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Ashley Fitzgerald

@RizomaSchool

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Localism, agroecology, craft economies, being a normal person, @DoomerOptimism , luddite, finding a way to keep my soul in the machine age

Chicago, IL
Joined January 2018
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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just came across this Kingsnorth quote from 10 years ago, could be a doomer optimism manifesto! “I’m increasingly attracted by the idea that there can be at least small pockets where life and character and beauty and meaning continue. If I could help protect one of those from
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This is us
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I got into radical unschooling when my eldest was a baby but as she got older I found it lacking. This scenario is a parent's worst nightmare!
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@touchmoonflower Unbelievably perfect rant
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6 months
getting a phd isn't that impressive. most of the people who have them are midwits in a very specific way
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What unpopular academia opinion would get you in this situation?
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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I went to a fancy collage with a few of these types. Rich kids whose parents raised them middle class. Made them share a beater car, never gave them an allowance, made them work. They were among the most down to earth people. Huge huge benefits to raising your kids like this.
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@RizomaSchool upper-middle class zoomer here: my parents had me buy a $2k car for sale on the side of the road as my first car it was a piece of junk older than me & a great financial decision
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We used to be a proper country
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Ashley Fitzgerald
3 months
Someone who is good at geology please help me understand this my family is dying
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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these kids want an intact culture, with moral causes of right and wrong, with extremely ritualistic and traditional folkways like dance that lead to cohesion and belonging. They've done a bunch of mental backflips to get there but that's what they want. Revealed preference
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Columbia students participating in the Palestinian protest take part in a cult-like tribal dance while dancing and clapping to Arabic music.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
11 months
Anyone into natural swimming pools? I've only skirted around this idea, never did a deep dive. Very interested!
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
When I was on my youth travel sabbatical I met a lot of these guys. Mostly sad, lonely types who would corner you in a hostel and make you listen to them talk because they were so starved for attention being totally without any real relationships.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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Idk it's easy to make fun of this but there is a lesson in here that people with the greatest access to getting totally subsumed by the machine are choosing luddism, working with their hands, creating something physical. I think it's good and should be modeled.
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Autism Capital 🧩
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Zuck is living his best life.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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I find myself doing a double take at tv and movies from 15+ years ago before every single person had botox and veneers. You can see wrinkles! Teeth have various shapes. People look human. Uncanny valley now, it's gross. Cyborgs.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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ive been saying this for almost a decade but the fact that anyone goes to india for peace is a complete western psy op the whole country is a constant assault on the senses even in rural areas
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Tiger Lily
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I’d rather die than step foot in this country lol
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
This specific home, and this specific wisteria plant, where I did a work exchange in 2009, changed my whole perspective about what kind of life I wanted to live.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 months
@BorisBartlog right, and i am assuming the former type of child also has a parent modeling that kind of curiosity
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 months
I am just now finding out that there is a brain worm among liberals involved in ecological restoration work where they have a deranged view of "native" versus "invasive" species and literally have a good/evil thing going on with them, when it's actually more nuanced
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2 months
Reports from the inside of this scene are not good 😳😬
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3 years
@willlowthewhisp The way to meet people is so gross and commercialized and most people don't want to so explicitly sell themselves
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 months
Rainwater garden
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
Healthmaxxing for ladies
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4 months
Anyone have experience with espalier
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Ashley Fitzgerald
11 months
It's because no one holds their babies. As soon as they're born they put them in some kind of seat or crib almost the entire day. It's extremely sad. Babies should be on mom's body basically as much as humanly possible.
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Reminder that if you leave your baby supine too often their skull will flatten out. Tummy time is important.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
4 months
@growing_daniel it puts you into a permanent low IQ caste when you buy it
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
Patrick and I got married ten years ago today. Back then I still mostly believed in emotional connection as the driver of marriage health. Something like: love is sustained by your interest in the other's personality. After ten years, my thoughts could not be more opposite.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
3 years
A friend of mine who is never wrong about financial stuff just converted all his net worth into productive land, a herd of cattle, machines built before 1940, an orchard, a vineyard, Soviet era weapons, and 15 log cabins. 😳
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
This is what I mean. No experts are doing this kind of thing. But there are people in the wings saving us whom we don't even know about.
