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idk sounds fake

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RT @chaosprime
the people who act like they aren't doing this are just modeling you well enough to grasp that consistently answering "i dunno" is the shortest path to you leaving them the fuck alone twitter.com/maybeelse/status/1
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this is pee zombie erasure
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RT @maybeelse
tbh the idea that there are people whose brains aren't constantly running some sort of iterative process using low-resolution copies of people they know, purpose-built subsystems, and high-resolution copies of themselves doesn't sit right with me
twitter.com/maybeelse/status/1

Chesterton's Small Talk
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RT @__frye
i mean isn’t this just a call-and-response social ritual for starting conversation?

“not much, hbu” is probably the most anyone expects >50% of the time

then once you’ve both established there’s not much to talk about you actually start talking about stuff twitter.com/neuroconvergent/st
twitter.com/__frye/status/1411

deprived of likes, scrolling the TL becomes a sort of exercise in voyeurism; you observe but remain unseen, unable to interact. a poltergeist floating by, intangible.

what do you mean I can still reply. that's crazy talk. drive-by likes or nothing.

wait wait, you're saying you want me to justify myself to you... and... you're not paying me? bold move my man! major cajones! I'm impressed. except, for one minor factor: fuck you!

(note: being interesting counts as paying me. but most of y'all aren't.)
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RT @leaacta
sorry, i do rational thought for a living, so my weekends are for bad decisions and magical thinking
twitter.com/leaacta/status/141

we never truly outgrow our problems, but rather incorporate them into ourselves, like oysters accreting beauty around their trauma to produce a pearl

each of those hard-won layers has a soundtrack

so next time you hear an old favorite, thank the part of your self which loved it

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in my times of anger, I'd find my metalhead teenager there to help me process it

when I'd feel depressed and lost, my college astronaut, there to guide me down the same paths I'd once trodden

with each emotional crisis, I'd been accumulating personal guides, waiting to help

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you never truly become someone new; rather, you add on to your previous self, accreting a new way of being; your personality is greebled by your experiences, acquiring new facets as you gain experience

but your earlier iterations do not simply vanish into the void; they remain

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I realized that what I was discovering was that those older versions of myself were still very much alive within my being, buried under newer personalities, but no less relevant

and in times of crisis, they were exactly what I'd return to; these self-shells were my Kegan stages

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each time this happened, I found myself discovering a new emotional depth in music I thought I'd outgrown, a new way of relating to those same styles, a way to resonate with them

this never failed to astonish, violating my self narrative as it did

eventually i learned from this

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in the past, mistakenly, I'd theorize this as being a linear process, finding new forms of music which better matched my emotions as I'd mature

butbover time, I'd notice myself on occasion, drawn to musical styles I hadn't properly appreciated in a while, finding something new

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throughout my youth, from high school to college, I went thru a wife variety of musical phases; each, at the time, seemed perfectly tuned to the predominant emotional modes I happened to be inhabiting

every time id notice myself transitioning to a new one, I'd see it as progress

just feels kind of fucked up that i can do my hobby for a living?? the thing everything else in my life feels a distraction from, I can get paid for? the fuck?

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shit man I fucking love computers

there's little that fascinates me more than a complex multidimensional optimization problem, riding the divide btsn code & infra

understanding, taming, accelerating complex systems makes me happier than anything else

and I'm paid for this??

new interview question just dropped
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RT @MagicRealismBot
A software developer dreams about every argument that has taken place in Brooklyn.
twitter.com/MagicRealismBot/st

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