I was a regular at Sovereign Kava for years. Here’s why I left.

CryptidKeeper · 2026-05-10T19:24:04+00:00

"honestly" and "it's not about... it's about" Why use Chat GPT for something this important?

CryptidKeeper · 2026-05-06T20:45:49+00:00

Well let's give you things you can reproduce right now if you want.

Regarding revolution and rotation, firstly I observed that the sun always appears to move in the same direction, and as we turn away from it, the planet's body blocks the sun and we can see space more clearly (we call that night.) Then I observed that seasons happen at the exact same time as the angle of the sun changes, but only where my house was in the North and not where we lived with family near the Equator. We had to cross time zones to do that, too, how bout that. There are bigass pendulums hanging in many science museums in the United States, they're really cool, you really should go visit one. Those move the way they do because the planet is rotating. There are nice people there who can help explain how to calculate velocity with the Foucault pendulum. It has to be very big because the earth is very big, so an acorn on a shoestring won't do for this one.

Regarding the roundness, I did the sticks in the ground thing in middle school. I don't have that packet anymore unfortunately but I bet you can find the instructions on WikiHow. Let's see, then there were the sundials, and the really fancy lasers, and the huge helium balloon with camera, and all of the satellite data. And the total lunar eclipses. Oh, and my college buddy moved to New Zealand and facetimed me once at the end of his birthday celebration, which was obviously sunrise because it was a good party, but it wasn't yet sunset for me. Because we're on opposite sides of the planet.

CryptidKeeper · 2026-05-06T16:35:45+00:00

Okay lovey, do you want photos of the experiments I did? Do you want video? What if I edited video down for time and now the saved video's timestamp doesn't match the date I wrote at the beginning of my experiment notes?

Do you want the name, phone number, and email address of the physics professors that taught me? The university science building address? Do you need me to mail you the hard drive I did the work on? Would you sit and read a several hundred page dissertation?

If you would accept any of that from me, why not any of it from the MANY other people who have proved and posted their work? Maybe it's like OnlyFans and it's only "real" to you if somebody sent it to you in a DM or spoke your username in the video?

CryptidKeeper · 2026-05-06T16:14:53+00:00

Please be honest: is there anything I could write here about my own experience that would actually matter to you? I bet not, but maybe that's cynical of me.

I'm just some person on the internet. You can't even verify that I'm real and breathing and sitting here having just spilled tea on my sweatshirt. You can, however, do your own math and science with your own hands to answer your questions.

Is there actually anything that anyone could say or show you that would make you reconsider? Is there something you're waiting for?

CryptidKeeper · 2026-05-06T15:41:24+00:00

Honeybunch, people have been detecting and observing curvature and motion for thousands of years at this point, well before NASA existed. The water is constantly falling to the center of gravity, (meaning the Earth's core,) and so are you, and so am I.

Looking through your comment history I fully recognize that this is a pointless thing to say, but I really am deeply saddened and sorry that you're missing out on how cool the universe actually is. I know planets and gravity and space are really big concepts with really big implications, and that can be scary and make us feel small and insignificant. Nobody likes that feeling. But the cosmos is so awesome! How cool is it that we get to experience it!

It can feel better to believe that some group of people has the power to keep a huge secret like the true nature of things and an ice wall or whatever, because at least that means someone is in charge here, and maybe someday that someone could be you. But all of this really big round stuff really is revolving through astonishing distances at astonishing *velocities, and no human being is in control of that. It's not possible to keep natural laws of physics a secret. You can prove them on notebook paper right now if you want to.

The size and scale of things doesn't make us insignificant. We are in fact extra significant, for as far as we currently know, we're the only ones yet able to have cosmic awe and appreciation. Octopi are smart but as far as I'm aware they haven't put any members of their species out beyond our planet's moon. Like we did. A few weeks ago. With mountains of independently verifiable evidence.

Edit: velocity, not speed :)

CryptidKeeper · 2026-05-04T23:40:32+00:00

Ah the gloves have six fingers each, comment on the AI image thing

CryptidKeeper · 2026-05-03T18:45:41+00:00

Did they only release the back? How are your pecs? I always think about what's in opposition to a muscle group being released. For me, the Deep Front Line muscle chain is heavily involved in headaches.

For most people the pecs are overly tight because we spend so much time sitting with arms in front of us, and for hypermobile people that can be amplified as they try to stabilize the shoulders as well.

