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Andrew turned me onto this subreddit recently and now it's part of my daily routine for better and for worse. People posting about the world falling apart. There's a lot of doomsday preppers in dialogue which I don't really care about, but there's something weirdly comforting about people openly talking about the many elephants in the room when it comes to the current societal downfall we're careening towards.
Sep 20, 2022
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Sometimes I get into little worm holes. There was a time I was obsessively into conspiracy theories (I find myself still very susceptible to conspiracy theories and I have to force metaphorical ice water onto my limbic system to remind myself that we are too chaotic to collectively plan doomsday together), another time I was obsessively into ARGs on youtube, then another time where all I watched were tiny home tours (my era of tiny home content consumption is re-emerging after my husband started a show on amazon prime about various air bnbs) but the latest worm hole I have gotten into should be more accurately termed a rabbit hole, as in, an alice-in-wonderland rabbit hole where it's a whole other world down there. I have discovered the realm of neocities and have been browsing so many different sites, so much indie-user content, it;s honestly a little overwhelming but one thing I am realizing so far is the common theme, among all of them, of breaking away from mainstream social media with it's dangers of data harvesting and ad revenue where you are the product as well as maintaining privacy where you are not peer-pressured into giving away details about yourself simply to be relevant on the platform you are using, and instead you can just be as you are, post what you like, create your little space on the web outside the confines of the social media spaces that exist today which are designed to create hostile interactions because that generates more revenue, more data, more surveillance---------- and here I go on my conspiracy theory era again...
Jul 12, 2024
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sort of detecting a mishapocalypse thing
Feb 12, 2025
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I had an older boyfriend 10 years ago who would check reddit every morning and I never understood it until now that im old. There’s literally a subreddit for everything. And the people on it are level headed unlike the psychos on twitter. I spent a lot of time on it solving the Idaho college murders this past winter.
Jul 7, 2023
Top Recs from @colin-caulfield
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Obsessed with this Chinese sci-fi novel right now. It's putting to words a lot of the unavoidable existential dread that we're all trying to ignore. I'm not usually a big fan of super hard sci-fi because I'm for the most part scientifically illiterate, but this book does such a good job of making physics poetic and kind of horrifying.
Sep 20, 2022
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This book destroyed me. It's a reinterpretation of the myth of Circe, one of the OG witches in Greek mythology who was exiled to an island for eternity. She's a minor character in the Odyssey, but is given the lead role in this. Unbelievably poignant writing about life and death. Sobbed at the ending - it's a beautiful book.
Sep 20, 2022
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Shout out to my friend Kirby who is undoubtedly one of the most talented musicians I know. Creatively, he's had an amazing pandemic that started off with this really sparse and luxurious instrumental record. It's like ambient solo piano with expert synth and flute arrangements. The songs are so meditative and neutrally emotional in that magical way good ambient music is. 10/10 from me.
Sep 20, 2022