Arty

Cult thinking is based on a mix of distrust of mainstream sources, Stockholm syndrome and an extreme sense that one "is right" -- challenges to any of that become in essence "threats" and it triggers base instinct more than thought. The delusion is deep. At least a third of the population is here.

Muffins are so important because they're the very best way to eat a piece of cake for breakfast without everybody asking you if you're okay

People in FT jobs running ultra-thons, are you okay? I’m mad jealous but also, hope you’ve considered talking too. Intimidating people and eating pain for no good reason!

To be privy to some of their words spoken in private and forever lost to the world, but painfully beautiful nevertheless…

Ever get this urge to become invisible, go back in time and witness your favourite now-dead writers? Just follow them around and see how they experience life, love, beauty, pain, and observe the expressions on their faces as they write… about whatever.

#sigh

Years ago, I was having a major fan moment WITH Musk when he sent that car with the spaceman dummy to drift into space, with a copy of #THGTTG and the“Don’t panic” message.

Little did I realise just how seriously he’d taken the whole thing.

We’d all do well to study improbability.

Andddd I have the complete opposite experience when it comes to learning other things like music / motor skills.

This goes for learning anything that involves logic and reasoning (and by extension arithmetic).

Sure, my older brain has trouble overcoming the noises in my head in the form of self doubt, what-fors, and the likes, but barring those, learning definitely feels more fun with age.

My experience has been the opposite of “learning things is easier when you’re younger”.

Comparing learning C/C++ at 17 vs learning Python in my 30s, I actually understand concepts better and also more easily right now.

The time it has taken to arrive at the understanding that my ability to feel things deeply is not a flaw in my making!
And yet, I still fall back to the safety of my older selves with several triggers.

Have you felt the burden of awareness that you seem to be able to do nothing with?

Rainy day scenes.

The wet, deeper shades of everything!

Avoid really strong coffee before/after cough syrup/ cold meds.

A clash you don’t want to experience in your system. Or is it just me?

“My grandfather was an alcoholic, my father was an alcoholic, and I’m an alcoholic. It’s in the genes.”

“No, it wasn’t the gene that was passed on, it was the trauma that was passed on.”

- Dr. Gabor Mate

fhooew!

Any literature on dopamine exorcism?

Roguelike Mathew Henderson’s Roguelike, the much-anticipated foll…

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The best thing I’ve read this year and it’s unlike anything I’ve read ever.

Still figuring out several references and metaphors and learning so much in the process.

Among the absolute best of contemporary poetry.

#booksky #poemsky #poemssky

Help me believe in God again! What was I thinking!?

Rainy glow.

#photossky #photosky

#dogsky #petsky #goldenretrievers

🥹🤎🤎

Thanks for the reminder!

*Nature
*People who hold on to love and hope when they have every reason not to
*Sensory pleasures

What are things you still haven’t grown disillusioned about?

Denial is kinda stoic, no/know?

This humble, mighty magic brew!

#tea #chai #teahigh

I’ve had a very similar moment with someone & it hit me so hard when I first read it - the pain, the forgiveness, certain things mattering a lot less with time, the feeling of wishing them well, & the details our time together blurring over time to the point of me questioning what was & wasn’t real.

#booksky #poems #poetry

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“Why don’t you go out more?”
: “Have you not noticed how unpleasant it can be outside?”

Shitty roads
0 road manners
Road rage
Parking woes
Headaches from headlights
Honking, dust, sun burn, helmet hair
Stray dogs defending their territory

And all of that for what?

When someone’s telling you something serious and you get caught up in some trivial detail that you can’t stop them to check on but you’re by now completely obsessed with and now you can’t pay proper attention unless…

#visualthinkers