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Havi Brooks

@havi.bsky.social
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friend of several road runners, hiding out in the desert

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whichever pumpkins don’t sell at October 3rd Open Studios I’ll put in my Etsy shop
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seeing as older generations were stuck self medicating with nicotine and improperly dosed uppers yeah I think people getting actual care is good, Janice, you damned eugenics brained sadist!
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wrote about a bizarre progression of mystical wonders and extremely good clues and all the ways these moments of Cosmically Involved, whether accidentally or not, set me up to be well-resourced for finding myself on very unsteady ground fluentself.com/blog/persona...
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Cosmically involved and signs on signs
It’s not so much that I am seeking steady ground, as that I am seeking to learn how to be a self-stabilizing creature who knows how to scramble well and playfully… Like a goat, like a mountain lion… ...
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Ezra Brooks @ezbrooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
RIP Jean Baudrillard, you would have loved whatever this is *gestures vaguely at everything* www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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AI 'actor' Tilly Norwood glitches during Piers Morgan interview, starts speaking Cantonese | CBC News
While promoting Misaligned, an upcoming film from Particle6, in an interview with Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti, AI-generated 'actor' Tilly Norwood abruptly switched from speaking English to Canton...
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I hope someone is in the mood for a 5k words settle in with coffee style essay, because I am exploring heartbreak grief through an Oracle I encountered in a bakery (!) while attempting to learn about cultivating Glorious Mistrust and it is has been a wild ride fluentself.com/blog/persona...
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If it happens once / An Oracle at the Bakery
But then, as I set down my notebook, the woman suddenly stood and said, very loudly, as if making a proclamation: IF IT HAPPENED ONCE, IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN.
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Scientist Mel @scientistmel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m currently seeing three different doctors and a dietitian to address the infernal hell that is perimenopause. I left my last doctor because he told me that, “this is just what nature intended, sorry“. Mr. Rogers’ spirit held me back that day…I was about to make some really bad decisions 
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
*cackles in historian of medicine*
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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 14/07/2026
looking forward to the official yiddish translation, Der Pipernoter Vil Kvetshn A Bisl (the dragon wants to kvetch a little)
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
You let Dougal do a funeral?
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You’d get on the freeway, drive for a while until you were like, “hmm not sure if I’m close to where I’m going???”, take an exit, stop at a gas station, ask a man in a plaid parka how much farther it is, sometimes he’d pull out a map, or he’d want to talk to you about Jesus, it was a different time
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It’s true, you never see a straight white guy in a bike lane
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
had to take a break from being able to walk for a couple weeks but now I’m moving again, wrote about seasonal sorcery (and sourcery), making a wish and getting the opposite, trauma in the body and how it moves around, questions of discernment! fluentself.com/blog/persona...
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Some seasonal sorcery (and sourcery!)
When is it time to gently and lovingly shake up the internal snow globe? When is too much shaking? As always this all goes back to Discernment. Which isn’t so much about knowing when to shake and w...
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 16/06/2026
Now that women no longer wear hats, we have no idea what the future holds.
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
a one minute story that got me to feel feelings etgarkeret.substack.com/p/your-story?
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Your Story
Not mine | Fiction | Fresh Soup
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I have come to think of the crunching sound my knees make when I bend them as being like the "hwaup hwaup hwaup hwaup hweep" Transformers cartoon sound, it is not a gloomy sign of decrepitude but an empowering herald of change
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Pride is Pride so that people don’t have to live—and lose—in secret. Happy Pride, and remember how much of coded queer art from our childhoods served as seeds the planters would never see blossom.
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
coming out of a cocooning period with a very long essay about back pain, heartbreak, an epic sky battle, unexpected blues-clues, anger, betrayal, William Carlos Williams, etc fluentself.com/blog/persona...
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How you exit is how you were in it
How my friend exited our relationship reveals how they were in it, and if there is no warmth, no care taken with the ending, then that tells me something I didn’t know, or that I didn’t want to notice...
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Susan Marie Swanson @susanmarieswanson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I keep thinking about this chair I saw. I'm in a rough patch and thinking of this chair makes me happy.
Handmade dark blue wooden chair, with a carved warbler on the back.
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Maz Hedgehog (they/them) @mazhedgehog.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I get you. But my vision of radical bodily autonomy is more about undoing societal sexism/racism/transphobia etc so people can make free choices Social pressure will always exist, but oppression doesn't have to
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Wrote about best possible outcomes and the lebrechaun brigade (my friend Laura’s plan to get me to deal with my stuck project) and being surprised by what my project was actually about fluentself.com/blog/persona...
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Best possible outcomes and the leprechaun brigade
Will this structure fall down before it decays or decay before it falls? That is a question my mind is often toying with as I make my way along the winding mountain roads. It’s the wild west and the...
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 21/04/2026
For those of you who aren't tuned in, this a call for genocide against disabled people.
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It may seem funny now, but in about 3 weeks' time the disruption to the global supply chain of knowing-yet-sanctimonious middle-class left-of-centre takes will start forcing prices up, and governments may even have to introduce rationing
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
wrote about finding my way back to reality, and the healing process more generally, and being tender with the tender process <3 fluentself.com/blog/persona...
