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You Ate What?
What did you say? You ate what? We have been consumed with modern technology. Every week it seems there is some new innovation to consider. Never has it been more imperative to take a step back and revisit what we are dealing with, because everything has a consequence, good or bad.
By Alexandra Grantabout 3 hours ago in Humans
OUTPUT. OUTPUT. OUTPUT.
Another girl I went to high school with just announced she’s starting to "post content" online. Over the past two months, that makes her at least the sixth or seventh person I know personally who, prior to this announcement, had shown zero interest in the arts or content creation. And if I'm being totally honest (feel free to call me a hater), none of them seem to have the personality or raw passion for the content they're creating. But here they are, venturing into the space anyway.
By Jide Okonjoabout 4 hours ago in Humans
Erratic Leadership
Since the 2024 election, the United States government has been pulled apart, thread by thread. Deliberately. By a reality television celebrity. Civil service regulations and ethics oversight remain in place in theory, but the experienced professionals who enforced them were fired or resigned. Cabinet members lack qualifications and have repeatedly proven it. The Inspectors General and oversight personnel were fired so that unlawful actions would not be prosecuted. Elon Musk was, for a while, allowed unchecked influence. His lieutenants screamed at Federal employees, locked them out, indiscriminately fired people, and claimed savings that were false, as well as claiming dead people and undocumented people got benefits.
By Andrea Corwin about 19 hours ago in Humans
Falling Between Every System
Modern social systems are often described as safety nets. Employment law protects workers. Healthcare programs provide treatment. Disability benefits replace lost income. Unemployment insurance bridges job loss. Each system is presented as a safeguard designed to catch people when life disrupts their ability to function normally. Yet for many people living with disability, chronic illness, or injury, the lived experience is the opposite. Rather than forming a net, these systems stack vertically, each with its own eligibility rules, thresholds, and assumptions. Instead of catching the fall, they create gaps. People do not slip through because they failed to try. They fall because the systems were never designed to align.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout 20 hours ago in Humans
Regulation at the Threshold
Author’s Note — Flower InBloom This series is part of my ongoing work exploring personal sovereignty through nervous system awareness and structural alignment. I write not to dramatize change, but to understand how the body organizes through it. When we learn to regulate at the threshold, endings stop feeling like collapse and begin revealing architecture.
By Flower InBlooma day ago in Humans
The System That Calls Itself Care
The System That Calls Itself Care There is a system that calls itself care. It is efficient. It is praised. It is framed in polite language and neutral tones. It has policies, procedures, intake forms, escalation paths. It has waiting rooms and hotlines and performance metrics. It has mission statements printed in calming colors.
By Flower InBlooma day ago in Humans
The Hierarchy Will See You Now
That’s the order of things in a professional kitchen — the body files its complaints from the outside in, working toward the center, until eventually the center can’t hold. I noticed it first in my knuckles, the way they’d swell overnight and resist opening in the morning, stiff as old hinges. I ran them under hot water at the sink before a shift, waiting for them to remember what they were supposed to do. Then it moved to my wrists. Then deeper. By the time I understood what was happening, I had logged twenty-four years of service to a system that had never once asked how I was doing — only whether the line was ready.
By Leslie L. Stevens Writer | Marfa, Texasa day ago in Humans
