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2021-10-10 11:17:59

Big thanks to @Future is FOSS@Xantulon and @Alexio who helped with the release of TROMjaro XFCE! They test it, help us create custom scripts, and more. All about the release here https://www.tromjaro.com/tromjaro-xfce-beta/

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TROMjaro XFCE Beta!

That's it! TROMjaro is getting faster, more stable, better, and saner. Plus, new features. … Continue readingTROMjaro XFCE Beta!
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I added some Pyrenees photos to my photo page: https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/photos/
It seemed a bit out of date since I had nothing there since 2019. Now 2021 is there :)






Love those Pyrenees mountain lakes :)

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Sasha
It's mostly about my last 13 years of traveling around the world with very little money. There's more info about it here if you're interested :) https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/blog/book/
mihira
Nice. Gonna check it out

69. nudity

In this episode we will talk about the notion of nudity. Why are the clothesless human bodies seen as being obscene in today's society? Why is youtube, facebook and the like banning content simply because of naked bodies being shown?, We have written…
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I'm taking off on my big hike today! I'll be mostly offline for the next 2-3 months.

Also, I made a longer update on my old GoFundMe campaign- https://www.gofundme.com/f/big-world-small-sasha-the-book
Sorry that I made that campaign almost two years ago and I still haven't published my book! I have been working on it like crazy over the past two years though and I'm super relieved that I finally finished it. I will publish it when I get back from the hike (after I go over it just one last time 😁)

Let's see how far I can get on this hike before I collapse 😀

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Over the past 2-3 months I've been coming back to the secret octopus bay and I've figured out that there are three octopuses that like human feet :D And there is one octopus that is particularly friendly. She even took me by the hand, held me in strong current, and dragged me around the bay!

I updated my octopus blog with a bunch of new videos so you can see all of this here- https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/2021/04/28/meeting-an-octopus/

Or on PeerTube: https://videos.trom.tf/accounts/sasha/videos
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I finished my book! YES! :D Well, I finished draft 3 of the entire thing, which is basically (hopefully) the final draft :D. Maybe I’ll change the conclusion in the end, but we’ll see, for now I am done!

I’ll spend the rest of the summer walking across the Pyrenees Mountains and thinking about it :D

I plan to leave in 1 week.

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So Tio and I moved out of our apartment last week, unfortunately, but thanks to someone named Taras, we now have enough funds to feed ourselves and keep our projects alive for the next few months. Thank you so much Taras!

My plan hasn’t changed much. Right now, I’m finishing up draft 3 of my book- and I’m finally almost done! (This time really :D) I’ve put a crazy amount of work into this book over the past 2 years so now I’m pretty much sick of working on it :D Once I finish everything except the conclusion, I plan to go off into the Pyrenees Mountains and hike to the Atlantic. After that, I’ll come back, finish the conclusion, take one last look over the book, and then I’ll finally publish it. Whew. Then I’ll figure out some way to make some money so that Tio and I can keep our projects going without getting all stressed out all the time :)

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Broke https://www.tiotrom.com/2021/06/broke/ #tromlive

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Here's a new video based on my blog "Prison Earth": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf2YVbi7-bg

@Dima recorded and edited the video, I made the script.

Here is a link to the blog that it's based on: https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/2020/01/07/prison-earth/

PRISON EARTH

Sasha spend most of her life traveling around the world, quite often without any money.She share her experiences, ideas about our society, travel tips on her...
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25. Empty homes

This video is about the ridiculousness of our trade-based society. There are so many empty appartments that are used for only a short period of time or not at all, because it is profitable to do so.
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We found a very cool website last night: https://www.onezoom.org/life.html/@=304358?img=best_any&anim=flight#x1027,y474,w0.2697

OneZoom Tree of Life- An interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things. Discover your favorites, see which species are under threat, and be amazed by the diversity of life on earth.

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Wow, this is really amazing 😍

Thanks for sharing :)
Sasha
No problem :)

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New Blog: Meeting an Octopus
I wrote about my amazing experience of interacting with a wild octopus- https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/2021/04/28/meeting-an-octopus/

He is simply precious :)

I recommend this documentary if you want to understand why I got so excited about this :D https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/21528/my-octopus-teacher/

Meeting an Octopus

Ever since I watched the film My Octopus Teacher, I’ve been dreaming of meeting an octopus. Last week, it finally happened! Here’s how it happened: I went for a hike to a beautiful rocky bay on the Mediterranean Coast (in northern Catalonia).
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Matt Panhans
I loved My Octopus Teacher. That is so wonderful that you were able to have octopus encounters yourself!
Sasha
I loved My Octopus Teacher too :) and I'm super happy about the encounters :D

Curious Octopus
The most amazing thing happened to me yesterday! And I managed to film it-

https://videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/5f9f2270-5f15-4750-ad62-695af25f9789

I went for a dip in a quiet rocky bay in the Mediterranean Sea. When I came out of the water I noticed an octopus close to shore, looking at me. I came towards the octopus and it came closer to me, then she/he touched my foot with its tentacle and tried to latch onto me! I was shocked and quickly backed away. The octopus squirted me, then stayed close and continued to observe me at the edge of the shoreline.

