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SEXO ORAL EN CIFRAS: UNA PRÁCTICA COMÚN, PERO CON DESIGUALDADES DE GÉNERO EN MÉXICO
SEXO ORAL EN CIFRAS: UNA PRÁCTICA COMÚN, PERO CON DESIGUALDADES DE GÉNERO EN MÉXICO
El sexo oral no solo es placer, también es salud, conexión y confianza. A pesar de su popularidad en la vida íntima, los mitos y silencios alrededor de esta práctica siguen limitando su disfrute pleno. El 6 de septiembre se celebra el Día Internacional del Sexo Oral, fecha elegida por la alusión a la posición sexual «69», donde ambas personas practican sexo oral de manera simultánea. Más allá del simbolismo, este día busca romper tabúes, fomentar conversaciones abiertas sobre sexualidad, promover el consentimiento y recordar la importancia del sexo seguro.
Cuando hablamos de sexo oral, nos referimos a aquellas prácticas sexuales que consisten en la estimulación oral de zonas erógenas, como la vulva (cunnilingus), el ano (anilingus) o el pene (felación).
En un contexto en el que cada vez más personas apuestan por vivir una sexualidad libre, responsable y placentera, Platanomelón, marca líder en bienestar sexual, recuerda que hablar de sexo oral es también hablar de educación sexual integral.
Datos que llaman la atención de los expertos:
• El sexo oral se posiciona como una de las principales fuentes de orgasmo en mujeres, de acuerdo con la investigación de Frederick et al. (2018). Este hallazgo resalta la importancia de prácticas que prioricen la estimulación del clítoris, elemento clave en la respuesta sexual femenina, y abre la conversación sobre la necesidad de mayor educación sexual
• Según la Encuesta Nacional sobre Conducta Sexual en México (2024), realizada por la Asociación Mexicana para la Salud Sexual en México y la Organización Mundial de la Salud (AMSSAC-OMS), más del 90% de las personas en México han practicado sexo oral al menos una vez en su vida.
• En México, el sexo oral refleja una práctica común pero con notables diferencias de género: 55% de las mujeres lo han practicado frente al 45% de los hombres (AMSSAC-OMS, 2024). Además, una encuesta reciente muestra que el 57% de los hombres ha recibido sexo oral, mientras que solo el 50% de las mujeres lo ha experimentado (YouGov–Platanomelón, 2025). Lo que indica que los hombres reportan recibirlo con mayor frecuencia, evidenciando una brecha en la vivencia del placer que aún persiste en la intimidad.
• Las investigaciones indican que las prácticas sexuales, particularmente el sexo oral, están fuertemente asociadas con la calidad de la relación y la conexión emocional en las parejas a largo plazo.(Kaestle & Halpern, 2007) Sin embargo, solo 3 de cada 10 personas utilizan métodos de protección durante la práctica, lo que incrementa el riesgo de infecciones de transmisión sexual (ITS).
• El sexo oral suele considerarse una actividad sexual de menor riesgo en comparación con el sexo, pero con frecuencia es la causa de infecciones de transmisión sexual (ITS). En particular, las ITS transmitidas a través del sexo oral pueden no presentar síntomas visibles, según el tipo de infección. (Ballini, eta, al, 2012)
“En Platanomelón creemos que el placer va de la mano con la seguridad, el consentimiento y la información. El Día Internacional del Sexo Oral es la oportunidad perfecta para hablar sin tabúes de prácticas que forman parte de la vida sexual de millones de personas, y recordar que el sexo seguro también aplica en estas experiencias”, comenta Claudia Lobatón, sexóloga de Platanomelón México.
Tips para un sexo oral más seguro y placentero:
1. Consentimiento siempre: preguntar, escuchar y respetar los límites de la pareja.
2. Protección: usar barreras de látex o condones para reducir el riesgo de ITS.
3. Higiene y cuidado: mantener el bienestar personal y de la pareja contribuye a una experiencia más agradable.
4. Comunicación: hablar de lo que gusta (y lo que no) es clave para disfrutar más.
Este 6 de septiembre, Platanomelón invita a normalizar la conversación sobre sexo oral como parte de una sexualidad sana, divertida y responsable. Porque hablar de placer también es hablar de salud.
