[heavensghost]

I wouldn’t call myself quirky but there is definitely something wrong with me

[aestheticsinspo]

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”

— Ernst Haas (via portraitphotographync)

[algtrs]

STUDY GROUP 스터디그룹 (2025) Dir. Lee Jang-hoon.

hey … so,.. uhh… (looks at notecards) did you uh did …you fall out of heaven because um (drops cards) shit fuck oh god fuck im so sorry  youre-youre just s o.pretty i m soryr

[ninepatch]

literally anything handmade is so dope. idc what it is it could be anything. a quilt, a painting, a basket, a sweater, a wooden table, a shed, a meal. how magical

[shock]

accepting that you’re objectively weird & owning it is infinitely better than being constantly desperate to appear normal to people who don’t even matter to you

[oliverjcnes]

Alright so I was sitting out on the deck, watching the birds and trying to decide if I need to water my garden or not. I know there's rain coming, but then half the time the weather will say there's gonna be rain and then we don't get it. Anyway, I was looking at this one dove on the ground, kind of moving around slow, almost seemed like it was limping. Then when it flew up to the feeder closer to me and landed on the railing down at the other end, I noticed what was going on. Poor thing is missing a foot! Anyone know if there's something special I should do, do I try to capture it and get it to a wildlife rehabber or since it seems to be doing fine otherwise, do I leave it alone?

[smiledogga]

at ur loneliest there will be birds. and also millions of titmice

[inloveforevr-deactivated2025041]

we aren’t doing enough arts and crafts in this world I’m telling you

[cafechai]

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[mackfabray]

Yeah, for sure. Like, as much as I know smart home tech makes life easier for a lot of people with, and without, chronic illness, the monitoring aspect of things is growing increasingly more terrifying.

[oliverjcnes]

Tell me about it. It's creepy how you could just be thinking about something and next thing you know, ads for what you were thinking about are popping up on your phone.

[brodywestonx]

It really is the human equivalent of a trainwreck, isn’t it? You know you should look away, but the sheer audacity of grown adults losing their minds over a parking spot is too compelling. I’ll admit though… I did feel a small twinge of disappointment when security finally broke it up. I was invested, kinda hoped I'd see how it'd end.

[oliverjcnes]

Yeah, I know what you mean. It’s crazy how fast something so small can make people go full-on road rage. At that point, I think it’s less about the parking spot itself and more just people already being in a bad mood, with the other person ending up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or both of them just being equally hot-headed.

[mackfabray]

See, I see it swinging back based on security and privacy. So much of tech is a monitoring system now and you can tell people are getting tired of it. From there, people may see the instant gratification not be as gratifying for the price being paid.

[oliverjcnes]

Yeah, that’s a really good point. Surprisingly I hadn’t really thought about it from the privacy angle before. It does feel like one of those things that’s slowly becoming more of a regular conversation now though, even outside of tech spaces.

[brodywestonx]

Am I a terrible person for secretly enjoying the absolute chaos of a public meltdown over something entirely trivial? Because watching two grown adults argue over the last parking spot at the bistro today was genuinely the most entertaining theater I've seen all year.

[oliverjcnes]

I feel like there’s a difference between enjoying it and actively causing it, so you’re probably fine. That said, I can’t really judge because I’ve definitely had those moments where you just end up watching a situation unfold a little too invested in it. Kind of like a trainwreck, you just can't look away.

[mackfabray]

Mmhmm. It's genuinely insane how big of a difference there is and because we lived through it, it doesn't feel big, but it really was. It's either going to go full tech a la cyberpunk type shit, or it's going to be a hard shift backwards.

[oliverjcnes]

Yeah, I kind of lean toward the idea that it might swing back a bit in some ways, even if it’s not a full reset. Like I can see people getting tired of everything being instant and automated and wanting a bit more of the slower, hands-on stuff again. Not necessarily abandoning the tech, but just pulling it back into a more balanced place.

[matt-schue]

Do you think it has anything to do with the kind of shows and movies we saw growing up? My parents were into old movies from the 70s and earlier, probably because that was their jam. Like me, with my love of all things 80s. Then again, we didn't make a huge technological jump until maybe the late 90s and early 2000s. I heard from a buddy of mine who works on the criminal justice side that some of these kids don't know their own birthday, phone numbers, or home address without checking their phones. That blows my fucking mind.

[oliverjcnes]

Yeah, I think there’s probably something to that, like we still had enough overlap with older media and habits that it didn’t feel like a total break. The internet changing things in the late 90s and early 2000s was such a massive shift though that it kind of reset what normal looked like almost overnight, which is probably why it feels so different with this generation. And I can’t say I’ve heard of them not knowing their birthdays or addresses, but I have seen videos where they’re filling out forms for the first time and asking their parents what their DOB is, not because they don’t know their date of birth, but because they don’t know that's what DOB stands for.

[mackfabray]

Most haven't, so you're not wrong there, so I can sort of see the point you're making. It did and that is so weird to me. Not bad, per se, but definitely weird.

[oliverjcnes]

Yeah, weird but not bad feels like the most accurate way to describe a lot of it honestly. It’s just one of those things where you don’t really notice how big the shift is until you actually say it out loud and realize how different it sounds. Makes me wonder what the next version of that jump is going to look like and how soon that'll be.