Evan Jacobs – Medium

Jan 11

My omicron recovery protocol

I seem to be on the mend now from my COVID-19 exposure, so I thought it prudent to share my medicinal cocktail that was most effective at reducing symptoms: 600–800mg of Advil up to 4x daily, depending on the severity of your throat swelling; for me it was pretty painful…

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Oct 16, 2021

Complementary currency in an abundance game society

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…

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Feb 25, 2021

imagine with me a dark, vast sea

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

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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

Published in The Call

·Sep 9, 2020

The Call

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. …

Humanism

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Jul 29, 2020

Open Letter to the Massachusetts Police Force

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…

Massachusetts

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Jun 14, 2020

I’m alone.

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.

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Apr 13, 2020

I reach out into the dark

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

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Mar 18, 2020

From butthurt to ass-mergency

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…

Medicine

13 min read

Mar 15, 2020

salt stains

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

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Published in 💅 styled-components

·Feb 4, 2020

Why styled-components? 💅

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…

Styled Components

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