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what is y’all most liked tweet?
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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For those who are not yet perennial pilled
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 months
@drgurner well the philosophy with radical unschooling is to let the kid show curiosity, to not force anything on them
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
Gdi I hate when Russell Brand is just basically 100% correct
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Ashley Fitzgerald
1 year
I worked my ass off when my kids were little to care for their needs and make sure they were securely attached and now I am having the time of my life as a parent and enjoying the fruits of my labor. It is just hilariously fun every single day.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
4 months
Weinhardt Mansion built in 1888 in Chicago, IL
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
It's funny that anyone thinks infinite travel is some kind of goal. Some travel, yes. Infinite travel? Nah. Just like people think they would be happy with infinite time sipping drinks on a beach. It's actually not great after like a week lol.
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Rollo Tomassi
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The quickest path to becoming a high-value man: 1. Do not get married 2. Avoid family creation 3. Vasectomy in your 20s 4. Lift consistently 5. Eliminate all sedations 6. Learn Game & Networking 7. Play to your strengths, build wealth 8. Resist easing up on your focus
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
Please be this confident in every holistic thing you do. Her friend laughing at her while she literally looks amazing and beautiful with a damn beet!
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this is genius???!
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
When you work alongside someone, constantly struggling toward the same ends, you build an emotional attachment deeper and stronger than anything built around something like "hot" or "good personality." It's not marital love as co-consumption, it's marital love as co-production.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
3 months
“Home at Last” by George Hughes (1951)
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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What predator can we introduce to North America that'll control the population of these things
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Tiger Lily
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Why do they get this big this is bear size gorilla size I hate it
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Ashley Fitzgerald
3 years
marriage lesson: I know there are chores he doesn't like to do. Instead of just whining at him endlessly to get him to bend to my will, I just do the stuff he doesn't like. And he does the stuff I don't like. And when we both don't like something we suck it up and do our parts.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
4 months
Why is all home design inspo so incredibly impractical Name a thing that doesn't work here
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Ashley Fitzgerald
10 days
Aw man I just had lunch with a friend. Basically an anti-globalization lefty gen Xer, who has been living off grid for the last decade. And wow is he confused about what the world has become. Imagine being in a time capsule the past 10 years I'll try to sketch it here.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
10 days
Read James' piece! Genuinely don't know many thinkers right in his specific niche who can think about geopolitics outside of the frame of team sports, and who take deglobalization seriously.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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I don't think most parents think how maladaptive being super wealthy is for resilience and competence
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
If you love and are committed to your wife/girlfriend you don't say you impregnated them lol.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
Happy ten years to us! Excited to see what we'll build after a couple more decades.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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@solveig283 the sad thing is these people just keep being told "trust the process" and yet we live in a society where we have the equivalent of dopamine injections and of course the kids are choosing this with no boundaries or discipline
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
My oldest turns 9 tomorrow and this is the first birthday I have ever felt deeply emotional about. I cried today just remembering a moment in a grocery store when she was 1 year old and she just sang the whole ABC song and I didn't even know she knew the song. I never taught her.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 months
I never much looked into the history but this seems aligned with a lineage of "follow the child" permissive schooling but taken to an extreme
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@RizomaSchool @tallsnail I don't exactly know- my research has only skimmed his work on Identity /Identity crises But Here's a snippet from an excellent historical-recap - highly recommend reading the entirety
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
It may seem unromantic to build a marriage around shared work, but I assure you there is nothing more powerful in a relationship than "we built this *because* we fit together." The whole we made, out of our love, is greater than any individual part, and it will last beyond us.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
6 months
typically good rule enforcers, procedural thinking, memorization, fitting in. not very good at other kinds of thinking
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Ashley Fitzgerald
1 year
When people tell you who they are, you should believe them
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Ashley Fitzgerald
28 days
Ava Gardner 19 years old. I'm not sure you can find a more beautiful woman.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
The valley of the fairies Romania And eco-friendly micro village built exclusively with clay, wood, sand, stone and hay.
