ikr signing into my slrpnk.net account was like going to an old home I hadn’t been in for a while.

not comment-op, but often community centers, gyms, and yoga studios have meditation sessions. google maps can help you out. There are a lot of different types of meditation out there fwiw.

There’s all different kinds of meditation tho… If I try to “let it out” I tend to spiral, so for cases like that there are practices that help you redirect the thoughts. In other practices yes, you do confront them, often checking in for guidance by someone experienced. In other practices you try to think about them without any “ego / identity”. etc.

GOP do not fight Fascist

It’s worth remembering there was a “Never Trump” movement among Republicans, and it folded as soon as Trump won.

Downvoted for the Pearl Jam reference. weAreNotTheSame.jpg

(nah, jk, Pearl Jam’s all right…)

At the illocutionary speech act level, that was an acceptable response. It’s kind of like when you say “what’s up?” and your interlocutor says “hey there!” The question has not been answered, but it’s still collaborative because the point of the exchange was not really an inquiry, it was a greeting.

This.

My last words will be: “Is this Loss?”

The idea is what is key in comedy.

Dunno… execution is pretty important too…

Let me think for a second…

Elder Goths hold the secret to aging successfully.

Embrace that look and go juggalo!

I enjoyed reading John Keegan’s “The Face of Battle” bc among other things it talked about 3 different battles as they must have been experienced by the common soldier. iirc the night before Waterloo they slept in wet fields and ofc didn’t have time to change, before Agincourt they likely had to “relieve themselves” right where they stood and many had diarrhea (and some couldn’t even take off their armor to do so!) soldiers were often hungry and thirsty and exhausted, etc.

We’re also in the post-truth world, so it kinda doesn’t matter if it’s true or not…

When I was a kid and I was trying to get to sleep, I’d close my eyes and remember all the different bedroom layouts I’d lived in. Like in one place the wall was to the left and top and the door was down by the foot of the bed. In another place the wall was just to the top and the window was to the left and down. In another place the wall was just to the top and the door was to the top and left. etc.

The top one doesn’t even cover the propeller! NSFW tag please.

Milking and threshing sound way more fun than yet another Zoom meeting.

Whenever I think I can’t stand yet another video meeting, I think back on the (very brief) time I spent working on a farm. It was fun for a day or two, but after like 5 days I was ready to do whatever it took to get away from there. I got respect for farm workers, it isn’t easy!

Looks like the kind of thing you’d drive in a parade.

Every once in a while the driver’s feet come out the bottom, he reaches his hands out the windows, and he picks the car up like it’s a dress being kept out of a puddle.

I learned a really valuable lesson in first grade. My friend Daniele had a really nice belt-buckle, but he was wearing it upside-down. I was like: Daniele, why is your belt-buckle upside-down? And he was like: so when I look down, I can turn it up and look at it.

Daniele was a pretty wise kid.

I want some escapism for fuck sake.

You may want to try subscribing to non-political communities, and then browsing by subscribe. For example, here’s a list of communities I subscribe to for when I don’t want to read about politics: