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Call a friend spontaneously. It’s fine and good

If they are busy or if they don’t want to talk they will simply not pick up and that’s fine!! And if they do pick up you can talk for as little or as long a you want!! Be free to enjoy low stakes spontaneous chats with the people you love!!!

@serena

Jan 28, 2024

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play phone tag with distant friends!

i find it increasingly difficult in the overstimulation age to remember to connect with distant friends, especially those who live in different cities. so recently, i've taken to making a list of homies that we've agreed to randomly cold call each other when we're on long walks, late at night after hitting a club, when making breakfast, or have a moment when needing virtual company with no expectation of an answer in each direction, but an understanding that eventually the stars will align. sometimes we will miss each other 4+ times over two months before we catch each other, but the moments that we do always ground me and give me a special feeling that's difficult to articulate. there's something beautiful about it and i encourage everyone to try it out for themselves :)

@domp

Feb 23, 2025

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Unplanned friend calls

sometimes when things go wrong you just gotta dial that shit and decompress a tad

@joe_m_miller

Oct 27, 2024

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we all come back to ourselves eventually

the comfort in the ebb and flow, the cyclical nature of it all

@pratibha

Mar 5, 2024

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the peace found in not encapsulating the moon

i love that our seemingly high-tech phones still cannot do the job of capturing the moon‘s ethereal essence. it’s so humbling and vulnerable to attempt to take a photo of her and have it come out all ugly and orb-like. it’s literally none of ur business to see what she looks like anytime apart from the present moment! (and please don’t tell me if samsung or google pixel have invented technology to do a better job of this. it wouldn’t sit right with me… like trying to sneakily undress a woman without her consent when she has explicitly stated she’d rather remain demurely clothed and mysterious)

@pratibha

Mar 17, 2024

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digitally bumping into each other in earnest

it's like.... kind of insane that we (not me, of course) made the internet to be any other way. imagine if the real world were algorithmic... how kooky would that be?? you'd only ever talk to people who've already gotten a thumbs up from 10,000 other people that they're cool and worthy of being heard and it would be super weird and parasocial bc everybody else would be trying to get their attention too. and maybe you'd only be able to see people like in that episode of Black Mirror w Jon Hamm where some ppl are crystal clear in color and others are blurred out and grey and inaccessible to you. well, that's what an algorithmic internet feels like!!!! and it's terrible! i like being able to post on here whenever a thought softly lands in my head and know whoever happens to refresh their page or hop onto the app when i hit SHARE will be able to see it right away... it's the beauty of your words being seen at the right time with no filters or algorithms shoving u into a corner.....and being able to see others in the same way <3

@pratibha

Feb 6, 2024