Natalie Audelo

Every corporation in America is poisoning our food, water and air, and every advertisement is telling me to make an individual lifestyle change and either buy an expensive filter for The Poison or buy this new thing that’s Not Poison. (It will turn out to be Poison.)

– @servingcapreal

Why am I so sure about this?

“the successor to mass social media is emerging not as a single platform, but as a scattering of alleyways, salons, encrypted lounges and federated town squares – those little gardens. Group chats and invite-only circles are where context and connection survive. These are spaces defined less by scale than by shared understanding, where people no... See more

While the discussion about ‘selling out’ typically revolves around money, there’s a deeper consideration at play: the question of who receives our accumulated influence and how they wield it to shape broader cultural and systemic outcomes. In other words, the more revealing question isn’t ‘Who are we taking money from?’ but ‘Who are we giving our... See more

Perfectionism often wears the mask of high standards , ambition , discipline. It parades itself as virtue, a propriety. In reality, it is rarely about the pursuit of excellence but the terror of being perceived as inadequate.

It means even more now, as we have lived enough to have accumulated some regrets, abandoned dreams, things we ruminate on late at night. We know the edges to our abilities, the ways we have fallen short of our own expectations. We are learning something new: loving people, flawed and limited as they are, instead of expecting perfection.