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A bunch of atoms that are curious about the world, but furious about the society. We should help all humans to have a decent life without any strings attached, so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe. And create a smarter and saner society.

Since 2005 I make documentaries, write books, and enable many trade-free platforms for everyone.

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How to get rid of mold in the Motorhome - videos.trom.tf/w/2upETKpx9b8fV…

The solution really is: VENTILATION and KEEPING IT WARM inside.

We tried moisture absorbers, anti mold products, whatever. Nothing worked. But once we started to ventilate under the mattress and on top of our bed, plus keep it warm at night, MIRACLE. No more mold!

And we had a serious mold issues. As most motorhomes do!

#motorhome #mold #vanlife #camper #spain #tips

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2026-02-01 20:35:11

How to get rid of mold in the Motorhome

The solution really is: VENTILATION and KEEPING IT WARM inside.
We tried moisture absorbers, anti mold products, whatever. Nothing worked. But once we started to ventilate under the mattress and on top of our bed, plus keep it warm at night, MIRACLE. No more mold!
And we had a serious mold issues. As most motorhomes do!

#sPAIN #tips #mold #vanlife #camper #motorhome

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I am extremely proud of these books that I wrote (all are trade-free of course):

Language tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…

Some 600 pages. I put so much effort into this wow....and the design, was really difficult to design a book about language. The subject was super complex but I am so so happy with how it ended up.

The Money Game and Beyond tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…

370 p

I am extremely proud of these books that I wrote (all are trade-free of course):

Language tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…

Some 600 pages. I put so much effort into this wow....and the design, was really difficult to design a book about language. The subject was super complex but I am so so happy with how it ended up.

The Money Game and Beyond tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…

370 pages of understanding in detail how money came to be. I looked at so many isms that tried to organize our society. This was the bedrock of my understanding of our society.

The Origin of Most Problems tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…

Over a THOUSAND pages long. Comic-book style design with superheroes and characters. By far the most difficult book I ever wrote or ever write probably. This made me have a complete understanding of what this global society is made of. I even created a mega search engine to showcase how a few companies own most stuff - unfortunately I had to discontinue it since it was impossible to update....but yah this book is the achievement of my life :D

The Evolution of Purpose and the Purpose of Evolution tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…

This one is a unique book in terms of the subject. Also smaller than the rest around 70 pages. The title is the core of the book and the design was also difficult and unique.

Human Machine tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…

Some 300 pages and still relevant today. I looked at how the machines humans invented stack against the human machine itself. Difficult book.

Earth tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…

Some 200 pages of pure joy. This one I really loved writing and designing.

I wrote more see here - tromsite.com/trombooks/ and I would love to write more, even if I am sure today is nearly impossible to make anyone read them. People have no patience plus they use these tiny screens (phones) so reading them in this digital format heavily reliant on a landscape design....is a no no for most.

Sad. But maybe I will publish my next content in the same format if I won't be comfortable with making videos.

Anyway, thank you past me for spending so many years creating these. They are really valuable books and they completely changed the way I see the world.

#book #books #trom #tromsite #capitalism #communism #anarchy #money #trade #earth #nature #reading #evolution #lanuage

#Capitalism #book #money #nature #Books #Communism #reading #trom #tromsite #Evolution #trade #earth #anarchy #lanuage

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unmittelbar

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nice! where to read?

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Tio

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I posted the links to every book in the post. Click and read ;)

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How much compact thought you express!

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Rokosun

in reply to Tio • 2 days ago from Fedilab •

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I have read "The Origin of most problems" book, and have read most of "The Money game and beyond" book but I unfortunately didn't finish it. Now I'm not much of a reader or anything, but both of those books were really fucking impressive and I remember feeling such joy and excitement reading those. I also read the "The ugliness of beauty" book which was a shorter one. I can only imagine the amount of effort you must've put into creating these books man, you not only had to research about these topics and write the books but you also designed them in such a beautiful manner. That is genuinely an achievement and something to be proud of 🙂

And personally I think perhaps I should start reading more books and such, there are some problems like my eye strain issues and such which hold me back but I realize that getting into a habit of reading will do me good long term.

