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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We asked five customers at an Idaho Diner whether the President, in fact, believes he is above the law - and they said they weren't sure - so now we're not sure, either! We think we might make them permanent editors of our paper though, they seemed nice, and have great ideas on how to run a paper!
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
@catominor.bsky.social great to see you active on here! Was thinking about you the other day - are you still using Roam? All your CSS tips and tricks helped get me interested in getting back into coding - much appreciated! What are your favorite note taking apps these days?
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Good morning bluesky An amazing October day in the San Francisco Bay area, sunny and warm I'm going to a dance class, hooray! What's something fun you're doing this weekend?
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
GOOD MORNING BLUESKY I did something kinda interesting last night. I left my laptop at work so I would not be tempted to log in first thing in the morning which means that it was really easy for me to work out and run before starting work today... and I FEEL GREAT hope y'all are having a good day
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
just a reminder that if you scapegoat the scapegoaters, they don't stop scapegoating, you just now have people who are actively scapegoating, who also don't listen to anything you say
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
good morning Bluesky! what's up? today is an amazing day for me, it's a piano lesson day. I have the best piano teacher ever - he's a classically trained pianist who went into jazz and tango and he knows both the classical rep and also all sorts of stuff about improv and composing. i feel blessed
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
GOOD MORNING BLUESKY and happy Saturday today is a day for long run by the lake with extra planks and a side of pushups taking kiddo to get fitted for hiking boots/shoes for hike appreciating nature hope you have a beautiful weekend
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
good morning bluesky! what up, what up? hope y'all are doing well. yesterday night, I learned to tie a bowline knot (again) at my daughter's Scouts meeting. what a trip... the muscle memory from when I first learned it was still there... hooray! what are you doing, this week?
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
good morning Bluesky! what's up today? I woke before dawn today. I will be running, as the sun rises. Hooray! hope you are having a good week. Cheers - Matt
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
good morning Bluesky! whats up today excited because I am awake early enough to go on a lake run. nothing like hitting that perfect stride while surrounded by water and trees and flowers. excited for kiddo's back-to-school night, eager to meet her teachers. what's up with you?
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Good morning Bluesky! What are you up to? Just had a piano lesson. Really fun. Working on some Bach. I absolutely love Bach. So rich and soulful. Sone of my favorite music to play. So many layers! What is happening for you today?
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
good morning Bluesky! what's going on today? gonna take my kiddo and her bestie out for breakfast - then I am going to make some shelves, all part of the Master Plan of having a place for everything, and everything in its place happy weekend to all weekend-enjoyers out there!
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Good afternoon Bluesky Hope your weekend is amazing Big Low Rider parade in The Mission, dozens + dozens of beautifully painted + tricked out cars Feels like the heart + soul of America, TBH - how great this place is when everyone is allowed to celebrate their own contribution to the melting pot
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
awesome! (also - TIL "gofun pigment" - have fun!)
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Good morning bluesky! Happy Friday. Hope y'all had a good week! I'd like to invite you to share an accomplishment or step or thing that happened this week, that you're proud of. My "Step" is that I volunteered to assist with my kiddo's Scout troop. Woo hoo! oh - and 5/5 plank workouts 🔥 yay!
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Good morning bluesky! What are you up to today? Huge Marie Kondo Day for me today. Big workspace cleanup. Sometimes you have to buckle down and start throwing out what no longer serves you. Also - day 4 of daily planking - hooray!
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
good morning Bluesky! what's up today I'm on day 3 of daily planking. it's easier than I thought once the routine is going... might expand it. taking kiddo to a Scouting meeting tonight - ah, nostalgia. So many great childhood memories of camping trips + hikes in the Colorado Rockies. Good times.
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
intriguing I can't help feeling like we need a hazards-mapping of our collective national psyche, at the moment
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John Guilaran @johnguilaran.com · 10/09/2025
Designing walkable cities increases social interaction and consequently may improve social support and social integration. Increase in social support and decrease in social isolation are good for public health.
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs". (NM) - RIP Robert Redford
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
good morning Bluesky! what are you up to today? I'm up before dawn, getting ready for twelve minutes of planking and kettle bell. I'm thankful that I also have time for a dawn run before my fairly busy day excited about some new clinical assessment tools that I can use, to help my patients! hooray
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
thank you! 😊
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Fi haraka, al baraka: In movement, there is blessing
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Likewise! Hooray!
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
good morning Bluesky! what's up today? happy Monday! I decided to try front loading some planking (the exercise) 1st thing in the morning. it seems like the best way to build consistency might be to make it a morning routine. I'll report back at the end of the week. Goal is 5/5 days M-F. hooray!
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Robert Macfarlane: In Welsh "dod yn ôl at fy nghoed", "to return to a balanced state of mind", literally means "to return to my trees" (via @bloodsigns on Twitter/X) photo: Ales Krivek, Unsplash
beautiful picture of some trees
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
that sounds like a great adventure. I love traveling by train. good luck with the wifi!
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
good morning bluesky! what's up what are you up to today? I'm going for a long run and then taking macarons to a back-to-school potluck with kiddo. gonna keep working on a Bach piano concerto I'm learning, and prep for a busy work week. how about you?
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Dan Allison @danallison.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
You are loved. You are free. Goodnight.
