Rebjane63
Rebecca J Hanna

Assemblage Artist , Wisdom Keeper, Conspiracy Researcher, Bibliophile, Herbivore, Big Pharma Anarchist, Child of the 60's, Pronoia Advocate, Comedic Reliefian, Twin Peaks and Dirk Gently fan, Zen is my default daily reset, Jedi wannabe, American born with Irish and Blackfoot roots, anti-woke, More CO2 please (the trees asked me to add this), doer of useful old school stuff

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2026-09-10 13:10:00 UTC

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"One of the most surprising migration stories in North America involves an insect people assume never leaves the pond.
THE SPECIES: Common green darner (Anax junius) — one of the largest and most widespread dragonflies in North America. Bright green thorax, blue or purplish abdomen in males.
THE MIGRATION: Research using stable isotope analysis (led by researchers including Michael Hallworth at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center) showed green darners complete a multi-generational migratory cycle. One generation moves north in spring, a subsequent generation moves south in fall, and a resident generation overwinters in the south — a relay strategy similar in structure to monarchs.
THE DISTANCE: Individual dragonflies have been documented traveling hundreds of miles, with the full annual cycle spanning a far greater range.
THE SWARMS: Large fall movements sometimes produce dramatic swarms along coastlines, lake shores, and ridgelines — occasionally dense enough to show up on weather radar.
WHAT TRIGGERS IT: Migration is linked to temperature thresholds — cold fronts push southbound movement.
WHY IT MATTERS: Migrating dragonflies are voracious predators of flying insects, including mosquitoes, and they in turn become critical fuel for migrating falcons and other raptors. American kestrels and merlins are frequently observed hunting migrating dragonflies.
WATCH FOR IT: Clear day after a cold front, near open water or along a shoreline, September. Look for hundreds of large dragonflies all moving the same direction."
#dragonflymigration #greendarner #multigenerational #radarswarms #anaxjunius
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2026-09-09 12:29:42 UTC

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2026-09-08 11:14:52 UTC

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2026-09-07 11:37:58 UTC

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"5 days ago
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You have an emergency reset button built into the skin of your face and hardly anyone knows how to use it.
This mechanism is one of the fastest ways to lower your heart rate and reduce anxiety.
Seals, whales, and dolphins use a pronounced version of this. The moment their face touches water, their heart rate slows, allowing them to dive for longer periods of time.
The trigeminal nerve drives this function. It’s one of the largest nerves in your head, covering the entire surface of your face. Cold water touching your face, especially your forehead, eyes, nose, and upper cheeks, fires the nerve. The vagus nerve activates and flips on your parasympathetic nervous system, also known as rest and digest.
Parasympathetic response is where you want to be to feel calm, slow your heart, and reduce panic symptoms. Modern life does the opposite, keeping you stuck in fight or flight.
This action is called the mammalian dive reflex. Babies instinctively use this to hold their breath and slow their heart rate when submerged in water. We took my son for swimming lessons when he was 5-6 months old and at the end, we dunked our babies. Every one of them knew to hold their breath and not one of them cried.
The mammalian dive reflex is considered to be one of the most powerful autonomic reflexes in the human body.
I have my clients activate this as a first step for cold adaptation. Many report that it's more effective than coffee to start their day. I concur.
Other side effects include increased focus, less puffiness, tighter skin, and a healthy glow to your face, though temporary.
To get started:
1️⃣ Fill a bowl with ice water. You want the temp to be 59F/15C or colder. Colder water creates a stronger response. If you tend to be sensitive, start warmer and work your way down.
2️⃣ Hold your breath and submerge your face to your hairline. Do a total of 5 dunks. 30-60 second rest between. Work towards 30 seconds or more for the extra adventurous. Longer breath holds create a stronger response.
Have a towel on hand to dab your face in between dunks.
CAUTION: If you have heart issues or other health conditions, get medical clearance.
When used in the morning it increases alertness. Used at night it improves sleep. Add slow nasal breathing like Buteyko to extend the calm.
Experiment to see what works best for you." #ReduceAnxiety #IceWaterHack
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2026-09-06 11:30:03 UTC

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"In 2019, researchers in Utah tried something unusual to help restore degraded desert rivers.
They brought in beavers.
Master’s student Emma Doden and her team captured 47 “nuisance” beavers that were being removed from farms and other properties and relocated them to the Price and San Rafael Rivers.
The idea was simple.
Beavers are ecosystem engineers.
Their dams slow water down, create ponds and wetlands, and can make desert streams more complex and useful for fish and other wildlife.
But moving a beaver into the desert isn’t easy.
Many of the relocated animals moved far from where they were released, while others were killed by predators. Researchers found that survival and staying in the release areas were much lower for translocated beavers than for resident adults.
Still, the beavers that stayed began building and maintaining dams.
Researchers recorded more river reaches with beaver dams after the translocations than before, suggesting the animals could contribute to restoration even when the experiment didn’t go exactly as planned.
The project is still a work in progress. Later research found that artificial beaver-dam structures did not significantly improve the survival or settlement of relocated beavers, showing just how difficult restoration can be in unpredictable desert rivers.
But the experiment demonstrated something important.
Sometimes restoring a damaged ecosystem doesn’t mean building everything yourself.
Sometimes you can bring back an animal that has been doing the work for thousands of years and let nature take it from there." #Beavers #Ecosystem
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2026-09-05 12:21:04 UTC