And about the device.... I read these on an old tablet device that I had with a 10 inch 720p

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Tio

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Thank you so much man! Means a lot!

I would like to know what other format than video would be better suited for new TROM content? I understand that these books may be hard to read unless you do it on a laptop of decent screen. But on the other hand these books allow me to fully express myself via the design.

So tricky...

But if you have ideas let me know.

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Rokosun

in reply to Tio • 1 day ago from Fedilab •

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Making video content would be an obvious choice these days but I understand it can be a lot of work. A middle ground between the two might be Audio books or a podcast style format, however this can be limiting if you wanna include some visuals. I think technically it's possible to include some attachments along with your audio but if your content is predominantly visual then yeah this might not be the best option.

BTW, I will also say that one other advantage of the podcast format in particular is that it's one of the only media that isn't controlled by a single big tech platform and their algorithms. I think Spotify and Apple podcasts have tried to make it their walled garden but failed, almost every podcast is available through RSS feeds even today.

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Tio

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For me podcasts do not work in terms of creating them. Maybe if you have a cool voice and clear, may be more interesting. But this is not for me. I am also a very visual person and the way I designed our books was a great way to express myself.

Will see....

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Rokosun

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Yeah I understand about the voice, if I think about it I would also get very self conscious about my voice if I were to sit in front of a mike to record a podcast lol 😅 And about you being a visual person, yeah that's what I was thinking how you expressed yourself so clearly with some simple figure drawings in your last blog post - that made me realize that this is your thing haha 😄 So audio won't help you with that.....

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Is anyone surprised by these "Epstein" files when it comes to rich powerful people using their power to get laid regardless if the girls were underage?

This was happening at my school with older guys and young girls. Like guys in their 20s 30s or 40s, and 13-17 year old girls. It was "normal". Even with some teachers having some weird relationships with underage girls. I grew up understanding that this is not surprising. This is what power results into, especially in a world full of idiots who all they learn is to make more money, have more stuff, fuck more young girls. On the other hand I have seen too often young girls craving for the power, money, status of older men.

Simplistic minds that are also geared towards consumerism and accumulation of stuff, will result in such situations.

So to me it is no surprise. I was 100% sure these rich bastards like Trump, Bill Gates, or other famous people would use their power to fuck some young girls. I wold have been shocked if this was not the case.

So yah...these are just some files uncovering some of these cunts'

Is anyone surprised by these "Epstein" files when it comes to rich powerful people using their power to get laid regardless if the girls were underage?

Simplistic minds that are also geared towards consumerism and accumulation of stuff, will result in such situations.

So yah...these are just some files uncovering some of these cunts' private life, but I bet you both of my eyes that pretty much all people with a bit of power use that to coerce and take advantage of others, sexually or in other ways.

It is the system that permits humans to be in such positions of submission and power.

The more equal the society the less such situations where people can be coerced or coerce others. Simple.

If you are a young girl with almost no money and some rich bastard gives you a shit load of money to come to his mansion, do some "massages"....well it is hard to fucking refuse. And from there on it spirals down into abuse.

HELP THE PEOPLE!

We need all people to have access to a decent life, to be able to focus on what they want and like. NOT to be workers. But humans.

UBI or whatever you want, does not matter. It should be paramount to provide people with their needs at least, trade-free. This is a start to change values and relationships.

Rant over.

#epstein #usa #rich #money #trump #billgates #ubi

#money #USA #Trump #rich #ubi #billgates #Epstein

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Rokosun

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In a world divided into the powerful and the powerless, coercion and abuse become inevitable 😐

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Sexual abuse, Epstein

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Our Last Chance to Find Risso Dolphins - videos.trom.tf/w/fnv1fsx2PmdKu…