Referencias:
1 Ballini, A., Cantore, S., Fatone, L., Montenegro, V., De Vito, D., Pettini, F., Crincoli, V., Antelmi, A., Romita, P., Rapone, B., Miniello, G., Perillo, L., Grassi, F. R., & Foti, C. (2012). Transmission of nonviral sexually transmitted infections and oral sex. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 9(2), 372-384. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02515.x
Asociación Mexicana para la Salud Sexual, A.C (AMSSAC) (2024, febrero) Encuesta Prácticas y Experiencias de Salud Sexual (AMSSAC-OMS) [Resultados de encuesta] https://www.amssac.org/encuesta-practicas-y-experiencias-de-salud-sexual-amssac-oms-resultados/
InfoVIHtal, (2020) InfoVIHtal 158: Información básica sobre el VIH [Artículo] https://www.gtt-vih.org/files/infovihtal/infovihtal_0158_esp.pdf
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Sobre Platanomelón
Platanomelón es el movimiento sex positive más grande del mundo, con una comunidad de casi 7 millones de personas. Fundada por Anna Boldú y con sede en Barcelona y Ciudad de México, la marca ha transformado la conversación sobre el bienestar íntimo, rompiendo tabúes y promoviendo la educación sexual de forma cercana, inclusiva y sin prejuicios. Desde hace más de una década, Platanomelón diseña y fabrica juguetes eróticos propios y productos de higiene íntima combinando innovación, diseño y materiales de alta calidad para ofrecer experiencias placenteras y seguras. Su equipo de psicólogas y sexólogas crea contenido educativo riguroso y accesible, que informa y acompaña a las personas en su descubrimiento y disfrute de la sexualidad. Además, la marca ha creado La Academia de Platanomelón, un espacio de educación sexual en familia y bienestar íntimo. Más que una tienda online, Platanomelón es una marca internacional de referencia que apuesta por la calidad, el placer libre de tabúes y la democratización del bienestar sexual. Para más información: https://www.platanomelon.mx/
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In den 15 Monaten seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 habe ich mich mit Edward Saids Behauptung befasst, dass Palästinenser die „Opfer der Opfer“ seien. Der renommierte #Literaturtheoretiker fasste diese „komplexe Ironie“ in der Ausgabe seines wegweisenden Buches "The Question of Palestine" aus dem Jahr 1992 prägnant zusammen. Er schrieb, dass „die klassischen Opfer jahrelanger antisemitischer Verfolgung und des Holocaust in ihrer neuen Nation zu Tätern gegenüber einem anderen Volk geworden sind“. Wie er dem Schriftsteller Salman #Rushdie 1986 sagte: „Jede Art von Kritik an Israel wird als Deckmantel für #Antisemitismus behandelt . . . Besonders in den Vereinigten Staaten wird man als #Araber aus einer muslimischen #ultur, wenn man überhaupt etwas sagt, als Anhänger des klassischen europäischen oder westlichen Antisemitismus angesehen.“ Dennoch hatte sich #Said als einer der ersten #Intellektuellen hervorgetan, der die tiefe Kluft überwand, die die antagonistischen #Diskurse über das historische Trauma, das durch die #Nakba bzw. den #Holocaust geprägt wurde, voneinander trennte; er blieb bei seiner Überzeugung, dass ein mitfühlendes Verständnis der modernen jüdischen Erfahrung antisemitischer #Verfolgung in Europa mit einer positiven Anerkennung der palästinensischen Geschichte und der nationalen Rechte verbunden war. Für Said bot das Einfühlen in das „verhängnisvolle Problem des Antisemitismus“, wie er es in seinem 1979 erstmals veröffentlichten Werk "The Question of Palestine" nannte, einen Ausweg aus dem Sumpf konkurrierender Opferrollen. Diese Verflechtung von #Empathie spiegelte seine Überzeugung wider, dass das #Schicksal und die #Zukunft der #Palästinenser und #Israelis durch die #Palästinafrage unweigerlich miteinander verbunden sind.(...) Weiterlesen in meiner Übersetzung des Beitrages von Ussama Makdisi, 17. Januar 2025 für Jewish Currents: "On the “Victims of the Victims” Revisiting Edward Said’s ethical humanism in the context of the Gaza genocide" in unserem Blog: Über die „Opfer der Opfer“: Edward Saids ethischen Humanismus im Kontext des Völkermords in Gaza neu betrachtet
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Scientists challenge The Body Keeps the Score with a new predictive model of trauma
A recent theoretical paper published in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience suggests that psychological trauma is not literally stored in the tissues of the body. Instead, the authors propose that trauma creates a rigid pattern of threat prediction within the brain, reducing cognitive flexibility. This updated perspective provides evidence that therapies focusing on mental state shifting, such as flow states, may help retrain the nervous system and support recovery.
In 2014, psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk published The Body Keeps the Score, a book suggesting that trauma alters the nervous system and becomes physically lodged in the body. The bestseller popularized the idea that individuals cannot simply talk through trauma, as the body continues to react to past threats. While the book gained immense public and clinical popularity, some scientists have criticized its underlying biological mechanisms.
Scientists Steven Kotler, Michael Mannino, Glenn Fox, and Karl Friston recently authored a paper to address these mechanistic discrepancies. They argue that the popular metaphor of somatic storage is biologically inaccurate. They propose an alternative model based on computational neuroscience.