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2026-09-05 11:52:05 UTC

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🌿💧 Did you know? Scientists in Brazil have discovered that compounds from the moringa tree's seeds could help remove more than 98% of certain microplastics from water in laboratory testing.
Researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) investigated a saline extract made from Moringa oleifera seeds as a natural coagulant for removing microplastics from drinking water.
The results were remarkable. Under optimized laboratory conditions, the moringa extract removed approximately 98.5% of aged PVC microplastics from the test water, a result comparable to conventional aluminum sulfate treatment.
The mechanism is fascinating. Proteins in moringa can carry positive charges that interact with the negatively charged microplastic particles. This causes the tiny particles to clump together into larger aggregates, which can then be trapped by a sand filtration system.
Researchers tested the process using synthetic water containing aged PVC microplastics, rather than ordinary household tap water contaminated under everyday conditions. That distinction is important because the study is demonstrating the technology's potential rather than proving that moringa can remove every type of microplastic from any water source.
But the potential is exciting: a plant-based material could eventually provide a more accessible and sustainable approach to water treatment, particularly in places where conventional chemical treatment is expensive or difficult to maintain.
💡 The fascinating part: A tree already known for its nutritional and water-treatment properties may also provide proteins capable of gathering microscopic plastic particles together so they can be filtered out.
Researchers aren't just looking at moringa as a plant—they're exploring whether its natural chemistry could become part of the next generation of low-cost water purification.
#Moringa #WaterPurification #EnvironmentalScience
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2026-09-05 11:49:15 UTC

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2026-09-05 11:46:51 UTC

"One of the simplest ways to reset your vagus nerve and calm your nervous system is with your tongue. Stick it into your left cheek and hold for 10 seconds, then the right cheek for 10 seconds. I like to roll it around gently, this often triggers a deep sigh, signalling a vagus reset. You may also yawn or notice other subtle releases. Do 4–5 sets. This moves both the vagus and hypoglossal nerves, which are tightly connected in autonomic communication." -Anthony Goldsmith (Facebook) #VagusNerve #Tongue #NervousSystemHack

2026-09-05 11:43:37 UTC

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2026-09-05 11:38:20 UTC

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“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
John Muir - John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938.
Wang Long Sheng - Path to Home, 2004.
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2026-09-04 11:16:51 UTC

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2026-09-03 11:43:55 UTC

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2026-09-02 14:59:22 UTC

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2026-09-01 11:22:38 UTC

"The medical cartel
In 1860, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dean of Harvard Medical School, wrote
that if the whole of modern medicine, as then practised, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
He was not a fringe voice. He was the most senior medical academic in America.
And he was a visionary.
Because what he saw taking shape in his era the drift of medicine away from nature, away from the patient, away from genuine healing and toward the
management of symptoms for profit has since been industrialised beyond anything he could have imagined.
What we call modern medicine was not built organically from the pursuit of human health. It was deliberately constructed.
The Rockefeller family, whose fortune was built on petrochemicals, funded the Flexner Report in 1910 a document that systematically dismantled natural, holistic, and nutritional approaches to medicine and replaced them with a pharmaceutical-centric model that happened to be built on coal tar derivatives.
The medical schools that refused to comply lost their funding and closed. The ones that survived restructured their curricula around the new model.
That was not science. That was a cartel.
And it has operated as one ever since.
The suppression of knowledge about light and human health is one of the most consequential and least discussed casualties of that cartel. The relationship between sunlight, mitochondrial function, circadian biology, vitamin D synthesis, biophotonic communication within cells, and the prevention of virtually every chronic disease that now defines the modern health crisis, this knowledge exists. It is documented. It is reproducible.
And it generates no pharmaceutical revenue.
You cannot patent the sun. You cannot bill for grounding. You cannot build a subscription model around circadian alignment and organic food and the kind of deep, restorative contact with the natural world that human biology was designed for.
So it was sidelined. Quietly, systematically, and profitably replaced with interventions that treat the downstream consequences of a population deliberately disconnected from the conditions required for genuine health.
Big Pharma is not a science business.
It is a dependency business.
And the centralised medical system built around it.. the hospitals, the insurance architecture, the regulatory agencies captured by the industry they were created to “oversee” exists not to produce healthy people but to produce compliant patients." #BIGPharma #FlexnerReport #Rockereller #OliverWendellHolmes
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-----Kenny Carmody