#volunteer #nature #dolphins #bbta

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2026-01-31 12:47:04

Our Last Chance to Find Risso Dolphins

#nature #volunteer #Dolphins #bbta

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Revisiting the GR11 in Alta Garrotxa:

videos.trom.tf/w/gtc4eAQDsYVTc…

Day 1 on the trail: I feel out of shape, I forgot all my money at home, I'm not sure which rivers are dry and which are real rivers, and I'm filtering water with an old Katadyn BeFree water filter that I haven't used in 2 years. Wish me luck! 😅

Here is the book that I was celebrating publishing: www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/

And since the filming of this video, we have bought a motorhome, fixed it up, and made a bunch of videos about traveling around Spain in it! See our channel here: videos.trom.tf/c/ridewithless/

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If you make @Technology Connections go nuclear about the shithole this society has become, then it means this society is really in a terrible shape

Watch till the end. This video is more than just solar panels for sure ;)

And if you are at it, maybe remember we made a documentary all about the terminally ill state of our society, over here tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…

#society #money #technology #trom #tromsite

#money #technology #trom #tromsite #society @Technology Connections

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Rokosun

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Wow I wasn't expecting that ending, he said things the way they needed to be said. Everything he said in that video is just the absolute truth of our reality and honestly if that doesn't make your blood boil with anger I don't know what's wrong with you..... I have huge respect towards him for doing this 🤍

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PeerTube-GTK

I would like to announce a new desktop PeerTube client, I, Erwinjitsu and IntoTheGNU have been working on, PeerTube-GTK.
The client is currently available on AUR and can be built and run locally, but new packages and platforms are planned, including AppImage and Windows.
codeberg.org/The-World-Machine…
There is also a developer/user chat available, for anyone interested:
matrix.to/#/%23PeerTube-GTK:ma…
Currently features are centered around viewership, but many more is to come!

PeerTube-GTK

Native desktop PeerTube client

^Codeberg.org

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I can’t find my way. Why? - tiotrom.com/2026/01/i-cant-fin…

For the past two years I’ve been trying to create new content for TROM and I failed. I don’t have to do it, but I want to. Else I feel lost and I will explain why.

I have never been trapped in such a suffocating situation before.

#blogpost #projects #trom #burnout

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2026-01-27 12:32:30

I can’t find my way. Why?

For the past two years I’ve been trying to create new content for TROM and I failed. I don’t have to do it, but I want to. Else I feel lost and I will explain why.
I have never been trapped in such a suffocating situation before.
I remember people telling me how they envy my drive and how I am like a “rock” in a storm, I keep on being the same, create stuff, engage, be active. That was my “activism” activity online. So many projects, websites, books, videos, I was a machine really.
Even I was thinking how good that my only problem is money and not some mental struggle. Because if I have money I know what to do.
Now I still don’t have much money, but money is also not an issue currently. I don’t think much about it because this is my home:

I am typing this article from inside this little thing we call Tortuga (Tortoise). Because it is slow but resilient :). But living in this way allowed me to live with a lot less. 5-600 Euros a month is enough for me to live, travel, eat and pay for internet. Half of what I needed before.
When I started my “activism” my immediate environment sucked. Living with my parents, we were all poor, stressed, my family was slaving to a job in Spain. I had no money and no way to take care of myself. Everyone I knew was a total zombie, trapped robot citizens, mushed brains, livestock meat. I HATED it! I was and felt alone.
The outside world was the same mess. I was disgusted by it. Buy, work, be trapped, be an idiot. Destroy, lie, deceive. Compete, don’t give a fuck, be a dick.

I felt trapped but I mentally untrapped myself.
I found some hope online. My blog was reaching some people, so I felt like someone is listening. Then came across organizations like TVP/TZM and realized there might be a hope to this bullshit society.
It was a path that I was seeing from my dark place to something. Something…I don’t know what, but something.

And this path gave me hope. This world can be a paradise if we are scientifically minded and understand that the society we live in is a human invention, so to not let this invention stay in our way of creating a better society. Money, social statuses, countries, ownership, all that is fantasy! If only we can make people see that, then we can use our science-brain and solve problems without being stopped by these fantasies.
We have food, let’s feed people. We have cancer treatments, let’s treat people. We want to build a museum, let’s build it. Not via monetary limitations, but volunteer organizations. If we have NOT, then we must at least have NOT enough resources or knowledge. I cannot accept that we have NOT “money”. That is bullshit.
My mission: come with me on this path out of this bullshit human society, and things will emerge. We just need to make people see the world for what it is.

