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What the Bulgarian expression?!?!??

Good lord I almost blocked you until I took a breath and read.

This sums it up, yes.

I think a lot of us talk to ChatGPT more than we care to admit. Brave post

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Be that as it may, this the linguistic terminology used, if you want to understand others as much as you want to be understood. It helped me quite a bit to understand the theoretical underpinnings of what was going on, even if I didn’t totally understand. Thought it might help, but it’s your choice.

It’s called Phatic communication

It really is hard to figure out who to listen too anymore.

And nothing seems to be coming into focus.

Anyone out there?

Ever since the election I haven’t been able to write anything. I feel depressed and feel alienated from most everything, stunned by the sense of disbelief of what has happened.
I feel overwhelmed and can’t seem to write anything about anything

I feel like I’m still trying to process everything

Talk about burying the main idea of The Philosopher L. A. Paul Wants Us to Think About Our Selves www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The main idea doesn’t show until seven pages have been read
#TheNewYorker #LaPaul

Really quite fascinating

My therapist told me "write letters to the people you hate and burn them." Dude that, but now I don't know what to do with letters.

Good morning!☕️✌️

Remembering the great Sinéad O'Connor, who was born on this day in 1966 in Belfast, Ireland

#punkrockhistory

I think your answer lies with historical examples. Also I have the feeling that you aren’t going to accept any real answers. Your counterpoint is always going to be Malthusianism. You should read some critisims to Malthus.

I found this riveting— part super beige Black Mirror episode, part slyly insightful commentary on what it means for influencers to survive in our hyper-capitalist digital hellscape— and the @chaykak.bsky.social FILTERWORLD quotation near the end was the cherry on top

@anamariecox.bsky.social if only a suck.com cartoon could make sense of this all. Man I still miss that. You?

Not anymore. Bad for business.

Goodbye Morning Joe. Shame on Joe and Mika. Meidas has taken your place.

Never submit.

Book cover: blue background with hot pink text that reads Awkwardness: A Theory by Alexandra Plakias

Really enjoying @alexplakias.bsky.social Awkwardness: A Theory—she argues that awkwardness is what we experience when we lack an appropriate social script, or when our scripts are out of whack. This morning I started to wonder if 'parasocial awkwardness' is a thing. Do we have 'parasocial scripts?'🤔

Ok. I’ll bite. What’s better than A Christmas Story?

Funny. I remember thinking what a nice Friday evening. Looking at everyone going about their lives content-looking and then I think this is supposed to be Fall and it feels like a warm summer’s evening and I go this isn’t supposed to be happening

If Bluesky wants to replace twitter, it better hurry up

I just accidentally opened threads and it felt like old twitter

Take my upvote!

I think the movie is anti-peeite

I’ve heard it mentioned multiples. One more for the pile of books by the bed, right?

Sort like life finds a way, perhaps an SCP reference?