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Losing Our Minds at the End of the World
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A podcast about life in the Anthropocene created by Clay (@babadookspinoza.bsky.social).

Artwork by Hayley Doyle (@hayleydoyleart.bsky.social).

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Losing Our Minds at the End of the World @losingourmindspod.bsky.social · Oct 28
New public post on the Patreon! “On the Creation of Laws and Outlaws: ICE, Border Patrol and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850”: www.patreon.com/posts/142266...
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Working on the next @losingourmindspod.bsky.social episode, I’m excited to share it! Probably within the next week or so. In the meantime please check out the five previous episodes and all the written pieces here: www.patreon.com/LosingOurMin...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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There isn’t much locked material to @losingourmindspod.bsky.social so far, mostly since I want to keep the project as open & public as possible, but I plan to add more soon and other perks besides. Please consider subscribing if you’ve enjoyed the project so far! 🩷 www.patreon.com/LosingOurMin...
Losing Our Minds at the End of the World show art by Hayley Doyle (@hayleydoyleart on Twitter) Perks for subscribers: $2/mo: access to the project Discord and some bonus material $5/mo: access to all bonus material $15/mo: shoutout on next episode, ability to suggest a topic or question for a written piece or episode segment $50/mo: shoutout on every episode, invitation to join live events And more to come! Stay tuned.
November 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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this also goes for all other words
camura.bsky.social Cammy @camura.bsky.social · Oct 30
I love to remind people that there is no authority on collective nouns for animals, they are basically just vibes-based colloquialisms. Some guy just made-up a "business" of ferrets. And if your favourite animal has no associated collective term, you can just meme an absurd one into existence.
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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babadookspinoza.bsky.social they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · Oct 26
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October 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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This new Losing Our Minds at the End of the World post was my final paper for a class my last semester of grad school in philosophy, spring of 2017. It compares ICE/BP agents with fugitive slave catchers in the 1850s. It’s an important history—infuriating and urgently relevant today.
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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New public post on the Patreon! “On the Creation of Laws and Outlaws: ICE, Border Patrol and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850”: www.patreon.com/posts/142266...
On the Creation of Laws and Outlaws: ICE, Border Patrol and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | Losing Our Minds at the End of the World
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October 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Some think the most urgent task of public policy is to improve society for everybody, and others think it’s to sort people into “Good” and “Bad” categories based on movies they’ve seen and make the bad people suffer as much as possible, even if that rules out doing anything for the good people.
October 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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“The life of the vampire is devoid of pleasure, stripped to the barest of trappings in order to pursue efficiently the one real necessity: blood. The process of procuring it seems hardly worth the trouble, given the miserable kind of quasi-life it sustains.”
A Night in the Life of a Vampire Capitalist For a novel that's produced perhaps more commentary and secondary literature than any other, Dracula has only rarely been written about through a Marxist lens. I find this strange, because the Count himself-even more so than vampires in general-appears in the novel as the absolute embodiment of capital. (To be clear, I doubt Stoker intended to make him so; he seems to have had little interest in radical politics.) In many ways, Count Dracula can be understood as the perfect capitalist. Dracula himself has no servants; all the work in the castle is done by him alone. He is very emblematic of the miserly capitalist ideal that prioritizes profits and the growth of personal wealth over any personal pleasures or expenses. He hoards gold in his castle, but seems to gain nothing from it. The life of the vampire is devoid of pleasure, stripped to the barest of trappings in order to pursue efficiently the one real necessity: blood. The process of…
October 2, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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October 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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This is the first major piece I’ve written in a while. I hope you all enjoy it! And if you do, I hope you’ll also consider subscribing and checking out the older essays and episodes.

