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Ant Lab - cool close up & slow motion videos of bugs, & something abt the guyās mannerisms is just ridiculously endearing
Biblaridion - really into linguistics & makes conlangs (cool), but i really love the alien biosphere series!!! itās a speculative evolution project where heās just creating a whole world from scratch
Cor Canish - makes a bunch of stuff abt Elder Scrolls, really really fun & editing is remarkable
Featureman - a lovely old man makes cheap but (probably) yummy food & talks to u 4 a while. heās really funny
League of Pigs - lots of happy & well loved pigs race for the championship (to the food trough)
Myron Cook - another lovely old man, does geological investigations into bizarre rock structures. equally good for learning or falling asleep
Steve Wallis - another lovely (oldish, not really) man, makes stealth camping videos. total cutie
Worthikids - really fun animations!!!! & featureman voiced a character in Bigtop Burger <333
Feb 16, 2024
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š“I have a very specific list of YouTube channels that calm my mindbodysoul. I was going to recommend just one but then realized it's not enough - because they all do something very special. First one is Liziqi. My friend Jon Baken showed me her channel years ago, the only way we were able to find her was by searching "Plum Chinese" - IDK why but now it's much easier (search "Liziqi" lol). Either way, she's a beautiful Chinese princess (not really, but basically) that lives in rural China with her grandma (allegedly). Each episode she takes - usually like a fruit or vegetable that's in season - and makes a bunch of things from scratch using that main ingredient. The sounds are calming (chopping wood, puppies barking, wind), it's shot really beautifully and her skills are honestly really impressive. It's like girls and gay guy football...every time I have shared it, anytime she does something we scream. People doubt the authenticity of it - but I prefer not to.Ā Then there is SteveMRE1989 who is the coolest dude with the most swag on all of YouTube. He is obsessed with eating MREs from like any decade and country basically. His voice is so soothing and I love how he describes every part of the ration, sparing no detail, his way of saying "Nice." I especially love when he gets cigarettes from like a WW1Ā MRE and smokes them on camera. He's the fucking best.Ā Last but not least is MadSeasonShow who is a guy who plays WoW. He has hour-long videos on the history of WoW and other stuff like that. His voice is literally the best and he is most often the channel I choose to fall asleep to because the videos also have really nice medievalĀ elevatorĀ slow jams (hope that makes sense) in the background. He sometimes streams on Twitch as well and that's always a treat,Ā the way he says "Doritos" is mad cool. I think he's from Canada or the midwest somewhere. To make it easy for you all I made a little playlist of some of their vids to get you started that's linked above. Sweet dreams!
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Boze vs the world: true crime. Fun personality and great at reminding people that yes people may have had a bad home life but there was a point where they made a decision and we need to take off our āempathy capsā
PolyBlank: art history??? Cool way of formatting donāt know how to explain but talks about so many different things in a cool way that makes my brain stay entertained
Jschlatt: funny reaction videos
Michael reeves: always fun and cool crazy inventions, super awesome but doesnāt post much
Apr 3, 2025
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Dirty girls by Michael lucid - donāt fully remember what itās about but itās in my playlist of cool docs. The perfect painting and hotline Miami by polyblank - tbh u would recommend his entire channel! Makes art history type Of videos but in such a cool interesting way that can keep my brain focused (not sure how to explain it) michael reeves - Super funny and super cool channel. He doesnāt post a lot but everytime he does itās great. He makes a lot of inventions but of non serious things and tests them out with his friends. a classic one Iād recommend is the roomba that screams when it bumps into something! Also the surgery robot one is good too, honestly thereās actually too many here that I like to just put a few recommendations of his videos LOL
Dirty girls by Michael lucid - donāt fully remember what itās about but itās in my playlist of cool docs. The perfect painting and hotline Miami by polyblank - tbh u would recommend his entire channel! Makes art history type Of videos but in such a cool interesting way that can keep my brain focused (not sure how to explain it) michael reeves - Super funny and super cool channel. He doesnāt post a lot but everytime he does itās great. He makes a lot of inventions but of non serious things and tests them out with his friends. a classic one Iād recommend is the roomba that screams when it bumps into something! Also the surgery robot one is good too, honestly thereās actually too many here that I like to just put a few recommendations of his videos LOL
Apr 6, 2025
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š«romanticise ur blunders & ur missteps, bc that is just part of being a creature. if u saw a duckling fall flat on its face and scramble 2 its feet u wouldn't judge the freakin duckling, u would think it was the cutest thing ever. because it is. we r just organisms in big ungainly bodies, and that is part of our charm. tripping over ur own feet is maybe the most adorable thing u can do. like awwhh u tripped on the pavement </333
this extends 2 social interactions 2. messaging exes that u miss them, making a joke that doesn't land, mishearing/not knowing/forgetting something, etc??!!?! SO SWEET. genuinely such wonderful & important & adorable things 2 do.
i think this is maybe the best thing i've ever managed 2 train my brain 2 do. it isn't foolproof but it makes life a lot gentler.
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šjust about everything that happens to you will be interesting to your future self/your descendants/archaeologists. immortalise your to do lists, shopping lists, packing lists, things that loved ones say, things that strangers say, the phrases you hear that would make a good band name. brainstorm what to do on the weekend, list your cravings, the songs stuck in your head, transcribe birdsong, etc. i track my periods & my finances in my journal. sometimes if i really want to take a photo of something i'll restrain myself and draw it in my journal instead. sometimes i take notes for uni in there, or draft sewing patterns, or sketch when im bored. journals are self-portraits!!!!!!!