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you." - Jung
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
18/ And to know that, of course, Whyte's advice is exactly right - we will have to feel all our feelings. Whatever they may happen to be, in any given moment. We can't hide from the signals our body is trying to give us. Nor should we. Without those signals, we won't know what to do next.
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
17/ whatever the best decision is for us to make, right now- if we accept that the anxiety can also just be understood as one of Nature's ways of helping us focus, and that one of the most important questions we can clarify is: What values will inform our next choice? What's at stake, exactly?
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
16/ that I've seen in recent memory is this recent video clip of Alex Honnold coaching Magnus Midtbø on approaching a free solo (ropeless) climb youtube.com/clip/Ugkxv0V... there's so much clarity in recognizing that all we have is the present moment, yet we can still make
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
15/ And finally - the invitation to (C)ommit to it. Yes, that's what the the "C" in "ACT" refers to - the pathway through anxiety lies in reminding ourselves of what we are committed to, and following through. Anxiety can be clarifying, too, if we allow it One of the most amazing examples of this
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
14/ a signal, that is, that we are coming into contact with something precious, valuable, and vulnerable within ourselves. The question that anxiety asks of us (and it can always be turned into a question) is: What, exactly, is at stake? And then: What will we do about that?
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
13/ of our own experience we can neither fully predict nor control. Interestingly, this vibes with one of the most well known treatment protocols for anxiety - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). the basic thesis of ACT is that anxiety is a *signal.*
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
12/ what's notable to me about this is that Whyte frames anxiety as kind of a luxury, a thing we might turn to because it could be preferable to the alternative. the alternative, he suggests, might be facing something squarely; accepting things the way they are; knowing that there is some portion
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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...
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NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Similarly, the Trump-a-Lago top-secret files theft investigation was blocked by Eileen Cannon - a Trump appointee. We gave him the power to do this in 2016.
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Jan 6th prosecution was directly blocked by the Trump-appointed Supreme Court, who made an absurd ruling requiring Jack Smith to establish that Trump wasn't just doing his duty as Executive - slowing the case to a snail's pace. This supreme court exists, because of the 2016 election.
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
11/ Let's move on. Whyte's second word is "Anxiety". (he's more fun than a barrel of monkeys, isn't he? LOL -but don't be discouraged, not all his words have a negative tenor!) Here is the summary:
ANXIETY is the mask that truth wears when we refuse to stop and uncover its face. Anxiety is the disembodied state I feel when I pretend to put things right by worrying about them instead of truly conversing with them. Anxiety is the temporary helper going by the name of worry, who, when turned into our constant live-in companion, becomes our formidable jailor.
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
10/ perhaps moved by their gesture, Edward's wife Queen Philippa prevailed upon him to spare their lives. Its said that she feared that their execution would be an ill omen for their unborn child - and so they lived. Perhaps their anguish pointed her towards the possibility of a kinder world.
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
9/ in the hope that King Edward would accept their lives in exchange for relieving the suffering of their city.
image of the "Burghers of Calais" sculpture by Rodin, six men bound by. a heavy rope and with expressions and postures of anguish
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
8/ It was memorialized for all time by Auguste Rodin - that most physical of sculptors - in his "Burghers of Calais". At the beginning of the 100 years war, in 1347, the elders of the besieged city of Calais, aware of the terrible suffering of their city, offered their lives to the English King,
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
7/ The wisdom here is that very powerlessness - which is part of what makes anguish what it is - is also a beginning. It is the first step - the step of integrating the knowledge of our own limits. We integrate it in our body. This is no mere mental exercise. Anguish is a full body experience.
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
6/ "Anguish is the first stop on the road to healing". The path to wholeness necessarily leads us through powerlessness. If we love - a child, a pet, another person, a place, a flower, a garden, a world - that love will eventually render us powerless -
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
5/n OK let's get started. The first word David looks at, in C2, is "Anguish". (The words are presented in alphabetical order). It turns out there is a whole philosophy to be discovered here...
text: Anguish is a word that is a cry in itself: carrying the sound of the body feeling at last what it has all along needed to feel: a physical pain running right through our core and turned by the voice into the sound of pain itself, a pain we often previously could not imagine, an agony that is accompanied by the shock of absolute helplessness, a helplessness which is perhaps the very hallmark of human vulnerability itself, and that separates it from all the other manifold pains in a human life we have words to describe. Anguish is a force that racks and inhabits a suddenly surprised and now fully vulnerable, mind and body. But anguish fully felt is also the first stop on the road to recovery and healing.
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
4/n it was there already, he seems to say - the truth + knowledge was already there, within the words themselves, if we just listen to them carefully enough. His book now has a sequel (Consolations II, Many Rivers Press, Jan. 2025) - and I'll be doing a live read of it on this thread. Stay tuned!
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
3/n by finding NEW words (although yes, that is sometimes necessary) instead, the entire project seems to tell us - look at the treasure we already have. Look at what language ALREADY gives us. And he takes on this journey one word at a time, holding each word up to the light like a gemstone;
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Matt Jugo @mattjugo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
2/n the larger project is an exploration of the limits of language - how do we explore the spaces where language stops working? What I love about Whyte is that he recognizes often the challenge is not to give in to the temptation to extend language further - by writing more + more, say - or
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