meditations on the wrong way to grieve There’s a lovely term in Thai that, translated directly, means “warm-heart”—as in a feeling of warmth in your heart—and essentially refers to the feeling of warmth, comfort and security. Like when you’re around people you love, when you feel safe and seen—the way the warmth of it settles around your heart. I have been trying for years to figure out how and where my grief has taken root,...
Your little shop, sorted. Winkl was created because small businesses deserve better software. Not bigger software. Not more software. Better software. Software that understands how a real South African business actually works on an ordinary day, from the first order in the morning to the last delivery, collection, invoice, sample, stock adjustment or payment at the end of the day. We are not a random VC-backed Silicon Valley...
Touch of creation. Part 1: Guests He ignored it. This time he ignored it. The blinking red light, the signaling of distress, could not be answered. Peter Dove had tried eleven times previously to answer the signal. Always formally and as required by space-faring law, “Civilian merchant vessel 4113, pilot Peter Dove, receiving your distress signal, how may I assist?” Only to receive silence in return. An absolute silence, void...
There comes a quiet shift when you stop expecting every trip to heal or transform you. Travel becomes lighter and more enjoyable when you let it be what it is, rather than what you hope it will fix.
Why We Never Seem To Agree on Economics Dignity by Design A Framework for Seeing the Argument Inside the Argument A Note Before You Start Throughout this piece you will see bracketed flags embedded in the analysis. Each flag identifies the type of claim being...
The captain of the Guard was uneasy. Those peaceful nights always sent shivers down his spine. He knew that was nonsense: nothing has happened for centuries in that area of the forest’s border, so it was improbable that something would happen that night. //...
This is the second flashback scene for chapter one. All chapters in this book have two flashback scenes. One in the beginning of the chapter and one in the end. Just so you know.
The White Space. Chapter 7. Lucarne But how? Maybe that worker noticed something in office 109? Yet the main character was almost certain the man didn’t look at him at that moment. His steps didn’t falter, and neither did the other man’s. He listened to every movement — the gait remained steady. If the man had turned around, it would have changed immediately. Maybe they noticed the missing cartridge? But after it was written...
Changelog: v0.4.0 Page Layouts There are new layouts. I wanted to replicate the feel of a broadsheet newspaper without being visually over the top or making page loads slower. This is most obvious on the front page of tuhat, but the layouts are also available...
La despensa rotativa Durante décadas, las sociedades industrializadas han delegado su seguridad alimentaria en supermercados, cadenas logísticas globales y sistemas de distribución que se daban por descontados. Esta delegación, producto de una era de abundancia energética y estabilidad geopolítica relativa, ha construido un modelo de aprovisionamiento basado en la inmediatez y la aparente garantía de suministro permanente....
I have been watching the world cup this weekend, pulled in by the Trevor Noah watch party, and hooked. The pre-game chats are so lovely, so fun. We talk about the current game playing and encourage each other. We enjoy jokes at Joe's expense. Trevor actually interacts with, which is so exciting. (Though during the actual games there are so many spammer and trolls, it's hard to see the funny comments - and there is some COMEDY...
The Beacon and the Blast [I watched NPR Space Time and the latest episode sent me down the rabbit hole. The research took more time than I expected. P Why SETI, on its own requirements, is searching for a sender it could not locate, could not read, and at the energetic extreme could not survive ----- Let me concede everything at the outset, because the argument that follows is not an attack on the hope. The wish not to be...
I've kept a dream journal for over twenty years now and am constantly fascinated by the things they show me. Of course, the culture is divided over the idea of whether dreams actually mean anything. If you're of a strictly rational frame of mind, you'll probably dismiss them as little more than day residue, while those with an interest in depth psychology, will want to explore them further. I fall into this latter camp,...
Take a look at the ABOUT page for more information on this series. Go to the REFERENCE GUIDE for detailed info on the greater world at large. Apparently, we now have a COLLECTIONS INDEX page here on Tuhat, so that should make things easier, with organizing...
Home About an hour ago, D. and I moved out of Pittodrie, a flat I have been renting for the last three years. As we carried out the last bits of bags, boxes, and various bits and bobs, I sobbed inconsolably. Since we decided to move, I knew that, despite feeling excited about the charming process of nesting in a new home, I needed to say goodbye first. From the outside, Pittodrie is not a remarkable place. One of the old...
Stephen King And the Hidden Messages Have you ever wondered why some of Stephen King’s novels are of such epic proportions? There might be many reasons and, of course, only the author himself will know the reason why. Still, when considering the ways of the...
concept application and schema redress as being ontologically nimble about self-allocation and the allostatic load that creates, in being a trade off, which has better settlement options, for more efficient allostasis. concept formation affords closure, such as to navigate situations from being informed, as well catching onto patterns, crystalizing concepts, and benefiting from new schemas and schema compression unto better...
Heated Rivalry: Introductions and cigarettes What smoking means to Shane and Ilya If you’re here right now it’s probably because you’re very interested in the hit TV Show Heated Rivalry created by Jacob Tierney that debuted in November of 2025. Someone,...
