Reflections on social media, technology, science, and video games.

Violet Kurtz

Nutrition Musings

This is all personal musings and should not be taken as medical or nutrition advice, nor as a statement about what other people should do. This is just me thinking out loud about what I've been doing for my health. Every now and then I get…

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Violet Kurtz

Grief, Alexithymia, and Dissociation

First, a few definitions. Alexithymia is a condition, very common in autistic people, where one cannot identify their own emotional state. They do feel emotions, but expressing those emotions, identifying what those emotions even are is extremely difficult at best. Dissociation is when one feels…

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Violet Kurtz

Hello, World!

With my preferred social media platform shutting down, I am not particularly a fan of the idea of finding a new social media to replace it. What made cohost so great, or at least have so much potential, was that it actively abhored the "traditional"…

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