I did a bunch of cleaning I dunno why I go on like random cleaning sprees when sleep deprived, since you would think that would be the worst time to do that. It’s also nice just cleaning things at night for some reason

Question for the people that are actually not afraid of talking to others. How should I ask people if they want to hang out? I haven’t seen some friends in almost 7 months and I want to see them again. Should I just ask them if they want to get lunch or dinner somewhere? Thats what I think I might do tomorrow if I don’t get so scared of talking

How about, when we colonize Mars, instead of making factories and Martian corporations, instead of all that we could just have a little rave. Earth could be for animals and crops, the moon for mining, and a non-stop dance party on Mars.

Is anyone else familiar with the experience of having people around you who love to hear you talk but don’t actually give a shit about what you’re saying?

It’s the most infantilising thing. They’ll go through the active listening motions but I can tell from their tone that they’ve checked out. Why the fuck did you ask me about the book I’m reading, or ask me for my take on world events, if you’re just going to mhmm your way through the conversation and start folding laundry or whatever? Sometimes I just trail off midsentence and they don’t even notice - they just respond with an, “…interesting!” a second later.

I put a lot of work into a tech political project recently, and in the early stages I had scraped a pile of politician’s speeches in order to do some word analysis. I described it to a political friend who also works in tech and was met with, “I don’t really get the point but it’s really cool to see you so excited about something!”

Sometimes I find talking to strangers so much more validating because they have nothing to respond to except what I say.

/rant

Did they fire the “hey have a plan before escalating shit” guy in usaid/cia it seems every other day an asshole in power decide to just crashout/go postal sloppily.

I have a really dumb question, one which I assume has been answered somewhere before, so feel free to either link me to that answer or copy and paste it here.

Whenever the subject of Substack comes up – like when someone I follows links to their Substack page – someone always mentions that “Substack supports Nazis”. I don’t usually read things on Substack and I haven’t written anything on it, so it never became a dilemma for me, but what are people referring to when they say this? Do they actively support Nazis financially, while suppressing non-Nazis? Or is it that they allow Nazis to use their site instead of actively removing them? Do their policies, or the enforcement of their policies, disproportionately favour fascists?

As long as I’m asking, what are people using as an alternative to Substack?

A little pain never hurt anybody

Jokic made all the other players earn their paychecks for once. Very entertaining game.

Was at partner’s family’s house for taco dinner and they were offering crunchy shells… uncooked.

Is this why so many people hate crunchy taco shells? Because they’re eating chewy, gummy-ass uncooked shells??

Damn, Michael Porter Jr. doing all that with one shoulder. It’d be cool if his politics weren’t terrible.

i think this is what people in kenya feel like when the US is about to invade somewhere. something terrible might happen that will affect us all. i have no fucking clue what can be done about it.

@Lussy@hexbear.net talked with my old neighbor who just got back to the island after a NYC trip and she was talking about how she hadn’t eaten rice in a week. Asked her why she didn’t try eating Chinese, sushi, Indian food, or anything that should’ve been available over there. “Nah, a mi no me gusta la comida rara” ??? Why even travel?

Zac Effron died? When?

I wouldn’t necessarily mind overtime but I wanted to play some vidyas after the leafs game.