2026-09-01 11:15:02 UTC

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2026-08-31 11:35:02 UTC

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2026-08-28 12:51:12 UTC

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"In 1849, Dostoevsky stood blindfolded before a firing squad, having already made peace with dying, when a rider arrived with news that the execution was called off. It had all been staged, a piece of psychological cruelty ordered by the Tsar himself. Hours later, still shaking from it, he sat down and wrote to his brother Mikhail.
The letter survives, and it's strange to read now, because you can feel a man trying to process something no framework he had was built to hold. He tells Mikhail not to grieve for him, that he isn't dejected, that he hasn't lost heart. Life, he writes, is a gift, life is happiness, every minute could have been an age of happiness. He says he understood this only now, at the edge of losing it entirely.
What gets me about the letter isn't the relief in it, though there's plenty of that. It's the specific thing he fixates on afterward: not vengeance against the state that staged his death, not despair at the four years of Siberian labor waiting for him instead, but a kind of frantic gratitude that reads almost like a man trying to convince himself as much as his brother. He asks Mikhail to send him books. He worries about missing his family. He talks about the future like a person suddenly aware that he'd been sleepwalking through the concept of having one.
He carried this moment for the rest of his life, wrote condemned men into his fiction again and again, characters facing the exact wall he'd faced, because you don't really get to set an experience like that down once you've had it. The letter is the first draft of everything he'd spend the next three decades writing about: guilt, mercy, the specific vertigo of a mind confronting its own ending and then, without warning, being handed its life back." #Dostoevsky
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2026-08-28 12:43:01 UTC

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"Farmers in Japan are using specially colored insect nets as another way to control agricultural pests without relying entirely on insecticides.
The technology is based on how insects see and respond to color. Researchers have developed red-colored nets that can interfere with the visual cues used by certain small pests, including onion thrips, making it more difficult for them to enter crops. Unlike conventional insect nets, the effect is not based only on the size of the mesh. It also relies on the insects’ visual responses to the colored material.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo tested red nets on Welsh onions and found that they reduced the invasion and damage caused by onion thrips. Field experiments showed that the use of red nets could reduce the number of insecticide applications by approximately 25 to 50 percent while maintaining commercially acceptable crops.
The approach does not work equally well against every pest. Earlier Japanese field research, for example, found that red nets were effective against some thrips but provided little additional benefit against certain whiteflies beyond the physical protection provided by the mesh itself.
Other Japanese agricultural researchers have also experimented with using color and visual patterns to influence pest behavior. Yellow trapping sheets with specific edge patterns have been developed to attract and capture whiteflies and other small agricultural pests.
These methods are part of a broader approach to integrated pest management, where physical barriers, biological controls and targeted pesticide use can be combined rather than relying exclusively on chemical sprays." #GardeningHacks
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2026-08-25 12:23:32 UTC

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2026-08-25 11:52:48 UTC

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2026-08-24 12:04:47 UTC

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2026-08-24 11:55:30 UTC

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“Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?”
~ Tao Te Ching
[Art: Tracy Porter]
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2026-08-24 10:53:14 UTC

Credit: The Garden Almanac
"Everyone calls it dew. The lawn has been running its own plumbing all night.
Dew is sky water. It condenses out of humid air onto anything cool, blades and webs and the wheelbarrow you meant to put away. But on calm nights, roots keep pushing water up while the leaves have stopped using it, and the pressure needs somewhere to go. So the plant opens tiny relief valves at its leaf tips and edges and lets the extra out, one bead at a time. Botanists call it guttation.
Tomorrow at sunrise, get low and check. A film all over the blade is dew. One round drop balanced exactly on the tip is the plant's own well water. Strawberry leaves hang theirs along the edge like a hem of glass beads. 🌿" #nature #guttation #dew
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2026-08-23 12:23:08 UTC

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2026-08-22 14:38:58 UTC

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“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot
learn, feel, change, grow or love.
Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom.
Only the person who risks is truly free.”
Leo Buscaglia
Stanislaus Soutten Longley - Autumn.
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2026-08-22 11:45:33 UTC

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2026-08-22 11:43:31 UTC

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"The hardest person to question is often ourselves. We can demand evidence from everyone else while quietly making exceptions for the beliefs, fears, ambitions, and assumptions we desperately want to be true. Self-deception rarely feels like lying; it feels like rationalizing. We select the evidence that comforts us, explain away what threatens us, and call the result “what I believe.” Feynman's warning is therefore less about intelligence than intellectual honesty. The real test of a thinking person is not how confidently they defend their conclusions, but whether they are willing to discover that they might be wrong." #questioneveryting
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2026-08-21 14:02:25 UTC

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2026-08-20 13:31:09 UTC

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2026-08-20 12:32:43 UTC

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2026-08-20 12:22:44 UTC

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2026-08-19 12:15:57 UTC

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2026-08-19 11:15:14 UTC

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2026-08-19 11:11:15 UTC

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"In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond -- his response is magnificent:
“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.
Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
God bless you all!"
Kurt Vonnegut
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2026-08-19 10:06:35 UTC

