pieceofthepie
1 week ago
Very cool! I will have to read more details later, but hoping to join the potluck!
myrtletribe
1 week ago
Friendly reminder that we have a super fun cooking event going on, the virtual Potluck! Open for everyone to participate, please contact me if you want to join! :)
skep
2 weeks ago
I am Skep and I approve this message. Deets here: https://myrtletribe.neocities.org/potluck-2026/announcement/
win1999
3 weeks ago
The real kicker: These current events become more normalized with each mentioning too. What sounds, looks or feels absurd initially becomes more and more indoctrinated into our collective passivity, and thusly starts to feel like "it's always been this way". Of course I think I've shared my love of Orwell, and his literary influences (one on which we connected), but I need to revisit some of Huxley's work. Oh brave n
win1999
3 weeks ago
Also, I've been reading Utopia by Thomas More (1516?), and very insightful to me (you might enjoy it with a good translation, unless you read latin :p). It keeps coming back to this idea: when basic human needs like shelter and land are converted into private assets for individual profit, income inequality and social fracture are the inevitable result.
myrtletribe
3 weeks ago
Yes ugh, sometimes you have to forget about these things or it makes you feel dread. You mean to say you read Latin? wow :)
Phew, I added everyone who signed up so far, we have soo many delicious dishes (finished and unfinished) on this list, I can't wait to see the end result. Thanks for the patience this weekend everyone :)