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You literally do spend the first 5 years trying to get with the plan and the next 5 years trying to be with your friends again

@princeof_ithaca oh I’m sure this was hugeeeee stuff

wymack when he realizes he can FINALLY get through to andrew by using neil

most people don't even try

Dostoevsky is right, your worst sin is, in fact, destroying and betraying myself for nothing.

The thing is that I’ll go to the pub with friends and have a few drinks and a laugh and it’ll be great and the next day I’ll be walking through London and see some people having a few drinks and a laugh outside the pub and feel that I am forever excluded from the joys of life

on sunny days i go out walking i end up on a tree-lined street i look up at the gaps of sunlight i miss you more than anything.

one of the most gutting pre-colonial accounts of north america was that you could walk across the entire Chesapeake bay on its oyster reefs

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

Post irritation clarity just hit And I am probably the worst person on earth

@indica “Francis Becenti, a Navajo, wrote this poem in 1971 when he was nineteen years old.”

They're really doing Whitey's on the Moon while children get bitten by rats in Gaza. They're doing the Gil Scott-Heron poem

Motherhood - Sliman Mansour, Palestinian (1976)

HAPPY 17776 DAY!!!!!

this little bit from 17776 always really stuck with me

on april 7th, 2026, people stopped being born. on the same day, people stopped dying, and people stopped aging. happy 17776 day everyone!!!

the "I don't know, but I learn fast" has taken me so far

i feel like there's actually 4 types of friendships: 1/ comfort 2/ do stuff 3/ deep talk 4/ ambient the KEY to a less lonely life is to figure out which one you're missing... -- comfort friends these are the people you don't have to explain yourself around. they're familiar. you feel most yourself around them. there's a type of loving understanding that comes in their presence - they've probably known you for a while, there's shared history, which creates a natural ease. do stuff friends people to DO stuff with - hiking, sports, classes, hobbies. they might not even know that much about you - but you have fun together and bond over shared experiences. they probably live near you and you may see them frequently. you find connection through doing, not just talking. deep talk friends people who are more in-the-know about your day to day challenges. you share openly with them. you may see the world similarly. they are values-aligned with the current version of you. these are the people who know you as you are TODAY, not just who you once were. ambient connection this one's underrated - the feeling that humans are ambiently around you. from smiling at the barista to chatting with a stranger in the grocery store line. remote workers may be particularly prone to lacking this. knowing you're part of this ambient human energy at all moments. --- the key to a less lonely life is to figure out which TYPE of connection you're missing most THEN you can create an actionable path forward to fill that gap! you got it!!!

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.” ― Toni Morrison

i think human society remaining crystallized for all eternity in 17,776 is obviously a complicated theme but this bit becomes more salient with each year that passes