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"What blocks you isn’t separate from the path. It’s the raw material the path is currently made of.
Most people treat obstacles as interruptions to the real work, delays standing between them and whatever they’re actually trying to do. That framing keeps the obstacle and the goal in permanent opposition, one thing fighting the other for the same space. Marcus Aurelius is proposing something stranger and more useful. The obstacle isn’t blocking the action. It’s supplying the action’s next form. What stands in the way doesn’t get removed so the way can continue. It becomes the way.
This only makes sense once you notice how much progress actually happens through friction rather than despite it. A muscle doesn’t grow around resistance. It grows because of it, using the exact force trying to stop it as the mechanism of its own development. A river doesn’t detour around every boulder out of defeat. Contact with the boulder is what carves the particular path the water eventually takes. The obstruction and the eventual shape aren’t opponents. One produces the other.
This reframes frustration itself. The instinct when blocked is to see the block as proof that things have gone wrong, that the plan has failed. Stoic practice asks for a harder, more useful read: the obstacle is data about what actually needs to happen next, often more accurate data than the original plan provided. What stood in the way becomes, quite literally, the next correct move.
Nothing is actually blocking you. Everything blocking you is only material you haven’t used yet."
#PyramidConsciousness #MarcusAurelius #Stoicism
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2026-08-18 22:59:57 UTC

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2026-08-18 13:44:09 UTC

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2026-08-18 10:53:33 UTC

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"Sometimes what you call “just the way I am” is actually a survival response that became familiar.
Maybe you became distant because closeness once hurt. Maybe you became controlling because uncertainty once made you feel unsafe. Maybe you became overly independent because depending on others repeatedly disappointed you. Maybe anger became your armor because vulnerability once felt dangerous.
Triggers have a way of revealing these hidden places.
A certain tone, a delayed reply, rejection, criticism, being ignored, or feeling misunderstood can suddenly bring out a version of you that feels much younger than the moment you are actually in.
That does not make you broken.
It gives you information.
Instead of only asking, “Why did this person upset me so much?” begin asking, “What did this situation touch inside me?”
That question can change your healing.
Because awareness helps you separate your true personality from the defenses you built to survive.
You may not actually be cold.
You may be guarded.
You may not actually be difficult.
You may be afraid of being hurt again.
You may not actually need control.
You may need safety.
Healing is not becoming someone completely different.
It is slowly removing the armor until you can recognize who you were underneath it.
Your triggers are not your identity.
They are often invitations to meet the parts of you that still need understanding, compassion, and healing." #triggers #ShadowWork
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2026-08-17 12:23:05 UTC

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2026-08-17 12:21:13 UTC

"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen."
Rene Daumal #BigPicturePerpective
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2026-08-17 12:18:08 UTC

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2026-08-17 12:10:12 UTC

James Baldwin for Life Magazine, 1963
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2026-08-17 11:33:38 UTC

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"Sweden spent years replacing books with screens in schools, only to reverse course after student reading performance began to decline.
The country first embraced digital learning in 2009, but by 2023 it had committed 685 million kronor (about $104 million USD) to bring printed textbooks back into classrooms, with another 500 million kronor allocated annually going forward.
The shift was driven largely by concerns over literacy. As reading scores fell, Swedish educators and policymakers concluded that traditional tools like printed books and handwriting still play an important role in learning. As a result, physical books, paper, and pen-and-pencil work have been making a comeback in classrooms across the country." #parenting #literacy
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2026-08-16 12:59:08 UTC

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"The newspaper was already rolled up before anyone asked what she was actually doing up there.
What she was doing was hunting black widows. The mud dauber is the long, thin wasp building clay pipes under your porch roof, and she is nobody's problem. She has no hive to guard, no swarm to call, and no interest in your lemonade. The males cannot sting at all. The females almost never do, and you nearly have to press one against your skin to manage it. You can stand a foot away and watch her work all afternoon.
The work is the part worth watching. She packs each mud pipe with spiders, paralyzed and stacked like cordwood, one egg laid on the pile. Black widows are a documented favorite. The spider you will not reach into the woodpile for, she carries home before lunch.
So those clay pipes on the shed wall are not damage. They are a nursery, and a running record of every spider that never made it into your house.
The wasp costume is a bluff. The tenant is a spider trap. 🕷️" "MudDauber #Wasp #Nature
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2026-08-15 16:10:09 UTC

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2026-08-13 12:16:32 UTC

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"A SIMPLE NERVOUS SYSTEM RESET.
Sit upright and look straight ahead.
Slowly turn your head as far as comfortable to the right. Notice any stiffness or restriction. Return to centre.
Repeat to the left.
Now keep your head facing forward. Place both hands behind your head, elbows out.
Without moving your head, slowly look as far right as you comfortably can using your eyes only.
Hold until you naturally yawn, sigh, swallow or feel a change in your breathing.
Return to centre and repeat to the left.
Lower your arms, then slowly turn your head right again.
Notice the difference.
Then repeat to the left."
(I have used this mwthod for many years. It works for me!) #NervousSystemHack

2026-08-12 14:57:56 UTC

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2026-08-12 11:47:36 UTC

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2026-08-10 12:02:50 UTC

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"In 1973, eight perfectly healthy people walked into different psychiatric hospitals across the United States. They were not ill. They had no history of mental disorder, no crises, no hidden pathology. Yet no one inside those walls was able to see it.
It was an experiment—one of the most disturbing and consequential in the history of psychiatry. Designed by Stanford psychologist David Rosenhan, it began with a simple yet unsettling question: is it really possible to reliably distinguish mental health from mental illness? Can professionals trained to recognize madness tell the difference when the person standing before them is, in fact, sane?
To find out, Rosenhan recruited eight pseudopatients. They were ordinary people from varied walks of life: a painter, a housewife, a pediatrician, a graduate student in psychology, three psychologists, and a psychiatrist. Rosenhan himself was among them. They lied about only one thing. Each claimed to hear voices. Nothing more. No bizarre behavior, no delusions of grandeur, no emotional collapse—just three words heard in their minds: “empty,” “hollow,” “thud.” The voices were described as unfamiliar and of the same sex as the speaker. Beyond that single fabricated symptom and a few false biographical details for privacy, everything else they said about their lives was true.
All of them were admitted. Some to underfunded public hospitals in rural areas, others to respected urban university facilities, and one to an expensive private institution. Across twelve different hospitals in five states, the result was the same. Seven were diagnosed with schizophrenia. One, the only patient admitted to a private hospital, received a diagnosis of manic-depressive psychosis. Not a single one was recognized as healthy. Not one.
Immediately after admission, they stopped pretending. They behaved normally. They cooperated fully with the staff. They spoke truthfully about their experiences, reported that the voices had disappeared, and asked to be discharged. It was not possible. The staff no longer saw people. They saw diagnoses. Every ordinary action was reinterpreted through the lens of illness. Writing notes on the ward? Obsessive or compulsive behavior. Standing quietly in the hallway? Pathological attention-seeking. Being polite and cooperative? A controlled façade consistent with the disorder. Even the simple act of waiting for lunch was sometimes recorded as oral-acquisitive behavior.
The power of the label was absolute. Once the diagnosis had been written, reality itself seemed to bend around it. The pseudopatients were given nearly 2,100 psychoactive pills during their stays—mostly tranquilizers and antipsychotics—which they discreetly discarded. They experienced the profound depersonalization that comes from being treated as a diagnosis rather than a person. Staff rarely made eye contact. Conversations were brief or nonexistent. The patients felt invisible, reduced to case notes and medication schedules.
Yet the real patients noticed. Some approached the pseudopatients and whispered, “You’re not like the others. You don’t belong here.” A few even suggested they were journalists or professors investigating the hospital. The people labeled “insane” saw what the experts could not recognize.
The average length of hospitalization was 19 days. One person remained locked inside for 52 days. Each passing day confirmed the same truth: the label was more powerful than reality. When the pseudopatients were finally released, almost all left with a diagnosis of schizophrenia “in remission.” The illness was not declared cured or mistaken. It was merely dormant. The stigma remained.
When Rosenhan published his study—“On Being Sane in Insane Places”—in the journal *Science* in January 1973, it caused an earthquake. The psychiatric community erupted in outrage and denial. Critics accused him of deception and methodological flaws. One research and teaching hospital challenged Rosenhan directly. Confident in their diagnostic skill, they invited him to send new pseudopatients, certain they would expose every impostor. He accepted the challenge. In the following months the hospital staff identified 41 supposed impostors among 193 new patients. Nineteen were suspected by both a psychiatrist and another staff member. But Rosenhan had sent no one. No one at all.
The truth was now undeniable. Diagnoses were not always based on objective facts, but on context, expectation, and the powerful narrative of the label. Once labeled, a person became a prisoner of that narrative. Even if they were sane. Even if they protested the truth with every ordinary action.
This experiment shattered blind trust in clinical labels. It contributed to major reforms in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness, including greater caution in institutionalization and a growing movement toward community-based care. It forced the field to confront the danger of confirmation bias and the ease with which institutions can strip people of their humanity. But above all, it left a haunting and still relevant lesson:
Perception can distort reality more than madness itself.
And often, the most dangerous illusion is not that of those considered insane, but of those who believe they are always right.
Eight healthy people entered psychiatric hospitals in 1973. They came out carrying a truth the world could no longer ignore." #metalillness #experiment #labels
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2026-08-09 11:29:06 UTC

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“When you wake up asking ‘What’s wrong?’ you’ll find plenty that’s wrong. But, when you wake up asking ‘What’s possible?’ you’ll discover opportunities you never noticed before.”
Christine Caine
Lauritis Tuxen - Morning Atmosphere: From My House in Skagen, 1916.
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2026-08-08 12:35:39 UTC