After all if I were to realize that we live in a computer simulation I would FOR SURE react strongly to that and would want to get to the bottom of it!

Imagine if I were to just say: hm yeah, but I still have to eat and survive in this simulation so…is nothing I can do…

I thought now the main focus is to make people realize that we live in a simulation. A human fantasy simulation.
So I was like a machine gun, firing videos, documentaries, projects, blog posts, books, articles, memes. I was managing 8 social networks at once. Post everywhere. Podcasts? Yes! Debates? Yes! A new documentary? Yes! More websites? YESSS!
And I was firing them in my immediate environment and the outside world.

And so I spent the past 15 years! In this intense way.
I started to get donations so my immediate environment became better. Less stress, more comfortable.
The Rupture.

After so much effort I realized some hard truths.
Reaching people with these messages is an infinite struggle and has become almost impossible recently. Everyone is consumed on idiotic platforms. No new content can easily reach them. My machineguns were kinda obsolete. I do not have the energy and motivation to make TikTok videos or click baity content…I cannot. And without this you do not exist.
Even when you reach people their heads are a mush because of so much content online. Too many things people have to deal with. How my message dissolves in these brains is tasteless. They scroll to the next thing.
Even when the content dissolves in some brains in a tasteful way, these people are also trapped with jobs and other issues.
The world has become a tsunami of problems and stupidity. From the COVID pandemic with its mental conspiracies orbiting it, to Russia going at war with Ukraine, Israel mass murdering people in Gaza, Trump being a shitshow clown, people murdered, loud political debates, anger, more idiots, more consumerism….
Organizations and movements like TVP, TZM and the like dissolved.
I realized the outside world is far bigger and more problematic than I thought. And for the past years it expanded infinitely into the stupid, moronic, and violent.

I felt the path leads to nowhere. There is no path. I felt locked into my immediate environment. Friends, family, Tortuga.

I finally have amazing friends and my family is ok. I have a fucking Tortuga! I feel quite safe. I am on my own kinda and can take care of myself. I can go see super nice places out in the world.
I am fine. In that sense. But…
I see no path forward, nothing to look up to. No escape from the outside world. I find it impossible to live in my own nice bubble and ignore it. But I also cannot see a path forward.
And this has destroyed me inside. For the first time in 15 years I feel lost. I do not feel motivated to fire up anything at this world: no more books, content, projects. I don’t feel like it is going to have any impact.
I am still super happy to keep our projects alive and relevant. And I hope to also create new content. But it is hard. Even more so when my new lifestyle forces me to interrupt my work every few days. I need to move move move…get water for the motorhome, buy food, get gas, etc..
On the other hand if I were to stay in one place for longer, I would perhaps get even more depressed since I cannot find much joy and hope into creating new stuff and being actively active in my “activism”.
So maybe when I am forced to go from one place to another, is a way to keep me distracted and to allow me to continue, whatever that “continue” means.
I know this is a depressing post. And I have made several like this in the past. But this is the truth. And the truth also is that for the past 2 years or so I could not find a way out for me. Mentally that is.
So at times I am super happy and relaxed, then next day I can be totally down. I fluctuate a lot. And that is bothering me.
There are good things to look forward in my green bubble. A total solar eclipse this year and for that I will meet up with the rarest of humans, those who are smart, sane and kind. Cannot wait for that. I am also enjoying this Tortuga earthship and I look forward to see where she will take me. It is my little bubble and I still fire up some stuff into the outside world via TROM.tf, VideoNeat or TROMjaro. Maybe more will come. IDK.
But I have tried and I am either demotivated to throw content into a blackhole that this world is, or always get interrupted by life.
For now I will try more. And if nothing works, at least I still have my green bubble and I may accept to be comfortable with only that.