A note on Leanne: She is a composite character, assembled from research, interviews, and the kind of experience that belongs to millions of specific people rather than any one of them. If you recognize her, that's the point.
An Introduction I've never been particularly good at distilling myself into a line or a paragraph. Like many artists and creatives, mine has been a life guided by curiosity, opportunity, and deep, profound connection with the non-human natural world. By day, I work in private philanthropy, guiding resources towards the world's most underserved peoples, initiatives designed to address civil society's problems, and investments...
A parent can disown a child for being gay. A parent can disown a child for being trans, autistic, difficult, disappointing, religious in the wrong direction, politically inconvenient, married to the wrong person, too strange in public, too honest in private, insufficiently obedient, insufficiently flattering, insufficiently useful to the family story. A parent can reject a child for failing some fantasy they mistook for...
Some friendships give us a sense of home we never quite found with family. This is more common than we admit, and it carries both love and a quiet grief. Here is how we can hold both truths gently.
The Dictator My family is away for a few weeks, visiting friends abroad, which leaves me free to indulge myself by watching documentaries about collapse. It helps ground me, to be reminded that there is a bigger world outside, and that we should all be doing more to help sustain the world we want to live in. The one we want our children to live in. Amongst the usual litany of climate and economic collapse, there is a new...
Of life and death; Of the current 8,298,638,535 people on this planet, I’m going to premise that half are living, and half are dying. Of course I’m not dealing in perfect faith with this, I haven’t met all these people, and I don’t know them that well. I start from my tiny experience of myself, of people I’ve known well, that I’ve loved, that I know have lived, and died. Some have died, but still live, so you can see that I...
When Structure Kills Invisible Power: Part Three A note on Leanne: She is a composite character, assembled from stories, research, interviews, and the kind of experience that belongs to millions of specific people rather than one of them. If you recognize her, that's the point. The call came on a Wednesday. Leanne was at her desk in Cincinnati, working through a spreadsheet that had stopped making sense an hour earlier, when...
I’ve taken time off from my usual activities and decided to delve head-first into this bizarre world of “vibe-coding.” And I did it all with the use of X’s Grok. I now have a pipeline straight to it, through my Linux terminal. Grok can conjure up anything and...
On the Nature of Love If there was an Internet in those days, you couldn’t do much with it. Digital cameras were beyond the pocket, and mobile phones were not nearly so mobile or as smart as they are now. It was an entirely analogue expedition then, the first...
plums turn yellow *梅子黄 — ume no mi kibamu* Pause to consider. The weight of the fruit creates the tug. Branch, bending in support, never considers the past. Following a rhythm that is their own, fruit do not know slow. Alone they fall away. June moves quickly. Plum orchards rush to shed fruit that never knows the winter. Citrus groves pace gracefully, thinning themselves of too much fruiting, to welcome winter cold. None of...
Ok. I am going to talk about something uncomfortable. Something we as writers all do, and no one wants to talk about it. Are you ready? Guilt. Let me explain. You've been working on a novel, a novella, a sketch, something you love, and all the sudden Sometimes you get an idea for a character. A voice. A scene. A whole world. This just happened to me. I was in the middle of working on something for Parallax, my dystopian...
The Watchtower Nobody Occupies Invisible Power: Part Two A note on Leanne: She is a composite character, assembled from stories, research, interviews, and the kind of experience that belongs to millions of specific people rather than one of them. If you recognize her, that's the point. By the time Leanne drove to work Monday morning, the story had arrived four times. Her father had sent the Fox article Saturday night, the one...
Two Circles and a Square: What a Simple Drawing Reveals About the Contemplative Path *Any Note Press* Take a piece of paper and draw a square. Inside it, draw the largest circle that fits — it will touch the square at exactly four points, the midpoint of each side. Now draw a second circle around the outside of the square, the smallest one that contains it — it will also touch the square at exactly four points, but different...
The Inherited Program What Object-Oriented Programming Reveals About God, Consciousness, and the Human Condition by Wil Voll | Hair I Feel Today A note on process: This post grew out of a conversation with Claude AI. The ideas, analogies, and theological framework are mine — developed through challenge and pushback. Claude organized and articulated what I was reaching for. The thinking is human. The grammar got some help. — —...
¿Y si cada año cobrarás 100 euros menos al mes? Un ejercicio mental para prepararnos para una vida con menos y aprender a vivir mejor Imagina que mañana tu jefe, tu banco o el propio sistema te comunica con naturalidad que, a partir del año que viene, tu nómina o tus ingresos netos se reducirán en 100 euros al mes. No es un castigo, no es un error administrativo y tampoco es una crisis puntual que se resolverá en seis meses....
A note on Leanne: She is a composite character, assembled from research, interviews, and the kind of experience that belongs to millions of specific people rather than any one of them. If you recognize her, that's the point.
This solemn tenderness for life I am sitting outdoors with coffee and a book, but I have set the book aside for now and am reading the sky instead. Rain is forecast and I want to see it in. The distant fells are spilling over with mist and looking gloomy, but...
