Waking nightmares
"The average modern person, by one calculation, spends more than 1,600 hours a year to pay for their cars, their insurance, fuel and repairs. We go to jobs partly to pay for the cars, and we need the cars mostly to get to jobs. We spend four of our sixteen waking hours on the road or gathering the resources for the car."
The hidden potential of bicycles - resilience
Urrghh. Hard to focus today. I shall obtain food, drink a hot waking drink and I will find out if I am functional at that point.
#Podcast 99% Invisible: "You Are What You Watch" https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/you-are-what-you-watch/
Various US telecom providers report outages, nationwide.
#USA
This evening's #contemplative rumination:
I sometimes #meditate in my sleep. And that helps me realize that my waking thinking "ego" self isn't the starting point — like sleep, it comes from somewhere; it's generated; it's an expression.
And that further helps …
Lese gerade Attack Surface (2020) von Cory Doctorow, fühlt sich sehr now an, und dann finde ich da dsn schönen Satz: "But every now and again, you get the kind of protest that feels like something vast and unsuspected, waking from slumber. It's something about how the people look at each other [...] They're people who thought they were heading to the first kind of protest, the dutiful exercise, only to discover that they were part of a vast movement." -- Klimastreiks 2028/1…
Lese gerade Attack Surface (2020) von Cory Doctorow, fühlt sich sehr now an, und dann finde ich da dsn schönen Satz: "But every now and again, you get the kind of protest that feels like something vast and unsuspected, waking from slumber. It's something about how the people look at each other [...] They're people who thought they were heading to the first kind of protest, the dutiful exercise, only to discover that they were part of a vast movement." -- Klimastreiks 2028/1…