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Hey guys? Maybe its bad that all social interactions online are owned and controlled by private american companies….

so what platform are we all planning to escape to then?

load-bearing

Sometimes people hit a place in their life where things are going really well. They like their job and are able to be productive at it; they have energy after work to pursue the relationships and activities they enjoy; they’re taking good care of themselves and rarely get sick or have flareups of their chronic health problems; stuff is basically working out. Then a small thing about their routine changes and suddenly they’re barely keeping their head above water.

(This happens to me all the time; it’s approximately my dominant experience of working full-time.)

I think one thing that’s going on here is that there are a bunch of small parts of our daily routine which are doing really important work for our wellbeing. Our commute involves a ten-minute walk along the waterfront and the walking and fresh air are great for our wellbeing (or, alternately, our commute involves no walking and this makes it way more frictionless because walking sucks for us). Our water heater is really good and so we can take half-hour hot showers, which are a critical part of our decompression/recovery time. We sit with our back to the wall so we don’t have to worry about looking productive at work as long as the work all gets done. The store down the street is open really late so late runs for groceries are possible. Our roommate is a chef and so the kitchen is always clean and well-stocked.

It’s useful to think of these things as load-bearing. They’re not just nice - they’re part of your mental architecture, they’re part of what you’re using to thrive. And when they change, life can abruptly get much harder or sometimes just collapse on you entirely. And this is usually unexpected, because it’s hard to notice which parts of your environment and routine are load bearing. I often only notice in hindsight. “Oh,” I say to myself after months of fatigue, “having my own private space was load-bearing.” “Oh,” after a scary drop in weight, “being able to keep nutrition shakes next to my bed and drink them in bed was load-bearing.” “Oh,” after a sudden struggle to maintain my work productivity, “a quiet corner with my back to the wall was load-bearing.”

When you know what’s important to you, you can fight for it, or at least be equipped to notice right away if it goes and some of your ability to thrive goes with it. When you don’t, or when you’re thinking of all these things as ‘nice things about my life’ rather than ‘load-bearing bits of my flourishing as a person’, you’re not likely to notice the strain created when they vanish until you’re really, really hurting.

mysharona1987

theunitofcaring

What do you think about Brexit?

I recently read British coverage of the American election and it all missed the mark in a dozen subtle complicated ways. They didn’t have the context to report things helpfully, and they had to stay at a really basic level since their audience couldn’t be presumed to have any context, which stopped them from saying anything which wasn’t deeply mundane and oversimplified.

I assume that the same thing is wrong with all the Brexit coverage I’ve read.

thiscontinuity

generally a super sensible attitude to take to foreign news but unfortunately in this case none of us over here have any clue what’s going on either

neil-gaiman

As requested by too many people: making the last post rebloggable

birdartpoetry asked: Mister Gaiman, you’re kickass. I was just wondering, what do you think is the best way to seduce a writer? I figured your answer would be pretty spectacular.

In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people, and a lot less good at the stuff going on outside, which means that quite often if you flirt with us we will completely fail to notice, leaving everybody involved slightly uncomfortable and more than slightly unlaid.

So I would suggest that any attempted seduction of a writer would probably go a great deal easier for all parties if you sent them a cheerful note saying “YOU ARE INVITED TO A SEDUCTION: Please come to dinner on Friday Night. Wear the kind of clothes you would like to be seduced in.”

And alcohol may help, too. Or kissing. Many writers figure out that they’re being seduced or flirted with if someone is actually kissing them.

gifsboom

High speed carrot destroys lightbulb. [video]

breathinginbiology

Now this is the kind of content I want to see.

cwote

The hardest battle you will ever have to fight is between who you are now and who you want to be.

Anonymous (via cwote)

writing-prompt-s

The year is 2022. You and your gang shoot down Amazon delivery drones and sell their contents for a living.

minelskede-deactivated20190606

This isn’t fiction. This is going to be my career. @writing-prompt-s wanna start a gang?

writing-prompt-s

I am down. What’s our gang name?

writing-prompt-s

^

Amazon Crime is looking for members. Comment your expertise and explain how it could revolutionise our operations.

writing-prompt-s

Hired!

HIRED!

Hired!

HIRED!

Hired!

writing-prompt-s

Hired!

We need a logo!

robogal328

My hand slipped

writing-prompt-s

I promise I will look after each and every member and that we split the loot evenly

jumpingjacktrash

foxes are puppycats

discuss

morathor

Foxes are canines that behave like felines, due largely to evolving to fill an ecological niche typically filled by cats. So my rebuttal is: foxes are more accurately kittendogs.

Hyenas are puppycats.

jumpingjacktrash

i didn’t expect y’all to actually discuss but i’m pleasantly surprised please continue

people talk about how english isn’t a tonal language and mebbe in the US that’s true but british english is hella tonal

for example the word sorry means very different things depending on how you pronounce it it can mean any of

i did something bad can you ever forgive me?

i exist and want to make sure that you know that

hey fuckwit why did you think standing there was a good idea?

myjetpack

for New Scientist

mathisafeeling

Hey

There are a thousand of you now.

That’s pretty cool.

the-real-numbers-deactivated202

It took me a solid five minutes to realize this was about followers and not an ominous shitpost designed to make me wonder if I left my cloning machine on this morning.

thiscontinuity

never argue values with someone who can’t tell you what a Pareto improvement is

thiscontinuity

of course you probably shouldn’t argue values with someone who can either

never argue values with someone who can’t tell you what a Pareto improvement is

image contents: cross-stitch with the words “no spoons left only knives” and 7 knives of different types pictured

original design

cross stitch apparently by woven_gulch but her twitter is locked so i can’t check that

pdlcomics

Weird

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