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New chapters of Lower Heaven released every Wednesday. A serial solarpunk novel by Benjamin Loomis.
New chapters of Lower Heaven released every Wednesday. A serial solarpunk novel by Benjamin Loomis.
New chapters of Lower Heaven released every Wednesday. A serial solarpunk novel by Benjamin Loomis.
New chapters of Lower Heaven released every Wednesday. A serial solarpunk novel by Benjamin Loomis.
Commerce and capitalism are not the same thing. I think it’s good to separate these concepts that have become so intertwined because making these two terms synonymous leads to all sorts of misunderstandings.
I just keep thinking that we have to adapt. We still need each other. That never stopped, only becoming more true when the virus hit.
If you’re going to retaliate against someone for speaking generally about renting conditions in Boone, you’ve proved my point that you have more interest in maintaining your market dominance than listening to the community you serve.
There is no climate crisis without the Haber-Bosch process, no chemical weapons. There is no mass marketing without sociology and behavioral science. Facebook itself is a scientific triumph that ultimately degrades public discourse and trust in scientific authority.
WNC Renters Help is accepting submissions of landlord stories for a new community accountability database!
It’s been a busy pandemic, that’s for sure. Now accepting zine submissions for publication.
I’m not saying stop paying attention, or don’t vote. This isn’t a call to not participate in the current system. I am saying vote your conscience come November, but treat that vote as your least important political act of the year.
We the gathered, in observance of the Heavenly Ideals of Merit, Logic, and Freedom, do pledge to consider the full Range of options in defense of the autonomous territory of Heaven as defined. Serving as the activated will of Heaven’s populace, I pledge to:
When you look at the word “world” long enough it itself falls apart. The ‘rld’ throws the brain back to the time of cairns and charnal grounds, grievous, primordial eras this word has survived through. It’s an Old English car-crash of ‘wer’ and ‘ald’, together the weralt, the Age of Man, the world.
Table of Contents (or Theory of Change) of an eventual untitled fiction book about organizing and revolutioncraft.
In one version I have failed to achieve in a conventional sense and am trying to cover my mediocre tracks, wasted the good start I’ve been given and now need to rationalize my bad choices by saying conventional success wasn’t my goal in the first place.
The glass-faced pyramids were the first thing your eyes found approaching the island-bound city of Heaven, the house of innovation, the multi-cultural cauldron and crucible, caldera of culture and commerce, the jewel of the south Valley.
The official rules for Fortuna, Free Radical’s original tarot card gambling game!
Whether or not Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to take his own life, or was coerced into it, or was murdered isn’t relevant to me. The relevant part is that whatever occurred, justice was not the priority.
While the Founders brought the Valley its first architecture, technology, and vestiges of civilization, the Zuri were its first people.
Today, the goods and ideas produced in Heaven spread to every corner of the Valley, but just a few centuries ago, this reality was something no one could imagine.
The Wizard of Boone’s Book of Magick got featured in the Appalachian! Read the article
136,627,459 votes for president were cast in 2016. So your vote does matter- as 1/136.627,459 of the decision. That is numerically insignificant. It makes each of our voices equate to less than a rounding error. What do?
When the equation becomes too complicated, you are free to remove yourself from it.
The glass-faced pyramids were the first thing your eyes found approaching the island-bound city of Heaven, the house of innovation, the multi-cultural cauldron and crucible, caldera of culture and commerce, the jewel of the south Valley.
Rely on me to defend and exalt your name above all others, to you and to everyone. Do not anticipate my compliance in your self-deprecation. I recognize no flaw in you.
Honestly, I only feel driven to write about myself because it’s an effective marketing tactic.
A worldview that includes non-empirical, mystical values is more pervasive now than ever. Which means it wields economic heft. People are acting on, motivated by, basing their lives around these forces, consciously or not.
What do you run from? Who is the one you follow?
New chapters of Lower Heaven released every Wednesday. A serial solarpunk novel by Benjamin Loomis.