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Vintage riso graphic novel print: backseat view of an empty driverless car cruising a desert city at night under neon signs, symbolizing labor-free automation.

Don't Call It Solidarity If It's a Hostage Situation

Choosing a human driver over automation isn't mutual aid when platforms dump their costs onto working people and hold our survival hostage.

High-contrast silhouette of four laborers on a horizon line. One man swings a pickaxe while three others observe or rest nearby, set against a plain, bright white background — Photo by Javad Esmaeili / Unsplash

Why Do You Equate Toil With Righteousness?

Do you think you must purchase your dignity with hard work?

Four monarch chrysalises hang from a window screen frame: green, dark mottled, and one transparent revealing the folded orange-and-black wings of a butterfly about to emerge. — Photo by Suzanne D. Williams / Unsplash

In a World of Nouns, Be a Verb

Enacting a better world means showing up intentionally - not just transformed, but transformative.

The Template Is the Trap — Photo by Brett Jordan / Unsplash

The Template Is the Trap

David Sirota is right about Graham Platner. Let's start there.

A close up shot of a desktop where a person is using a stylus to draw on a tablet. There is a cup of coffee and a keyboard nearby. — Photo by Kelly Sikkema / Unsplash

Your Art Wasn't Stolen. It Was Seen. That’s the Point.

When you post art on the open web, you're participating in a commons, not a marketplace.

Staunchly Antiwar — Photo by Adam Jang / Unsplash

Staunchly Antiwar

Mass murder has never been justice, it will never be justice, and it isn't justice now.

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Sierra Friend | Live Differently

I traded the script for a life that feels good from the inside and moved to Costa Rica to see what’s on the other side of “supposed to.” I write about what I find for everyone standing at that edge.

Aaron J Smith | The Cluttered Mouth

I'm a poet, a post-Christian theologian, a spiritual director, and something of a mess — in the way that paying attention to the world tends to make you.