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o0ned.bsky.social
20 years of #orgone #studies later, what've I learned⸮

#Sexology is mostly bunk & reproductive #science sorely lacks comprehensive development past drugs & birth control.

You may #travel the world but what realistically to expect was already outlined in #Saharasia by the '90s.

#vss365 #microessay
October 26, 2026 at 8:55 PM
o0ned.bsky.social
The Boring #Twenties

My grandfather told me about the Roaring '20s: driving 10 MPH was "speeding."

Bad as it is now, these are boom years between 2022 & 2029 #shmita busts.

I remember being 20-something, clueless to how wrong I am but eager to learn: memories #taper.

#vss365 #econsky #microessay
o0ned.bsky.social Ned Peyroux @o0ned.bsky.social · Oct 30
It's a seven year boom-bust cycle, Shemita, plus add one year every forty-nine to make an even fifty:

1929 The Big One
1930 The Little One
1937 Nazis invade
1944 Nazis win
1951 Commie Scare
1958 I like Ike
1965 Vietnam
1972 Gas crisis
1979 hostage crisis
1980 run on silver
1987 Black Monday Jr
...
Jade Helm 15 Rehash
It's a seven year boom-bust cycle. Shemita, plus add one year every forty-nine to make an even fifty 1929 The Big One 1930 The Little One 1937 Nazis invade 1944 Nazis win 1951 Commie Scare 1958 I l...
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October 25, 2026 at 5:02 PM
o0ned.bsky.social
Greed & selfishness are #miles apart, separated by a mountain of stupidity.

A smart selfish person understands the benefit of reciprocal altruism, 1 hand washing the other.

The greedy fool destroys these relationships that maintain our social contracts, living a life of crime.

#vss365 #microessay
o0ned.bsky.social Ned Peyroux @o0ned.bsky.social · May 26
What Bradshaw notes as biological disadvantage in
~What #Animals Teach Us about #Humanity,
"The #Biology of #Forgiveness,"
Robert Axelrod et al term #noise.

Generous tolerates only 3% noise,
Contrite only 7%.

🤷🏼‍♂️
Systems fail w <90% #signal.

Forgiveness is the buffer, not the noise itself.

#vss365
October 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
o0ned.bsky.social
The data doesn't match but we teach curved #miles (Einstein, Basis for Theory) by convention (Ibsen, Dollhouse) which, for any who know the truth, gives them nausea (Sartre, Nausea). Why Reimann geometry is easier to teach than confluence idk but computation requires fewer steps.
#vss365 #microessay
o0ned.bsky.social Ned Peyroux @o0ned.bsky.social · Jan 23
Don't worry: you can read the answer in a comix.
archive.org/details/The_Moral_Compass_Project

Vortex mechanics replaced wave mechanics after Charles Poor debunked Eddington 1919 in 1930. Then came a decade of war & book burning before the UN Security Council banned references to a turbulent ether.
Figs 9-27 & 9-28 from Charles W Lucas Jr Union of Empirical and Axiomatic Methods Relativity is Galilean, CLASSICAL INVARIANCE. Light bends around the sun's thin plasma rim like a pencil that looks bent in a glass of water, like a mirage or other system feedback, not gravitational lensing.
October 25, 2026 at 11:43 AM
ashalane.bsky.social
Writing something down makes the truth feel heavier and lighter at the same time. Still it’s freeing.

#microessay #writersky
October 23, 2026 at 2:22 PM
ashalane.bsky.social
Some forms of ambiguity don’t ask for clarity. They ask for honesty. I finally answered.

#microessay #writersky
October 15, 2026 at 3:52 PM
ashalane.bsky.social
Some days the work feels invisible. I’m still showing up anyway.

#writersky #microessay
October 8, 2026 at 8:51 PM
ashalane.bsky.social
Realizing I’ve been moving from a steadier place. Not new… just finally noticeable.

#writersky #microessay
October 1, 2026 at 4:27 PM
ashalane.bsky.social
I’ve been thinking about the inner narrators we carry. The ones that shaped us long before we knew we were being shaped.

