What the F**k?

Dr. Bernadette "bird" Bowen

After scrapping their Deeply Neglected podcast miniseries called "Dr. bird’s eye view", Dr. bird now presents to you: this new random guest podcast called “What the F**k?”. What the F**k? is an extension of Dr. bird's newest book We Are F**king Machines: Why We Are Like This and What We Can Do About It. They will be hosting TikTok lives with random guests, and asking them critical media ecological (artistic, activist, academic) probing questions about our Limited Intelligence, Environmental Intelligence, Relational Intelligence, and the Algorithmic Envirusment (environment + virus), taking an ecological audit of what is going well for us and what we need to fundamentally change in pursuit of liberation for all.

Episodes

  1. 12/09/2025

    Injustice, Community, & COVID-19

    Send us a text In this episode I chat with my long time mutual Torii about experiences of injustice, community, and how that's changed (for better for worse) since COVID-19 started. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some Links and Resources Mentioned Herein (in no particular order): Dr. bird's newest book We Are F**king Machines detailing the envirusmentDr. bird's Requirement Politics article about early AOL experiences, etc.Dr. bird's book chapter about the #metoo campaign aftermathfarcaster.xyz (not dot com)Ronald Purser's book McMindfulnesshttps://farcaster.xyz/torii-stories Mullaney, Peters, Hicks & Philip's book Your Computer is On Firehttps://www.youtube.com/@nononsensespirituality  -- Nihilism (same name on TikTok)https://meshtastic.org/ Dr. bird's SubStack mini series "The Context" about Kirk's legacy of hatehttps://themultiverse.school/x/cyberpony - a group of people working with meshtastic and community gardens and keeping people connected and informed. Harriet A. Washington's Medical ApartheidDr. bird's Car as extension of whiteness article about color-paved racismshttps://www.tiktok.com/@jonjon.jpeg -- building for living rather than for cars. road safety. urban design conceptsTypes of ableist language and what to say insteadDr. bird's memoirs where they talk bout their pre- and present-COVID-19 lifeTo support this broadcast become a free or paid subscriber to Dr. bird's SubStack. There is also a pre-production behind-the-scenes listen available on their Patreon.

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After scrapping their Deeply Neglected podcast miniseries called "Dr. bird’s eye view", Dr. bird now presents to you: this new random guest podcast called “What the F**k?”. What the F**k? is an extension of Dr. bird's newest book We Are F**king Machines: Why We Are Like This and What We Can Do About It. They will be hosting TikTok lives with random guests, and asking them critical media ecological (artistic, activist, academic) probing questions about our Limited Intelligence, Environmental Intelligence, Relational Intelligence, and the Algorithmic Envirusment (environment + virus), taking an ecological audit of what is going well for us and what we need to fundamentally change in pursuit of liberation for all.