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Published May 25, 2019 by CZedwards

After Exit: Sick Systems and Repairing the Damage

Originally a Twitter thread. Minor editing, spelling & reformatting in this version.

Putting on my behaviorist hat for a thread. Our popular narrative arcs tell us that the story ends when we successfully escape the monster, defeat the corrupt government, flee the abuse, walk free of oppression.

This is where we end stories.

Our narratives lie to us. We are not made whole when the narrative ends. The conclusion of one lifecycle of narrative spawns the next. We move from the resolution into the next origin story, and as we proceed into the next cycle, we carry with us the damage, and skills, we gained in our previous cycle.

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Published May 12, 2019 by CZedwards

Cardiac Cells and How Communities Can Learn to Beat Again.

Expansion on a twitter thread.

Let’s talk about cardiac cells.

You know we can grow them in a Petri dish? When they’re alone, they just twitch. But if they’re touching? They start beating together. It’s What They Do.

Hearts are simple.

They’re just muscle pumps.

It’s why we can yank & reinstall if we have parts.

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Published July 10, 2018 by CZedwards

UTS: Team #FeedBabies, or how the Religious Right weaponizes Facebook to make you feel bad about Similac and working, while also exploiting SAH parents and every impoverished parent on the planet in the name of Breast is Best (for whom?) With a side of misogyny and corporate malfeasance.

This was originally a Twitter thread, but with the death of Twitter and its slow zombification into an Ayn Rand Hellscape, the thread no longer exists. I wrote it in July of 2018 (and have lightly edited it for clarity in 2024).

Usually when people write connections like that, we’re talking conspiracy theories. But nope, this is just corporate evil and exploitation in the name of profit.

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After Exit: Sick Systems and Repairing the Damage

Cardiac Cells and How Communities Can Learn to Beat Again.

UTS: Team #FeedBabies, or how the Religious Right weaponizes Facebook to make you feel bad about Similac and working, while also exploiting SAH parents and every impoverished parent on the planet in the name of Breast is Best (for whom?) With a side of misogyny and corporate malfeasance.