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Ooo boy, I am nervous writing this tweet. I have been working on a 12 week homesteading incubator course the past few months. Pulling together all the smartest people I know to teach about risk, resilience, and community. It's ready now!
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 months
It's kind of wild to witness in real time the shift toward religion. This has happened in various times in history, but I can't help but wonder if the limitations to "scientific rationality" of the pandemic and beyond has hastened this shift.
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Paul Anleitner
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Joe Rogan, once a vocal evangelist of New Atheist talking points on religion, now yearns for the "just and righteous" Kingdom of God and believes the world "needs Jesus...for real." That's quite a change, but his journey is emblematic of a wider shift in attitudes towards
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I am fascinated by people who think just because they can't raise all their food they should raise none of it
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@extradeadjcb Aellas bday party
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How could anyone be hoodwinked by these white people deadlocked "all is love" hippie types? Have you guys ever been to an intentional community? They are all basically engaging in cutthroat machiavellian power politics, sexual abuse and drug use.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
9 months
If you're going to do solar panels they should basically always be in a place like this rather than blanketing pristine ag land
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Mike Hudema
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In South Korea, they've covered this protected bike lane with solar panels - cyclists are protected from the sun, isolated from traffic, and it produces clean energy. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #Climate #energy #renewables #GreenNewDeal
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Pebble mosaic
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4 months
the whole "let my kids choose their own religion when they're old enough" thing is pretty clearly a universal failure. without that guidance early on, people float around trying on whatever thing. it's actually really narcissistic in assumption: "what makes you FEEL good"
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
I don't know if I have any insights to share except that every thing you project perfection onto, just isn't. Reality is reality and every part of it has difficulties. And also that monotony sucks after a while.
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@happy_at_home_ There's a lot of "trust the process" advice in these circles but when you get to a certain age you can't really get those formative educational years back
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This hate-the-opposite-sex content mill is quite literally the forces of evil whispering in your ear to sow hate over love, resentment over contentment. They win when you lose! And for what? Views? Likes?
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
Now I think deep marital health is about being in the trenches, about getting things done together that you could never do alone, and grasping toward building a family legacy. Just ten years in, what we've created out of shared purpose and intention is astounding.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
I saw him at a crowded wedding. I've never seen someone so beautiful and charismatic in person. I spent all night trying to make contact. The reception ended and I just walked over. He probably knew I already loved him that first conversation. None of this is possible on an app.
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Hannah Hoffman Music
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Literally BAFFLED as to how people found love before dating sites and social media. Was settling the norm? Or did everyone just happen to be romantically compatible with the person sitting nearest to them in class?
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
No one wants to hear it because you all have daddy issues but if you were well adjusted you wouldn't need a leader, you could just start up different hobby groups, go to church, start going to the elks lodge, bring people baked goods and offer to watch their kids.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
1 month
I am getting this curtain rod am I unhinged?
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I am genuinely starting to get terrified that I won't be able to help my girls navigate their adolescence and young adulthood in this age of exploitation on the internet. Oldest is 8. Send tips!
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
The issue isn't vegan versus omnivore. It's industrial versus regenerative.
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I asked my daughter to report on the first Vegan Friday meal at her NYC public school and she sent me this picture
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Ashley Fitzgerald
1 year
Women only want one thing and it's disgusting
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@MashTunTimmy I think it's very sweet like..."wives do be like that"
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1 year
Competent hippies are among the best sub-type of person
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1 year
I genuinely think there is a darkness in nerdism that should not be underestimated.
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@shagbark_hick this is such a fun idea. Could get a simple YMCA membership to shower!
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The subtext here is class based "hire out everything you need help with" vs "have husband help" it's not an issue of conservatism lol
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To help me post partum, my husband never: woke up to tend to baby at night (he tried at first but quit when he realized he was useless at it), changed a nappy, gave her a bath, changed her clothes, washed a bottle. No baby care, no cooking me food, didn’t wash one dish or ever do
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
Instead of marriage and family as a sort of side dish to the main project of career, our goals were to center the family. Always asking: how does this choice advance our family project?
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@simcha1972 That's one of the red flags for me. Unlimited screens was never something available before in human history. These kids are lab rats
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regular reminder that if you feel like it's normal to not even THINK about marriage or kids until 30 THIS IS BAD ADVICE DONT FOLLOW IT your 20s should be spent dating to marry. If at all possible start having kids before 30.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
What's actually happening here is that an entire class of women have been fucked over royally. Turned into wage slaves, ripped from their babies and they feel guilty about it so they write shit like this to assuage their guilt, empowering more exploited mothers to follow
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Vox
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1/ Breastfeeding isn't free — and it isn't a solution to the nation’s baby formula shortage. The response to the shortage, which has shelves across the US carrying nearly half their usual supply in recent weeks, overlooks the high costs of breastfeeding.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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Literally just bought a $3k car off Facebook a couple weeks ago. come at me zoomers!
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Shrimp Billionaire
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Buying a $3000 car off Facebook is extremely poor-coded and as such most middle class Xoomers won’t touch it with a 10 foot pole.
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Fundamentally being a parent puts you in touch with an experience of time that is otherwise forced out of our daily consciousness. And there are days, like your baby daughter's 9th birthday, where you see all the time at once. And you can't believe the tragedy and beauty of it.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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First he can't make heads or tails of what environmentalism has become. Everything he and I got drawn into environmentalism for -- nature, beauty, functional ecosystems -- is not even on the radar of modern environmentalism. It's all self flaggelating climate anxiety.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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What do we think of this
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People in my neighborhood are constantly putting stuff like this out on the curb and if someone doesn't grab it before the garbage truck does it gets thrown out. Mass affluence. What a world!
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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I hate this kind of dehumanizing. Makes me sick. There are less debased ways to communicate disagreement.
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RAW EGG NATIONALIST
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New leftoid just dropped.
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like I guess they're literally ok with using roundup to eradicate species that are ecologically fine and not really aggressive because they are non-native (according to which date?!?) and there's this weird subtext wrt human societies
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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Not only do I plan to raise my kids with middle class values of thrift and self reliance and loyalty, I also intentionally chose to place them with peers who value these things. We could have moved to the wealthier suburbs and chose not to! Rich kids are bad influences.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
6 months
Unbelievably perfect rant
@touchmoonflower
༺ 𐂂 ༻
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A bright and shining example of the suicidal absurdity of technocapitalist society occurs every year at this time, all across the country. 1/n
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It's wild the quality and energy of some things totally left by the wayside
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Ashley Fitzgerald
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We are investing in oak futures
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I'm just realizing the extent to which all the "social issues" we teach our kids and young adults about are just pure doom and nihilism. "Let's learn about why people are horrible, and in what specific ways." I used to think this was righteous but now I think it's nihilism.
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Ashley Fitzgerald
2 years
Imagine eating lunch here everyday and it *not* changing you
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Aw man I started reading essays by anti-sufferagettes today and I can't believe I am sympathetic but their arguments are extremely interesting
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1 year
Environmentalists having a totally normal one
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Greece. These were once cultivated fields.
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Dude there is some happy medium between like 90% c section rates and free birthing in like salty sandy ass sea water
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interesting to think that declining fertility/aging population in highly developed countries results in a moral shift from restraining adult behavior to make a society safe for children to a new morality all about unleashing adult freedoms to exercise every whim
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