oh wizened tortle 🐢 @tortle@schelling.pt

Man goes to dr/housemate/grantee/ex-fling/manager. Says his life is too full of conflicts of interest. His primary/housemate/client/dojo-leader is fighting with his secondary/participant/director. Treatment is simple, says dr, the comm health team is in town tonight. But doctor—!

The polls seem to suggest that people here think it's the first or the second, which coheres with my intuitions. I'm glad to have such a representative sample of *checks notes* 10s of people who are in tpot.

I've been wanting to find more people like this, and I'm still not sure how much it's (1) ppl like this are clustered into certain groups, (2) ppl like this are rare, (3) you don't need friendships like this to be happy.

they were the few weirdos who I'd meet at a party. I often felt like they had this yearning for the kind of connection and intimacy that I also wanted. They were also like kinda nerdy and often well-read too.

Two more days on this poll!

I think for me there's a pretty clear line between people who I can get along with (most people) and people who don't exhaust me (sufficiently quickly) socially (very few people).

Nearly all people in that second group I've met through EA or LW. Or-
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POLL TIME
What % of people (who speak English, 15-75yo, willing to talk to you) do you think you could have a pleasant social inter…
https://twitter.com/ohwizenedtortle/status/1641859203857010688

Gobs has asked for it so it means you all have to do it
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i still want to see more crushpoasting on main >:[
https://twitter.com/goblinodds/status/1643369841489850372

Thanks everyone for making sure I made the healthy choice
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Not eating all day until dinner so I can look/feel hot at my farewell party
https://twitter.com/ohwizenedtortle/status/1643372527908167681

hello my rationalist mutuals, i am sorry to betray you in this way

hello twitter i am looking for an astrologist to do astrology things to me, any recommendations?

damn why isn't australia's financial regulations told through indigenous peoples' myths

i spent 30 minutes stressin' about this job interview, and then the role i wanted isn't even available any more 😭😭😭

(the other role is still pretty good, but still sad)

ok my one complaint with mastodon is that "liking" something is called "favouriting" it. favourite's are defined in reference to other things, not everything i like can be my favourite.

i like "boost" though, that feels more accurate.

(don't worry I will probably not do this)

(...unless...)

Not eating all day until dinner so I can look/feel hot at my farewell party

What, to you, is the difference between fun and meaningful?

What advice would you have for someone who feels like they don't know what they truly care about (and indeed have suppressed it for many years and focused on what they're "supposed to" care about)?

The sexual tension between wanting to post unhinged shit because none of my mutuals are here and wanting to not scare off people from mastodon

Ok alright alright one more to get this more precise.

"What % of people do you think you'd be able to be friends WITHOUT being forced to spend time together, BUT finding time to catch up were trivial?"

"Finding time trivial" = you don't need to sacrifice existing friendships