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"It isn't venomous. It has no venom glands at all. It isn't dangerous — no fangs to speak of. And it isn't even a spider: one body section instead of two, no silk, no web. It's a harvestman, an entirely different creature that's been minding its own business for 400 million years.
And its business is good for you. That wobbly-legged fellow patrolling your mulch at night eats aphids, mites, insect eggs and whatever's rotting under the leaves — a one-bug cleanup crew that asks for nothing and bites no one.
So when one high-steps across the porch tonight, let him pass. He's working." #gardening #Harvestman #DaddyLongLegs
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2026-08-07 13:06:06 UTC

"Who are you?' said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I — I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'"
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865.
John Tenniel - Alice the Blue Caterpillar.
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2026-08-06 13:19:23 UTC

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2026-08-03 12:11:15 UTC

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2026-08-03 12:09:54 UTC

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2026-08-03 11:44:48 UTC

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2026-08-03 11:02:35 UTC

Exercise to undo tech neck
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2026-08-02 12:30:44 UTC

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"That white fuzz isn't mold. It's a fungus eating poison.
For decades, Maine farmers spread sludge on their fields because the state told them it was safe. The sludge — treated municipal waste — was licensed, regulated, and marketed as free fertilizer. What nobody mentioned was that the wastewater treatment plants were processing effluent from paper mills, tanneries, and textile factories that used PFAS, the "forever chemicals" that don't break down in soil, water, or human blood. The farmers didn't know. The state didn't test for it. The chemicals just accumulated, year after year, in the hay, the milk, the beef, the groundwater. By 2025, over 100 Maine farms and 500 residential properties tested positive. Five farms closed. Three scaled back. The rest were watching their livelihoods dissolve into the dirt.
Then Maine did something no other state had tried.
The Department of Environmental Protection funded a project using wood-rot fungi mycelium to biologically break down PFAS chemicals. The mechanism is enzymatic degradation — specific species of white-rot fungi, including Phanerochaete chrysosporium and Trametes versicolor, produce extracellular enzymes called laccases and peroxidases that attack the carbon-fluorine bonds in PFAS molecules. Those bonds are among the strongest in organic chemistry, which is why PFAS are called "forever chemicals." The fungi don't care. They evolved to break down lignin in rotting wood, and their enzymes are indiscriminate enough to shred fluorinated compounds that industrial chemistry couldn't touch.
Here's why this is mechanically brilliant. Traditional PFAS remediation involves excavation, incineration, or deep-well injection — all expensive, energy-intensive, and destructive to soil structure. Mycoremediation works in place. The mycelium is mixed into contaminated soil as a spore-infused substrate — usually sawdust, straw, or wood chips — and left to colonize. Over 12 to 18 months, the fungal network spreads through the soil profile, secreting enzymes that degrade PFAS into shorter-chain compounds, then into harmless fluoride ions and carbon dioxide. The process doesn't sterilize the soil. It rewilds it.
The second-order effect is scalable and democratic. Wood-rot fungi are not exotic lab creations. They grow on dead trees in every forest in Maine. The spores can be cultivated in simple incubators, mixed with local agricultural waste, and applied by farmers themselves. A dairy farm in Fairfield that lost its organic certification due to PFAS contamination is now running a pilot mycoremediation plot, measuring degradation rates and documenting soil microbiome recovery. If the data holds, Maine will have a remediation tool that costs a fraction of industrial alternatives and can be deployed by the people who need it most.
Forever chemicals broken. Soil renewed. Fungi fed." #gardening #soilrenewal
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2026-08-01 12:13:11 UTC

"There is one thing I have seen change children more than anything else in all my years of working with families. Not discipline. Not rewards. Not consequences. Just 10 uninterrupted minutes every day where a parent sits with their child, asks questions, listens without judgement, without correcting, without trying to fix, and simply offers their full presence and unconditional love. It sounds almost too simple, yet I've watched angry children become gentle, anxious children find calm, defiant children become cooperative, and disconnected families rediscover each other. A child who feels deeply seen and heard no longer has to demand attention through behaviour. Their nervous system begins to feel safe, their emotional cup fills, and everything starts to change. Never underestimate what 10 minutes of genuine connection can do." -Anthony Goldsmith (Facebook) #parenting

2026-07-30 13:38:11 UTC

Crdie : Classical Literature (Facebook)
"In The Brothers Karamazov, the elder Zosima makes one of the most remarkable statements in all of literature:
"Each of us is guilty before everyone, for everyone and everything, and I more than the others."
Our lives are woven together much more closely than we tend to think. Every little interaction or conversation shapes another person's life, who in turn shapes someone else's.
Dostoevsky understood well that families, friendships, and even entire societies are built this way. They grow through countless ordinary encounters that seem insignificant in the moment but continue echoing long afterwards.
Thus, even the smallest act of love or simply encouragement can make a vast difference. A person’s life can take a completely different course because, even if only for a brief moment, someone chose to care about them.
Zosima encouraged his followers to remember that every life touches countless others. Every action you make can leave the world a little richer (or poorer) than it was before." #Dostoevsky
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2026-07-29 13:58:04 UTC

