Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Posting almost 600 text posts on here. It's been a lot of alone time on "social" media. A lot of the times it feels like I'm in the gym practicing powerlifting again, or in the practice room just hammering out skills. I didn't think the similarities would be this big. 020 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026 can sleep, after my own sleep. Some of the people hate doing dishes, but I love the grounding aspects, and so I do them. I search for the intersections of our needs daily, often wrongly. I come to life like its time to dance each time the music plays. 3/3 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026for the hobbies I’m passionately driven for. It’s not perfect and oftentimes my head was on another planet where I couldn’t hear what made by life sing or what the people wanted. I wasn’t helping people in my house or in my life. I choose painful responsibility of making sure my family 2/3 100 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I’ve failed every time I’ve tried to dedicate myself deeply to one medium. If I only read and write essays. Imbalance is gripping my pillow with sore fingers deteriorating into nightmares. My restful sleep craves balance with data of nightmares and dreams. I crave expertise. My community asked 1/3 110 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 27/02/2026This bonnet I bought off Amazon must have been for someone smaller than this massive Puerto Rican head. I’m annoyed at the marketing copy. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I get instantly humbled anytime I practice a new physical skill. No matter how easy it looks. This skill called for slow walking, not sweating and crying at the slow walking. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I can’t be heavy enough. Hate when triggers are so loud that the surrounding week has the volume cranked up. Peaking the redline and I’m about to blow out these club speakers. I can only pile on so many weighted blankets. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 24/02/2026My favorite seats are only beds or floors. Kindergarten meeting children outside my family. With my friends laughing on beds watching a 12 inch CRT. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 23/02/2026I feel so stupid. I follow a business model that doesn’t work trying to convince myself it does. I preach slow, disciplined ethics. Coaching is quick transformations. I’m holding this tension like a barbell trying to rip out my arms. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I listen exlusively to dj sets. Music flows hour to hour and not song to song. It only counts if I hear heavy breathing on the mic. Something has to flow awkardly. I have to disagree with a choice. Please God let me hear tension. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026 the house. Inventory every month of our 3 month pantry. Even at 4am I can hear all the snores from all the beings over my EDM. Gratitude for growth. A fish flops onto land for the first time and drowns in air never able to report back the sky. 4/4 010 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026 still. Unless the stillness is growth. I trust language like I trust holding my breath underwater. Meditating 10 hours a day for 10 days gives way to enrolling in EMDR. Tears fermenting for twenty years wet my now slimy cheeks. I feel safe enough to have roommates. I help her grow and she runs 3/4 110 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026delayed, health delayed. The world grows worse.” And this urgency stresses me, who puts that stress on my roommates. This is freefall involution. Bonfire in a blizzard. Burning and shivering. I freefall inwards. Whole body expanding and contracting like lungs. It’s impossible to stay 2/4 110 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I’m utterly shit at prioritizing where to grow. Today I don’t know whether to meditate more, write more, or study more. I have a stack of 100 books in my to read list. I pressurize my urgency with scenarios. “I read the wrong book. Then queers counting on me have their dreams 1/4 110 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I am a creative person and I hate it. It means I feel pain if I’m unimaginative. Self reflecting on creativity: Trim the end of asparagus and it becomes edible. A child does not notice his mother did this. But grows to cook for others. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Collaging myself together post psychosis is funny. I see others staring at the cracks in the opening sky. Peace peace. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 18/02/2026You, me, the relationship hive mind. Pheromone bubbles. Group chat? No, friend group hive mind. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Spite fuels me like nuclear rods. I first learned that at an audition. I played a rusty saxophone so bad that all the other kids laughed me out of the cafeteria. Iterate spite endlessly as writing output grows. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 16/02/2026 a trampoline. But all the time. Always a part falling. There’s no such thing as the ground. Falling? Flying. False distinction. Hit escape velocity. 2/2 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Walking horizontal is a drain, decay. Falling forward. Downward? Falling. The focus is the falling and not being hunted. Energy propelling us forward. Missing a stair step. Coming down from 1/2 100 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 15/02/2026survival in our music. While I watched Hollywood. I’m crying at the end of the credits while my white girlfriend asks me what’s wrong. 3/3 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 15/02/2026my mother taking in homeless queer teens. Mother for the neighborhood. While I read Kant. I’m reminded of my grandmother letting me learn the harder lessons on my own. While I read utilitarianism. I’m reminded of all the stories they’ve told me of survival and all the stories of 2/3 120 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I made my heritage invisible. Colonialism turned inward towards my history. A viral post on the Siksika Nation was admonished by an indigenous creator. “Maybe look into your own culture first.” And then I feel embarrassed. My branching Puerto Rican family tree. I’m reminded of 1/3 100 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026 until they no longer exist in front of me. Know them, chew toy. Part of me cements their being without more questions. I am unzipped into thirty blind snakes on the floor. I am the fog they sink into. I wake up the next morning stitched together in the wrong places. 2/2 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026 I want to treat them like a chew toy. They’re hot. And like most hot people, I want to bite them. My jaw hurts enough for a small headache. It’s uncomfortable to meet people slowly. I hallucinate this person with each projection 1/2 100 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 13/02/2026What do you mean if I get better, my family gets better? I just want to nag them until they do what I want. I *logically* know I only have control over myself. I don’t want to have to track all my water drinking. