Hi! I'm Emma. I'm an ideator, optimizer, and personal growth nerd, with a dash of woo and politics. This is my "kitchen sink" blog, where I share random notes from my life, including the various rabbit holes I go down.
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Personal growth and social change don’t have to invalidate each other.
The world is full of shitty power structures, and we can still change our lives. Both these things are true.
Ear Biscuits: Rhett Bought a Bible – Rhett’s Deconstruction 2 Years Later
I love Rhett & Link’s content on Good Mythical Mornings (good silly fun) and I had no idea they had a deconstruction journey. (Deconstruction is when you realize your fundie/evangelical beliefs are untenable and you rethink everything.)
Lumenate – the “Psychedelic” App on Your Phone
My experience with the Lumenate app, which promises a psychedelic-like trip just using light. Free to try.PBS Terra: What is the Safest Place to Live as the Climate Changes?
Vermont, apparently, is where we should all be moving to, if you’re in the USA. Oregon is OK, but the wildfire risk (and the Cascadia earthquake, which is unrelated to climate but still a big risk) makes me periodically rethink my options. The video also points out how few people call themselves climate refugees yet, but it’s coming.
MinuteEarth: Why Water Dissolves (Almost) Everything
Fascinating little video on how our entire existence is built around trying to not be dissolved in water. Our skin and our cells are the way they are so they can be waterproof, our houses are built with the materials they are so they can be waterproof, because water is one of the best solvents there is and it’s everywhere.
Vlad Vexler: The Real Truth about Putin’s Mind
The exact kind of fascist Putin is. Vlad has a few other videos linked in the description about Putin that I found valuable (and terrifying) for understanding Putin’s psychology.
We Are All Putin
On a biological level, me and you and Putin share nearly 100% of our DNA. Abuse of power is a universal human problem, not a problem of abnormal individuals.RI with Anil Seth: Is Reality a Controlled Hallucination?
Rather than interpreting reality from sensory perception in a bottom-up way, apparently our brain is constantly making predictions about the world and just using sensory input to “error correct” its predictions. So we are all hallucinating, it’s just that most of us are checking our hallucinations so they stay relatively in line with reality.