Painting With Lightning

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No, the loneliness epidemic is not about "choice"
Choices only reveal preference if they're made freely. A self-perpetuating system of human psychology drives modern loneliness, and it's driven by need.
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"I love my child. I hate my life..."
Guys, hear me out. What if the majority of good parents, the ones with smart perspectives and happy lives ... are too immersed in what they're doing to…
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Therapyslop
Keeping the score and counting red flags as the tide of slop turns towards psychotherapy.
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Life isn't about "choices". It's about gambling.
You're gambling with your life right now (and you're probably bad at it).
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“I know people do strange things when they’re grieving, but …”
No, you don't. You don't know a goddamn thing.
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September 2025

Let's Not Eat Cake
If you want to celebrate your diagnosis, fill your boots. But it's concerning to witness such powerful pushback and erasure of the downsides of living…
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How Good Therapists Leave the System
I didn't train for ... whatever this is. And I can't do it anymore.
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I work with survivors. Here's what I've learned about sexual violence.
Is it scarier meeting a shark wearing human skin up close, and know that they exist? Or realising someone you trusted can't recognise your subjectivity…
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It's OK to look away
When faced with sadness, senselessness, stupidity and smallness of spirit, you can choose to look. Or you can choose to look away.
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I don't understand.
How has it become acceptable to openly get off on the pain, suffering and death of people you don’t like or don’t agree with?
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Please stop calling ADHD a fucking "superpower"
I am begging you, for the love of all things true and good and beautiful.
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Harry Potter and the Revenge of the Lord of the Cognitive Shortcut
The vast majority of the day-to-day simply isn’t interesting, not even in Middle-Earth. Unfortunately, we live in the day-to-day.
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