And don’t worry I am fine, is perhaps a normal reaction to a shithole society. Maybe I need to go through a rough road of acceptance that there is nothing there in the outside outside world that is hopeful.
We will see. At least making this post helps me a bit.
I will eat something. Take a nap. And maybe when I wake up I can even “fire up” some content for TROM. Update my never ending drafts that are meant to become books or videos one day. Because I know that I cannot just stay. I need to do something, even if it goes nowhere.
When the problems are inside of your mind, and you need your mind to fix them, it is harder than climbing the tallest mountain. But it is doable.

#trom #blogpost #projects #burnout

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in reply to Tio • 4 days ago •

@Tio I read the blog post and felt like I could relate to it very well, then I read the comments from @Sasha, @Dima and @Roma and felt like I could relate to those as well 😄

@Tio I read the blog post and felt like I could relate to it very well, then I read the comments from @Sasha, @Dima and @Roma and felt like I could relate to those as well 😄

This time I feel like it's not just us, the world has gone to shit in many ways and it seems like everyone is feeling it these days.... The way I would describe it is that our world has lost its peace and sanity, I feel like there is no baseline stability anymore.... We lost our peace with all these wars and violence, when the most corrupt abusers and charlatans got into power. And we lost our sanity when we got hit with a flood of misinformation in the form of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, etc. I don't know what happened during covid but all of these BS started gaining a lot of traction during that time, maybe sitting at home all day looking at their phones have made people loose their minds a little bit. And of course all of these things are interconnected, people loosing their sanity helped some of those corrupt assholes get elected, and then they in turn started attacking science and education because they see knowledge as a threat.

This maelstrom of shit has affected projects like TROM and others because people can't be thinking about future progress when there is no baseline stability anymore. Peace and sanity are essential for everyone to just take a break and look at our world, work on improving things, etc. But right now people are overwhelmed, all of us are. There are just too many problems and we can't fight them all at once.... And here I'm talking about the people who actually care about the world and these issues, because I always felt like this was a minority - most people are either busy doing their jobs or busy consuming in this society, now that even their attention is commodified and traded on these internet platforms.

I don't know what the solution here is, in some cases things are outside of our control so all we can do is hope and wait for it to get better.... And in the meantime it might be useful for us to focus on areas where we can actually make some impact in the world, even if by a little, so that if we ever get past this shit-storm people may have some things to look out for.....

P.S. BTW, I just gotta say that I'm kinda impressed with how well you were able to explain this thing (that we were all feeling to some extend) with the use of some simple diagrams made of stick figures and circles 😄 You have a good way of conceptualizing ideas and explaining it to people in a simple manner, that is a skill man.....

@Tio @Sasha @Dima @Roma

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Yah the perfect ingredients to create the state of the world. workers busy with work, companies busy with making the workers consume. Busy consuming idiots. Most of the species.

From online platforms to offline organizations, everything got corrupted and became a source of infection.

P.S. BTW, I just gotta say that I'm kinda impressed with how well you were able to explain this thing (that we were all feeling to some extend) with the use of some simple diagrams made of stick figures and circles 😄 You have a good way of conceptualizing ideas and explaining it to people in a simple manner, that is a skill man.....

I very much appreciate this comment. Thank you!

And not to get to cheesy but you give me a bit of hope to see you so young and wise. Down to earth motherfucker :) . You are one of the few that reminds me there are some real humans in this world still.

Thank you for helping with TROM and being you man. Keep on being like that!

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Thank you for the kind words man, I appreciate it 🙂 I'm sure there are a lot of good humans out there, so even if you lost the "outside outside world" perhaps we can still create bridges between these little bubbles that we have 😄

