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I bought this to start off my sticker collection to add some whimsy to the back of my (hopelessly dingy) laptop.
I searched for some inspiration as to how to position it so that future stickers would have a good amount of space. But in the process, I accidentally doomscrolled into a Tenth Dentist thread where some guy was arguing that laptop stickers were ridiculous and childish.
As I kept looking at his increasingly unhinged responses, holding up as a sin similar to getting drunk at a funeral or wearing a t-shirt to a wedding, I got the unholy urge to smother all my mortal possessions in stickers, if only on the off chance this guy might see it and know misery.
And I remembered.
I HAD A STICKER
The sheer amount of TRIUMPH I felt when I put it on my laptop! Is the positioning perfect? No! Does it matter? Also no!
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Frag you in particular, random-ass Redditor from five years ago! (Who, in retrospect at his outrageous analogies, was likely karma farming)
#Sonelise #mobianXhuman #shitpost #probably #NotQuiteThough #sticker
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CW: Highly existential thoughts on hope, prompted by a John Green video on the Vlog Brothers channel; may be too bleak for some
We often agree with John Green on many topics, but we do not agree with his thoughts shared in the latest video.
We wrote our thoughts in a comment under the video, but we wanted to share them here too.
We don't really agree with you fully on this John, if we're understanding you correctly. You make it sound like you cannot strive for a better world without having hope, but so very many people keep going not because of having hope, but in spite of feeling somewhat or even entirely hopeless. As a realistic nihilist (not an optimistic one, like from the Kurzgesagt video), there may be no inherent meaning to existence, but we get to give our life meaning. We struggle daily with intense feelings of anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and hopelessness not because we genuinely feel we're going to win or succeed, but because we have to try in spite of everything. That isn't clinging to hope: it's continuing in spite of hopelessness. It's siege mentality. It's expecting to lose, but refusing to give in. It's defiance, stubbornness, and spite: not hope. We make a choice every day to keep trying because there are people out there who need help whom we can help, even just a little, but sometimes a lot more than we realise. It's possible to feel so broken and destroyed that you just want to give into the void some or even most of the time, with your mood changing like the ebb and flow of the tides or a flash flood from a monsoon, but still find yourself clinging to a piece of debris when the storm clears a little, treading water with all your energy, just so you can keep somebody else's head above the water to stop them from drowning. Is this enough for anybody to keep going? Not really, and we'd never judge or criticise anybody for wanting to let go at a time of their choice, and one day we may hit a particularly-bad storm that finally capsizes us for good, but until then, we'll keep going without any real sense of hope or belief, because maybe we can help a few others... and maybe some of them will have hope and may challenge the darkness and horrors of this world.
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CW: Highly existential thoughts on hope, prompted by a John Green video on the Vlog Brothers channel; may be too bleak for some
We often agree with John Green on many topics, but we do not agree with his thoughts shared in the latest video.
We wrote our thoughts in a comment under the video, but we wanted to share them here too.
We don't really agree with you fully on this John, if we're understanding you correctly. You make it sound like you cannot strive for a better world without having hope, but so very many people keep going not because of having hope, but in spite of feeling somewhat or even entirely hopeless. As a realistic nihilist (not an optimistic one, like from the Kurzgesagt video), there may be no inherent meaning to existence, but we get to give our life meaning. We struggle daily with intense feelings of anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and hopelessness not because we genuinely feel we're going to win or succeed, but because we have to try in spite of everything. That isn't clinging to hope: it's continuing in spite of hopelessness. It's siege mentality. It's expecting to lose, but refusing to give in. It's defiance, stubbornness, and spite: not hope. We make a choice every day to keep trying because there are people out there who need help whom we can help, even just a little, but sometimes a lot more than we realise. It's possible to feel so broken and destroyed that you just want to give into the void some or even most of the time, with your mood changing like the ebb and flow of the tides or a flash flood from a monsoon, but still find yourself clinging to a piece of debris when the storm clears a little, treading water with all your energy, just so you can keep somebody else's head above the water to stop them from drowning. Is this enough for anybody to keep going? Not really, and we'd never judge or criticise anybody for wanting to let go at a time of their choice, and one day we may hit a particularly-bad storm that finally capsizes us for good, but until then, we'll keep going without any real sense of hope or belief, because maybe we can help a few others... and maybe some of them will have hope and may challenge the darkness and horrors of this world.
