random sewer rat

peace and love on planet earth ~practice internet privacy everyone!!!~ [adult, they/he]

[talentlesshuman]

Vent art

[selfworship]

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

*displays textbook symptomatic behavior of my own disorder that I am well educated on* what’s my deal why am I like this

[hermajestyimher]

Whatever you do, keep on moving. Lack of action will have you going down into mental spirals that will cause confusion, anxiety, and depression. Regardless of how things may appear like in the moment or what fears may be clouding your mind, you have to keep moving. Be mindful of the present, and focus on the things you can change today, not on what could happen tomorrow. Do not become paralyzed, because more often than not, things tend to end up being much better in the end than we previously thought possible.

[luna-azzurra]

Chaotic duo / best friend energy!!!

⟢ "I need you to bail me out." - "Again?" - "...the number of times is not the point right now."

⟢ "I have a plan." - "Last time you had a plan I had to explain to three separate adults why we were on a roof." - "This is a different plan." - "Is it though."

⟢ "You're my best friend." - "You literally just said you hated me four minutes ago." - "Yeah and now I need a favor so."

⟢ "I would die for you." - "I just need you to return this library book."- "I would die for you." - "It's two weeks overdue." - "I would absolutely not do that."

⟢ "Nobody has to know." - "Seven people already know." - "Nobody important has to know." - "I'm important." - "Debatable."

⟢ "This is your fault." - "You made the decision." - "Based on your advice." - "I said and I quote 'that sounds like a terrible idea.'" - "In a very convincing tone!"

⟢ "I need you to pretend to be my partner for one evening." - "What do I get out of it." - "My eternal gratitude." - "I have that already." - "Fine, I'll buy you dinner." - "I want to be your fake partner so bad right now."

⟢ "You could've warned me." - "I did warn you." - "You said 'this might be mildly chaotic.'" - "And?" - "There were police involved." - "Mildly is subjective."

⟢ "I'm not saying it was a bad idea." - "It was a terrible idea." - "I'm not saying that." - "You're thinking it." - "So loud."

⟢ "We need a code word." - "For what." - "In case one of us needs to be rescued from a conversation." - "What's wrong with just leaving." - "SOCIAL ANXIETY, DEREK."

⟢ "Tell me honestly, on a scale of one to ten, how much trouble are we in." - "Eleven." "So a four, roughly." - "An eleven." - "I'm going to need you to lie to me right now."

⟢ "I can explain." - "Please don't." - "It's actually a funny story." - "I don't want to laugh right now I want to be angry." - "You're going to laugh." - "...okay but I'm still angry after."

⟢ "You're a bad influence." - "You love me." - "Genuinely against my will."

⟢ "I followed your advice." "- I have never given good advice in my life, why would you do that."

⟢ "We should do something productive today." - "We could." - "Yeah." - "...you wanna do literally anything else." - "So bad."

⟢ "This is fine." - "Nothing about this is fine." - "I'm choosing to believe it's fine." - "That's not how reality works." - "Watch me."

⟢ "Nobody panic." - "Why would we panic." - "No reason. Definitely no reason. How do you feel about light jogging."

⟢ "I googled it." - "You're not a doctor." - "I googled it very confidently." - "That's worse."

⟢ "Do you trust me?" - "Absolutely not." - "Perfect, follow me anyway."

⟢ "We are never doing this again." - "Agreed." - "I mean it this time." - "Same time next week?" - "Obviously."

[sunshiny-rants]

for one brief shimmering moment technology was cute, durable, and enhanced our lives without taking them over

[luna-azzurra]

Loss aversion is such a good stake-building tool. People often react harder to losing something than gaining something equally good, which means “she might lose the only safe place she has ever had” can hit harder than “she might win a kingdom.” Gains are exciting. Losses are personal. When a plot feels soft, ask what the character is about to lose that they have already built their identity around.

[sillyfr3nchb1tch]

[keptandkind]

The best way to predict your future is to invest in it.

[smugcomputer]

old computers print....i wanted to stick to the most famous and/or iconic ones for the most part but i wanted to include sooo many of my lesser known favourites

[angrybagel]

retro computer transparencies

Amiga 4000 (1992)

Apple II Plus (1979)

Apple III (1980)

Macintosh XL (1985)

Commodore 2001 Series (c. 1970s)

Apple Macintosh Quadra 700 w/ Portrait Monitor (1991)

Q1 Lite Micro Computer (c.1980)

Apple LISA 2/10 (1985)

NeXTcube (1988)

i have several of these in way higher res if you need that for an edit, just message me

[lupineshieldmaiden]

natalie portman wearing the 1970s panasonic rf-60 headset

[thisischeri]

Instagram: cheri.png

[airanfadh]

The 2026 Dopamine Recession is Here (And We Are Buying $15 Brick Phones)Are you also seeing the girlies on your feed carrying around actual, literal Nokia 3310s like they’re the latest Chanel accessory? Because same. We’ve officially reached peak "I cannot handle one more spatial computing notification beamed directly into my retinas". The spatial web promised us the future, but instead, it just gave us digital fatigue and the irresistible urge to throw our $3,000 AR glasses into a lake.The new status symbol isn’t being connected 24/7; it’s being completely unreachable. We are witnessing the rise of Neo-Luddite Chic, and honestly? It’s the best marketing pivot of the decade. Here is why the 'dumbphone summer' is absolutely clearing:Zero Dopamine Loops: You can’t scroll endless feeds of AI-generated slop when your screen is 1.5 inches wide and monochromatic.The Snake Game Supremacy: Why play high-fidelity immersive games when you can guide a pixelated line to eat a pixelated dot? Peak mindfulness.T9 Texting is a Finger Workout: Sending a single text requires the manual dexterity of a Victorian pianist. It makes you think: "Do I really need to send this meme?" (Usually, no).We spent fifteen years demanding faster internet just to realize our brains were never meant to process this much information. So, grab a flip phone, tell your boss you've entered a temporal anomaly, and go stare at a tree. It’s aesthetic. It’s punk. It’s sanity.

[badmancritic]

Manageable suggestions for lessening social media impact on your life ordered progressively:

1. Disable push notifications on as many apps as you can.

2. Go through your apps and delete at least one, including your account, right now. (Repeat every time you see a car from last century).

3. Keep a sharpie ready to graffiti any physical ads you see for AI technologies that are calling for a makeover.

4. Grab a book you've been meaning to read and stick it in your bag, car or jacket pocket - somewhere that it is most likely to be remembered when you leave the house.

5. Read it when you feel like checking your phone, such as on public transit, in the bathroom or in the quiet hours of the evening.

6. Go to a park, library or coffee shop alone with your book or together with a friend. Avoid looking at your phone during this visit unless it actually rings with an important call.

7. Convince your friends to make a puppet out of discarded material with you. If you have no friends, now you sort of do.

8. Write to your MPs about your concerns about regulating technologies like AI. Your friends and puppet should be hyping you up.

9. Keep deleting apps on your phone until you're only left with iNaturalist. Use it to engineer nature themed meet-cutes.

10. Make sure your phone is programmed to go on silent mode between 10pm and 7am.

[airanfadh]

The Year is 2026 and My Primary Productivity Device is a Hacked Pink Nintendo DS LiteWhile tech bros are out there pasting 18 AI wearables to their eyeballs just to remind them to drink water, some of us have achieved peak evolution: neo-Luddite malicious compliance. I’m currently tracking my tasks on a 20-year-old PictoChat screen because the modern internet feels like a fluorescent-lit grocery store where every box of cereal is screaming at me. There are no push notifications, no algorithmic feed telling me I'm failing my morning routine, just pure, low-res vibes and the tactile snap of a plastic stylus.If you aren't actively downgrading your digital life to devices that literally cannot run a single LLM, are you even protecting your peace? Stop optimizing and return to the pixel. It is time to live like a Victorian ghost possessing a Game Boy.

[sunraven0828]

Me: *Reading my drafts and getting invested on the story just to realize there’s a cliffhanger*

Me: “Damn, i wonder what happens next. I hope the author updates so-“

Me: *realizes im the author and im the one who has to write what’s next.*