât let it take 4 centuries to pull your head out of your orthodox hindquarters!
Pride = Life
It’s not a condition â it’s a predisposition
Friend: What is? My particular nervous system processes my experience through language. I have experiences, and some part of me chews and chews and chews and digests and then out comes a word (this didnât start as a scatological reference, but here we are). Much of the language around neurodiversity is pathologized. We âhaveâ ADHD,…
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Protected: The Care Economy: A Model Of Sangha, and A Cautionary Tale
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The middle way: hub, or hollow?
Imagine a conversation about a trip to a museum between a person whose instrument of recall includes a detailed cinema projected onto the back of their eyeballs and a person with no access to visual formations at all. Imagine a conversation about a favorite album between a person who hears symphonies in their inner ear…
Showing Up
We hear this phrase a lot: just show up. It seems to make a lot of sense. If everyone shows up, we have a party. Hurray. If no one shows up, no party. Boo. In the West we’ve grown up to think of ourselves as unique, individual beings that are also somewhat interchangeable. We all…