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Many more people besides are throwing their lives away carelessly, between road rage deaths and people who refuse to mask or get vaccinated. People eagerly call for this place to be bombed and that place to be invaded, for these people to go without food or water or shelter. People are killing kids for playing pranks or just for pulling into their fucking driveway. Noble deaths, tragic deaths, reckless deaths, hateful deaths, jealous deaths, vengeful deaths, random deaths... Just so much death. How do we create a world that invites our continued participation in life, that nourishes and empowers and allows us to take full advantage of what ought to be the most marvelous gift: a mind from the clay! The heretofore unfeeling, unthinking universe finally being able to enjoy itself. That would be wonderful. I think about such a world often, even though I can barely imagine it.
October 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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By the way: I’m always looking for new guests—experts & non-experts!—to join me on Losing Our Minds at the End of the World (@losingourmindspod.bsky.social) episodes or to collaborate on written pieces with! DM or email me at [email protected]. I’d like to talk to all 8 billion of you eventually!
Losing Our Minds at the End of the World show art/logo by Hayley Doyle (@hayleydoyleart on Twitter)
October 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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If anybody else is having trouble playing the @losingourmindspod.bsky.social podcast episodes on Apple, it seems to have been because of a problem with the LibSyn platform that has now been resolved, so please try it again and let me know if there are any other problems! 🙏
brandongoer.bsky.social Radio free killed the video star @brandongoer.bsky.social · Oct 26
Excited to check out the pod! Is this a known issue or just something weird happening with my phone? Episode 5 btw.
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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This project is entirely subscriber-funded & ad-free! Thanks so much to everyone who’s subscribed already. Things like the Discord chat are the early stirrings of what I hope will become a thriving community of like-minded but heterogenous people around the world, connecting & supporting each other.
babadookspinoza.bsky.social they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · Oct 26
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$50—Shoutout on every episode! www.patreon.com/LosingOurMin...
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October 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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A new public post is up on the Patreon: “In an Octopus’ Garden at the End of the World”: www.patreon.com/posts/141902...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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A new public post is up on the Patreon: “In an Octopus’ Garden at the End of the World”: www.patreon.com/posts/141902...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Actually getting a lot of work done! You can expect a new @losingourmindspod.bsky.social piece out later today that I’m very excited to share! :)
Octopus opening a jar to ESCAPE!
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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I really think our species’ entire future hinges on whether these mass murderers are allowed to rejoin society and prosper or are rejected, ostracized, and brought to justice. Gaza isn’t in a vacuum. What we allow, or punish, there will bleed through to stain the entire world.
Tweet from Quds News Network (@QudsNen): Breaking | Al Jazeera reveals a leaked document containing a list of nearly 30,000 Israeli Air Force pilots and personnel who took part in military operations during the genocide on Gaza.
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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There’s a way to organize the world so that we don’t all have to spend each day screaming inside at the horrors and injustice, so we don’t have to talk about ourselves and the world as fundamentally—maybe hopelessly—broken, so all our knowledge brings us something besides sorrow and death. There is!
October 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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The thing about collapse is that you can’t get used to it. The world meets our adaptation with new disappointments as things deteriorate. You can’t even get used to the trend because it’s accelerating. Our growing pessimism isn’t validated, only proved time and again to be insufficient.
October 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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If you’re new here, please check out @losingourmindspod.bsky.social, my writing-and-podcast everything-project about life in the Anthropocene, and give it a follow to stay apprised of new pieces and episodes! Subscribe if you enjoy what you find: www.patreon.com/LosingOurMin...
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October 18, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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Palestinian journalist Shadi Abu Seed was one of those released yesterday. He recounted his mistreatment in prison, where he was told that his family had been killed, which he only yesterday discovered was another lie. There are thousands of others with stories like his.
Shadi Abu Seed, one of the Palestinians released from prison, on Al Jazeera Shadi Abu Seed, one of the Palestinians released from prison, on Al Jazeera looking with disbelief as he holds his child again “I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked. Day and night we were tortured. Till our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We ensured every kind of torture—emotional, and physical. We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”
October 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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“The absence of war alone is not peace. The fighting can be stopped temporarily by international fiat and by the exhaustion of bodies and weapons, but if the political injustice underlying the fighting is not corrected, then we know there will always be more fighting.”
October 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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New public post: “A New Peace or ‘New Gaza’?”: www.patreon.com/posts/new-pe...
A New Peace or "New Gaza"? | Losing Our Minds at the End of the World
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October 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Finding a lot of cool research/databases related to “collapsology” for @losingourmindspod.bsky.social! I really want to be an expert in this, which means diving into climatology, economics, sociology, philosophy… I’m eager to talk with anyone knowledgeable about these—whether we’re recording or not!
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September 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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If any mutuals are interested in joining me on an episode of @losingourmindspod.bsky.social, collaborating on a written piece or being a guest writer, please get in touch, either through DMs or by email at [email protected]! :)
Losing Our Minds at the End of the World show art by Hayley Doyle (@hayleydoyleart)
August 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM