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JANUARY 2026: Life has not forgotten you, it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall.

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tothechaos

99% of alarm snoozers stop hitting snooze before reaching full restfulness. NEVER stop trying to get five to fifteen minute increments of sleep yhis next one will make you feel well rested in a way youve never been in your entire life i promise 🙏

jellogram

I think the first step towards the life you want is often to just say yes to more things. Accept that coffee invitation from your coworker even if it seems awkward. Sign up for that free class at the library that you're not sure you'll like. Join that club. Book that tour. Say yes to as many things as you can and kill the part of your brain that gut-reacts with a no.

phantomrose96

Over the last couple years I adopted an informal policy of "If my reason for saying no is 'eh, that sounds like effort and what if I don't like it' then I should probably say yes."

It's been pretty great, is the outcome. I do weekend tennis with people, and bike riding with them and sometimes brewery visits and poker one time. I did a dodgeball league, and a pickleball league. I was going to a boardgame group for a period of time. I went skiing. I've been to a lot of concerts, and cool restaurants, I've seen old movies that weren't good but now I know about them. And I know so many people because when you go to things you meet friends-of-friends and if you say yes to cool things they're doing then you meet their friends-of-friends. People like it when you say yes to their invitations and come with your best self to see what they've put together.

And I've done a number of things which, in the end, I wasn't actually interested in and did not keep doing. But I can't really think of any things that I regret having tried.

phantomrose96

I also want to add that usually I'm the sort of person who needs a 48-hour heads up for any change of plans, and like an additional 72 to process any invitation to something new.

So this is in fact about overriding that reaction. And sometimes overriding it hard.

And it's not a "yes" to everything. It's just trying to live with "yes" as the default answer.

thewightknight

25% of the people have a 4th cone and see colors as they are

Given the sudden interest for the color of dresses and vision, here some of the fascinating findings we did recently.

The color nuances we see depend on the number and distribution of cones (=color receptors) in our eye. You can check this rainbow: how many color nuances do you count?

You see less than 20 color nuances: you are a dichromats, like dogs, which means you have 2 types of cones only. You are likely to wear black, beige, and blue. 25% of the population is dichromat.

You see between 20 and 32 color nuances: you are a trichromat, you have 3 types of cones (in the purple/blue, green and red area). You enjoy different colors as you can appreciate them. 50% of the population is trichromat.

You see between 33 and 39 colors: you are a tetrachromat, like bees, and have 4 types of cones (in the purple/blue, green, red plus yellow area). You are irritated by yellow, so this color will be nowhere to be found in your wardrobe. 25% of the population is tetrachromat.

You see more than 39 color nuances: come on, you are making up things! there are only 39 different colors in the test and probably only 35 are properly translated by your computer screen anyway :)

It is highly probable that people who have an additional 4th cone do not get tricked by blue/black or white/gold dresses, no matter the background light ;)

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ahaunteddildoforblaine

I see 21 colors. I had no idea there are so many more.

chocolatequeennk

I see 35-39 colours, and I hate the colour yellow. That was actually what made me curious enough to stop scrolling and count. Who knew there was a scientific reason behind my colour preferences? So the idea here is that what I see as annoyingly, garishly bright, most people don’t see as clearly, and that’s why it’s “cheerful?” (I’ve never understood that description of yellow.)