KEYWORDS : Cyfieithu This essay first appeared in the journal PLANET (The Welsh Internationalist) as part of their series entitled Keywords inspired by Raymond Williams' work of that name but dealing with significant words for cultural identity in the Welsh Language. In the Introduction to his work Keywords, Raymond Williams defines two senses in which such words are significant. In Wales both 'translate' and 'cyfieithu' are...
The White Space. Chapter 6 — Disturbing Message Fresh air hit his face. The light of the blue sky slightly blinded his eyes. For a moment, he felt peace and freedom. How much the architecture of the ministry pressed on a person. Only after leaving it does one begin to truly understand that. On the stairs he paused just for a moment to catch his breath. His heart was still beating fast but slowly returning to its normal...
The Time of Day Has Lots to Say May the gleam of the sun’s light be forever within me; throughout the dark nights, during days packed with rain, and in the mornings when clouds obscure the blushing sky. The sun is my mentor. Within me, the sun awakens a vividness which otherwise hibernates in deep crevices of my mind. Almost as if appreciation to detail is the core of a vast iceberg that rests dormant until a ray of sunlight...
Many Likes ≠ Quality Thoughts on independent thinking, intelligence and living with uncertainty by Merle Elisa Manthey I recently read the essay How to Understand Things by Nabeel S. Qureshi. It has (as of now) 20,515 likes, 140 comments and 3,925 restacks. And to be honest: I don't quite understand why. There are three major points (leaving out some minor aspects) that kept me from liking it: 1. The author draws illogical...
The Ghost of Lizzie Deane We had not intended to run into the ghost of Lizzie Deane today, but a routine errand brought us close enough to the Ribble Valley that a visit to the village of Chipping was called for. It helped, perhaps, that I was not intent on...
Shine a Little Light When I barge in to take you, a length of rope coiled around my arm and a plasma knife in my pocket, you look up from the vegetable beds with such trust, my heart breaks. You feel safe in your backyard. Six years have passed since anyone...
Even the Ground Could Not Witness Him Preamble: The mantis is hemimetabolous. The nymph emerges already a miniature of the adult — no larval disguise, no intermediate unrecognizable form, no veil to be forgotten. It is the continuity so complete there isn’t even an apparent break to misread. The butterfly phasing, the mantis never phased — it came out already itself. The mantis suffers fixation: single-pointed attention...
The organization that harmed someone, provided intervention, and watched that person recover and return to contribution, points to this sequence as evidence of its own moral adequacy; individual survival and recovery becomes organizational proof.
The Sutra of Recursion A Meditation Jesús Olmo Attention settles onto attention. The noticing is noticed while it notices. The movement turns toward the turning. Awareness touches the fact of touching. The contact is illuminated by itself. The act folds into...
Intelligence effectuates Capitalism and Capitalism is not but-Intelligent nd'ow a != A in a general semantic sense too, without not also being A, in a non-general semantic sense, too being is its own effects, and use is a term from a point, and the thing-happening-throughout is not only describable from a point pointedly, the overdetermination in the first instance can pull through things when the gap is minded, and it can be...
CONTÍCULO DE UM MILAGRE Antes da fama, ele tinha fé. Por algum motivo que ele não soube explicar, lembrara-se disso olhando o desenho de uma lágrima em chamas tatuada na mão, enquanto o avião que levava a banda de rock do momento, da qual ele era o vocalista,...
One of the quietest ways writers sabotage themselves is not through lack of skill. It is through comparison at the wrong stage. They read a published novel. Then they look at their own first draft. And they think: I am not good enough. But that comparison is fundamentally unfair. A published book is not a draft that "worked on the first try." It is the survivor of the writing process. Multiple drafts. Structural edits. Line...
El racionamiento como única salida justa a la escasez Cuando pensamos en el colapso del sistema financiero, la imaginación colectiva suele girar alrededor del pánico: caída de bancos, ahorros congelados, mercados vacíos, colas en los supermercados. Pero la pregunta esencial no es cómo llegaremos allí, sino qué haremos después. ¿Qué ocurre cuando el dinero —esa ficción compartida que sostiene nuestra vida cotidiana— deja de...
“Rotten grass becomes fireflies” 腐草為螢 — Kusaretaru kusa hotaru to naru I have to sit. The breath is too short. It is that balance of inner competition: as the pump strain subsides, the pump failure moves forward. This keeps the walks short and the lifting light. I had watched my father only as spectator. Though now long gone, he possesses me. I am an occupied host. My memories of him remind: his body’s decay, at seventy, and...
Clone Sharks “Quantum physics is eerie,” mused Dr. Gooden. He watched his fingertips subconsciously drum a nervous rhythm on the table’s cheap varnish. “There comes a point where the more you learn, the more you wish you could unlearn.” His questioners stared at him blankly. His fingers stopped and he snapped back to the matter at hand. Time could not be wasted. After all, his fate rested in the hands of these people. As...