In an abundance game, societal basic needs like food, water, shelter, and medical care would be universal. Poverty ceases to exist in any meaningful capacity; instead a person’s quality of life is principally driven by their choices. In Jonathan Kolber’s book, A Celebration Society, he suggests a potential future civilization…

imagine with me a dark, vast sea on a moonless night glassy ink as far as the eye can see bobbing far away, a flicker a single candle defying the night with fierce resolve on that candle, a flea taking refuge and warmth that ocean is the universe that candle is our solar system that flea is Earth and a single molecule of the flea’s hair is you so small but the biggest dreamers

Practical philosophy for radical progressive change through incremental personal action. — In Western ideology we think of ourselves as isolated individuals. Me-me-me. What do I want? What is best for me? How can I get ahead? How do I get what they/she/he has? How can I make the most money? This underpins pretty much every aspect of our society. …

Administrators: I’m writing today to call for enforcement of mask-wearing amongst the various police forces of the State of Massachusetts. Over the course of this pandemic, I have seen countless examples of flagrant disregard when it comes to recommended safety practices at both the state and federal level. It is…

I’m alone. I pay a guy $150 a week to touch me (therapeutically) and pretend like he cares about me for 90 minutes. This is my life now. Fuck.

I reach out into the dark Searching for life and fire Livegivers in the void Stars twinkle distantly Their rays remind but do not comfort Too far away to warm It’s dense here Potential energy Waiting to be transformed Yearning Pooling and drowning

A tale of perianal abscess, fistula, multiple resulting hemorrhoids, and the traumatic recovery experience — I’m writing this during the COVID-19 quarantine because it seems like a good time as any to reflect back on the past year and how much it changed my life in ways I could never predict. Trigger warning: this is graphic and I’m not going to pull any punches telling…

salt stains on my skin here we are again that unbearable burning, creeping pain of what could be a flame of promise extinguished not brutally carelessly a flower that had not yet bloomed

One question I see on Twitter and such often is why a developer should choose styled-components over other CSS-in-JS libraries (and other forms of CSS in general.) Here are some of my thoughts in condensed form: 1. At the end of the day, it’s just CSS You can choose exactly how you want to write styles, we don’t encourage or…