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Our Shared Vision: The Emergent Habitat.. Winner in A System That Isn’t Working Challenge.
Welcome to the latest development in innovative education: “The Emergent Habitat.” An inclusive, paradisical eden where wellbeing is paramount. And the language we enforce will become your own.
By River and Celia in Underland about a month ago in Humans
Meteorologist
February, the month of love, black history, and then there is the rat. Adults, looking to a rodent for predictions in weather and the future of winter and spring. When on earth did that become a celebrated thing? It’s ridiculous, and yet some take it seriously.
By Alexandra Grantabout a month ago in Humans
Doors and Windows
The system of doors and windows are, when you think about it – and I have, far too much – among the most fundamentally irritating features of modern domestic architecture. They exist in a state of perpetual contradiction, embodying the human condition's most tiresome paradoxes with a smug, architectural permanence that no amount of remodelling or smart-home nonsense can disguise.
By Scott Christenson🌴about a month ago in Humans
What the System Forces You to Become
The Question the System Replaces By the time a person has passed through employment law, healthcare coverage rules, unemployment insurance, disability determination, and benefit eligibility, the relevant question has already shifted without ever being stated out loud. It is no longer whether the system helped or failed them. It is whether they managed to remain legible long enough to survive it. Each institutional layer imposes requirements that appear reasonable when viewed in isolation, yet become coercive when experienced sequentially:
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in Humans
The Color Line Within the Color Line
Colorism is often described as a preference for lighter skin within communities of color. Yet this definition, while accurate, is incomplete. Colorism is not merely an aesthetic bias or cultural quirk. It is a social technology one that developed within colonial and racial hierarchies to maintain systems of white supremacy without constant direct enforcement. At its core, colorism is a structure that rewards proximity to whiteness and punishes distance from it. It operates through psychological conditioning, social incentives, and internalized hierarchies. Over time, it becomes self-sustaining: communities begin to reproduce the same divisions that were originally imposed upon them.
By Cadmaabout a month ago in Humans
Prayers That Go Deeper Than Politics
Prayers for safety, prayers for peace, Prayers that violence would finally cease. Prayers for realization, hearts made aware,
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in Humans
The Mall. Honorable Mention in A System That Isn’t Working Challenge.
Maggie was happy with her hip replacement. The physical therapist stretched her legs and massaged her lower back, then watched as Maggie did hip flexor exercises and the rest of the recovery routine. The surgery had been six months ago, and Maggie was now working on her strength, stamina, and balance. She went to PT and water aerobics twice a week. She planned to ski in the upcoming season.
By Andrea Corwin about a month ago in Humans
Speaking to Time Instead of the Room
Much of modern communication is oriented toward immediacy. Writing is framed as something meant to be consumed quickly, reacted to instantly, and replaced just as fast by whatever comes next. Under this model, the value of a piece is measured almost entirely by its initial reception. If it does not land immediately, it is treated as a failure. This assumption narrows the purpose of writing and misunderstands how meaning actually travels through time.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
There Are New Rules Now
Hello and good morning to all American citizens. It's a bone-cold day here in America, and it's not just because of the temperature. I have taken over every media outlet with this very important message from the President, Donald J. Trump. The Democracy of America is no more. The Democracy of America has been shaky for the last 90 years or so, but as of today, we are grieving for our country as we now face the consequences of how truly broken the Democratic Government was.
By Hope Martin2 months ago in Humans
Unequal Weights and Measures
This article serves as a summary and orienting manifesto for the series “Consent, Consequence, and Moral Symmetry,” which examines responsibility, risk, and justice in modern systems.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
Essence, Embodiment, and Relational Reality
The Failure of Reduction and the Need for Synthesis There is a persistent failure in many modern attempts to explain what a human being is. Some frameworks reduce the person entirely to matter, insisting that identity, consciousness, morality, and meaning are nothing more than emergent properties of physical processes. Other frameworks move in the opposite direction, detaching spirit from reason and grounding belief in intuition alone, often at the cost of coherence or accountability. Both approaches fail because both misunderstand essence. One denies that essence exists at all. The other treats it as something vague and undefinable.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans
Essence Explained
This article is a plain-language companion to “Essence, Embodiment, and Relational Reality: Toward a Coherent Account of Personhood, Consciousness, and Being.”
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Humans