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Lets not jump To conclusions

i saw something a tad bit politically upsetting this morning through a reposted TikTok, and when i looked up the story in the news, what the TikTok said about this political issue could not be substantiated, but only implied and rumored. I’m kinda peeved because short form media has really allowed people to become media illiterate and spread things that are either lies or unsupported claims, because they know people aren’t going to read a 3-4 paragraph article on a news site and disseminate information on their own. Something I have learned in therapy is to kinda look at more things in life as neutral, and not go into black and white thinking before making a decision. Take time to act on something (when it’s possible) and take things at face value most days. Being in an elevated state of emotion when doing something is not usually good. I just wish other people could do that today, because sometimes it feels like I’m the only person in my realm who can.

@chiawase_

Jan 26, 2025

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Critiquing something/someone only from a place of understanding

A brief anecdote to preface this (skip to get straight to the philosophy): Today a team member and I (building a business) met with an expert in his respective field to ask some questions. After a little explanatory back-and-forth, it was clear he had a complete lack of knowledge of our sector, and had only understood the description of our project on a superficial level. Nonetheless, he proceeded to spend most of the time “pushing back”, and therefore was unable to offer much insight that we could use. ———— Critique/judgment without understanding is invalid – period. This is confusing to some critics/would-be critics/people because they conflate the accumulation of knowledge with the skill of understanding. Let’s say you’re a music critic – you know lots of stuff about many kinds of music, many eras, etc. One day something comes along your desk, you pop it on, and it sounds a bit odd. You’ve never heard of the artist before… it sounds vaguely similar to something you know of – sure, let’s compare it to that, I guess. In this moment, you may not realize that you have a blindspot. Maybe you don’t yet understand the cultural or aesthetic movement this piece of music is born from because it doesn’t overlap with your breadth of knowledge (even if it’s very wide). Your prior knowledge may inform your ability to understand, but it doesn’t replace it. A real critic will take the time, as their duty, to understand as best they can before they make any critique. Anyone else isn’t a real critic. This goes for everything and everyone, not just professional or expert criticism. It’s true on an individual level, a social/cultural level, a political level, etc. Now especially, everyone’s a critic – and that’s both great and terrible/terrifying. Criticism/judgment are perfectly valid and useful forms of human expression if and only if you seek to understand beforehand. So, we can think about that from the perspective of giving criticism and, of course, receiving it. Being open to criticism is a massively important quality to develop, but if someone hasn’t made an effort to understand you/your idea, their critiques can go into the trash can. 🚮 ———— 🩵🩵

@solomonki

Jun 4, 2024

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being a snob

we are killing good media by being sated with mediocrity . i care less and less abt sounding like a dick and more and more abt demanding the most from where i put my free time/attention . music should be good films should be interesting books should be thoughtful…. being seen as a buzzkill is worth fighting the dizzying mundanity for

@riona

Mar 2, 2025

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personalizing a tote bag for the summer (and foreseeable future)

on a VERY big cyanotype kick lately so I have been plotting and tinkering and wanted to make myself something special and unique so I captured the essence of girlhood aka dumped the contents of my tote bag and printed it ONTO the bag (is this meta - also pls ignore the bleed this is literally only my fifth time doing this)

@nicoledominique

Jun 30, 2024

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having a “fuck it we ball” attitude for scary things

submitted some of my photo stuff in for an exhibition and I AM ACTUALLY NOW PART OF THE EXHIBITION shook to say the least and fighting off imposter syndrome since finding out but i’m over the fucking moon fr

@nicoledominique

Mar 19, 2025

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getting ear plugs to wear to concerts and other (loud) live things

taking care of yourself is sexy, live music is sexy, taking care of your hearing WHILE listening to live music is extremely sexy (i forgot my ear plugs last night can you tell i was suffering a bit)

@nicoledominique

Mar 2, 2024