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Recall a time when you felt the most joy and love you've ever felt in your life and feel the feelings that you felt at that time as much as you can for at least 30 seconds. What kinds of thoughts were going through your mind at that peak moment when you felt the most joy and love? (I'm not asking what you were doing at the time, but what thoughts were going through your head at that exact moment.) For many people that answer this, they realize that they didn't have any thoughts during that exact moment. For others, they say that the thought was that they were so grateful or happy.
For those that answered that they had the thought that they were grateful, did you feel that joy and love before you had that thought or after? Take 10-15 seconds to answer that question before moving on. What insights and epiphanies did you have? What's crazy is that most people didn't have any thoughts going through their mind when they felt the happiest and the most amount of love in their lives. For those that had the thought that they were grateful, they felt that way before having that thought. If they had that thought, it happened after they felt the feelings, so the thought could not have produced the feeling. This brings us to another truth:
you do not have to have thoughts or think to feel positive emotions. The beautiful part about truth is that it needs no justification because it can be experienced right here right now. It doesn't need to be proven or rationalized to you and you experienced this truth firsthand by the experiment we just did.
Here's why we don't need to have thoughts or think to feel positive emotions like joy and love.
Our natural state of being IS joy, love, ecstasy, freedom, and gratitude. This may be hard to believe because if it's natural, why don't we feel that way all the time? I'll answer this in a bit.
If we want to see the natural state of anything, one of the best ways is to look at nature and the state of it in its infancy (before it is affected and conditioned by its environment). For example, let's look at the natural state of a baby. What is a baby's natural and default state (assuming the baby wasn't abused, neglected, or had any physical issues)? Are babies naturally stressed, anxious, fearful, and self-conscious? Or are they naturally in a state of bliss, happiness, and love?
Our natural state of being is joy, love, and peace. Therefore, any thinking that we do will only take us away from those natural states of being, which is why whenever we feel extremely stressed, we are having a LOT of thinking going on. The strength of the negative emotion we feel is in direct proportion to how much thinking we are doing in the moment.
On the other hand, the intensity of the positive emotion we feel is inversely proportional to the amount of thinking we are doing in the moment. In other words, the less thinking we have going on, the stronger the positive emotion we feel in the present.
To see the truth in this, recall a few other memories you had when you were extremely stressed and anxious and see how much thinking was going on at the time. Take about 1-2 minutes to do this. Then recall a few memories where you were at your happiest or felt the most joy and love and see how much thinking you had going on at that time. Take another 1-2 minutes to do this before moving on to really experience and internalize the truth of what you see.
An analogy that my coach taught me that helped crystallize this concept was to imagine our mind has a speedometer (like in a car), but instead of miles per hour, it is thoughts per minute. The more thinking we have going on, the higher the “thought-o-meter” goes, and if we have enough thinking going on, it'll go into the red zone. This is when we feel extremely stressed, burned out, frustrated, and angry.
It is not the content of our thinking that causes us stress, but that we are thinking, period. The amount of thinking we have going on is directly correlated to the magnitude of stress and negative emotions we are experiencing at any given moment. When you're experiencing a lot of frustration, stress, anxiety, or any negative emotions, just know that it is because you're thinking, and the intensity of those emotions is directly correlated to how much thinking is going on. Therefore, it's not WHAT we're thinking about that is causing us suffering, but THAT we are thinking.
To summarize, we do not have to try to "think positive" to experience love, joy, bliss, and any positive emotions we want because it is our natural state to feel those emotions. The only times we don't naturally feel these emotions is when we begin to think about the thoughts we're having, thus blocking the direct connection to Infinite Intelligence and we feel stressed, anxious, depressed, and fearful. It is not about the content of our thinking, but that we're thinking, which is the root cause of our suffering. The intensity of the negative emotions is directly correlated to the amount of thinking we have going on in the present. The less thinking we have, the more space we create for positive emotions to naturally surface.

Reference:
Nguyen, J. (2024) Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering (Expanded Edition). [Hardcover] Authors Equity. ISBN 9798893310153.

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Friendica 2026.01 released

We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Blutwurz” 2026.01. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains fixes for security problems that Hrizi Bilel has notified us about. Thanks for your report! It also contains the first results of a accessibility review by Casey Kreer.

Some highlight of Friendica 2026.01 are

we overhauled the embedding of media from various sources and improved several aspects,
users can now sort widgets and channels,
the performance of system and user defined channels has improved,
admins can now export and import contact block lists and block access for non-logged in visitors to media included in posting.

