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[madamserpentessa]

“The fruit was never an apple”

Max Svabinsky, (1873-1962)

“In Paradise” circa 1918

[incisedwound]

so honestly there is a better term

[polkadotmotmot]

Philip Govedare - Anthropocene #4, 2024 - Oil on canvas

[important-animal-images]

[moniquill]

'Borrowing the Tiger's Majesty' by Yuzu Kato

[mammalianmammals]

Fennec Fox (Vulpes zerda), family Canidae, Morocco

photograph by Rabie Atlas

[leohtttbriar-deactivated2025082]

surprised no one on here is talking about the snoopy toy who they put in artemis i for the moon trip

[leohtttbriar-deactivated2025082]

he’s in a space suit y’all don’t worry

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!

[nerdreamer]

[squeakitties]

wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

[ichorandpride]

#they really said “you can’t use wiki as an academic source-use our garbage AI that’s even less reliable”#and you can’t even opt out of it

no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube's forced ads (at least until they fix it)

you can also use the ublacklist extension and use this blacklist of AI image generation websites to curate your google image results

there are ALWAYS ways around stuff. it's just a matter of looking into it and asking around

[nicenice7]

I'M FREE

[alistairsprayerwarrior]

FOR WIKIPEDIA!!!!

[herpsandbirds]

Least Tern (Sternula antillarum), chick, HE SRCEMMM!!!, family Laridae, order Charadriiformes, NC, USA

photograph by Gary Michael Flanagan

[fakethenip-deactivated20220809]

me as a mom

[blairwitchapologist]

i feel like it needs to be said that this is a quote from carly rae jepsen

[zmpl]

i will replace chatgpt

[zmpl]

two pieces of bread and in between theres a bunch of bullshit

[cowboyhatesithere]

Daily gratitude

I don’t have kids

I don’t spend money on nicotine

I don’t gamble my money away on sports

I’m not reliant on a chat bot for all my life functions

My books/CDs/DVDs collection is plentiful

[moethh]

die die die

[tulipfemme-deactivated20240718]

having a little jingly keychain is all fun and games, until you’re walking around somewhere that’s dead quiet…..like oh i’m sorry i just my trinkets are jangling around……n suddenly your the court jester and everyone is pointing and laughing at you for your noisey fucking keychain…..bobo the clowncore

[what-even-is-thiss]

Whenever I pick up Meditations by Marcus Aurelius I find a lot of good passages to think over but I also come under the impression that Marcus is telling me to lock the fuck in and stop having adhd and like Marcus dude I can’t do that

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ll be reading, thinking about some spiritual reflections. Meditating on the nature of time. And then Marcus will be like And lock the fuck in bitch you’re going to die you’re going to lose your memory you’re gonna be forgotten. Purge your brain of thoughts. Lock the fuck in you lazy fu-

[what-even-is-thiss]

Marcus I don’t know how to explain to you that I can’t do that

[what-even-is-thiss]

If I remember correctly a lot of these were written to be shared with his sons so he is speaking to a reader of sorts.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I mean yeah he was a Roman emperor. When the Romans write about the best possible afterlife everyone there is exercising and generally being jocks.

Also in the introduction book he gives thanks that his children aren’t stupid or crippled so yeah.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I like to imagine him saying this part while trying to stop his eye from twitching.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Marcus telling you to lock the fuck in and get out of bed.

[improvrich]

Ah productivity based self worth

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s a reason that some tech lifestyle gurus and politicians really like this book.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Stoicism as a philosophy is about learning self control over one’s emotions. Never feeling too strongly either positively or negatively, learning to let things go, finding spiritual fulfillment within the self, etc.

It works for some people. It’s not the same as bottling up one’s emotions. It’s training the self to process them in a certain way.

It’s been regaining popularity in recent years. Personally I don’t fully agree with most of what Marcus says but I find some of his insights to be interesting. He also weirdly has some similar spiritual beliefs in common with me. Regarding death and time, mostly. He was a religious man that was still practical and mostly non superstitious and so am I so I connect with him and his writing on that level even if our religious beliefs are different.

He also has a lot of beliefs about the human mind and physics that are scientifically unsound but frankly I don’t blame him for that because he’s from a workaholic culture that existed over a thousand years before the invention of the modern scientific method.

[hagiomoto]

[chemiosmotic]

[Image description: a world map with two points marked in America and Iran and a line showing the distance between them is 6170 miles. A speech bubble from the American point says "I'm using humor as a coping mechanism." End ID.]

[sobcat]