dandelion
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- Comment on i broke 2 weeks ago:
a therapist I had helped me rethink problems in terms of pragmatically adjusting my environment or conditions to nudge my behaviors rather than relying on willpower or behavioral changes that were slow or simply not happening
a small example was moving my computer out of my bedroom and developing a night-time routine that included reading a book before bed to help reduce compulsive computer use
realizing I am somewhat deterministic in my behavior, and my behavior is caused by conditions I have some influence over, was a helpful insight and got me past just constantly failing to live up to my expectations for myself and never moving past that - I can treat my psychological problems like puzzles to solve
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 3 weeks ago:
💀💀💀
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 3 weeks ago:
they did surgery on a grape!
- Comment on What is this specific kind of sheet called? 3 weeks ago:
oof
- Comment on What is this specific kind of sheet called? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it might have just been a liner for a comforter - there are essentially sheets that are sewn together that you can fit a comforter in, so you can take the comforter out and wash the sheets occasionally and keep the comforter clean.
So maybe google “duvet cover” or “quilt cover” and see if that matches?
- Comment on HBO Boss Insists 'Harry Potter' Show Will Not Contain J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Views 3 weeks ago:
At a press event last year, Bloys told reporters that Rowling was “very, very involved in the process selecting” showrunner Francesca Gardiner and director Mark Mylod to lead the charge on the “Harry Potter” TV series.
variety.com/…/harry-potter-series-jk-rowling-tran…
yeah, she’s not just a producer, even - it’s fair to say she’s very involved 😅
- Comment on HBO Boss Insists 'Harry Potter' Show Will Not Contain J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Views 3 weeks ago:
yes, she’s involved in the production and will definitely profit from it
- Comment on Internet Fatigue: why this place sucks now 3 weeks ago:
the fediverse isn’t exactly a cure-all to the situation, it doesn’t solve economic problems about costs of hosting, moderating, legal compliance, etc. nor user behavioral problems … it works well for some of us, and not at all for others
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 3 weeks ago:
and they let straight people adopt children, yikes
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 3 weeks ago:
America breeds people like this
- Comment on Do you know any software development philosophy books? 3 weeks ago:
Richard Stallman’s Free Software, Free Society
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 4 weeks ago:
I still can’t tell what’s real or not, lol
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 4 weeks ago:
In the States we encourage our conservatives to write in Jesus Christ for President.
- Comment on Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box? 4 weeks ago:
omg
- Comment on Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box? 4 weeks ago:
yes, yes I would imagine 🥵
- Comment on Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box? 4 weeks ago:
yes, I do ☺️
- Comment on Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box? 4 weeks ago:
maybe I’m just a pervert, but all that text is aggressively sexual
what I’m saying is I’m ready to take Dr. Reddy’s hard, red pregabalin capsules
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 5 weeks ago:
wow, that’s really out there for being bee movie erotica
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
eldritch horny
- Comment on Merging a western with eldritch horror, Blood West is awesome and now Steam Deck Verified 1 month ago:
This reminds me of that Mythic Quest episode called “A Dark Quiet Death”, (spoilers ahead) about a fictional horror video game where users are vulnerable, have no way to fight the monsters, and only have a flashlight. After the video game is a surprise hit, the game studio increasingly crumbles to pressure to sell out, and subsequent sequels of the game increasingly cater to popular demands like that users can have a gun, then that users can actually kill monsters, and so on.
Anyway, this video game claims to be an eldritch horror game, but it’s basically a FPS shoot-em-up with monsters in a western setting, the “eldritch” aspect is basically nothing more than superficial aesthetic at that point. Eldritch horror, like the video game in “A Dark Quiet Death”, is inspired by Lovecraft’s writing, which positions humans as defenseless insects relative to the horrors that are not only beyond human capacity to fight, but often even to comprehend. The role of a gun in a Lovecraftian context is mostly to show the hubris and futility of human attempts to overcome the horrors.
All that said, this isn’t to suggest the game is wrong or bad, my thoughts are just about the deeper artistic ironies.
- Comment on Just go. 1 month ago:
lol, a little bit - it’s like a slant rhyme!
- Comment on Cerebral decomposition 1 month ago:
yes, very pro body pillows, though they don’t have to be Japanese comfort pillows to be body pillows 😆
- Comment on Just go. 1 month ago:
In case you don’t get it:
spoiler
2NA sounds like “tuna” (two-nah -> toonah)
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 1 month ago:
I read this in the voice of Charlie from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Comment on Cerebral decomposition 1 month ago:
it helped me understand this better once I knew a dakimakura is one of those Japanese body pillows
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- Comment on ‘New Girl’ creator Elizabeth Meriwether reveals if she’d ever do more episodes 1 month ago:
“New Girl” creator Elizabeth Meriwether is weighing in on whether she’d ever revisit the show with a reboot or a revival series.
“I give the people what they want. There is a world, it is in a galaxy far, far away, in a multi-verse situation…” the writer, 43, exclusively told The Post.
“No, no, I love the show so much. I love the actors. Everybody who made the show is still in contact with each other. It was like a formative time in everyone’s life, I feel like. And so, it’s hard to go back.”
About whether she’d revisit the “New Girl” world and those characters, she added: “I don’t know; we’ll see.”
“I feel like the actors always throw me under the bus,” Meriwether joked to The Post.
She explained, “They get asked [if there will be more ‘New Girl,’] and then they’re always like, ‘Well, it’s up to Liz.’ And I’m like, ‘You guys!’”
Sounds like a big maybe.
- Comment on What are you watching and, what do you recommend this week? 1 month ago:
how … uh, emotionally safe is Adolescence?
- Comment on What are you watching and, what do you recommend this week? 1 month ago:
Finished:
- Severance s02 (don’t recommend, s01 was good though)
- White Lotus s03 (don’t recommend)
- The Residence s01 (recommend - relatively light-hearted, fun inclusion of neurodiversity, and kept my attention even if it wasn’t the most compelling plot)
Currently watching:
- Fantasmas s01, I love this show, though it’s not for everyone
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 1 month ago:
don’t let them fool you, it’s all projection from RFK Jr.'s brainworm