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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

22 days

The future is agrarian but it won't be a retvrn

Populism Updates

@PopulismUpdates

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Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

The Suez Canal incident suggests that the catalyzing tipping point of societal collapse will be caused by something hilarious

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Jason Snyder

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3 years

New virus coming? Plant trees, cultivate garden, tend livestock Supply chain shocks and inflation? Plant trees, cultivate garden, tend livestock Climate change? Plant trees, cultivate garden, tend livestock New war coming? Plant trees, cultivate garden, tend livestock

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Jason Snyder

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The fact that most 'spiritual teachers' don't have kids 🚩

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Jason Snyder

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3 years

Explain to me like I'm 12: why is Western Europe still taking Russia's gas if they are so serious about supporting Ukraine

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Jason Snyder

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4 years

If you're so smart why are you addicted to useless information?

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Jason Snyder

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The popularity of the IQ midwit meme suggests that it's a midwit meme

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

This mf is going to turn me into a monarchist

Aris Roussinos

@arisroussinos

2 years

King Charles III on hedgerows, soil fertility and the necessity of preserving small family farms worldwide:

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

Inspired by my ayahuasca trip in the remote jungle, here are 50 things I learned about boosting my productivity in the workplace 🧵

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

I don't know a damn thing about NFTs, but they seem like peak decadence of a collapsing society

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Jason Snyder

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1 year

My grandparents didn't live where they grew up, nor did my parents, who long since divorced, don't live now where I (mostly) grew up. I've lived in 4 different States, and don't have a home to go back to. This is the 'upward mobility' of modernity, and it has left me placeless

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

Small farms and homesteads as the basic building block of society is my politics

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

That moment when my wife and I realize that her new passion for making pottery can be supplied by clay coming from the pond we're slowly digging 🤯

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

7 months

I'm really loving this new style of pottery my wife is making. Wild clay slip on the outside, very textured feel

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

Uncle in law's place that he built off grid

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Make any criticism of neo-homesteading that you like, the fact remains that there is no substitute in the human soul for a prolonged and active relationship with a piece of land and the primary elements

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 months

Sometimes this place becomes enchanted

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Mid-May in Southern Appalachia

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

Guys a European war is NO EXCUSE to not produce labor surplus for your company's shareholders today

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

It's almost impossible for me to feel depressed on days that I have done physical labor outside

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

In order to expand your boundaries you have to larp. Those that diss on larping will never leave the cocoon

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

1 month

The Harris campaign feels a bit like hyper-reality, the messaging is almost perfectly designed to win and the zeitgeist around it seems to have sprung out of nowhere. I strongly suspect that it's leveraging AI significantly and we are entering the post-human phase of politics.

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

people talking about 'meaning crisis' this and 'meaning crisis' that. mf plant a garden or something and stop being a consumer of meaning

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

A while back our kid was telling us that he wanted a sibling. Looks like he's going to get what he wished for, a baby sister!

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

An uprooted generation will suffer all sorts of embarrassing contradictions as they try to relocalize. They should do it anyway

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

The year is 2040, politics has distilled into a fierce battle between solarpunk and cottagecore

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

Just throwing it out there that Southern Appalachia has underrated potential as a homesteading and village economy bioregion. No history of industrial ag, relevant history (see Foxfire books), climate resilient/plenty of water/biodiverse, etc. Come friends, let's cultivate

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

When someone compliments you, you don't deflect, compliment them back, or self deprecate. You say thank you, and own the discomfort.

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Basically I think that city kids need to do some country stuff like growing food and processing animals, and country kids benefit from access to some urban cultural life. Healthy small/medium sized towns embedded in rural counties are ideal for this kind of integration

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

I tend to think that the phrase 'self-sufficiency' should be retired. An ideal, sure, but it's impossible and misleading. It was always about interdependence, just at what scale? It's a never ending process of localizing dependencies and becoming more capable

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

This is basically everybody on the internet who refers to 'normies' and 'npcs'

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

Systems thinking is what happens when cutting edge science realizes that our indigenous ancestors were right all along

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

I've taken whatever color pill is responsible for wanting to build the communities that I want to see in the world

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

The foundation of culture is its relationship to food

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

Sure most of us don't have formal rites of passage like we used to but maybe now the initiation is to be cast out into the wilderness of hypermodern disembodiment and to find our way back

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

After the rain

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Your mission should you choose to accept it is to help rebuild the part of society that the Market and the State tried to replace

