Michael Ashcroft

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hello! did you know that what you pay attention to tends to grow? so right now, I invite you to notice something in your body that feels good, easy and light pay attention to how good it feels, and let that good feeling spread to the rest of you

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one downside of caring a lot about and investing in circadian friendly lighting is that you occasionally have to have dinner late under someone else’s bright blue bulb and it physically hurts

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it’s all I ever wanted 🥹

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when people gift me warps or other tokens, is the idea that I gift them on to others? Or is there more to it?

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🚨 SCROLL CHECK 🚨 do you want to be scrolling? would now be a good time to put the phone down and move, maybe get some sunshine? if not, carry on, scrolling is also good. i’m not your mum

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hey you might be sitting in a room, looking at a screen, surrounded by walls we evolved on the African savannah with clear views a long way. we could see the horizon wherever you are, just remember that the horizon exists out there, in all directions, even if you can’t see it does connecting to the horizon feel good?

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I am still wondering what the deal is with that transient desire to blow up one's life

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while I'm being a n00b what is the difference between Farcaster and Warpcast are they friends? do they hang out together? is Warpcast living in Farcaster's house? does he pay rent? what's the deal

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Farcaster question if I post something into a channel, does it *only* go into the channel? Or do I need to also post this, in my view, banger thread also not in the channel

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According Dr Thomas Brown we should think about inattentive ADHD as being like erectile dysfunction yelling at yourself for not being aroused by a task doesn't help you perform no amount of "well I really want to be into this and in theory I should be" will create the conditions needed to get the thing to work

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There's a podcast episode where Joe Hudson says: “Joy is the matriarch of a family of emotions and she won’t come into a house where her children aren’t welcome.” if you constantly resist or avoid all the 'bad' feelings that you don't want to feel (fear, shame, anger, disgust, etc) you'll never feel joy

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This building in London has a fun concave facade to preserve the view of the church window from the pub behind me I love it

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how many bangers can I bring over from Twitter in 24 hours challenge

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the best productivity hack out there is to use work to distract yourself from all those feelings you don't like

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realising that seeing “followed by @christin” is equivalent to having a verified badge

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isn’t it incredible that houses have pipes that carry clean water in and dirty water out and all you have to do is open a tap or push a button? and that the networks that do this are built and operated by people and they run perfectly basically all the time?

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this is too much pressure

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I’m getting some replies that look like LLMs wrote them is this a thing here?

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I made a short Alexander Technique inspired guided 'meditation' a while ago, which people have reported is quite nice I'm also curious to see if the link to youtube shows nicely or if I'm better off uploading video directly https://youtu.be/thlALoYAiV8?si=sONugTuzt8DqxRUh

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I want to talk about Alexander Technique and adjacent things here, wondering how to approach it I could chaos monkey my way through and just start talking about ideas and practices as they show up, but that can be hard to follow if you encounter it in bits feeling the urge to introduce myself actually

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