tired

Benjamin | he/him | 23 | writer

[glowcowboy]

WE HAVE ENOUGH DEAD FRIENDS by lena oleanderson [ID in ALT.]

[thesophistiicate]

if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. it’s asking you to see life and experience it fully.

[radicalgraff]

“America is a money printer that runs on blood”

Spotted in Boston, Massachusetts

[kropotkindersurprise]

One thing I enjoy about the world cup is everyone in the stadium booing loudly whenever the US-mandated ad breaks, euphemistically called "hydration breaks", are held at the halfway point of each half of the match.

I haven't watched any of the USA games yet, but I assume there's no booing there; americans are used to their sports being structured around ad breaks instead of the actual game.

[bourtange]

republicans: homeless people should be ground into sausage and fed to schoolchildren

democrats: persons experiencing houselessness should be ground into sausage and fed to schoolchildren

[txttletale]

this post posits a utopian world where either of these parties would support feeding schoolchildren, making it a masterclass in "hopepunk"

[funeral]

In today's state of hyperactivity, where boredom is not allowed to emerge, we never reach the state of deep mental relaxation. The information society is an age of heightened mental tension, because the essence of information is surprise and the stimulus it provides. The tsunami of information means that our perceptual apparatus is permanently stimulated. It can no longer enter into contemplation. The tsunami of information fragments our attention. It prevents the contemplative lingering that is essential to narrating and careful listening . . . In the process of digitalization, . . . information acquires an altogether different status. Reality itself takes on the form of information and data. For the most part, we perceive reality in terms of information or through the lens of information. Information is an idea—that is, a re-representation. When reality takes the form of information, the immediate experience of presence withers. When digitalization gives everything the form of information, reality is flattened.

Byung-Chul Han, The Crisis of Narration

[hel7l7]

so tired of pretending

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

I have led a toothless life, he thought. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on - and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.

The Age of Reason, Jean-Paul Sartre, 1945

[everydaylouie]

bull in a china shop

[mervynbunter]

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

[9cl]

Driving around my town trying to find one single burger just one burger or a hot dog but Unfortunately everythings just rubble and twisted scaffolding upstretched and rotting and theres shit on fire and a big black ass sky

[official-kircheis]

[9cl]

Guess i cant do shit anymore Cause the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides... And yep, you guessed it: a dark wind blows.

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

stop deactivating

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

i thought we all agreed we were here forever

[sumikatt]

I think people should just be fine with disliking something without calling it slop or moralizing about it you don’t need to have some noble reason to say “i don’t like this”

[lamignonette]

[100493503004422]

linkedin is crazy bc how are you gonna admit to grand theft online using your govt name

[hel7l7]

When will everything stop feeling so overwhelming?

[american-life-style-deactivated]