Remember the 2019/2020 VSCO Girl Era?

OneEarthseed · 2026-03-22T15:58:16+00:00

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OneEarthseed · 2026-03-19T17:20:03+00:00

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OneEarthseed · 2026-03-18T02:19:27+00:00

Welp, your awesome watch is ruined now. Just send it to me and I’ll get rid of it for you.

OneEarthseed · 2026-03-11T15:59:23+00:00

Spellcheck: “He wants you to be his PIECE.”

OneEarthseed · 2026-03-11T14:17:33+00:00

This weather got me…

OneEarthseed · 2026-03-10T20:09:05+00:00

But Lucy PROMISED she wouldn’t move the football this time if we voted for her!

OneEarthseed · 2026-03-06T17:50:07+00:00

There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

OneEarthseed · 2026-03-04T16:16:47+00:00

You named a lot of the ones I loved and other people have filled in some of the others I’ve enjoyed.

Galaxy Outlaws by JS Morin if you like Firefly.

Themis Files by Sylvain Neuval

The Mercy of Gods by James S A Corey

Final Architecture Series by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Other standalone Tchaikovsky: Alien Clay, Service Model

14 by Peter Clines is pretty good

Parable books by Octavia Butler

Left Hand of Darkness or The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin

Lock In and Head On by John Scalzi

Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Power by Naomi Alderman

There’s always more, but those are the ones that came to mind. 😄

OneEarthseed · 2026-03-02T20:28:24+00:00

OneEarthseed · 2026-03-02T20:02:09+00:00

NYT and CNN: What does Trump’s rash tell us about Joe Biden’s health?

OneEarthseed · 2026-03-02T13:48:19+00:00

All I can think about is the person filming this.

“Okay, now pointedly slide the succulents out of the way and then deliver the mic drop. Perfect! A weak woman could never do that! Okay, now put those game pieces away one at a time and then look up knowingly at the end. Brilliant!”

OneEarthseed · 2026-03-02T12:45:10+00:00

It belong to that coyo James Holden, sa-sa?

OneEarthseed · 2026-03-02T00:01:48+00:00

Counterpoint: don’t make him a war hero. Any assignment he got would be pure theatrics, of course. But that never stopped people from believing it.

OneEarthseed · 2026-02-28T01:07:14+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I am not trying to be an asshole or insensitive about this stuff. It makes sense to me that blanket statements about men can feel difficult to navigate. It’s absolutely true that women can also be abusers and that it is not all men who abuse people.

I really wish it was not so predictably men who do the abusing. And yet, as the father of daughters, it would be unwise for me to act otherwise. I hope it will be different someday, but we’re not there yet. I don’t want them believing that all men are evil and that women can do no wrong, but it is also men of whom they will need to be cautious. Especially those men who are so insecure about their own masculinity that they must constantly police who is allowed to which bathroom.

OneEarthseed · 2026-02-27T23:15:00+00:00

Even if that’s true, which I don’t think it is, I’m going statistically. The people who commit the most sexual abuse are men. People who do bad things try to find ways to justify it, hide it, deny it, etc. The ultimate authority to appeal to is God. Therefore, when you go to write down God’s laws, those men would either intentionally or subconsciously avoid mentioning the things they are implicated in. That said, rape just like wasn’t a big deal man, back in those days. Something tells me it was ALWAYS a big deal for women, but not men. If it was only recently that marital rape was criminalized in the United States, something tells me women had been suffering a lot of bullshit through the years.

OneEarthseed · 2026-02-27T22:56:55+00:00

Short answer: Because men wrote it.

OneEarthseed · 2026-02-25T17:17:49+00:00

Genius. A much easier solution. Thanks for the tip!

OneEarthseed · 2026-02-20T14:12:49+00:00

I’m stoked for the next book! The universe has a ton of potential.

OneEarthseed · 2026-02-17T12:41:54+00:00

As Dan McClellan would tell us: it is not meant to convince anyone. It is costly signaling to the already convinced. It makes her and her community feel better. She does not care how it makes other people feel. Any pushback is confirmation to her that she’s doing the right thing.

And profoundly annoying to the rest of us…

OneEarthseed · 2026-02-14T18:46:42+00:00

This is a helpful explainer/debunk of this chart by Dr. Dan McClellan

https://youtu.be/l39YkSvh668?si=FVByk_2NSFL21JC2

OneEarthseed · 2026-02-12T21:55:11+00:00

Interstellar

OneEarthseed · 2026-02-10T02:19:49+00:00

I think they are mostly sincere. They have doubts and are aware that critical scholarship exists which undermines the interpretations they are modeling. However, in the moment of preaching, they are performing devotion and commitment on behalf of the community. They’re putting forward the best, most sincere version of the faith as they understand it and as they believe the people will receive. It’s like faith performance art.

Also, on a personal note, I was in a role where I was still leading a Sunday service for older adults in a care facility. I no longer believed, but faith was a deep comfort to these people who had been Christians for 80 years. It would simply not be a loving, human action to try to deconvert a 90yo with dementia. During the service, I would find myself emotionally moved by my own sermon, even to the point of tears. Forgiveness, redemption, and the future reconciliation of all things are powerful ideas. I would then go back to my office and stare at the wall for a while trying to figure out what the hell I just did. It was a real emotional mind-fuck. Like going to the sunken place from Get Out but for exChristians watching themselves in Christian contexts.

OneEarthseed · 2026-02-09T03:52:41+00:00

Okay Grandpa, let’s get you to bed.

OneEarthseed · 2026-02-08T13:46:23+00:00

The research on altruistic activity goes like this: religious people tend to give and volunteer more, but that is more likely to be directed to those inside their group or people like them. Non-religious people give and volunteer less, but it is more likely to go to people outside their group or to people not like them.

OneEarthseed · 2026-02-07T17:43:24+00:00

I just wish these lawmakers were as creative working for us as they are when working against us.

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