Michael Mannino, the chief science officer of the Flow Research Collective and a distinguished research fellow at Florida Atlantic University, explained the motivation behind the paper. “Two things motivated the pushback,” Mannino said. He noted a conversation with researcher George Bonanno regarding resilience data.
“Bonanno had looked at some of the same kinds of trauma data and drawn very different conclusions than the dominant ‘trauma is stored in the body’ framing,” Mannino explained.
This conversation resonated with his own observations. “That conversation crystallized something I had already been sensing: the model did not line up with what we were seeing in flow research or in real-world performance contexts,” Mannino said.
Additionally, the authors noticed conflicts between the body storage theory and their own work on optimal mental states. “Second, the ‘body keeps the score’ framing became harder to reconcile with the evidence around flow,” Mannino noted. “Flow is common, trainable, and repeatedly associated with improvements in psychological functioning.”
He elaborated on this contradiction. “If trauma were literally stored in somatic tissue in the way the popular metaphor suggests, then it would be strange that flow training could have such broad effects on trauma recovery,” Mannino said. “Flow is not a specialized somatic therapy. It is not manually targeting hidden trauma deposits in muscle or fascia.”
“So if flow is helping people shift traumatic patterns, then the problem likely is not ‘stored trauma’ in the body,” Mannino continued. “It is more likely a problem in how the brain predicts threat, safety, agency, and action.”
The authors also felt the cultural timing was right for a shift in perspective. “The timing also matters because the popular culture around trauma has shifted,” Mannino pointed out. “Many people now lead with trauma as identity. The concern is that the storage metaphor may unintentionally reinforce victim identity, external locus of control, and chronic reactivation of painful memories.”
“If trauma is framed as something buried inside the body that must be located and released, people can feel less empowered,” Mannino added. “But if trauma is understood as a disorder of prediction, then we have more actionable targets.”
In their paper, the authors reframe trauma as a disorder of prediction rather than a disorder of storage. They use a concept called predictive coding, which suggests the brain constantly guesses what will happen next based on past experiences. In a healthy brain, these predictions are flexible and update when new information arrives.
Following a traumatic event, the brain tends to assign too much weight to signs of danger. This creates a highly rigid system where the brain anticipates threats everywhere, leading to hypervigilance and avoidance. The brain misinterprets regular physical sensations, like a racing heart, as proof of immediate danger.
Because of this rigid prediction system, the brain loses what scientists call metastability. Metastability refers to the brain’s ability to fluidly switch between different networks and mental states. High metastability allows for cognitive flexibility, meaning a person can easily adapt to new situations.
Trauma traps the brain in a narrow, inflexible state of fear. The body acts as a messenger in this process, sending signals that the brain misinterprets, but the body does not serve as an archive for the trauma itself.
“The main takeaway is empowering: trauma is not necessarily something hidden in the tissues that must be excavated,” Mannino said. “It may be better understood as a maladaptive prediction system.”
He explained that the brain is always forecasting safety, danger, and the meaning of physical sensations. “The brain is constantly predicting what is safe, what is dangerous, what matters, what action is possible, and what the body’s sensations mean,” he said.
“In trauma, those predictions can become rigid, overgeneralized, and threat-biased,” Mannino noted. “The person may not simply be ‘remembering’ the past. Their nervous system may be predicting the present and future through the lens of unresolved danger.”
This distinction is important for treatment. “That distinction matters because storage is a very hard target,” Mannino said. “We do not fully understand how memories are stored in the brain, let alone how traumatic memory would be stored in the body in a literal biological sense. But prediction is a much more tractable target.”
Mannino emphasized that psychology already utilizes tools that address prediction, including cognitive reframing, exposure therapies, attention training, and mindset changes. “So the average person should not hear this as ‘the body does not matter,'” he said. “The body absolutely matters. Pain, posture, breath, autonomic tone, movement, touch, and interoception all shape prediction.”
“But the mechanism may not be that trauma is physically stored in the muscles,” Mannino continued. “The mechanism may be that bodily signals are feeding into the brain’s predictive machinery, shaping what the person expects, fears, avoids, or interprets as dangerous.”
To help restore mental flexibility, the authors suggest flow states could act as a powerful intervention. Flow happens when a person becomes completely absorbed in a meaningful, highly challenging activity. Action sports, playing music, or engaging in complex tasks can trigger these states.
During flow, the brain’s threat detection centers quiet down, and networks related to focus and adaptation engage. “The strongest evidence begins with a large body of converging observations,” Mannino said regarding the connection between flow and trauma recovery.
He pointed to action sports athletes who face high risk but often report feeling regulated and empowered. “If trauma were simply stored in the body through overwhelming experience, then repeated exposure to danger should reliably worsen trauma,” Mannino noted. “But that is not always what we see.”
“Another line of evidence comes from flow-based and adventure-based interventions,” Mannino explained. Programs focusing on outdoor leadership or addiction recovery tend to help individuals break out of fixed behavioral loops. “Flow may help because it trains flexible state-shifting, agency, attention, and adaptive prediction under challenge,” he said.
