Reposted by @cascadiality.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16hIt seems so simple to me. Clearly not either/or. And yet… 1501
Reposted by @cascadiality.bsky.socialgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026We’ve become very good in the past ten (ten!!!!) years at recognizing the unacceptable, but increasingly unable to insist that it not be accepted. 2485
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Graham plattner talented comedian! 000
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 09/10/2026but these similarities can also be recognized, given a legitimate turn to be known, which helps defuse the psychological arms race of culture from going nuclear. It's practical! And we don't have to surrender our values to do it. 010
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 09/10/2026When I just saw how some people on the right are mostly using news to self soothe, i then recognize that I also do a version of that. The differences are still there, and things that are better are still better, 110
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Finding parallels with the opposition groups who are doing it wrong , no matter how minor they are, is an excellent health and possibility expanding exercise. It only takes a couple seconds at a time. 110
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ms now is one of my biggest triggers at this point 😂😭 000
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Argentine culture uses this construction a lot. Gotta differentiate one way or another! 020
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 09/10/2026and others like common dreams tend to be more reactive, and then the Atlantic is a little too center right. Tangle is great but a little too both sides sometimes. I think liberal currents are really in the sweet spot. 000
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I've been searching for publications in the liberal tradition that are finding The Sweet Spot, and I find benefit in all of them, but outlets like the nation are a little too automatic with their leftist lens, and the prospect is great but doesn't have quite enough volume,static.klipy.comGoldilocks Three BearsALT: Goldilocks Three Bears 100
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I've been impressed with liberal currents as a voice for the best of modern democracy, as well as investigating how those value traditions translate into today's changing world. Just subscribed , both for the benefits and as a contribution of energy toward truth and fairness and principled openness 194
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Always a good reminder that environments are smarter and more influential on us than we are on them www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...liberalcurrents.comPortraits of an American Dopamine EaterOur attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture. 031
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The value of staying with the principles of ones chosen role and passion with respect to a complexifying environment (video is better than the title) youtu.be/Fq5h6N5wnCw?...youtu.beThe Comedian Making Fun of Joe Rogan's FriendsYouTube video by Patrick Cc: 000
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Noticing how much of cultural and interpersonal time is our Self-soothing and self-affirmation of the patterns that we were shaped by or reacted against. 000
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Never knew there were more verses to this song 020
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Could add meta awareness : when we are aware that we are aware , or notice that we are aware or see that we are thinking about our thinking , Etc 010
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Pretty standard Baseline values that probably still have some overlap for most people and groups? 000
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The poignancy and learning from a creative trying to honestly experience and represent the tensions and additions of the time . Hope he's doing okay. youtu.be/hyeg6tzOJ2M?...youtu.beBo Burnham’s Final Warning Before He DisappearedYouTube video by Patrick Cc: 000
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the way that the other people connect the dots could have been us 000
Reposted by @cascadiality.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026I asked him if he ever got any bulk orders, or had thoughts on how to scale up or manufacture them more efficiently. He looked at me like I was crazy. He *likes* doing them one at a time, it's his passion, and since he lives in a civilized country, he doesn't *need* to worry about scaling up. 518318
Reposted by @cascadiality.bsky.socialcascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026She Hulk can regulate her emotions bc of all the years of dealing with being a woman. That's a legit metaphor for how different the experience is! 131
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026static.klipy.comShe-Hulk Knuckle: Jennifer Walters Ready for ActionALT: She-Hulk Knuckle: Jennifer Walters Ready for Action 010
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026She Hulk can regulate her emotions bc of all the years of dealing with being a woman. That's a legit metaphor for how different the experience is! 131
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And I appreciate the spirit of it, that everyone is trying to figure out how to arrive together at something that would actually work better. None of us in our groups currently has that full answer! We're in the challenge together here. 000
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Democrats have their own version of that, which overlaps with the democratic consultant culture, but also has some differences. I thought the article did a good job of detailing those differences. 100
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hi. I wasn't talking about right to vote, but how the establishment tends to have a spreadsheet and poll testing fixation , and misses additional contexts. And the institutional conservatives who are now trying to help 100
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And that expands to more of all of life becoming an additive self reminder, whenever we can talk ourselves into giving a turn to something that seems counter to our values and intuition. Blame Carl Young for it I guess! 😂😭 000
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026and is continuing to happen. For me, a little bit is all I can do , but when I do give it a turn, the benefit arrives with it. In this way, the most harmful people can also be a source of benefit and help, which gives us more ability to mitigate their harms. 100
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026cause and effect, and room to breathe and see more has been added . And he has less power then to exhaust us. The issue is that getting this benefit involves acknowledging a little more that him being president actually happened 100
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026particular kind of engagement, which then we freshly see that Trump didn't get in his childhood. Then we arrive back freshly at seeing the harm that he is doing in this role, and there's been more recognition of 100
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026we get an experience of being a baby ourselves. Even though he caused it more than we did, technically our version still counts as us. Then we can continue that by seeing how our inner child requires a 100
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When he does this it's a double invitation for us to give turns to our own self-similarity. Even if it's just barely, technically true, it still helps. In the perceiving of him being a baby yet again , 100
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I didn't know but I looked it up before replying. Gotcha works better when we know what the got is that we're getting!google.comGoogle 000
Reposted by @cascadiality.bsky.socialcascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ah yes that thing where we project something unavoidable on to others and into the future, and then reluctantly adopt it later , casting ourselves as the munificent one who will clean up others' messes... 001
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ah yes that thing where we project something unavoidable on to others and into the future, and then reluctantly adopt it later , casting ourselves as the munificent one who will clean up others' messes... 001
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Comics studies is such a sneaky good way to engage culture. The dark reign story as the Trump era continues to be helpful for me. 🥶 😭 000
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hey! Cool. I may just check those out. I've been enjoying that Marvel in the '70s book as well, the world inside your head by elliot Bornstein. Someone from Reddit recommended it as a follow-up to all of the Marvels. 100
Reposted by @cascadiality.bsky.socialMatt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re... 36840217
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Conventional media doesn't really do those kinds of patterns. It's not really a zoom out paradigm. If they were, then things would be a little different! 000
cascadiality.bsky.social @cascadiality.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yeah both the establishment bulwark conservatives and establishment democrats are really enamored of their expertise and institutional precedents. Expanding context is a challenge for them . So the rest of us will keep pushing back and challenging them on that , because more contexts works better. 110
Reposted by @cascadiality.bsky.socialKelly Carlin-McCall @kellycarlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026And when I say art, I mean that broadly. It’s the thing that wont leave you alone, it must move through you, and when it does it’ll most likely inspire, awaken, aid our fellow humans through our sharing. Remember sharing? Like kindergarten sharing? That vibe. 2265