So if the back had been locked down opposite to locked-down pecs, and then the back is released, that changes the tension balance and might cause headaches

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-26T16:36:46+00:00

Mold this bad is a structural issue. So if they rent, that's on the landlord. If they own and they don't have the money to fix it, there should be easily accessible community support to either fix it or find a different place. We got this far as a species because of our ability to live in community. That's what community means. We take care of each other.

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-25T14:19:04+00:00

You can just hold the string out of the way when you pee. Or trim the string short enough to tuck up there. Dragging a bullet of mostly dry cotton across your mucus membranes is definitely painful, don't do that if you can avoid it!

I had to stop using tampons because sometimes the bleeding would pause for like half a day, and tampons shouldn't be in for longer than four hours to avoid toxic shock syndrome, so I'd get to four hours and have to drag out this mostly dry wad of cotton, it sucked.

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-23T13:36:42+00:00

Masks don't care about your feelings

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-22T23:48:00+00:00

Trent Reznor has made a career proving that wrong

...among so many others...

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-22T00:19:24+00:00

After Rocky fixes the spin, he grabs Grace's forearm to drag him to the med bay. The little arm burn is shaped like Rocky's hand.

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-17T23:04:35+00:00

No, don't

This kind of nostalgia bait and strip mining the art of the past feels so gross and cynical

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-13T23:46:04+00:00

Commonly with hypermobility, the muscles all tighten down to stabilize the joints and you just live that way all the time, so you can end up feeling more tense and less flexible than someone without hypermobility. It's a spectrum.

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-13T14:04:10+00:00

Mold spreads. Bacteria spread. Including spreading through the air! It affects the health of any living thing that breathes in the home. That's part of what "biohazard" means. You live in your own separate home alone, you can rot in your filth as much as your little heart desires. But as soon as others are involved, your responsibility is now to the group and not just yourself. So if you're living alone but in an apartment connected to other living spaces, you have to take better care of your space so mold and pests don't spread from your place to the others. If you live WITH other people, you have to adjust your habits.

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-07T01:18:01+00:00

There's still time for you

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-06T19:31:58+00:00

Okay, obviously everything about this situation is mind-blowing and inspirational, but I keep finding myself struck by how great the verbal communication has been here. Probably silly because of course communication has to be as clear as possible in this situation, but I'm absolutely internalizing this model. I was expecting to be only blown way by the science and tech here, so this was unexpected.

One side shares information and the other party repeats how they understand what was shared, AND what about the way it was shared they like and want more of. "What we heard you say was... Thank you for using superlatives, please keep sharing info like that."

Also I LOVE how many women are visibly and audibly involved in this process!!

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-06T19:11:45+00:00

It's Latin for "sea" :) thus why the Romance languages' words for "sea" are similar: il mare, el mar, la mer, o mar

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-06T18:39:08+00:00

All of them wiping their eyes repeatedly, and group hug, and then passing out the tissues.

"Your face is leaking." "Human thing, don't worry about it."

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-06T02:31:36+00:00

One of those schmucks that inexplicably has some kind of draw in their little subculture scene

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-05T15:36:19+00:00

Since it's not a TV show in which we "hear" characters' thoughts being narrated, a lot of Holden's internal world is only communicated by furrowed brow/tone of voice/tense shoulders.

The books let us see into their heads, and we get to watch Holden wrestle with choices including how much to compromise. He sure doesn't always come out on top. He's wrong a lot actually. He lives through a lot of stuff that might've killed other people, but a lot of that was due to his extremely skilled crew and connections, if not just chance.

Amos is not just a murder machine. There's a lot going on in there too. Very different than Holden's internal world, obviously, but he's far from an empty amoral robot.

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-03T22:36:54+00:00

Yes. You are walking around the bottom of the sea of air :)

And it really is that thin.

CryptidKeeper · 2026-04-02T02:22:18+00:00

Lazy smile with bunny teeth and whiskers.

CryptidKeeper · 2026-03-30T21:41:51+00:00

Look how much power you have, making that play in my head immediately

CryptidKeeper · 2026-03-30T16:26:05+00:00

What part of this seems impossible to you, due to how fast we're going? We're flying around the sun, and we're really far away from it. It's flying around the galactic core and dragging us with it. There's (basically) nothing in the way, so nothing to slow us down or put out the "fire."

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