If you have developed your own addons for Friendica note that we reworked our hook system and introduced a new

Some highlight of Friendica 2026.01 are

we overhauled the embedding of media from various sources and improved several aspects,
users can now sort widgets and channels,
the performance of system and user defined channels has improved,
admins can now export and import contact block lists and block access for non-logged in visitors to media included in posting.

If you have developed your own addons for Friendica note that we reworked our hook system and introduced a new AddonHelper class.

For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.

What is Friendica

Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumblr and BlueSky.

How to Update

Updating from old Friendica versions

If you are updating from an older version than the 2024.12 release, please first update your Friendica instance to that version .

Pre-Update Procedures

Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.

Using Git

Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2026.01 release would be
cd friendica
git pull
bin/composer.phar run install:prod
cd addon
git pull
If you want to use a different branch than the stable one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.

Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.

Using the Archive Files

If you had downloaded the source files in an archive file (tar.gz) please download the current version of the archive from friendica-full-2026.01.tar.gz (sha256) and friendica-addons 2026.01.tar.gz (sha256)) and unpack it on your local computer.

As many files got deleted or moved around, please upload the unpacked files to a new directory on your server (say friendica_new) and copy over your existing configuration (config/local.config.php and config/addon.config.php) and .htaccess files. Afterwards rename your current Friendica directory (e.g. friendica) to friendica_old and friendica_new to friendica.

The files of the dependencies are included in the archive (make sure you are using the friendica-full-2026.01 archive), so you don’t have to worry about them.

Post Update Tasks

The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script
bin/console dbstructure update
from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.

Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database this update might run for days.

If you are using the daemon for your background worker, note that we have moved the functionality into the console. Adopt your setup to use the new bin/console daemon command.

Known Issues

At the time of writing this, none with 2026.01

How to Contribute

If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.

Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.

Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!

friendi.ca/2026/01/27/friendic…

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Peter Lord

in reply to Friendica News • 6 days ago • •

Completed updating u3a.social. Took the opportunity to migrate away from containers, so all native now 😀

Have enabled the channel cache as mentioned here.

The workerqueue jumped up with many UpdateContacts and FetchMissingReplies ... cron seems to be keeping up though.

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Peter Lord

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It took about 12 hours for my workerqueue size to return to normal .. have others seen this ?

I also noticed a large number of bluesky post appearing on my timeline ... I suppose the result of one of the fixes (I unticked "complete the threads" to reduce the posts).

But, u3a.social seems to be back to normal now ... seems pretty responsive to me. Very happy 😀

@U3ACommunities Computing

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From crunchy crickets to nutty fly grubs, NOVA takes a tasty look at insect foods and how they could benefit our health and our warming planet.

Edible Insects

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Day 1: Revisiting the GR11 in Alta Garrotxa

Here is the book that I was celebrating publishing: www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/

And since the filming of this video, we have bought a motorhome, fixed it up, and made a bunch of videos about traveling around Spain in it! See our channel here: videos.trom.tf/c/ridewithless/

#mountains #hiking #trail #Trekking #hike

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This is my home

Oh no, this is my home:

Ot this?

Or this:

Or anywhere I can go with the motorhome.

For the past year I've been living in a motorhome. And my life changed so much. At times I love it, at times I am stressed and tired. But overall I think is the best life I can afford to live in today's society. I will make a video about this and about many things for our RideWithLess Peertube channel videos.trom.tf/c/ridewithless/…

Follow if you are curious :)

#motorhome #spain #nature #vanlife #van #camper #travel

#nature #sPAIN #travel #vanlife #van #camper #motorhome

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Since the last release we got a bit of traction. We ended up on the front page of DistroWatch and we got a nice article on ZDnet. Plus a bunch of reviews on Youtube. Nice! What is important for us is when people talk about the idea behind TROMjaro.

TROMjaro 2026.01.25 (some fixes)

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Bats have been implicated in deadly epidemics such as COVID-19 and Ebola, yet scientists are discovering evidence that they may hold a key to a longer and healthier life.

