Author: Arch Copy
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Recent makes and mends
Making, mending and adjusting things is a revolutionary act. Capitalism would like us to buy-buy-buy to our own and the earth’s detriment, feeding on an annual cycle of growth at any cost for shareholder value. If the vision of the future is only ever 12 months ahead, we are fucked. Therefore, going back in time…
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Writing for writing’s sake
There are a couple of big reasons writers won’t disappear, even with the robots snapping at our heels. Humans need to write. Writing is thinking, writing is play. Humans need to feel. We feel nuance. We feel lived experience. We feel quirks, dialects and flaws. Today in the post I received a zine called Earwyrm,…
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SSRI withdrawal
Well, it was a shitshow. I took notes throughout as I knew my brain wouldn’t hold the information, so I thought I’d write something for other people doom-Googling wtf is wrong with their brain when coming off Citalopram. I first started on Citalopram at 19 after a very hard start at university, but I fell…
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Wealth mindset: Dragon Mode
I never thought I’d own a house. I said it for years: I’ll never own a house. I repeated it over and over like it would help me accept it. The concept seemed ludicrous to me – how did anyone summon up £30k, £50k? I had zero Ks. I was a uni drop-out, which took…
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I’m not smart enough
Sometimes the smartest thing is to acknowledge that you are definitely not smart enough. I’ve been learning Python so I can work on LLMs without a customer interface (an LLM of one’s own, if you will). When I get it and it works, I love it. But when I have to return to maths I…
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