Curious Octopus

Yesterday I went for a dip in a quiet rocky bay in the Mediterranean Sea. When I came out of the water I noticed an octopus close to shore, looking at me.
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Here's our latest TROM-Cast: https://www.tromsite.com/videos/

This one was about movies, our personal opinions about movies, and the impact that movies have on society.

You can also watch it on Peertube - https://videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/b67faea3-8bf7-47b7-ba66-c7ffebfb405a

65. Movies

We recommend our VideoNeat collections of movies https://www.videoneat.com/category/movies/ and our book "The For-Profit Entertainment" https://www.tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-df_9908/1/
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Here's last night's TROM-Cast: https://www.tromsite.com/videos/
Or on Peertube: https://videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/38a34103-ae53-4e8b-a85a-568ce013e049


This one was about "deplatforming" and the implications of it. How a few companies can mute anyone they want and what repercussions that has.

64: Deplatformed!

We are talking about this new word "deplatforming" and what are the implications of it. How a few companies can mute anyone they want, and what repercussions does it have.
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I finished Chapter 24- some crazy stories about hitchhiking through Europe in 2016 :D


I actually didn't realize how much time I spent hitchhiking around the world until I wrote this book :D There are a lot of hitching stories in there. Mostly good ones, but some were a tiny bit frightening too.

I also brought back a section that I had deleted earlier (from Chapter 8) so now the book is a bit over 150,000 words but maybe it's better that way, we'll see.

Now I'll have to make just a few small changes to Chapter 25 (the 2nd-to-last chapter) and then I'll see if I can manage to finish editing the conclusion or if I'll have to mull over it for a while longer.
I finished editing chapter 23, which was about Hawaii. This chapter included a story about the Kalalau, where I took this picture-


This was definitely one of the most incredible places I've ever seen, and the interesting part about this place is that there are a bunch of hippies living in that valley and making pizza :D
I hope to come back there one day and stay for a little while.

I also edited chapter 24 and 25 (Europe and Nicaragua) but I might go over it one more time.
And now I'm on the conclusion! ...And I'm struggling with it.

I'll try to take it little by little, hopefully finish by next week, and then we'll record my part for TROM2 documentary ;)
I made a lot of progress this week. I'm up to Chapter 23 now (page 275) and I think I only have about 4 chapters to edit! But I decided to go with a new strategy- right now I'm working on draft 2 of the 2nd half of my book (which I have never edited before). Once I finish draft 2 I will re-edit that entire section to make a final draft. Only then can we celebrate :D.

Now I just finished a part about Sri Lanka, which I struggled with a bit. I managed to cut out a bunch of pages so now the book is about 150,000 words. I don't think there's much more I can cut out but maybe that's okay.

Here's a photo of the Dambulla cave temple in Sri Lanka :)
I finished editing Chapter 17! Making progress :D
This one was about Cambodia, Thailand, Russia, Bulgaria and Morocco. Random, yes, but it made sense at the time :D

Here's a photo from this chapter-


This is from the Ta Prohm temple in the jungles of Cambodia (part of the Temples of Angkor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta_Prohm
Great TROM-Cast last night- https://videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/08976e30-bcb8-4660-9322-57a01272a943

This one was about our new project https://trom.tf/

Great job with this project @Tio and @Alexio I really love it! :)

63. TROM.tf

TROM.tf (https://trom.tf/) is a new TROM project. What is so special about it? It has the balls to provide trade-free alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Search, Google Drive, Google Docs, Dropbox, Wetransfer, Spotify, and more.
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I deleted 8 more pages and I've finished editing 200 pages! -So I'm more than halfway finished with my book! :D The next part will be more difficult though... Now I'm getting into the sections that I've never edited before. I'll try to take it little by little and hopefully not have any mental collapses this time :D


I decided to include an entire chapter about climate change in the book. At first, I thought that perhaps it deviated too much from the story, but I think I’ll leave it there because it’s an important topic and it impacted my perspective of the world quite a lot. Besides, the book will be called “Big World small Sasha” so it’s not only about the small Sasha- it’s also about the Big World :D

Here’s a part of what I wrote for that climate change chapter- https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/2020/02/15/why-were-changing-the-climate-but-not-ourselves/
I didn’t change much since I worked on this section a lot back when I was writing it.
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I finished editing Chapter 13- Sailing in New Zealand. I wrote a little bit about this adventure in a blog a little while ago- https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/2018/09/19/sailing-is-not-just-for-rich-people/
Now the chapter is complete and I'm making real progress with my book. Yes! :D

Sailing Is Not Just for Rich People

The topic for my last TROM discussion was meant to be ‘money,’ with a focus on how money is a fictional reality (i.e.
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I'll post updates about my work here (https://social.trom.tf/profile/bigworldsmallsasha) and this automatically goes to my website on this page https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/live/

Thanks to @Tio for setting all of this up :) TROM Social looks great! - I love it! :)
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