rhinocratic.bsky.social
Bleating the averages 🐏.
Intermittently functional programmer & aspiring Old Git.
❤️ Mountains and non-Tory life forms.
Dreams of a future in which GDP is supplanted by Gross Global Wellbeing.
Please join a union.
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I suppose my self-medication was inadvisable, but fear of death overcame fear of the consequences.
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Sublime combination of colours. 💚
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That said, I doubt that I would have arrived at this juncture without psychedelics. Spent a good deal of time with the writings and recordings of Alan Watts and Sam Harris, and have found much of interest in the broader context of consciousness discovered along the way.
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I remain firmly secular in outlook, yet there is much in Buddhism as a philosophy that I find useful. Having initially tried psilocybin in the hope of mitigating deep depression, meditation has emerged as a more sustainable means of deposing the ego than repeatedly clobbering my brain with shrooms.
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To put it charitably, his record on keeping promises doesn't inspire optimism.
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Hairy Curtain Crust has to be one of the best fungus names. It's right up there with Scurfy Twiglet.
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Very humerus. 💪
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Occasionally, BlueSky collectively needs to chill in a big armchair with a mug of Yorkshire Tea - whereas X invariably needs to chill in the North Atlantic with a hefty dose of psychedelics.
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Perhaps in terms of pithiness, but it's hard to beat Oliver Sacks for sheer volume. His books are frequently about ⅓ footnote!
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Quit so! 🙂
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I have tried in vain. Honestly, I preferred Macs when they ran System 7. Too old and set in my ways, no doubt.
These days, it's Linux for me.
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The bloke's a genius!
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Here:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mraM...