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I'm used to people following me on Twitch while I'm live, but I'm seeing follows even when I'm not live, which is heartening :hug_love: it means my non-live efforts are worthwhile enough for people to seek out my Twitch account in hopes of catching lives at some point :cat_wow:

It's a strange kind of paradox when a small fandom or group starts that's pretty cool. People love it, there's a small feeling of like "It'd be awesome if more people knew about this, etc." And then when it becomes huge, the feelings immediately become "I miss the old days when this was a smaller, tight-knit community."

When I consider activism
I hear a solid note
shared through many voices
One cannot hold a note
sustained forever
we gotta breathe and rest
together we hold the note forever
breathing and resting
while others Sing
the Songs of Freedom
continue forever
Our collective voices share
We are not free until
we are all free...

Listen to the collective nature of this Philip Glass piece, a symphonic note, a chord, together in motion and rhythm...
tidal.com/track/360675179?u

Music on TIDALSan Francisco Symphony - Adams: Shaker Loops: 4. A Final ShakingListen to Adams: Shaker Loops: 4. A Final Shaking on your streaming service

Since I am a neurodivergent who has read the Communist Manifesto, it genuinely baffles me that people assume that communism, in general, is this overly bad thing, when they haven’t looked into it, they just know Stalinism, which was never communism, just totalitarianism.

I’m not saying we should all become communists, but it’s far less detrimental than capitalism.

I've been sitting here thinking about the practical effects used in The Thing, and it has made me a little annoyed at how CGI has taken over the world of horror.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but I miss when it wasn't relied on. There's something charming about practical horror effects.

Serious question: Where's the fun in software development at the moment. Problem solving seems to consist mostly of cut & pasting things from the internet regardless of whether they're applicable.

Or #AI ... Also not fun to have to figure out whether it's generated gibberish or whether it's actual applicable for the subtleties of your scenario. They might work in most scenarios but if this is the default for "problem solving" these days I'm not sure what that says about the industry 🤷 #musings

I had this beloved friend visiting us a few weeks back. They stayed a while at our place and I must say I really miss having them around; in fact, I just miss them🥺

I usually don't have any trans siblings around me IRL - but it isn't just that; it isn't that this friend is trans, it is that there seems to be a bond, I don't really know what exactly it is, but it is there - and I guess, it is there to stay... 🥺🥺🥹

My heart ❤️‍🩹 is it's own creature, I do not control it. Like a baby critter I can only feed it and guide it, interpret it's signs, and try my best to give it what it needs to heal.

When it likes someone I must try to learn about that person, see if they are safe, see if they are compatible with me on the different levels (like parents worry about the people their kids are dating), do their natal chart, do and elections chart for the time we met, watch the planets as our relationship develops, ensure communication happens about complex topics. The heart is all "want" "need" "yay" "owww" "scared!", so I have to do the heavy lifting of everything else required for a successful and healthy adult relationship.

It's strange, it feels like my heart is a different being that lives inside of me that I have to manage, like a child or pet. The parts of self from psychology come to mind in this. Not sure, still exploring.

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The more exposure I have to psychology (through my therapist friends) and the more I study magick, witchcraft, and astrology, the more similarities I see between the two. They are both, after all, trying to figure out the heart/emotions, mind, and spirit as well as figure out ways to work with them and cause intentional changes in them for their healing and betterment.

Being modern and secular, and to maintain its air of respectability and broad applicability, psychology eschews topics that might touch spirituality, such as defining how the spirit and or soul fits with the mind, which is probably for the best as that is individual.

Self-help is the popularized monetized secular equivalent to chaos magick: whatever works: glitz it and ship it!
Self-help pilfers from psychology that which it finds useful enough that they can sell to people for the effect promised.