wrote about meditation and psychedelic therapy helping me (in addition to therapy and psych meds) despite my deep mistrust of Wellness
TODAY: @supremenothing.myatproto.social on meditation grifters. “Quacks and mountebanks have been a consistent feature of life in the U.S. for roughly as long as it’s existed, and they are currently experiencing one of their cyclical renaissances.” flaminghydra.com/meditating-o...
I have meditated every single day for 400 days today, according to my tracker app. I took up the practice after a traumatic incident threw me out of balance; I needed very badly to self-regulate, and ...
Wrote about the little thrill of getting the job done flaminghydra.com/men-at-work/
This might be the universe's sign that it's time, at last, for a re-read (I haven't done one since I was about 13 so there will be many that aren't re at all, he published a fair bit after 1995 right??)
jj skolnik
TODAY: @brocktoon.bsky.social on the times World Cup tourists are having in America. “There’s an Italian guy who’s fallen in love with Wal-Mart, and a Japanese guy who thinks the Nashville skyline is the most beautiful thing he’s seen. Everyone loves ranch dressing.” flaminghydra.com/welcome-to-t...
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TODAY: @supremenothing.myatproto.social on meditation grifters. “Quacks and mountebanks have been a consistent feature of life in the U.S. for roughly as long as it’s existed, and they are currently experiencing one of their cyclical renaissances.” flaminghydra.com/meditating-o...
Flaming Hydra
The first weekend after we moved into our apartment I rented a U-Haul to pick up some furniture way out in the suburbs. This was about four years ago now. We’d been eating all our meals sitting on the...
ALSO TODAY: @camoot.bsky.social encounters a sinister haircut operation. flaminghydra.com/baa-aahd-hai...
ALSO TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social with a goop(not that one) recipe and some thoughts on imperfection, via chef and cookbook author Greg Baxtrom. “As much as I like being a chef, I’ve also become good at problem solving. I know what to do if a toilet breaks.” flaminghydra.com/chips-and-go...
Maria Bustillos
My habitual morning dose of TikTok brainrot is one-third news, and two-thirds memes, short comedy, and bewildering weird stuff. Until roughly three days ago, when it became nearly wall to wall coverag...
I have meditated every single day for 400 days today, according to my tracker app. I took up the practice after a traumatic incident threw me out of balance; I needed very badly to self-regulate, and ...
Just had the good fortune to read this in today’s @flaminghydra.com.
Fantastic piece of writing, indicting the whole shitty system and the wellness grifters grifting off the carcasses left behind by the private equity grifters too.
FReadom Fighter
About once a month when I was a kid, we’d all get in the car on a Sunday morning, having attended Mass the evening before, and drive an hour to visit my grandparents in Herkimer, New York. My grandmot...
TODAY: @ilanaslightly.bsky.social on the worlds and politics of Terry Pratchett, who was, by the way, "passionately anti-authoritarian, and a humanist, whose values shine through every book." flaminghydra.com/i-too-am-beg...
TODAY: @ilanaslightly.bsky.social on the worlds and politics of Terry Pratchett, who was, by the way, "passionately anti-authoritarian, and a humanist, whose values shine through every book." flaminghydra.com/i-too-am-beg...
TODAY: @ilanaslightly.bsky.social on the worlds and politics of Terry Pratchett, who was, by the way, "passionately anti-authoritarian, and a humanist, whose values shine through every book." flaminghydra.com/i-too-am-beg...
Ankh-Morpork, the beautifully chaotic city-state where many of the late Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld novels take place, has a beggars’ guild. It’s basically a protection racket: if you don’t wa...
Ankh-Morpork, the beautifully chaotic city-state where many of the late Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld novels take place, has a beggars’ guild. It’s basically a protection racket: if you don’t wa...
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Ankh-Morpork, the beautifully chaotic city-state where many of the late Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld novels take place, has a beggars’ guild. It’s basically a protection racket: if you don’t wa...
wrote about meditation and psychedelic therapy helping me (in addition to therapy and psych meds) despite my deep mistrust of Wellness
Flaming Hydra
Flaming Hydra
Flaming Hydra
jj skolnik
TODAY: @supremenothing.myatproto.social on meditation grifters. “Quacks and mountebanks have been a consistent feature of life in the U.S. for roughly as long as it’s existed, and they are currently experiencing one of their cyclical renaissances.” flaminghydra.com/meditating-o...
TheGins
I have meditated every single day for 400 days today, according to my tracker app. I took up the practice after a traumatic incident threw me out of balance; I needed very badly to self-regulate, and ...