“The strongest theoretical argument is that flow targets the prediction system,” Mannino added. “Flow changes attention, motivation, agency, threat perception, self-processing, and action-readiness. Those are all central to trauma.”
“If trauma involves rigid threat prediction, then flow may help by creating conditions where the nervous system learns, experientially, that challenge can be navigated safely and effectively,” Mannino said.
While the authors challenge the idea of somatic storage, they do not suggest that body-based therapies are ineffective. Bodywork, massage, and breathing exercises often provide significant relief for trauma survivors. The authors simply propose a different biological explanation for why these treatments work.
“We should not dismiss the therapeutic benefit people report,” Mannino stated. “Bodywork, somatic therapies, massage, acupuncture, breathwork, and related interventions clearly help many people. The question is not whether they can help. The question is why they help.”
Mannino suggests that finding a tight or painful spot during bodywork might create a prediction error in the brain. “A bodyworker finds a spot of pain, tightness, or unusual sensation,” he explained. “The brain then has to interpret that signal: ‘What is causing this?'”
Because sensation and emotion are linked, the brain might generate a memory or narrative to explain the physical feeling. “That does not mean the memory was literally stored in that muscle,” Mannino said. “It may mean the sensation created a prediction error, and the brain searched for a prior, an explanatory model, or an associated emotional memory.”
He believes this perspective opens the door to better scientific questions. “Is the therapeutic effect coming from touch? From relaxation? From parasympathetic activation? From interpersonal synchrony? From human connection? From increased interoceptive awareness? From changing threat predictions? From the therapist-client relational field?” Mannino asked. “The goal should not be to banish bodywork from trauma recovery. The goal should be to get the mechanism right so we can improve the interventions.”
The authors acknowledge limitations in their current model. Their framework represents a proposed mechanistic reframing, not a finalized clinical doctrine. Additionally, the specific connection between flow states and trauma recovery requires further direct testing.
“What remains speculative is the exact mechanism,” Mannino noted. “We do not yet have definitive evidence that flow heals trauma by increasing metastability, altering prediction error, or reorganizing attractor dynamics. Those are plausible, testable hypotheses, not settled facts.”
Trauma also comes in many forms, meaning this model might not apply universally. “PTSD, developmental trauma, acute trauma, grief, moral injury, chronic stress, and traumatic brain injury may involve overlapping but distinct mechanisms,” Mannino cautioned. “A prediction-based model may be powerful, but it should not be treated as a one-size-fits-all explanation.”
“A second caveat is that body-based therapies may still work,” Mannino added. “Rejecting the storage metaphor does not mean rejecting massage, somatic therapy, breathwork, movement, or bodywork. It means we should ask better mechanistic questions. These practices may work by changing autonomic state, increasing interoceptive precision, reducing threat prediction, enhancing safety cues, promoting interpersonal synchrony, or creating prediction error that allows updating.”
The evidence connecting flow to healing also needs formal neuroscientific backing. “Finally, the flow-trauma connection is still developing,” Mannino noted. “There is strong theoretical and anecdotal support, plus related evidence from performance, adventure therapy, and clinical psychology. But the direct neuroscientific evidence still needs to be built.”
Moving forward, the researchers hope to test their claims by measuring brain dynamics in populations with trauma histories. “To test the claim directly, we would need to measure brain dynamics in trauma populations, especially looking at whether PTSD is associated with reduced metastability, reduced flexibility, or difficulty transitioning between neural states,” Mannino said.
A strong study might use brain imaging to look at flexibility in people with trauma compared to a control group. “The prediction would be that PTSD involves overly rigid attractor dynamics: the nervous system gets stuck in certain threat-biased patterns and has trouble transitioning flexibly into alternative states,” Mannino explained.
Researchers could also test different interventions, comparing body-based treatments to flow-based activities. Mannino mentioned a speculative idea from Kotler involving bodywork. “If a bodyworker stimulates a painful area and the person reports a memory or emotional response, researchers could examine whether the content of that response varies according to contralateral brain-body organization,” Mannino said.
“So yes, the line of research is moving toward empirical testing,” Mannino emphasized. “The key is to move beyond metaphor and into measurable predictions: metastability, complexity, state transitions, prediction error, symptom change, and intervention response.”
The broader goal is to build a performance-based approach to neuroscience. “The next step is to test the model directly,” Mannino stated. “One direction is to examine metastability and neural complexity in trauma populations, especially before and after interventions.”
“A second direction is to compare somatic-based interventions with flow-based interventions, and potentially with combined interventions,” Mannino continued. “If bodywork helps, we want to know why.”
“A third direction is to study prediction-related mechanisms in adjacent conditions: PTSD, depression, anxiety, addiction, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson’s, ALS, and other neurodegenerative or neuropsychiatric conditions where rigidity, loss of agency, and impaired state transitions may play a role,” Mannino added.
