Instead of doomscrolling past post after post without actually clicking on them, open up a blank notepad or text editor and just practice thinking for an hour. Let your mind wander through the unsolved problems that have been nagging at you and unravel them.
Write down your thoughts along the way.

My alcohol tolerance is very not much at all.

I just cut myself off after 1/3 of a piña colada.

Absolutely fascinated by the parallel intelligence of Cetaceans and Cephalopods, and the vast difference between them in how their brains are built and how their minds work.

I didn't ask how big the room is, I said "All my love, from the bottom of my heart"

Now roll 12d12 for everyone in the AoE.

People who turn text posts from twitter and tumble into AI narrated Minecraft parkour shorts would not have survived in 2006's internet environment. They are slow and fat and make easy prey. They only survive today because we displaced their natural predators when we paved over the old wildlands.

Fluid Violence™

Time passes

Sometimes time stops and parks

And waits a while in the rain

And gets lunch at a cafe

And catches up with an old friend from high school

And gets married and moves to Canada

And starts a second career late in life at 13.787 Billion

And finally finishes paying off its student loa-

"When you create art, you become art." -Brandon Sanderson

Even in the world where all GenAI's flaws disappear, the shortcut of using it still takes away the self-improvement of experience, all you would have learned by doing the work yourself, from all your future work. Creativity directly suffers.

Thankfully the ID with that gender marker is relatively ephemeral, all things considered.
And if shit gets bad, I've got your back.

A low angle close up of a very fluffy Chow mix laying down and looking at the camera with a smile and her tongue out, wondering if perhaps you'll give her belly rubs or let her outside

We sent our baby girl over the rainbow bridge tonight.

Freya was the fluffiest toasted marshmallow, the lovingest, goodest girl, and a deeply cherished part of our hearts and lives. We miss her dearly.

They share such a short time on earth with us, but they spend every moment of it loving us unconditionally.

Capitalism is the practice of owning stuff, restricting access, and renting it out.
It incentivises the separation of laborers from the value they create so they must rent it back.
It funnels wealth upward to fatten the already wealthy.

Capitalism is tyranny. The people will not suffer the tyrant.

Power begets responsibility.

If the powerful act in the interests of those under them, everyone prospers.
If they abuse power, both the people and the foundations of power suffer.
When the people decide they will not suffer the tyrant, the powerful do not retain power.

Power begets responsibility.

Wealth is power.

Everything we buy is either labor or a proxy for it.

Once you have enough to pay people's salaries directly, you control them.

Slavery's legality is proportional to wealth.

Marcus Crassus himself said "a man is not truly wealthy unless he can afford a legion"

Wealth is power.

Congrations! :D

Even after watching Caine gleefully and mercilessly torture everyone for the whole episode, that line broke my heart

Well done, sir

Just to be 100% clear, denying medical care kills people

These choices are deliberate, intentionally causing deaths

Unnecessary, agonizing, torturous, cruel deaths

This is EXACTLY how the Nazis treated the Jews

This is mass murder

They are Torturing
They are Starving
They are Killing
People

It sure is windin outside.
It's wingding
It win
H
Whinging, innit
F
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It.
Fucken.
Wimdy.

I know all the sounds metronomes make. There's only like 4, so it's not that impressive.

What could possibly be cooler than finding out you can - with a backyard telescope on a clear day - watch the sunrise over the comically tall equatorial ridges of a semi-flattened moonlet orbiting inside the rings of Saturn, 1.5 Billion km away?

Science fiction is born here, in views like this.

"It's always been that way"
- Drug addicts go to jail instead of rehab
- We say passive income with a straight face
- Diamond rings & Aparthied
- All Christmas music
- 2 weeks of groceries at a time from a warehouse
- Shuttle buses from parking lots to stadiums
- The GOP's 50 year revenge for Nixon

Postulate:
Boomers froze American cultural norms and locked the rest of us in their economic hell

Evidence:
"Due to a loophole in the 70s"
- Taxes and regulations are dictated by the people they target
- All cars are work trucks exempt from safety and emissions
- Wars are fought but not declared

And healthier!

Daylight savings is a fuck

When I was a kid, boys my age idolized hyperviolence in media and games, pushing the limits of our parents' discomfort

Since then, I've seen what death looks like, and I understand that discomfort

Now, my ideals of freedom feel at odds with the knowledge that FPSs are actively used for recruiting

Aeschylus: Homer did not specify in the text, so we cannot be sure which of them was the top, but Patroclusis was clearly the twink sub, making Achilles the dom.

Plato: *slamming the desk* Achilles was at most a service top!

Xenophon: Guys please, they were just roommates

All: Shut up, Xenophon

2030: US & Canada merge
2034: Confederacy secedes
2035: TX secedes from Confederacy, fights Mexico
2036: TX, now smaller, rejoins Confederacy
2055: Chicago quarantined, full of ghost bugs
2057: Dragon elected president, immediately assassinated by car bomb
2074 Dragon civil war. I will not elaborate

Glancing through the Shadowrun timeline, more highlights:

9/11: The timeline diverges from reality (mood)
2011/12/24: Native Americans break out of Abilene TX concentration camp while Dragons first appear over Mt Fuji.
2016: POTUS orders Natives genocided... again
2020: nothing significant happens

Oh man, that's insane.
People are insane.
I might be going insane,
but first I'm going home.
See y'all next week.

We are in an era of unprecedented love. The power in your hand to connect with people who match your freak is insane. Living as your true self has never been more possible. Survive those who lash out in fear as they cling to dying prejudice. The future will leave them behind.

Love will win.