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

1 year

New rule: you're not allowed to be an intellectual unless you engage in regular productive physical labor

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

If you're unsatisfied you have two options. Change your experience or change your relationship to experience. The first is agency, the second is spirituality. Both capacities are important, and it takes a lifetime to get the balance right

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

A few years back I had a deep (embodied) realization that I didn't owe it to the universe to be significant. Things have only been on an upward trajectory since then

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

mfs want to terraform mars and they can't even regenerate earth

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

Not an original thought, but planting season has me appreciating at how seeds contain the information to reorder the matter around them according to their own logic

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Still looking a bit scraggly, but starting to come to life

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

A couple things I don't understand: -How some people think that loss of bodily autonomy is a trivial thing -How some people think that killing a prenatal human being is a trivial thing. I only see an intractable moral dilemma

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 months

I just realized that I don't post that much anymore because most of what I posted in the past feels cringe and a lot of my ideas have been beaten down into a more sober acceptance of the quiet gravity and simple beauty of everyday life

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

How about burning man but a commitment to creating lasting organic structures and lifeways that permeate timelessness rather than hallucinate utopia

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

You need to be thinking bioregionally. You need to be making connections and supporting local economies. You need to be investing in productive physical capital. You need to be growing food and stewarding the land. You need to be building the world that comes next...

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

My problem is that there is a person inside of me that identifies with almost every perspective that I come across

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

Microbial soil life is infrastructure

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

It's a sad truth that most urban 'environmentalists' are some of the most disconnected people from the sources of their sustenance in human history

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Tfw your 'career' isn't really going anywhere and you're working odd jobs but you have a loving family, a developing homestead, a maturing community, good books, and each season draws you forward into something new

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Appalachian topography is conducive to the proliferation of cultural micro-niches. Every holler a different world

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

Beware the collapse of complexity into polarized binaries

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Google laid me off today. If you know of any open positions for ayahuasca-enabled tech bros, let me know. I was in charge of a organizing the world's information and avoiding evil

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

This whole meme about how psychedelics have made ambitious people less ambitious and so they're bad: lmao, yeah what did you think would happen when people looked under the hood of their conditioning to succeed in a sociopathic system

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

One goal is for my kids to grow up in an environment of increasing beauty, year by year

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

Pro vs. anti tech is a distraction. The real question is whether the tech nourishes culture and ecology in the long term or mines it to fuel a short lived disembodied hedonistic lifestyle

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

I don't like the narrative of modern day homesteading (and localism more generally) being a form of retreat or disengagement from larger societal concerns. I see it more as a prefiguration of a healthier society that can emerge from its broad-scale and networked diffusion

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Jason Snyder

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4 years

We need to revive the concept of a village

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Jason Snyder

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4 years

I know that the last few days have been exciting, but keep in mind that we are losing our topsoil at a rapid pace and this has been the downfall of several civilizations in the past

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

Planetary regeneration will not be automated and it will hardly be 'incentivized'. It will require the hard work and tender care of human hands, a cultural devotion to the ecology of placemaking, falling in love again

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Jason Snyder

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3 years

I'm glad I'm learning to grow food now instead of when it's a necessity

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Places physically shape your cognition

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

This is how you get owned on localist twitter

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

"Dacha gardening accounts for about 3% of the arable land used in agriculture, but grows an astounding 50% by value of the food eaten by Russians...over 35 million families (..71% of the population) were engaged in dacha gardening" (h/t @LaocoonofTroy )

Russian Dacha Gardens - Small Farmer's Journal

Russian household agriculture – dacha gardening - is likely the most extensive system of successful food production of any industrialized nation. This shows that highly decentralized, small-scale...

smallfarmersjournal.com

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

New stove, just in time for Spring

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Jason Snyder

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2 years

I guess investments are crashing or something, I wouldn't know, all of our extra money goes into tangible homestead capital. The lumber for the chicken coop hasn't lost value, neither has the chest freezer, scythe, wood stove, seeds, or trees

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

The problem with virtue signaling is not that we shouldn't be virtuous, it's that real virtue is quiet, self-evident, enacted, embodied.

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

The market value of my home has gone up almost 50% since we bought it 2 years ago. This is not the sign of a healthy economy

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

11 months

Lots of old farmers out there with kids who have already left. A lot of land will be turning over soon, and it will either be bought up by big investors for who knows what or it will be the ground for an agrarian revival. Which way, modern human?