The team envisions a future where treatments focus on expanding mental capabilities. “The broader aim is to develop a performance-neuroscience approach to brain health: not just reducing symptoms, but restoring flexibility, agency, adaptive prediction, and the capacity to enter high-functioning states like flow,” Mannino concluded. “That is where this line of research is headed.”
Scheduled for release in July, Kotler and Mannino’s forthcoming textbook defines the emerging scientific field of performance neuroscience. The book explores how the brain and body coordinate under high-pressure conditions, explaining the biological mechanisms behind flow states, stress regulation, and peak human achievement. The book will “will help formalize the field and provide a broader scientific foundation for this line of work.”
The study, “The body does not keep the score: trauma, predictive coding, and the restoration of metastability,” was authored by Steven Kotler, Michael Mannino, Glenn Fox, and Karl Friston.
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Context: Bodies are a problem here. Forensics is backed up, some families can't afford funerals, etc, etc.
And you need special dispensation for cremation, so...
Just another hidden problem of bureaucratic systems that aren't based on reality that get corrupted.
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Well, I do not consider the question "I could have done otherwise" quite interesting, because it does not lead very far.More interesting would be the question: "In similar circumstances and with the knowledge of tho outcome of my past decision, what decision should I make - especially with respect to the person I want to be, .i.e my #selfperception".
Out course such things like make a choice between a pizza with tuna or salami is of little relevance in that context.
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#EngenderedWriting 92 — How would it change society if women were and had always been physically stronger than men? CW: Patriarchy dissected.
It's a fun idea, and I know authors who are making it work. Still, my opinion, if strength is the only factor I am not sure it would have resulted in a society substantially different than our own. I'll analyze it for you authors so you can rewrite history.
It takes more than strength to make two people evenly matched. (I've been researching prizefighting.) Arm reach is the difference between your punch being blocked and being able to hit with few injuries. Speed and stamina matter. Weight and inertia matter. Think wrestling. All are more important than quantitative strength. This is why there are weight classes in most combative sports.
Unfortunately, women have a smaller stature on average. Weapons are an equalizer here, especially if women can wield heavier weapons than their male opponents. In a fantasy context, magic could be an equalizer. The male tendency toward aggression in aggregate could tip the scales if overwhelming force is applied.
The Indo-Europeans might have invented the concept of controlling women's sexuality to ensure a man could guarantee the paternity of a child and thus make passing property only down the male line arguably reasonable. This usurps matriarchy. This is the true definition of patriarchy. Theories are that Indo-Europeans attacked pre-existing matrilineal societies. There is archeological evidence of prior societies that seem to have been lead by women. Their demise might be the genocides hinted at in the Bible. Who would win (or would have won) if women were significantly stronger?
Women do have their advantages. Arguably speed due to less inertia, especially with added strength. Not natively aggressive in general, they might be better able to pick the winnable fights while angry men might be thinking emotionally. Flexibility. A greater biological investment in offspring might make women less likely to look at fighting as a game, the way men to this day are prone to do (not all of them, of course). For men, fighting can be fun. The danger is a gamble, but we understand the psychology of gambling, too.
For women a fight that includes protecting genetic family from child killers is never a game. Remember that paternity is imperative to a patriarch, more than life itself. A woman, especially one who's stronger than a man her size, might fixate on the death of an attacker and become ruthless. Protecting one's child changes the concept of mercy and surrender. Are either even reasonable?
We aren't those precursor matrilineal people anymore, so it's hard to characterize what could have happened were women stronger. I didn't address women's language skills or diplomacy as these aren't strength dependent, and did not prevent the obliteration of matrilineal societies by the Indo-Europeans. What I've listed are things I'd consider if I were to rewrite history with only one change: Women being stronger.
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5 February 2016 saw the release of DIIV's sophomore album, Is the Is Are.
"I just made a record and people were asking me about the second record, so it's like, 'I guess I'm a musician now, I have to make a second record.' Given that context, I did.
I poured by heart into the record, I made something I feel like is honest and real, and very true to my experience, and I think it's the best I could have done - and that's what I mean by perfect."13. Healthy Moon
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5 February 2016 saw the release of DIIV's sophomore album, Is the Is Are.
"I just made a record and people were asking me about the second record, so it's like, 'I guess I'm a musician now, I have to make a second record.' Given that context, I did.
I poured by heart into the record, I made something I feel like is honest and real, and very true to my experience, and I think it's the best I could have done - and that's what I mean by perfect."13. Healthy Moon
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5 February 2016 saw the release of DIIV's sophomore album, Is the Is Are.
"I just made a record and people were asking me about the second record, so it's like, 'I guess I'm a musician now, I have to make a second record.' Given that context, I did.
I poured by heart into the record, I made something I feel like is honest and real, and very true to my experience, and I think it's the best I could have done - and that's what I mean by perfect."13. Healthy Moon
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5 February 2016 saw the release of DIIV's sophomore album, Is the Is Are.
"I just made a record and people were asking me about the second record, so it's like, 'I guess I'm a musician now, I have to make a second record.' Given that context, I did.
I poured by heart into the record, I made something I feel like is honest and real, and very true to my experience, and I think it's the best I could have done - and that's what I mean by perfect."13. Healthy Moon
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5 February 2016 saw the release of DIIV's sophomore album, Is the Is Are.
"I just made a record and people were asking me about the second record, so it's like, 'I guess I'm a musician now, I have to make a second record.' Given that context, I did.
I poured by heart into the record, I made something I feel like is honest and real, and very true to my experience, and I think it's the best I could have done - and that's what I mean by perfect."13. Healthy Moon
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populism and the #RadicalRight B. Carlotti. “A Divorce of Convenience: Exploring Radical Right Populist Parties' Position on Putin's Russia Within the Context of the Ukrainian War. A Social Media Perspective”. In: Journal of Contemporary European Studies 31.4 (Oct. 2023), pp.
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populism and the #RadicalRight B. Carlotti. “A Divorce of Convenience: Exploring Radical Right Populist Parties' Position on Putin's Russia Within the Context of the Ukrainian War. A Social Media Perspective”. In: Journal of Contemporary European Studies 31.4 (Oct. 2023), pp.
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populism and the #RadicalRight B. Carlotti. “A Divorce of Convenience: Exploring Radical Right Populist Parties' Position on Putin's Russia Within the Context of the Ukrainian War. A Social Media Perspective”. In: Journal of Contemporary European Studies 31.4 (Oct. 2023), pp.
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This gives me hope that Australians, by and large, aren’t what #PHON is all about:
“Australian voters are sorting not on left-right economic axes but on openness-versus-authoritarian trait dimensions, and the sort is accelerating. Right-wing cultural populism, the One Nation product, mobilises the authoritarian end of that distribution. It is effective in cohorts where authoritarian traits are over-represented: older voters, voters with low formal education, voters in racially and culturally homogeneous areas, voters whose lived experience does not include being on the receiving end of the politics of race.”
In the context of a growing #MultiCultural Australia and the aging #WASPish voters, there is hope for a future without a threat from PHON and its current voters.
Read more (Long read) - I know it’s #substack but the article is well worth reading if you despair at PHON’s recent electoral gains.
https://open.substack.com/pub/redbridgeintel/p/the-wall-between-parramatta-and-bundaberg
#Authoritarianism #AusPol #LNP #Racism #Otherism #Anger #Frustration #Antifa #TaxTheRich #Politics #ElectoralAnalysis
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This gives me hope that Australians, by and large, aren’t what #PHON is all about:
“Australian voters are sorting not on left-right economic axes but on openness-versus-authoritarian trait dimensions, and the sort is accelerating. Right-wing cultural populism, the One Nation product, mobilises the authoritarian end of that distribution. It is effective in cohorts where authoritarian traits are over-represented: older voters, voters with low formal education, voters in racially and culturally homogeneous areas, voters whose lived experience does not include being on the receiving end of the politics of race.”
In the context of a growing #MultiCultural Australia and the aging #WASPish voters, there is hope for a future without a threat from PHON and its current voters.
Read more (Long read) - I know it’s #substack but the article is well worth reading if you despair at PHON’s recent electoral gains.
https://open.substack.com/pub/redbridgeintel/p/the-wall-between-parramatta-and-bundaberg
#Authoritarianism #AusPol #LNP #Racism #Otherism #Anger #Frustration #Antifa #TaxTheRich #Politics #ElectoralAnalysis
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This gives me hope that Australians, by and large, aren’t what #PHON is all about:
“Australian voters are sorting not on left-right economic axes but on openness-versus-authoritarian trait dimensions, and the sort is accelerating. Right-wing cultural populism, the One Nation product, mobilises the authoritarian end of that distribution. It is effective in cohorts where authoritarian traits are over-represented: older voters, voters with low formal education, voters in racially and culturally homogeneous areas, voters whose lived experience does not include being on the receiving end of the politics of race.”
In the context of a growing #MultiCultural Australia and the aging #WASPish voters, there is hope for a future without a threat from PHON and its current voters.
Read more (Long read) - I know it’s #substack but the article is well worth reading if you despair at PHON’s recent electoral gains.
https://open.substack.com/pub/redbridgeintel/p/the-wall-between-parramatta-and-bundaberg
#Authoritarianism #AusPol #LNP #Racism #Otherism #Anger #Frustration #Antifa #TaxTheRich #Politics #ElectoralAnalysis
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This gives me hope that Australians, by and large, aren’t what #PHON is all about:
“Australian voters are sorting not on left-right economic axes but on openness-versus-authoritarian trait dimensions, and the sort is accelerating. Right-wing cultural populism, the One Nation product, mobilises the authoritarian end of that distribution. It is effective in cohorts where authoritarian traits are over-represented: older voters, voters with low formal education, voters in racially and culturally homogeneous areas, voters whose lived experience does not include being on the receiving end of the politics of race.”
