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#the impossible choice #the real trolley problem #what

The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.

Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.

Checkmate, nihilism.

cheskamouse

This is a powerful positive message..

pluckyredhead

I’m literally reading a book right now (Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski) that says this is scientifically sound.

There have been studies done on rats and dogs where they develop learned helplessness in the animals by giving them impossible tasks. Eventually the animals stop trying, even when the task stops being impossible. (I.e. put a rat in a maze with cheese it can’t get to until it develops learned helplessness, then put the cheese somewhere it can get to it and it won’t even try.) But once they show the animals they CAN do something - i.e. physically moving the rat to the cheese - the learned helplessness goes away.

No one can move you to your cheese for you, but the book says DOING something - which they define as “anything that isn’t nothing” can help. Make a food. Work in the garden. Clean a thing. Do a favor for a friend. Call your elected officials.

Knit a sock.

If you feel overwhelmed by existential despair, do something. It doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be anything that isn’t nothing.

adhd-informative

This is really good advice for ADHD people because when executive dysfunction gets bad it’s easy to fall into this pattern of thinking. Do just one thing. It doesn’t have to be your homework, or a chore. It can be something small, it can be something you enjoy. But do just one thing to remind yourself that you can.

hyperactivehedgehog

This is what “humans want to be productive” really means

We want to make things. We want to do something and at the end of the process see that something has changed. We want physical proof that we did something. We want to be able to point at something and say “I made this”. We want to be creators

cricketcat9

OMG…so my Mother was right, when she had ONE advice for all my adolescent brooding, sulking, crying, feeling misunderstood by the world etc., etc.: “just get yourself something to do”

😱

windcalling

binghe: sobbing about his sex life again

mobei-jun:

#svsss #daddy's danmei tag

karkatting

not a work doodle but i never posted this. based off a text post idk where the original is

#homestuck #dave #karkat #davekat

bogusbanjo

Terezi in her big clompers!

(she cannot walk in them but she looks badass anyways)

#homestuck #terezi

weirdmageddon

tweets on my tl yesterday were really good for some reason

#third one is vriska messaging john

vativrisrezi

day 134 (Jun 16 2023)

#homestuck #vriska #terezi #vrisrezi

spotlessmy-deactivated20210523

this was a great read. “Laziness Does Not Exist” by Devon Price

sweatymasc-deactivated20260101

the ten commandments

thog don't caare

if it sucks hit da bricks

play the cards i'm given

pobody's nerfect

this mess is a place

fuck it we ball

it's so over

we're so back

what if the world was made of pudding

there is good in every day

#fave tag

themysteriousmurasamecastle

been repeating this in my head all day

borange

honest to god fill my uterus with these, how many will fit? how many until its noticeable? lets make a game out of it! get them big ass balls into me

retroactivebakeries

aziraphales-flaming-cock

#hey gang. what the fuck

eastgaysian

the ancient and noble art of Hating must remain distinct from the dogmatism of the moral crusade. hating has no greater goal. it is not about engineering change or imposing one's will upon others. to hate is a complete act in and of itself