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

I pity the fool who tries to think their way out of complex feelings

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

1 year

I fell in love and got married at 22, 18 years ago today. We have supported each other, co-evolved together, lived in 4 states together, traveled the world together, had kids together, and are now homesteading together. There was nothing to lose, career takes care of itself

Tim Kempton

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1 year

Hot take: Don’t fall in love from 22-29, there’s to much to lose. Your career will thank you.

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Jason Snyder

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1 year

My sense is that Airbnb has resulted in a huge transfer of wealth from the lower middle class, who face a shortfall of affordable homes on the market, to the upper middle class, who can now afford to keep their extra home for rental

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Our family has developed a summer ritual of 'golden hour', where we spend the last 30+ minutes of sunset and evening light in the garden. Casually enjoying, observing, discussing, intervening, letting the kiddo harvest ready produce...The garden work is worth it just for that

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

Climate doomers are the worst. Stop holding each other in a goodnight embrace and start preparing your lives for a wild fucking future. We might not adapt fast enough, but we will sure as hell go down swinging

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@EliotJacobson

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It feels like the planet, humanity and civilization were poised on a precipice ... but now we've jumped ... and it f**king hurts to know what's coming at us and that the most you can do is say "you know" and hold me on the way down, the wind sweeping our hair, our eyes focused.

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Say what you want about millenials, but they invented Friendsgiving, which is a turn towards conviviality in an atomized age

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Well after 3 years of drawing blanks on a name for our homestead, we've decided on Foggy Valley...because it's in a valley that gets a lot of fog, clever right? My wife is getting into pottery and has already created an Insta with that name, it's getting serious 😬

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

In the garden with Leila

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

The deep ecology to religious faith pipeline

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Jason Snyder

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6 years

When I was 15 and basically had no real friends I used to go for long walks at night in the town I lived in. The stillness was a balm. Stalking around, finding the special places, being nobody, observing. That is when I developed a hint of sovereignty that I still carry today

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

Some lefties be like "oh, you like to grow your own food, that's fascist!!"

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

5 year old figured out that he can just make money

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

The beginnings of a treehouse, getting those initial boards up and level was the hardest part, will post updates

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

For me localism isn't about not caring about the rest of the world, nor that you can pretend to be buffered from it. It's simply a recognition that the real depth of your life is tangible and relational, and that it's good to cultivate those attributes

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Intentional communities are hard to pull off, but an intentional household can provide a foundation for the organic growth of a thriving community

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Jason Snyder

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2 years

Imao

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Just a friendly reminder that replanting your own seeds and seed swapping is an act of agroecological resistance to the corporate machines that want to own all of the genetic strains and make you dependent

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

It is fair to say that chickens either a) don't have a robust understanding of property lines, or b) they understand them very well and transgress them for political reasons

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

4 years

I am discovering the part of myself that loves to grow and build physical things, the part that lay dormant for so long under the haze of hyper-mental abstraction and analysis

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

Affirm: there is a perspective that I haven't considered that would shake the foundations of my worldview for the good

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

The advice to 'just grow something, anything' is not about a pretense of self sufficiency, but rather the start of a long process of changing your relationship to the things you consume

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

The disaffected weirdo to highly online shitposter to irl community builder pipeline

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

He got what he wished for ☺️

Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

A while back our kid was telling us that he wanted a sibling. Looks like he's going to get what he wished for, a baby sister!

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

A lot of people condemning the conditions leading to the pipeline ocean fire and yet they enjoy their high energy lifestyle and have no realistic idea how to maintain it without fossil fuels

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

I agree with the Trads that Family is a fundamental organizing unit of society but I agree with the Progs that a 'family' can be defined in many different ways

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

1 year

Was talking to a neighbor who most internet-brains would consider a 'normie'. At various points in the conversation she brought up the importance of being in nature regularly, community, local food, and thinking locally in general. I think we're going to win

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

2 years

Mid-June garden

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

3 years

Is the system getting you down? Try thinking of yourself as an individual with agency Feeling the constraints of being a flawed individual? Try thinking of yourself as part of a larger co-emergent system

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Jason Snyder

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1 year

Craft beer was a psyop to convince millennials that their lives were interesting

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Jason Snyder

@cognazor

1 year

You *don't* pass up free wood chips on the side of the road

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Jason Snyder

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3 years

Broke: attachment to an identity Woke: deconstructing identity and becoming less attached Bespoke: creating aspirational identities that provide a framework for personal growth

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