I spent some hours last month making an Anki deck for various emergencies where the outcomes will be significantly worse if you have to spend 30 seconds googling what to do.

It's not extensive, or extensively researched, but it exists! scyy.fi/emergencyanki.…

I was confused how to 'rest' in a way that seems distinct from vegetating (TV, games, scrolling) or working (art, code)

I grilled my friends about how they rest, and came up with a tentative list of different *types* of exhaustion, which need separate solutions 1. procrastination-guilt => work
2. choice exhaustion => TV marathon, social event, flow state (gaming, coding, or art)
3. loneliness => socialize, LLMs, metta meditation
4. physically tense/inert => exercise, bath
5. thoughts racing => TV, scroll, concentration meditation

I keep writing ambitious porn drafts and then watering them down to milquetoast, so I'm delighted by an idea that's hard to water down:

It's a highly sexually dimorphic species where the females factory farm the much larger males for meat. Our hero is a male who has been reared by a philanthropic organization that wants to prove that males are intelligent social beings. Genetics is against them – many millennia of selection made males genuinely less able to function. Still, they find 100 promising candidates to raise as figureheads.

parents please give me data: my sister is asking to bring her 2 year old to my wedding (which I currently intend to make child free) because it's difficult to find childcare for the (long?) weekend she'll be visiting. The wedding is 6mo out.

How difficult is this? other notes: she is quite wealthy but doesn't have 'community', although she has access (via Korean church) to rich network of other parents who vouch for / recommend childcare.

Lenina from Cart and Cwidder

(spoilery context in further tweets) Cart and Cwidder is a children's book. The protagonists are the children of a traveling minstrel who is secretly carrying messages for revolutionaries

The minstrel has a magic guitar he's only gotten to work for him once: when bewitching his now-wife from her high society life

have felt bad for 1-2mo but find it hard to describe – no discernible cause – manifests mostly as the global 'disliking things' variable in my personality going up. I instinctively try to spin my problems in a charming or funny way but this resists it. humorless lump of stone my desire to please people is down, but so is the sense that people are pleased by me in the first place, so i'm currently withdrawn miles from my friends even as we have the same conversations

Let's see if I can heartlessly munchkin making art that people like. Attached are 4 paintings that have roughly equal (and high) appeal to me personally.

Below are some polls on which YOU guys like about the color, composition, theme, and style. Blur your vision hard and just take in the color. If you had to put up a painting in your house that had the color of one of those images, which image would it be based on?

I'm going to sell you on one of my great passions, which is Severus Snape. The appeal is... not always obvious. I take this man's existence v personally, he's one big Exercise In Metta

Irresponsible mix of (hopefully compelling) headcanon and appeal to the actual text follows. okay so… the thing about snape is that he totally fucked up his life. he’s dumb. he screwed himself over when he was 20, in a way he could never move on from