Bat Superpowers

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The first video from a mini hiking series that I filmed in April, 2024 (I just didn't have time to make it earlier 🙈😅).

videos.trom.tf/w/bMp8DR5uVrfWm…

Here I explain all the gear and food I packed for one week of hiking in the mountains in spring, around the border of Spain and France. Wish me luck! 😄

#hiking #Trekking

Sasha

2026-01-18 22:00:35

Gear List for 1 week of hiking

The first video from a mini hiking series that I filmed in April, 2024 (I just didn't have time to post them earlier 🙈😅).
Here's all the gear and food I packed for one week of hiking in the mountains in spring, around the border of Spain and France. Wish me luck! 😄

#hiking #Trekking

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Tokens and Forced Recycling - videos.trom.tf/w/a2JNz5amodPvV…

Some motorhome parking places do things the wrong way. First they force you to use some tokens for their services that you can buy from random shops in the nearby town. But what if those shops are closed? Second they do not provide a mix garbage bin and force you to "recycle" all of your trash. Both bad ideas.

Here is a report about the state of recycling in Spain - (in summary this is not a solution for the waste problem we are facing globally) - web.archive.org/web/2026012117…

We even talk about this in our TROM II documentary -

#europe #sPAIN #Recycling #vanlife #camper #Campervan #motorhome

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Part_of You

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hey Tio, empecé a ver el Trom II documental, seems great, bravo for that.

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Jacob Urlich 🌍

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Sorting rubbish is not the same as recycling. Separating waste at home or at work is only the first step in a much longer process. It helps prevent contamination and makes later treatment possible, but on its own it does not solve the waste problem.
Recycling is often presented as a simple solution, yet in practice it is complex and imperfect. Many materials cannot be recycled indefinitely, and some are difficult or expensive to process at all. After sorting, waste must be collected, transported, cleaned, shredded or melted, and then re-manufactured into new products — all of which require energy, water, and infrastructure.
Because of these limits, recycling should be seen as one part of a wider strategy rather than a complete answer. Reducing consumption, re-using products, designing goods to last longer, and avoiding unnecessary packaging are usually more effective ways of cutting environmental impact. Recycling remains valuable, but it works best when it comes after efforts to prevent waste in the first place.

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Tio

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idk why but I always feel your answers are Text Generated, or how some call these "AI". Not disagreeing with that text perhaps, but it feels like it is Text Generated. I hope is not....

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I will give you a raw example:
the amount of food in your fridge is the waste. Does sorting raw meat from processed food reduce the amount of food in your fridge?

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Seabirds Are Crashing Into Cities - This is Why - videos.trom.tf/w/17TpDmtr5MX4w…

#volunteering #bbta #birds #nature #conservation

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2026-01-21 10:07:14

Seabirds Are Crashing Into Cities - This is Why

#nature #birds #conservation #volunteering #bbta

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Really interesting documentary. From inside Russia! Must watch.#putin #russia #ukraine #war

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A Russian teacher secretly documents his small town school's transformation into a war recruitment center during the Ukraine invasion, revealing the ethical dilemmas educators face amid propaganda and militarization.

Mr. Nobody Against Putin
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#Russia #Putin #war #ukraine

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The sequel to Idiocracy is today's society.

#trump #greenland #idiocracy #society #stupidity #politics #donaldtrump

#politics #DonaldTrump #Trump #society #idiocracy #stupidity #greenland

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Great review of TROMjaro from ZDnet - zdnet.com/article/tromjaro-is-…

Amongst AI written, ad driven content nowadays, it is nice to see some genuine reviews. Super happy with the fact that the author also talks about the trade-free idea a bit and even mentions VideoNeat.

#linux #opensource #xfce #tromjaro #arch #manjaro #review operatingsytem

I found a Linux distro that pairs a clean, Mac-like UI with a 'trade-free' philosophy - and it's super fast

This Linux distribution can compete with any lightweight OS on the market.

^{Jack Wallen (ZDNET)}

#Linux #opensource #manjaro #review #arch #xfce #TROMjaro

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