Make Your Damn Bed
Julie Merica
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- 9 minutes 37 seconds1708 || bell hooks on understanding patriarchy
Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the word “patriarchy” in everyday life. - bell hooks
Read the bell hooks work: understanding patriarchy.
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25 February 2026, 5:01 am - 9 minutes 49 seconds1707 || stop assuming "it" is inevitable
There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people’s thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion against tyrannies, by the quick collapse of systems of power that seemed invincible.
What leaps out from the history of the past hundred years is its utter unpredictability. - Howard Zinn
Rebecca Solnit's blog + newsletter: https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/
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24 February 2026, 5:01 am - 8 minutes 59 seconds1706 || tortoise at the mayfly party
"We're all losers until we win." - Astra Taylor
"Change itself becomes invisible when your timeframe is shorter than that change and the short term view breeds defeatism and despair... The short term view breeds incomprehension and ineffectuality." - Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit's blog + newsletter: https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/
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23 February 2026, 5:01 am - 9 minutes 24 seconds1705 || stop running from the feeling
The source: Feel your feelings
"This zine is all about why it’s important to cultivate the capacity to stay with our feelings, and how we can go about doing that. Hopefully working through the zine will help you to figure out your own emotional landscape (which feelings you tend to prefer, and which you tend to avoid). It’ll also give you several possible practices for learning to stay with your feelings. Different things work for different people so it’s all about figuring out what works best for you."
And: https://transitionnetwork.org/
More from Meg John Barker https://queercircle.org/queer-creative-health-zine-two/
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21 February 2026, 5:01 am - 10 minutes 34 seconds1704 || the f.e.a.r. technique
The source: Feel your feelings
"This zine is all about why it’s important to cultivate the capacity to stay with our feelings, and how we can go about doing that. Hopefully working through the zine will help you to figure out your own emotional landscape (which feelings you tend to prefer, and which you tend to avoid). It’ll also give you several possible practices for learning to stay with your feelings. Different things work for different people so it’s all about figuring out what works best for you."
And: https://transitionnetwork.org/
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20 February 2026, 5:01 am - 11 minutes 11 seconds1703 || sitting with the shit
The source: Feel your feelings
"This zine is all about why it’s important to cultivate the capacity to stay with our feelings, and how we can go about doing that. Hopefully working through the zine will help you to figure out your own emotional landscape (which feelings you tend to prefer, and which you tend to avoid). It’ll also give you several possible practices for learning to stay with your feelings. Different things work for different people so it’s all about figuring out what works best for you."
And: https://transitionnetwork.org/
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19 February 2026, 5:01 am - 11 minutes 13 seconds1702 || feeling your feelings
The source: Feel your feelings
"This zine is all about why it’s important to cultivate the capacity to stay with our feelings, and how we can go about doing that. Hopefully working through the zine will help you to figure out your own emotional landscape (which feelings you tend to prefer, and which you tend to avoid). It’ll also give you several possible practices for learning to stay with your feelings. Different things work for different people so it’s all about figuring out what works best for you."
And: https://transitionnetwork.org/
Read Julie's Medium Blog.
SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!)
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18 February 2026, 5:01 am - 10 minutes 28 seconds1701 || ease the transition to a better world
Every group is different, shaped by local needs, but all share common goals: ecological justice, boosting local economies, and strengthening community connections.
The resource: Small Practical Project Ideas
And: https://transitionnetwork.org/
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17 February 2026, 5:01 am - 12 minutes 12 seconds1700 || beg change from a world that needs some
title credit: Alkaline Trio or read today's episode, here.
The only thing that has helped me to stop doom scrolling was remembering that worst people in the world want me to doom scroll.
We've become inundated and confused and overwhelmed and scared. And that's by design.
They're banking on us disconnecting. They've invested a lot in forcing us to tap out. I don't like people telling me what to do and how to think. You're gonna buy in sometimes, but when you realize it? Resist that shit as hard as you can.
Action is the remedy to hopelessness. Hope is a verb.
Someone once said, if you’re scared to lose your life you already have, and that stuck with me.
If we want real change in the long term? That requires us to be comfortable changing something now.
Things don’t change unless I do, and if I’m being honest with myself? It’s beyond time for a few changes.
Future Hope: https://transitionnetwork.org/
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16 February 2026, 5:01 am - 9 minutes 49 seconds1699 || PRIMING || find your red balloon
"Easy to spot a yellow car when you are always thinking of a yellow car.
Easy to spot opportunity when you are always thinking of opportunity.
Easy to spot reasons to be mad when you are always thinking of being mad,
You become what you constantly think about. Watch yourself." - @CryptoSeneca
Mary Oliver's poem: Don't Hesitate
Priming on very well mind: https://www.verywellmind.com/priming-and-the-psychology-of-memory-4173092
Youtube Video on Priming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onSJvUgBG38
Pete Holmes on Self-Priming https://www.tiktok.com/@unconquerable_life/video/7547849798762663198
Wiki Priming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
Read a few episode scripts on Julie's Medium Blog.
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15 February 2026, 5:01 am - 9 minutes 30 seconds1698 || PRIMING || dynamic pricing
What is the most you'd pay for lunch? What about baby formula? What about an uber home when your battery is on 1%?
Those numbers will be different depending on your mood, location, and personality.
Dynamic Pricing is a way for companies to exploit us out of the most possible money, by creating a personalized "profile" they can use to manipulate you into more profits.
This is a form of priming that we all need to pay attention to.
Watch: RONAN FARROW ON DYNAMIC PRICING.
“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.” - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow
Priming on very well mind: https://www.verywellmind.com/priming-and-the-psychology-of-memory-4173092
Youtube Video on Priming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onSJvUgBG38
Pete Holmes on Self-Priming https://www.tiktok.com/@unconquerable_life/video/7547849798762663198
Wiki Priming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
Read a few episode scripts on Julie's Medium Blog.
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