Really happy to interview @michaelashcroft.com on my podcast "Imagine an apple" about the inner experience of Alexander Technique. What is it like to experience “open awareness”? What’s the difference between doing and non-doing? Really enjoyed this one! zencastr.com/z/ST9vDWiJ

good afternoon everyone, I am recovering from knee surgery and enjoying the anaesthetic wearing off how are you all doing? context on the knee thing: michaelashcroft.com/notes/2025-0...

early morning contact naps with a three week old might be one of the best things most mornings from around 5am I lie with him on the sofa while reading and it feels very precious and it feels great that I can give his mother another round of much deeper sleep for 2-3 hours

update from life with a two week old I am tired, I have much less time for myself, but I am happy

2025 is the year of telling your followers on bluesky that you're basically off twitter but posting more on substack

I am excited to meet my son... any day now newsletter.michaelashcroft.com/p/notes-from...

the world I grew up in, the one that felt like home to me, is gone if I am to gift my son a world that feels like home to him, I must first grieve the loss of mine

I had a single espresso at 3pm thinking it wouldn’t affect my sleep and I am disheartened to report that this is not the case

Deal ends today. https://pathless.thrivecart.com/black-friday-creator-offer/ @jmiller.bsky.social @michaelashcroft.com @visakanv.com

Put together a fun little black friday deal with some friends Help keep us unemployed: https://pathless.thrivecart.com/black-friday-creator-offer/ @jmiller.bsky.social @michaelashcroft.com @visakanv.com

seconded

I'm not particularly worried about people being one-shotted by the 6D mesoamerican demon when taking ayahuasca I'm much more worried about people already having been one-shotted by the 2D infinite scroll demon in their hands that lets them avoid feeling uncomfortable on demand

okay, I'm going to spend the next five days subsisting largely on extremely bitter ghee wish me luck

This hospital has a roof “garden!” say hello to Delhi on a day of comparatively much less pollution

so the oscillation of the stream of fluid my forehead is extremely interesting it seems to trigger some perceptual shift that I haven’t figured out yet but I had moments of tension releasing in my body along with sudden awareness of certain childhood memories not strong, but definitely there

I forgot that jet lag insomnia kicks in on the SECOND night going east I got cocky

today I had hot medicated buttermilk poured on my forehead and scalp (Takradhara) and then I had hot medicated tea poured all over my body (Parishek) now I have medicated pastes and leaves sitting in the backs of my knees (Upnaha) how is your day going?

so this Pancharkarma (three ish weeks of Ayurvedic treatment in a hospital in a Delhi suburb) might end up being one of the weirdest things I’ve ever done at least it will occupy a place in a certain dimension of weird that is rarely accessed, if not being the actual One Weirdest Thing

Made a starter pack of some of my favorite follows go.bsky.app/Fd4R2Gm

I am about to spend nearly a month in a hospital in Delhi doing an Ayurvedic treatment programme so I am going to be posting a lot I think also AMA if you want

hello! if you are feeling overstimulated—anxious, tense, distracted—it's easy to get stuck in a loop where you just get more overstimulated. If that's you right now, I'd invite you to stop scrolling, turn off the podcast, put your phone down and remove inputs for 30 mins see how you feel!

I am FASCINATED to understand how bluesky got memed into these beliefs about ‘tpot’

I’m noticing that people are following me, which is lovely and thank you — but I’m not posting as much as I would think necessary to get followers is there a way to see if I’m on a starter pack, or is it a thing you only know if you’re told?

as I approach 37 I’m realising that one’s 30s are for paying close attention to how one’s body is likely to fall apart if not corrected, and then to be diligent about not letting it fall apart in those specific ways

@tasshin.com is great, read Tasshin's stuff!

Hello you 1 point 4 thousand lovely people how are we doing today?

aww turns out the light and easy and good feeling is my heart 💓 hello world

hello! did you know that what you pay attention to tends to grow? so right now, I invite you to notice something in your body that feels good, easy and light pay attention to how good it feels, and let that good feeling spread to the rest of you

I don’t need a Mac mini I don’t need a Mac mini I don’t need a Mac mini I don’t need

my partner is one of the most productive people I know and she’s never heard of GTD or anything similar she just… writes things down when she needs to and then does them makes you think

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

hmmmm I am suffering from a distinct deficit of courage

i am bored of random fatigue and brain fog

It’s both infuriating and wonderful that Ayurveda just straight up works something I’ll write about here more soon

yay I have my domain as my handle, that's cool

okay, new profile picture since I cut my long hair off two days ago better photos incoming

I'm posting a thing I wrote just to breathe deep the free air of links that won't get suppressed newsletter.michaelashcroft.org/p/why-real-c...

people who feel in or adjacent to this term, can we please find a way to let that 'brand' quietly alchemise into something else?

if I post links here, they won’t get suppressed will they?

bluesky seems great now, this is awesome

hmmm I like the threaded replies thing, but this is a bad way to display my own thread

you know, since I started being on social media in earnest in 2019, I feel like I've completely forgotten how to do it I feel substantially worse at it than I was in 2019-2021 I don't think it's just that COVID is done ('done'), though that is part of it I have lost some skills

I refuse to put the heating on in mid June haven't seen blue skies in ages

hi everyone what’s been going on here on bluesky? what is the discourse?

hey everyone how’s it going?

part of me kinda wants Twitter to die so I can be freed to focus my attention elsewhere

Hmm has anyone who had been recently suspended on Twitter been a verified account?

Hey @jay.bsky.team I hope you’re having a great day here is a kitten in case you’re not though

I heard there was some drama over here, what did I miss?

Hi! Day 1 on Bluesky! Kudos to @mashcroft.bsky.social for the invite! Had a lovely vegan dinner party tonight and got inspired from @cecile.bsky.social to start a fun challenge which is to post 100 messages, just sharing personal thoughts and ideas. Can’t wait to hear from this community. #startnow