In the context of a growing #MultiCultural Australia and the aging #WASPish voters, there is hope for a future without a threat from PHON and its current voters.
Read more (Long read) - I know it’s #substack but the article is well worth reading if you despair at PHON’s recent electoral gains.
https://open.substack.com/pub/redbridgeintel/p/the-wall-between-parramatta-and-bundaberg
#Authoritarianism #AusPol #LNP #Racism #Otherism #Anger #Frustration #Antifa #TaxTheRich #Politics #ElectoralAnalysis
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This gives me hope that Australians, by and large, aren’t what #PHON is all about:
“Australian voters are sorting not on left-right economic axes but on openness-versus-authoritarian trait dimensions, and the sort is accelerating. Right-wing cultural populism, the One Nation product, mobilises the authoritarian end of that distribution. It is effective in cohorts where authoritarian traits are over-represented: older voters, voters with low formal education, voters in racially and culturally homogeneous areas, voters whose lived experience does not include being on the receiving end of the politics of race.”
In the context of a growing #MultiCultural Australia and the aging #WASPish voters, there is hope for a future without a threat from PHON and its current voters.
Read more (Long read) - I know it’s #substack but the article is well worth reading if you despair at PHON’s recent electoral gains.
https://open.substack.com/pub/redbridgeintel/p/the-wall-between-parramatta-and-bundaberg
#Authoritarianism #AusPol #LNP #Racism #Otherism #Anger #Frustration #Antifa #TaxTheRich #Politics #ElectoralAnalysis
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#Loup : dans un contexte de vives tensions sur la question de la prédation, le sort de cet animal, pris dans un piège en #Normandie, devrait être tranché au plus haut sommet du gouvernement. Ben oui, Matignon doit aller prendre ses instructions à la #FNSEA www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
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Message vocal parfait : présentation + contexte + objectif + CTA. Exemple : 20 secondes max. À éviter : trop long, pas clair, pas de numéro. #Recrutement #RH #Téléphone #Communication #Modèle ... https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gabriel-chandesris_recrutement-rh-taezlaezphone-share-7459492350759825408-n_rl
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Test technique problématique : trop théorique, long, sans contexte. Solution : mini-projet, pair programming, cas réel. Résultats : 80% réussite, +40% acceptation. #Recrutement #Tech #TestTechnique #Entretien #RH ... https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gabriel-chandesris_recrutement-tech-testtechnique-share-7457756932825661441-lcq9
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Test technique problématique : trop théorique, long, sans contexte. Solution : mini-projet, pair programming, cas réel. Résultats : 80% réussite, +40% acceptation. #Recrutement #Tech #TestTechnique #Entretien #RH ... https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gabriel-chandesris_recrutement-tech-testtechnique-share-7457756932825661441-lcq9
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Test technique problématique : trop théorique, long, sans contexte. Solution : mini-projet, pair programming, cas réel. Résultats : 80% réussite, +40% acceptation. #Recrutement #Tech #TestTechnique #Entretien #RH ... https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gabriel-chandesris_recrutement-tech-testtechnique-share-7457756932825661441-lcq9
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Test technique problématique : trop théorique, long, sans contexte. Solution : mini-projet, pair programming, cas réel. Résultats : 80% réussite, +40% acceptation. #Recrutement #Tech #TestTechnique #Entretien #RH ... https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gabriel-chandesris_recrutement-tech-testtechnique-share-7457756932825661441-lcq9
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"Commitment to your most important goal will always be your greatest success." - Futurist Jim Carroll
I once wrote this phrase: "Real progress is often invisible, boring, and repetitive. Don't mistake the quiet for regression!"
In that context, sometimes your greatest small achievements come up against a bold realization. For me, today marks a unique milestone in a long-running personal project—3,500 days of consistent, quiet effort toward a goal that few people actually see. It's a significant step in a long journey, yet another link in a chain that grows stronger each day.
Progress and success always come from commitment to the cause. Wins are often not instant, dramatic, or bold - instead, they are quiet, barely noticeable, forgettable at moments - until suddenly, they collide with a marker of significant success.
Today is one of those days.
And with this comes an important realization about the work I do. I often tell clients that successful innovation doesn't always involve a big, dramatic breakthrough; it’s usually a messy, squiggly line of effort where the ultimate moment of success is eventually reached. In the same way, personal success on a big goal is often about the small steps, not the big leaps. Managing any major life goal isn't just about reaching the finish line; it’s about the mindset pivot you maintain along the way.
