The people living their best lives aren’t posting about it on Instagram
Quotes
On tricking the tricky reality
“Right now, it’s like this” is an invitation to explore what is present. At the same time, it clearly reassures us that impermanence is hard at work. So even though the mind threatens me with the idea that “it’s going to be like this forever,” this phrase helps me call bullshit on that. It helps me let go of the main message from the mind, “that something has to be done.”
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It doesn’t solve any practical problems. But it does get you into the right mental state to contemplate your situation calmly. It helps make you responsive, not reactive. This, in turn, makes it possible to deal, to find solutions later or to see that you may not need to do anything at all.
On 90s and now
If you saw something mainstream like a Disney princess, it was because someone had taken the time to handcraft an ASCII art portrait.
Today if you type [disney] into the ubiquitous search engine, every link on the page is either crafted by the Disney corporation or is the product of a major news outlet.
Source: Searching the Creative Internet
On airpods
AirPods are designed to last about 18 months as they start holding less and less of a charge. They can’t be repaired, thrown out or recycled. Instead, the AirPods sit in your drawer forever.
A professor’s Generation Z Dictionary
I’m dead = That was amusing
My sociology professor keeps an alphabetic list of new slang terms he learns from students and I will never get over it pic.twitter.com/UxOxRsNJbb
— Ehhhhhh (@mewtailv2) April 30, 2019