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2026-07-28 11:19:01 UTC

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"Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need.' It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment - not discouragement - you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature and your life . . . This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow."
Joseph Campbell
Artwork © Catrin Welz-Stein
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2026-07-27 11:58:58 UTC

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Art: 'Return from Fishing' [detail], 1894 by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida)
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2026-07-26 11:30:20 UTC

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2026-07-26 11:13:53 UTC

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"The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) has officially regained ownership of the sacred Nikwasi (Noquisiyi) Mound in Franklin, North Carolina, marking one of the most significant Indigenous land restoration milestones in the southeastern United States.
The transfer was completed on February 26, 2026, following a deed-signing ceremony between EBCI Principal Chief Michell Hicks and Franklin Mayor Stacey Guffey. The return came after the Franklin Town Council unanimously voted to remove the remaining legal barriers to transferring the site directly to the Tribe.
Built around 1000 CE, Nikwasi Mound served as the ceremonial, political, and spiritual center of an important Cherokee mother town. In Cherokee tradition, Noquisiyi means “Star Place” and is associated with the Nunne’hi, spiritual protectors described in Cherokee oral history.
After Cherokee communities lost control of the site during the early 1800s, the mound remained under non-Tribal ownership for more than two centuries. In 1946, local residents helped protect it from industrial development, and it was later added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Tribe plans to preserve the mound for future generations and has also acquired nearby property to develop an educational center where visitors can learn about Cherokee history, culture, and the significance of the site.
Returning sacred places helps protect Indigenous history, culture, and future generations—what are your thoughts? 🪶
#LandBack #Cherokee #heritage #nativeamerican #nativehistory
Sources:
• Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians – Official announcement.
• Town of Franklin, North Carolina – Official meeting records and deed transfer information.
• Noquisi Initiative – Project information.
• National Register of Historic Places – Nikwasi Mound listing."
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2026-07-25 12:29:46 UTC

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2026-07-25 12:25:47 UTC

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2026-07-25 11:45:23 UTC

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2026-07-25 11:27:00 UTC

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2026-07-23 11:53:16 UTC

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2026-07-22 12:39:01 UTC

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2026-07-21 13:07:56 UTC

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2026-07-21 12:38:22 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/ed33988b5fef7c34b400235c928fab24cf3d0e89fc98edaa968c89cbf8ecdefa.jpg I've noticed this

2026-07-21 11:46:40 UTC

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2026-07-21 11:45:35 UTC

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“The aim of life is to live it intensely, to be fully born, to be fully awake. To emerge from the ideas of infantile grandiosity into the conviction of one’s real though limited strength; to be able to accept the paradox that every one of us is the most important thing there is in the universe – and at the same time not more important than a fly or a blade of grass."
~ Erich Fromm
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2026-07-19 11:46:39 UTC

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2026-07-18 12:02:55 UTC

On days when my neighbors do laundry, the air is so full of that horrible synthetic detergent smell, I have to go inside. It didn't used to be this way.
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2026-07-18 11:42:56 UTC

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“Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul’s beauty.” ~ Augustine of Hippo
Do you seek beauty in the fleeting reflections of the mirror, or in the boundless capacity of your heart to encompass others?
True beauty is not a superficial trait found in physical perfection or temporary aesthetics. It is an expansive, vital force that flourishes only when we open ourselves to the profound needs of another. When we cultivate charity, we are not merely performing good deeds: we are expanding our very essence. As love takes root within us, it illuminates the hidden corners of our being, transforming our internal landscape into something radiant.
The soul becomes a garden that blossoms through the constant nourishment of selfless compassion. Every act of true charity strengthens this inner bloom, making the spirit more resilient and luminous to all who encounter it. To love is to invite beauty to reside permanently within your core. Therefore, the ultimate measure of your personal splendor is found not in what you possess, but in how much room you have made for the well-being and joy of all living things." #Beauty #Charity
Art by Alphonse Mucha
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2026-07-16 13:39:37 UTC

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"Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognise him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second-grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations." #nature #Entomology
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2026-07-16 13:06:17 UTC

- reply

There are all kinds of slavery all over the world as we speak. https://www.citinewsroom.com/2026/06/slave-trade-not-over-still-active-across-africa-prof-wole-soyinka/

2026-07-16 12:09:09 UTC

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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvellous victory.” #AccenuateThePositive
~ Howard Zinn
[Art: Era Leisner]
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2026-07-16 11:56:46 UTC

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2026-07-14 18:31:44 UTC

So much fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qInkj9m4uio&list=PLdIvbAB2JOr-yRiHyVE4kQH15UsHhNG2T&index=8