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 12/02/20265% better each day infuriates me. I want transformation movement. I want a power up with the bells and whistles. I don’t want to wake up every day at the same place on the same mountain wearing these same peasant robes. I keep finding these peasant robes in my closet when I’m groggy in the mornings. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 11/02/2026It feels like a joke that I have to work for the better future. I do these dishes. But I can’t see tomorrow when my girlfriend uses the bowl. I can’t reach for a crystal ball that it’s all “Worth it” in the end. Even my imagination falls flat. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 10/02/2026When did I get so attached to being clever? I was happy when I beat the Deathclaw Fallout 3 monster at 13 by shooting it as we played ring around the rosy around a table. The joy I felt then must mean that I AM the clever one. If I’m clever, then I can’t be stupid. I can’t ever be stupid. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 09/02/2026It’s so frustrating to micro adjust my exercise movements. I’ve been in fitness for 17 years and it’s never ending adjustments. Well, and collapse. There’s hella collapsing. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 08/02/2026awareness. You’ve heard it too. I can’t unhear it anymore. More awareness. It’s not something that ends. There is only the skill of escape that we practice continuously. We escape ignorance, we gain responsibility. We escape delusion, we enter awareness. 3/3 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 08/02/2026escapes once in their life. What siren song haunts you, and calls you to the future? That’s the surface. It’s iterative. We escape, shackles need no key. Only desire. We escape the overworld. Each day is a new escape. The other people may come, may not. You gain a minor enlightenment or minor 2/3 100 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 08/02/2026 What escape from delusion must happen order to live the life you prefer?This philosophical move costs comfort and certainty. A stagnating identity keeps your ego safe. Focus. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave lulls you into complacency. It assumes there’s only one cave that the “enlightened person” 1/3 100 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 07/02/2026As much as I don’t like learning lessons the hard way, sometimes my body really yearns for that lesson to stick in there. Never going to get horizontal directly after a meal again. 010 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 06/02/2026There’s damn near a limiting set of beliefs for every hobby or goal I have. I logically knew that it wouldn’t be a one and done journal. It’s a gut punch every time. “I thought I was over this.” 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026For most TV, it’s social thing. I need to be with people. If left on my own I watch slow burn art movies or brain melters. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Iron Lung was a slow movie. Which is exactly my aesthetic. Sign me up for slow dread any day. 010 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026“I’m from the Texas gulf,” I say to myself as I layer on my third pair of tight socks on this Eastern Kentucky mountain. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Getting to the Family Services building with all this ice and this sink full of utensils and crusty plates gets delayed. My jaw gets a little tense with these logistics. 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 01/02/2026My bestie texted me for help writing an e-mail to her boss. It feels like a shame to edit it into corporate speech. 010 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 31/01/20266th rewatch of the Good place happening as I pace back and forth wearing holes into my bright blue crocs. 001 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 30/01/2026My gray black coat cat, Meowdy, stares at my screen from my lap. I can always count on her to show up. I wonder if she likes philosophy textbooks on care ethics as much as I do. 010 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 29/01/2026 Luckily, they have some skills that helped me. We have a chef here. I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t support the people nearest to me or have them support me. I don’t like that resentment being my dominant emotion. How do you choose care every day to your chosen family? 3/3 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 29/01/2026 sitting on my meditation cushion to procrastinate the day. I did see results in energy. I learned how my body liked to be fed or how it liked to move. The little extra energy I had at the end of the day was used to practice skills that gave me more energy or give my people here more energy. 2/3 100 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Some days I imagine picking up a roommate with my teeth and shaking them like a dog’s chew toy. I require so much energy to do the dishes of this queer household I run. Do you every find yourself low on energy when your community asks you to do a chore? Most days it feels like I’m 1/3 100 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026own need for connection at the expense of others. We use connection in service of empowering others to take better care of their own relationships as we expand our web of kinship. 3/3 000 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Uncertainty is painful. Just look at the stories we tell ourselves on the afterlife. Empathy allows us a more accurate lens of the other person. Making empathy strategic allows us to aim empathy at the empowerment of others. This is our duty to take care of others. We do not simply fulfill our 2/3 110 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Strategic empathy involves reading how others construct their reality. In most conversations we hallucinate other people. We make projections, and create a false vision of them in our head that’s easier to be certain of. We avoid the uncertainty as the person slowly reveals themselves to us. 1/3 120 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025You have the “right thoughts” but do you feel good? I see people with the “right” worldview. I also see them making themselves and others miserable. No thank you. I see you eating that moldy sandwich and I’ll let you have it. I’d rather take care of my neighbors than have the correct thoughts. 010 0
Rio Gomez 🇵🇷🏳️⚧️ @riosolarpunk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025How do you get through limiting beliefs after the first round? Second level and onwards. Judgement -> beliefs underneath->gently/forcefully replace. Follow your values. Dirty brains need washing! So pick up that brush and break those limits and keep your feet firmly screwed into the Earth. 000 0