Everyone talks shit about people talking about the weather because there is a real discomfort with small talk.
While I could make a whole separate post about the function of small talk, humans care so much about the weather because itâs kind of a big deal to us!
Think of how much our natural environment plays a role in our moods and energy levels and overall health and well-being. Good or bad weather made a huge difference in our ability to survive and thrive, especially in a pre-industrial society without electricity or AC.
So yeah, it can feel a little silly to start so many conversations by commenting on how hot/cold itâs been lately, but given how sensitive we are to weather and our environments, it makes perfect sense that weâre all a little obsessed with it.
Mar 5, 2025
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YES ur so right!! i love talking about the weather, itâs been sunny the past couple of days and life has actually felt worth living đđ
Mar 5, 2025
choc_orange Sometimes when itâs maybe 74 degrees and sunny, after itâs been really hot or really cold, I feel emotional. A beautiful day can almost make me cry!
Mar 5, 2025
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it's an essential part of the human experience?
people who hate talking about the weather need to go find wherever they misplaced their childlike wonder at the variance of nature
Feb 13, 2024
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it's a riveting topic everyone has an unoffensive opinion on
Jul 20, 2024
Wind is awful.
This mostly goes for places where it gets cold, and there are specific exceptions â Iâm not talking a cool breeze on a hot summerâs day here.
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Itâs winter. You check the temperature â freezing cold but manageable. You step out, fully bundled. So far, so good. But wait! A massive gust of wind blasts you in the face, turning mild discomfort into complete misery, and effectively ruining your life.
Itâs nearly spring. Youâre trying to enjoy the false hope that this mild day will transition smoothly into warmer weather without being pulled back by winterâs long, frigid fingers. Lo! A cold wind picks up, makes your eyes water â a bully mocking you for naively foregoing that extra layer you considered.
Itâs summer. Unless youâre flying a kite, windsurfing, or otherwise doing some specifically wind-related activity, the wind is mostly annoying as fuck. It blows your picnic items over/away, it thunders in your ears.
Itâs fall. Basically like spring but the other way around. The wind spitefully reminds you winter is coming again.
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The adverse physical and mental effects of wind have long been anecdotally and folklorically documented, but several scientific studies have also shown a correlation between wind and hypertension and negative mood â even increases in murder rates. From Lyall Watsonâs Heavenâs Breath: A Natural History of the Wind:
âIn 1968, Willis Miller of California Western University, collected statistics for homicides in Los Angeles county and compared them with weather records. There were 53 days during 1964 and 1965 when the Santa Ana blew and humidity, which is normally around 43 percent, fell below 15 percent. On 34 of those 53 windy days, there were more deaths than normal. And during the longest sustained Santa Ana, which blew from October 20th to 26th in 1965, the total was 47 percent higher than in any other windless weekâŚIn Californiaâs early, and to this extent more enlightened days, defendants in crimes of passion were able to plead for leniency, citing the wind as an extenuating circumstance.â
Apr 6, 2024
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Iâm not a parent and do not plan to be. Kids can wear me out fast with their high energy and noise level; it leaves me very over-stimulated. But itâs pretty extreme when people say they âhate kidsâ and I often feel itâs a reflection of their childhood and beliefs around how kids âshould be.â That they were expected to be quiet, obedient, and out of the way by their parents when they were little.
Itâs fucking hard to be a kid. Youâre dealing with a rapidly-changing body and underdeveloped brain, managed by flawed adults who are enforcing boundaries that you do not understand. Itâs confusing and hard to manage your feelings and honestly just a lot.
People are impatient with kids when theyâre brand new to the world and figuring it all out, and this is a time kids need a friend the most. Children can also be teachers to adults with how they are less habituated to the world. They teach us how to be free and open-hearted and silly and imaginative.
A good practice is to be kinder and gentler with kids. If that feels difficult, start with gentleness toward your inner child. Maybe thatâs the child in your life that needs your attention and kindness most.
Apr 16, 2025
I meant to post this yesterday. Absolutely beautiful morning for walk.
This morning is also beautiful but in a spring rain kind of way.
Mar 23, 2025
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Prescriptive gender is a prison. Rather than gender being a form of self-expression, gender is treated as a pass/fail test for how well you can conform to cultural expectations.
Since I was young, I remember feeling a great deal of pressure to conform to these expectations around what âmenâ are meant to be. You like sports, cars, womanizing, aggression, and not having feelings. I felt so distant from this ideal. I was sensitive and shy, and I preferred spending my time being creative in some way
For a long time, I felt like I was failing at âbeing a man.â In many ways I was! Because I didnât need to bea man. All I needed to be was myself.
Itâs taken me a long time to separate myself from prescriptive gender, sharpening in on which aspects of masculine energy I identify with and which I donât. Iâm not done yet. Maybe I will never fully be. The self continues to evolve over time, and I suspect aspects of my gender will too.
Mar 15, 2025