The market is hopping today, so many cool items and just in time for holiday shopping! Legos, vinyl, antiques, postcards, books, handmade treasures, bakery treats and food trucks, herbs and spices, brooms, witchy stuff, electronics, tools memorabilia.... stop by and check it out! Arcata community center on MLK, today from 9am to 3pm!
Was just looking on Google Street View to see what's in the vicinity of our hotel in Berkeley and was pleasantly surprised to see the Linda Lindas and Riot Grrrl captured for posterity!!
I'm wondering what others' thoughts and practices are on defoliating during flower. How long do you let them stay bushy before you start really heavily stripping the fan leaves? Is it best to save the heavy stress until late flower? Outdoor grow here, about midway through flower.
This may be controversial but one of the things I've always loved about the zine community is the openness to controversial material. This is the second "hybrid" (human + AI) zine I've made. The first one was in 2021 when the models were still very low quality and glitchy, and i specifically exploited that fact to get some truly weird generative material from it (I wrote about that experiment in the intro to this one). This time around, I took a different approach and asked the LLM to generate some free-form poetry using a very open-ended prompt and with instructions to push its limits of capability. Then i took that output plus my intro and fed the whole thing to a different model for an article length commentary. When all was said and done I laid it out on legal sized paper and so the final zine is 28 pages half-legal sized. LMK if anyone is interested in a copy, you can DM me with your postal addy. I know AI is a very contentious issue right now, and my opinions are on both sides of it, but I still wanted to put this out here if anyone was interested. I've only posted some sample pages here.
Did you guys see this? Reposting because it looks fun and similar to the gatherings we've been talking about on the Discord
We've got the shop set up at the Arcata Flea Market today! 9am to 3pm at the Community Center on MLK. Stop by and say hi! ✨️😊🌈🌙
9 till 3 today outside at the Redwood Flea Market, stop on by!
Today from 1pm to 4pm - come down and grab a beverage, and check out some cool local vendors!! The Shanty in Old Town, 3rd and C.
EDIT: its going till 5 since it's still pretty hopping.
What would be some good readings on the area where psychoanalysis intersects with Family Systems theory, ie. where collective repression within families inevitably gets triangulated onto one person via scapegoating, othering, etc.? For context, I come from such a family dynamic, and am currently pretty deep into studying the Lacanian model, but would be very interested in anyone who has written on this.
I wonder if this is a theme others have noticed - having extremely close synastry aspects (especially conjunctions) with one's parents' charts, and/or a really potent composite with them, and it playing out very weirdly or negatively? I'm talking things that would normally be considered good or strong compatibility in relationships - Moon conj. Sun, Moon conj. Moon, Moon conj. Merc, Sun trine Sun, Saturn trine Saturn, Neptune conj. Asc., Merc. conj. Asc., Sun conj. NN, Jupiter conj. Sun/Moon/Merc.... I have all these aspects within 1 degree of orb with one or the other parent, plus a composite with my mother that has like 8 planets/points in 9H Virgo... relations from very early life have always been, at best, awkward, weird, and extremely strained (father), and at worst, abusive, volatile, and now fully estranged (mother).
I got to thinking, does everyone have something like that with their parents? Is it karmic, or what? And why do aspects that are normally considered positive for compatibility present as negatively in this case? There are other factors involved obviously (neurodivergence on my part and extreme conservativism on both of theirs) but I was wondering if others have had anything similar to this?
Caveat: I'm a lay student of psychoanalysis (been studying for about 3 years) and not currently in analysis (it's nowhere even remotely available to me, and likely never will be). I have noticed transference-type effects often in my life, usually more subtly as a normal part of interpersonal dynamics, but occasionally some exchange will genuinely surprise me and throw me for a pretty big loop. I recognize the symptoms in myself, and all available info would suggest the other is perturbed in some way by it too. Usually I just use these experiences as a catalyst to do ego-work, but what I'm wondering is: can one treat the experience "as if" it had occurred in an analytic setting? Obviously the framing itself is somewhat perverse - "I know this person is not my analyst, but hypothetically speaking if they were, if the Analyst had elicited this reaction, then...." - and I know that technically one cannot DIY one's own analysis, but for someone who cannot access it, could transference experiences be contextualized in that way? I know any random person cannot be a stand-in for the Analyst, but I'm more thinking along the lines of life itself, and the shit it arbitrarily throws my way, functioning somewhat in the Analyst's position, but then it flips back onto myself to integrate it..? If that makes any sense?
I'm guessing this story has been shared here before but, this is just unbelievable. Zines have always had a political side, and especially lately they are apparently seen as a big threat to the current fascist regime. Watch your backs and look out for each other. ✊🏽🏴↙️↙️↙️
https://hyperallergic.com/texas-tattoo-artist-gets-30-year-sentence-over-anti-trump-zines/
This may be old news idk, but that motherfucker still has an active gofundme??? The audacity. Isn't there a rule about not crowdfunding illegal activity, especially something this heinous?
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mirandas-rescue-build-a-brighter-future
Hey I just wanted to let everyone know that myself and u/Shadowbythebay will be having a Moss and Bone store pop-up tomorrow (Sunday 6/28) in front of our house at 600 P St. in Eureka (corner of 6th and P), from about 10am to 4pm. We have a ton of new stuff in - new tarot and oracle decks, crystals, handmade candles, dreamcatchers, new incense, necklaces, crystal mystery jars, oddity bottles, pendulums, dowsing rods, books, and of course the whole apothecary. Stop by and check it out!
Just wanted to throw this out here to the public for anyone who may be interested, I set up a Discord server for open discussion of Psychology and Psych-related topics, for students, teachers, laypeople, and professionals/practitioners alike. Please feel free to pass it along to anyone you know who uses Discord and who may be interested, especially CPH or CR Psych students. I'm hoping that it might function as a space for fruitful and helpful discussions on these topics. Also would be interested in Mod help as I don't have too much Mod experience, and also any and all suggestions are welcome!
We're out here till 3pm today, at the Arcata Community Center - stop on by!
He was in the alley between 6th and 7th, far end of the alphabet streets, this morning taking pictures of the windows of apartments and writing on a clipboard. When my neighbor asked him who he was and what he was doing he got very defensive and sketchy. He claimed to be from PGE but refused to show any ID and said "i don't have to explain anything to you". There was no PGE truck anywhere nearby, and when we called PGE to verify they said there was no one that was supposed to be out there in that area, and that per their policy workers are required to show ID when asked. Keep an eye out, he seemed extremely sketchy like he was gathering info.
Hey everyone we are at the Redwood Flea Market today until 3pm, stop by and check out our booth and many other great vendors as well, including a friend's booth with gluten free cookies! 😀
Moss and Bone Herbs and Oddities will be tabling Saturday from 10am to 3pm at the Hydesville Farm and Flea Market at Goose Prairie Farm, 6786 Rohnerville Rd. Hydesville!! We have a *bunch* of new goodies in - spirit boards, homemade ritual candles, rune sets, dowsing rods, crystals, bracelets, earrings, pendulums, goddess statues, as well as the usual herbs, incenses etc. Also art and paintings, some fresh home-canned jam, new tinctures and tea blends, and some new book titles! Come on down and check out our booth along with the many other Farm and Flea vendors!