#writersky #microessay
September 24, 2026 at 4:10 PM
ashalane.bsky.social
Wild how a tiny decision can drag you all the way into a new chapter. Even wilder that I almost gave up.

#writersky #microessay
Don't Quit, Do It! Motivational Text Animation
ALT: Don't Quit, Do It! Motivational Text Animation
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September 10, 2026 at 4:18 PM
ashalane.bsky.social
It’s wild how simple things become when I stop trying to reinterpret them. Clean truth feels lighter than hopeful guessing.

#writersky #microessay
September 3, 2026 at 4:20 PM
tbone.malware-virus.biz
I didn't know David Fair had died. I'm not a musician, but his "How To Play Guitar" microessay has stuck with me for nearly two decades.
August 30, 2026 at 11:49 PM
ashalane.bsky.social
Learning to lean into the peace that shows up when I stop bracing for disappointment. Today I’m letting myself enjoy it.

#writersky #microessay
August 27, 2026 at 4:31 PM
ashalane.bsky.social
Been thinking about how one well‑timed rant can reset your whole mood. I’m still laughing about mine. Wild how friendship keeps handing you tiny course corrections.

#writersky #microessay
August 20, 2026 at 4:34 PM
aie-sean.bsky.social
A few years ago a bunch of us made 1 minute essays in a big compilation @hotcyder.bsky.social put together. Participating in these little things is literally all I can do at this point because of scope creep youtu.be/qgF9zZ0aXvM?...
One Minute Remaining (MicroEssay Mixtape Vol. 2)
YouTube video by hotcyder
youtu.be
August 20, 2026 at 3:55 PM
o0ned.bsky.social
#Ashamed
Metabolism contracts
Shoulders sag
Blood & tissue cells, the very protoplasm they inhabit, all shrink
Why
To what purpose

Unlike fear culture relying on personal safety, guilt culture on conscience
Shame culture relies on what others think, say, do
Idiots know no shame

#vss365 #microessay
Why does it take more muscles to frown than to smile?
www.archive.org/details/The_Moral_Compass_Project/
rumble.com
August 15, 2026 at 2:48 PM
ashalane.bsky.social
I’m paying attention to the space between what I used to do and what I’m learning to do now. That tiny gap has a lot to say.

#writersky #microessay
August 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM
riverteeth.bsky.social
✨“Yesterday, my artist friend stopped by with eggs still warm from her hens—pink, olive, green, brown.”
-from “Basil in the Afternoon,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Helaine Fiedler

Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

#BeautifulThings #MicroEssay #GetPublished #Submit
August 10, 2026 at 4:04 PM
ashalane.bsky.social
The link came — reflex rose. The past didn’tget to decide. Instead — I breathed.

#writersky #microessay
August 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
ashalane.bsky.social
I didn’t realize how much clarity I’d gain once I stopped mocking my past and started witnessing it.

#writersky #microessay
July 30, 2026 at 4:26 PM
zarquelle.bsky.social
The Invisible Load
I don’t fall apart where people can see me.
That’s why they keep piling more on.

New post: zarquelle.substack.com/p/composure-...

