the way being employed keeps you from video games and other various activities is so sick. genuinely demonic

“oh just do it when you come home” i am dead. “oh just do it on your days off” i am bearing with getting reanimated. after being dead throughout the week.

really i just think you should be walking a middle path between overly cynical detached asshole online behavior and sort of naive grossly oblivious hyper-heartfelt type conduct

walk the middle path or i break you like body is nothing lol

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All hail king Harold

The progression of Leo-cuddles

Step 1: Assert one's place atop the human's chest. Glare at and ragdoll any attempts to be removed.

Step 2: Gradually inch up the human's chest so that removal is more difficult. Purr, so they're less likely to try removal. Under the guise of kneading, thread claws through shirt/quilt to prevent removal.

Step 3: Tuck self under human's chin with occasional fond grooming. Nap. Trust that the human won't let you slip off the human's chest.

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physically go to your local library at least once. seriously.

look around. find a random book with a cover that catches your attention. read the description. read the first page. if you like the sounds of it, borrow it and take it home to read. borrow a handful of books even.

if a book loses your interest, drop it. if a book grips onto you, ride that wave.

i've struggled to read recreationally for years despite having read so much as a kid. a lot of us are frozen by the seemingly infinite choices. even when we buy books to take home, we don't read them because which book is worth reading first? we don't have to decide, we have it right here in our bookshelves, we have an eternity of never deciding.

in this past month, i have read five books, most of them i've never heard of when i spotted their cover at the library. most of them, i've ended up loving. the due date of library books maintains the ability to read a book so i can return them to the library and leave the library with more books. an even better incentive than borrowing ebooks, because i actually have to leave the house and not be a hermit.

so if you used to enjoy reading but struggle with it now, ignore the book recs you hear. go to the library, come across a book that piques your interest, and read one page after another until you either lose interest or finish the book.

then it's onto the next one.

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i luv gouache… and i luv tigers…. so here’s a gouache tiger!!

as someone who has unfortunately worked in Product for awhile now, i feel like people really misunderstand the whole "faster horses" quote. the point is not really innovation and to "create markets". the point is that people don't really know what they want, except more of what they know. people crave the familiar, and more of it. more! more of more!

except they really don't. they just think they do, when looked at in aggregate, when asked. that's the real stumbling block here. it's not about what you, the individual, want, which is "just a faster horse", which is practical and reasonable. it's about what everybody wants, which may seem like faster horses, but in reality the faster horse never satisfies.

because we've done "faster horses". tumblr has not fundamentally changed in 10+ years except to make incremental improvements -- it's the "faster horse" -- and it isn't profitable, folks. it doesn't work. you think you want it, but it doesn't work in today's world. people want something else.

the "everything converges on tiktok" point is correct: everything in a free market converges towards whatever is perceived as the most successful. to do otherwise would be foolish. in today's market, that seems like tiktok. to be an outlier to that is a risk: you risk seeming outdated, and people move on. and they do! we heard it all the time at tumblr.

the same is a basic fact of all capitalism. if there's an easy way to make money, everybody is going to take it. which means everybody takes it, which means there's a continuous race to find the next easy way to make money. and so it goes in a loop. we're just caught in the middle, not really knowing what we want.

most people, most people, don't know this meta-layer. they're just fish in the ocean. they do not see the ocean. they just think they want a faster seahorse, but really they want something new, that gives them a different kind of dopamine rush.

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70's/80's/90's Local TV Passover Station IDs/Bumpers 1. WBAL-TV, Baltimore, Maryland, 1998 2. WFSB-TV, Hartford, Connecticut, 1984 3. WCBS-TV, New York City, New York, 70's 4. WAGA-TV, Atlanta, Georgia, 1989 5. WDIV-TV, Detroit, Michigan, 1985 6. WRC-TV, Washington DC, 1983 7. WNYW-TV, New York City, New York, 1989 8. WCMH-TV, Columbus, Ohio, 1989