2026-07-14 16:49:13 UTC

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2026-07-14 13:55:23 UTC

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2026-07-14 11:58:33 UTC

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"Sometimes walking away does not mean you are weak. Sometimes it means you are wise enough to protect your peace.
Ego wants to prove. Ego wants to argue. Ego wants the last word. Ego wants to be seen as right, even when the heart is tired and the relationship is breaking. But wisdom understands that winning an argument can still make you lose your peace, your dignity, and sometimes even the people who matter.
The person who chooses to “lose” the ego battle often wins something greater. He wins self-control. He wins inner peace. He wins freedom from unnecessary drama. He shows strength by not reacting to every insult or challenge.
Real power is not in defeating others. Real power is in mastering yourself. A calm mind does not need to prove its worth to everyone.
So let the ego lose if it must. Let pride stay silent. Sometimes the greatest victory is choosing peace over being right." #selfmastery
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2026-07-13 12:48:44 UTC

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2026-07-12 13:21:35 UTC

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2026-07-12 12:57:19 UTC

" The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Onur Hastürk, Odalsique with Red Caftan, 2019.
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2026-07-12 12:50:05 UTC

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2026-07-11 11:40:21 UTC

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2026-07-11 11:37:35 UTC

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"575 federally recognized Tribal Nations are now listed by the United States, according to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Federal recognition is a legal and political status that acknowledges a Tribal Nation’s government-to-government relationship with the United States. It also confirms eligibility for certain federal programs and services, while recognizing the inherent authority of Tribal Nations to govern their own affairs.
According to the updated Federal Register list, the Bureau of Indian Affairs added the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina following congressional recognition, bringing the total number of federally recognized Tribal entities to 575.
Alaska is home to 229 federally recognized Tribes, the largest number of any state. California has 109 federally recognized Tribes, the highest number in the contiguous United States. Across the country, these Nations represent hundreds of distinct governments, cultures, languages, homelands, and histories that long predate the formation of the United States.
It is also important to understand what federal recognition does and does not mean. Recognition is a federal legal designation. It does not determine whether a people are Indigenous, nor does it define cultural identity, ancestry, community belonging, or historical continuity. Many Indigenous communities continue to maintain their traditions, leadership, and relationships to their homelands without federal recognition.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs."
#TribalSovereignty #IndigenousHistory #NativeAmerican #FederalRecognition
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2026-07-10 14:07:52 UTC

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2026-07-10 11:57:00 UTC

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2026-07-09 18:42:01 UTC

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1561046702241777 How European Elites Arrive During a Heat Wave to Explain Why Your A/C is Killing the Planet #cartoon #funny

2026-07-09 14:29:11 UTC

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Guillaume Apollinaire
Artist: Romany Soup
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2026-07-09 13:55:26 UTC

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"Robert Owen paid around $150,000 for the town of Harmonie, Indiana. He got 20,000 acres, more than 160 buildings, working mills, and farms already producing food.
He renamed it New Harmony. Close to a thousand people arrived in the first year.
Owen already ran successful textile mills in New Lanark, Scotland, where he was famous for treating workers well and running a profitable business at the same time.
He believed that if you removed private property and paid everyone equally, cooperation would naturally replace competition.
In January 1826, William Maclure sailed a riverboat full of scientists, teachers, and geologists down the Ohio River to New Harmony. Historians call it the "Boatload of Knowledge."
Thomas Say, the father of American entomology, was on it. So was Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, one of the most respected naturalists of the era.
This was the most educated, best-funded, best-equipped socialist community ever attempted on American soil. If cooperation could beat markets anywhere, it should have worked here.
It collapsed almost immediately.
The hardest workers were feeding, housing, and clothing neighbors who did nothing while receiving the same food, the same shelter, and the same rewards. So they stopped working too. Why wouldn't they?
Production dropped and food ran short. Buildings decayed because no one owned them and no one was responsible for maintaining them. Endless meetings replaced actual work. Owen wrote seven different constitutions in two years trying to fix it. None of them worked.
American inventor Josiah Warren, one of the country's earliest libertarian thinkers, was there. He watched the community fail from the inside and later wrote about why.
His conclusion: "The difference of opinion, tastes and purposes increased just in proportion to the demand for conformity."
The more the community demanded unity, the more it fractured.
Warren identified the deeper problem almost a century before Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek made it famous in academic economics.
When everyone owns everything, no one owns anything. When labor earns the same reward regardless of effort, effort disappears. When prices vanish, no one knows what anything is worth.
Owen finally admitted defeat in 1827. In his farewell address, he blamed the settlers themselves, saying they were "unprepared to be members of the community of common property and equality."
Translation: the system would have worked if only people had been different.
Every socialist regime since has offered some version of that excuse.
His own son, Robert Dale Owen, put it plainly years later:
"All cooperative schemes which provide equal remuneration to the skilled and industrious and the ignorant and idle must work their own downfall."
He had lived through the collapse. He knew what killed it.
Every socialist experiment since New Harmony has ended the same way, and for the same reasons.
Prices communicate what things are worth. Ownership creates responsibility for maintaining them. When both are abolished, production collapses because no one can calculate what to make or repair." #socialism
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2026-07-09 13:21:11 UTC

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2026-07-08 14:14:39 UTC

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I know but some people like to read about scientific correlations.