I've often said that you are the total of all your highs and each of your lows, and you must own the quiet, repetitive, low parts of the process for the highs to mean anything at all.
As I look toward my next milestone (like my upcoming tee time at St. Andrews!) I’m reminded that success is about patience.
It’s about trading the immediate dopamine of a "quick win" for the long-term guarantee of a life well-lived.
3,500.
Pretty fucking awesome!
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Futurist Jim Carroll plans an early-morning walk today, immediately after writing this post, to see if he might spot the sun rising in splendour.
**#Commitment** **#Milestone** **#Progress** **#Success** **#Patience** **#Goals** **#Consistency** **#Journey** **#Dedication** **#Quiet** **#Perseverance** **#Achievement** **#Discipline** **#Effort** **#Focus** **#Growth** **#Mindset** **#SmallSteps** **#Determination** **#Purpose** **#Winning** **#LongGame** **#Celebrate** **#Awesome** **#Onwards**
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"Commitment to your most important goal will always be your greatest success." - Futurist Jim Carroll
I once wrote this phrase: "Real progress is often invisible, boring, and repetitive. Don't mistake the quiet for regression!"
In that context, sometimes your greatest small achievements come up against a bold realization. For me, today marks a unique milestone in a long-running personal project—3,500 days of consistent, quiet effort toward a goal that few people actually see. It's a significant step in a long journey, yet another link in a chain that grows stronger each day.
Progress and success always come from commitment to the cause. Wins are often not instant, dramatic, or bold - instead, they are quiet, barely noticeable, forgettable at moments - until suddenly, they collide with a marker of significant success.
Today is one of those days.
And with this comes an important realization about the work I do. I often tell clients that successful innovation doesn't always involve a big, dramatic breakthrough; it’s usually a messy, squiggly line of effort where the ultimate moment of success is eventually reached. In the same way, personal success on a big goal is often about the small steps, not the big leaps. Managing any major life goal isn't just about reaching the finish line; it’s about the mindset pivot you maintain along the way.
I've often said that you are the total of all your highs and each of your lows, and you must own the quiet, repetitive, low parts of the process for the highs to mean anything at all.
As I look toward my next milestone (like my upcoming tee time at St. Andrews!) I’m reminded that success is about patience.
It’s about trading the immediate dopamine of a "quick win" for the long-term guarantee of a life well-lived.
3,500.
Pretty fucking awesome!
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Futurist Jim Carroll plans an early-morning walk today, immediately after writing this post, to see if he might spot the sun rising in splendour.
**#Commitment** **#Milestone** **#Progress** **#Success** **#Patience** **#Goals** **#Consistency** **#Journey** **#Dedication** **#Quiet** **#Perseverance** **#Achievement** **#Discipline** **#Effort** **#Focus** **#Growth** **#Mindset** **#SmallSteps** **#Determination** **#Purpose** **#Winning** **#LongGame** **#Celebrate** **#Awesome** **#Onwards**
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"Commitment to your most important goal will always be your greatest success." - Futurist Jim Carroll
I once wrote this phrase: "Real progress is often invisible, boring, and repetitive. Don't mistake the quiet for regression!"
In that context, sometimes your greatest small achievements come up against a bold realization. For me, today marks a unique milestone in a long-running personal project—3,500 days of consistent, quiet effort toward a goal that few people actually see. It's a significant step in a long journey, yet another link in a chain that grows stronger each day.
Progress and success always come from commitment to the cause. Wins are often not instant, dramatic, or bold - instead, they are quiet, barely noticeable, forgettable at moments - until suddenly, they collide with a marker of significant success.
Today is one of those days.
And with this comes an important realization about the work I do. I often tell clients that successful innovation doesn't always involve a big, dramatic breakthrough; it’s usually a messy, squiggly line of effort where the ultimate moment of success is eventually reached. In the same way, personal success on a big goal is often about the small steps, not the big leaps. Managing any major life goal isn't just about reaching the finish line; it’s about the mindset pivot you maintain along the way.
I've often said that you are the total of all your highs and each of your lows, and you must own the quiet, repetitive, low parts of the process for the highs to mean anything at all.
As I look toward my next milestone (like my upcoming tee time at St. Andrews!) I’m reminded that success is about patience.
It’s about trading the immediate dopamine of a "quick win" for the long-term guarantee of a life well-lived.
3,500.
Pretty fucking awesome!
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Futurist Jim Carroll plans an early-morning walk today, immediately after writing this post, to see if he might spot the sun rising in splendour.
**#Commitment** **#Milestone** **#Progress** **#Success** **#Patience** **#Goals** **#Consistency** **#Journey** **#Dedication** **#Quiet** **#Perseverance** **#Achievement** **#Discipline** **#Effort** **#Focus** **#Growth** **#Mindset** **#SmallSteps** **#Determination** **#Purpose** **#Winning** **#LongGame** **#Celebrate** **#Awesome** **#Onwards**