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Re-oxygenating back to reality (and what is useful about this moment of crisis)
Clue: Even though I often think of shock as not-awesome, sometimes I need to shock my way out of a depressive episode. Sometimes a shock gets me moving agin or interrupts the wanting-to-pass-out for l...
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I mean ok it does include "Thatcher is dead", "These aren't the droids you're looking for" and "Thickos liked your latest post", but otherwise it feels a tad limited
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
People deserve clean water. We deserve clean air. We shouldn’t be forced to work in these dangerous circumstances we are forced into every day. Because yes, even vaccinated people get long covid. We have water filtration. We could have air filtration too. We have to demand it.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 17/04/2026
I don't know if you've spent much time as a professional sick person, but about 80% of the time when a health care professional is "sir'ing me, they aren't trying to be respectful or kind; they're pissed off that I won't consent to, like, putting in a PICC without proper pain control
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
LORD I HAVE SEEN WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS, please spread this miracle around, I need this exact form of glue
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i'm just patrick, deep down @ouisequitur.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
this is Messianic Edging
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I was listening to El Paso radio yesterday and almost every time they mentioned the $1k you could theoretically win, it was like, “take care of that electric bill” or “finally replace that phone you dropped a year ago and the screen is completely cracked and it barely works”
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SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Yeah. I always look at them and say, “In this economy?” which usually cracks them up and often opens the door for me to ask them what actionable things can we discuss. But like “lower your stress” when one of the things stressing me out is seeing the big capitalism trap of “can’t take time off”?
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
nothing online works for shit anymore. everybody who knows how to work computer is unemployed. we are stuck with these losers shooting up peptides while they vibecode their claude dongle
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Oh no! Matt has been in the social media streets doing so much education on top of real advocacy. Please take care of them if we can
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/04/2026
When you see one set of footprints, that’s because a chatbot is non-corporeal.
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Artificial intelligence Jesus chatbot sparks debate over future of faith
For some evangelical Christians, a personal relationship with Jesus is central to their faith. Now, a tech company called Just Like Me is offering to take that concept to an unprecedented level, allowing users to engage in video calls with an artificial intelligence-generated avatar of Jesus for $1....
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Wrote about Reheartened & Reheartening, and tricking myself in fun ways to do tedious busy work in times of heartache and then finding so many clues in turning the whole thing into a form of play… fluentself.com/blog/persona...
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Operation Re-heart / Reheartened / A Reheartening
My mission is simple: pretend I am on the show Leverage and I’m breaking into the mainframe, but I only have twenty minutes before I will be kicked out of the system.
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jam @socialistboat.dad · 31/03/2026
trans rights is a "wedge" issue in the sense that if you have an issue with trans rights I will "wedge" you into a crevasse in a mountain and leave you there
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Ian of the Sea @iandukes.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
*entire world goes up in smoke* Oh no my concerns!
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
(I haven‘t been on a plane since 2018 but from what I hear it does keep getting worse…)
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Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
can I fast forward to the exposé after this all goes disastrously wrong
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 22/03/2026
I really, really need academic organizations to think more critically about travel (conferences, talks, and meetings) during the Trump administration. Sadly, most are not.
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
(I was not relaxed ten years ago either)
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Ian of the Sea @iandukes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
ME 10 YEARS AGO: [relaxed] I'm not worrying about too many things. ME NOW: [panicked] I'm "not worrying" about too many things!
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
You should be so lucky as to be five again and to see everything with wonder and to be so sure that your marks will be loved and displayed. Let’s all be five and make art forever.
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
wrote about acting on my own behalf, and when a small thing turns into a seemingly Impossible Obstacle (an Impobstacle? An Improbstacle, at a minimum!) and shifting energy and what it means to me to train fluentself.com/blog/persona...
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On My Own Behalf (and what about the seemingly impossible obstacles)
When I was seven years old, on my birthday, my dad’s friend Brian bought me cotton candy. I’d never had cotton candy before, and it was a very thrilling moment for tiny seven-year-old me. My dad, jok...
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Nit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Turns out that it's the rocket scientist bit, not the nazi bit, that helps you get to the moon
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
wrote about Desperately Seeking Shift (in a variety of sizes), and what I am learning and re-learning about anger, and how I am staying laser-focused on boundaries, fortification, small shifts, large shifts, any change in mood or atmosphere that helps fluentself.com/blog/persona...
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Desperately Seeking Shift (Small, Medium, Large)
So here we are. I am investigating everything that contributes to good/useful/fun shift, and learning about the sizes shift might come in, and when I want a big shift and when I want a tiny shift or m...
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is a fantastic graphic on the post-viral impact of COVID published in Cell. When people think of long COVID, they likely think of the last image. Many don't know the virus can worsen pre-existing conditions & causes new ones (e.g. autoimmune disease, stroke) www.cell.com/action/showP...
Visual published in Cell titled "post acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2" with four categories, each represented by a picture

Post hospitalization syndromes
Exacerbation of pre existing medical conditions 
Incident medical diagnoses
New or worsened symptoms not explained by known medical conditions
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Havi Brooks @havi.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is AMAZING (and the writing on the badass huge snow monster’s chest says Third Russian Winter)
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