Ed @eddo75

Lost my Thesaurus. Gutted. Really gutted. Like absolutely gutted.

mrdavehill 6h

First I lose Henry Kissinger. Now I lose 0.J Simpson. This is so f#%king hard.

afab boyfriend @princessasterion.bsky.social

ME READING WARHAMMER 40K BOOKS IN 2018: this setting is so fucking dumb. No way a society would let their entire technological infrastructure be controlled by a handful of fanatics that have convinced themselves that computer code is literally God

ME NOW: Ah,

benpaddon 17h

With convention season spinning up again, this is your reminder that there is a special place in Hell for cosplayers... more

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jimray @jimray(@mastodon.social

Me, an idiot: "So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we're doing our part to make the world more sustainable" 41

VCs, very smart: "We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world's largest Al supercomputer. It uses as much power and O9h water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs."

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ceej @ceejoyner

Pick up artists and garbage men should switch names.

sad sad mommy @noahsarca

i love the quebec pet allowances they are so silly it's like a riddle

Number of pets allowed

Usual limits

A total of 8 pets are allowed (among the allowed species), including the maximum permissible for dogs and cats.

Up to 4 pets are allowed, including a maximum of 3 dogs.

Examples:

• You can have 4 rabbits, 3 dogs and 1 cat.
• You can't have 4 frogs and 4 dogs.

higgsboshark 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 wortd. 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 scientiically 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. (.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. physicaly 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 fiend. 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.