#WritingCommunity #PersonalEssay #MicroEssay #Prose #WritersOfX #LifeWriting
Composure as a Curse
When holding it together becomes the expectation.
zarquelle.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
julie.radiantarray.io
i didn't have a lot to do today so in response to a very reasonable, straightforward question i wrote a microessay that functions as a close reading of the narrative voice in the item descriptions of dark souls.
julie.radiantarray.io julie muncy, calamity's augur @julie.radiantarray.io · Nov 3
yeah, no, fair. and i know you're not being an asshole. but my answer is, uh, well, it's longer than i can fit so here's what you're getting, because i think you're asking an interesting question and i appreciate this
1/4: well, no-- i don't think you're supposed to assume that the information is diegetic as such (that is, that it exists *in the game world*.) but that to me raises some interesting questions about its role in the narrative of these games, though i will grant that not a lot of them take advantage of those questions. my example of the original dark souls, though, is one that i think *does.* so, we assume it's non diagetic. great. that means it's being imposed upon the game world from outside, presumably for an outside observer-- us, the player. so what, narratively, does this extra-diagetic intrusion signify? i think the generally assumed answer for games is that it's intended to either 1) represent what the player character knows but the *player* would not (ie, in-universe knowledge) or 2) it represents diagetic knowledge translated into a non-diagetic form-- ie, procedural knowledge, things like tutorials-- how to jump, how to run, how to drink the sunny delight. 2/4: but what's interesting to me is that the voice of these descriptions-- as you point out-- does not seem to neatly map to either of those assumptions. as you say, Hollows are ignorant as fact of biology, and forgetfulness is a fundamental part of their whole deal. What's more, these item descriptions seem to operate from an unstable place of knowledge where they, at times, know basic facts about the world and setting that even most *informed* people in it would not know-- like there are a couple item descriptions that spoil the twist regarding Gwynevere and Anor Londo, extremely privileged knowledge. Yet the voice or voices of these descriptions don't seem to *always* know these things. They ask questions they don't have answers to. The knowledge being drawn from is not a stable, unmoving thing. Likewise, they don't neatly graft into the second assumed role, either, as they are, as many people will gladly point out, often *extremely unhelpful for the player.* Lore without context, questions without answers, snapshots of history with no heuristics with which to understand them. People have spent their entire careers as critics and entertainers trying to turn these disparate, barely useful scraps of information into a traditional plot or world, with clear diminishing returns-- gaps that are entirely unfillable. if these are tutorials, they're bad tutorials. and if these are histories, they're written by a maniac. 3/4: so, then, we have text that 1) is not meant to represent the player character's perspective, 2) *does* however seem to largely graft to an in-universe perspective, albeit an unstable one and 3) does not serve a clear utility. a literary reading of this brings us to the idea of something like what some James Joyce scholars call the Arranger in the novel Ulysses-- an unexplained presence, that seems to exist simultaneously inside and outside the story, which regularly intrudes upon the surface level narrative. Sometimes to provide local color, sometimes to provide gameplay hints, sometimes to casually drop massive secrets about the true order of the fictional world. But never in a manner that is easily explicated. was this intended? Hell if i know. But I do think-- at least in this specific text-- it is an incredibly clever and interesting thing. It further enforces the sense of Lordran's instability, both as a place within a fictional world that is falling apart and in its role *as a fiction itself.* As a story, told to us the player, and also perpetuated by systems that exist within the diegetic world. 4/4: and from there, that's a reading you can take to a lot of places. to thinking about the historiography of dark souls' world, to the story's themes of reproduction & rebirth as a fundamentally degenerative process, to a wacky deconstructive reading about the ability of game worlds to create meaning at all. and that's why i'm inclined to define the method as epistolary fiction, at least in this specific instance-- because if you take it seriously as a thing the text is doing, you find a surprising amount of meat on those bones.
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
gerdschmidinger.wsocial.eu
#Microessay #Kürzestgeschichte #microstory #Fragekompetenz #Debatte #Politik #Demokratie
July 10, 2026 at 7:29 PM
christinehanolsy.com
Hmmm, of the ones available online:

“Festival” (722 words) smallwondersmag.com/pieces/festi...

“House Call” (964 words)
www.juliarios.com/housecall-a-...

And a microessay for good measure: “How to Remodel” (280 words)

www.deadhousekeeping.com/entries/2018...
September 17, 2024 at 2:05 AM
stormcellar.bsky.social
Hey, it's a #flash #contest: CNF, fiction, hybrids, experiments, wild things! $500 in prizes, entry $6 (no fee option in guidelines). #nonfiction #fiction #flashfiction #flashCNF #microessay #experimentalwriting #illustrated #hybrid #callforsubmissions stormcellar.submittable.com/submit/72759...
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March 7, 2024 at 8:59 PM