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CW: Highly existential thoughts on hope, prompted by a John Green video on the Vlog Brothers channel; may be too bleak for some
We often agree with John Green on many topics, but we do not agree with his thoughts shared in the latest video.
We wrote our thoughts in a comment under the video, but we wanted to share them here too.
We don't really agree with you fully on this John, if we're understanding you correctly. You make it sound like you cannot strive for a better world without having hope, but so very many people keep going not because of having hope, but in spite of feeling somewhat or even entirely hopeless. As a realistic nihilist (not an optimistic one, like from the Kurzgesagt video), there may be no inherent meaning to existence, but we get to give our life meaning. We struggle daily with intense feelings of anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and hopelessness not because we genuinely feel we're going to win or succeed, but because we have to try in spite of everything. That isn't clinging to hope: it's continuing in spite of hopelessness. It's siege mentality. It's expecting to lose, but refusing to give in. It's defiance, stubbornness, and spite: not hope. We make a choice every day to keep trying because there are people out there who need help whom we can help, even just a little, but sometimes a lot more than we realise. It's possible to feel so broken and destroyed that you just want to give into the void some or even most of the time, with your mood changing like the ebb and flow of the tides or a flash flood from a monsoon, but still find yourself clinging to a piece of debris when the storm clears a little, treading water with all your energy, just so you can keep somebody else's head above the water to stop them from drowning. Is this enough for anybody to keep going? Not really, and we'd never judge or criticise anybody for wanting to let go at a time of their choice, and one day we may hit a particularly-bad storm that finally capsizes us for good, but until then, we'll keep going without any real sense of hope or belief, because maybe we can help a few others... and maybe some of them will have hope and may challenge the darkness and horrors of this world.
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CW: Highly existential thoughts on hope, prompted by a John Green video on the Vlog Brothers channel; may be too bleak for some
We often agree with John Green on many topics, but we do not agree with his thoughts shared in the latest video.
We wrote our thoughts in a comment under the video, but we wanted to share them here too.
We don't really agree with you fully on this John, if we're understanding you correctly. You make it sound like you cannot strive for a better world without having hope, but so very many people keep going not because of having hope, but in spite of feeling somewhat or even entirely hopeless. As a realistic nihilist (not an optimistic one, like from the Kurzgesagt video), there may be no inherent meaning to existence, but we get to give our life meaning. We struggle daily with intense feelings of anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and hopelessness not because we genuinely feel we're going to win or succeed, but because we have to try in spite of everything. That isn't clinging to hope: it's continuing in spite of hopelessness. It's siege mentality. It's expecting to lose, but refusing to give in. It's defiance, stubbornness, and spite: not hope. We make a choice every day to keep trying because there are people out there who need help whom we can help, even just a little, but sometimes a lot more than we realise. It's possible to feel so broken and destroyed that you just want to give into the void some or even most of the time, with your mood changing like the ebb and flow of the tides or a flash flood from a monsoon, but still find yourself clinging to a piece of debris when the storm clears a little, treading water with all your energy, just so you can keep somebody else's head above the water to stop them from drowning. Is this enough for anybody to keep going? Not really, and we'd never judge or criticise anybody for wanting to let go at a time of their choice, and one day we may hit a particularly-bad storm that finally capsizes us for good, but until then, we'll keep going without any real sense of hope or belief, because maybe we can help a few others... and maybe some of them will have hope and may challenge the darkness and horrors of this world.
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My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc #books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...
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My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc #books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...
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My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc #books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...
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My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc #books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...
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My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc #books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...
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#Parents, please listen to #pediatricians, not #RFKJr's hopelessly corrupted #CDC. What a sad state of affairs.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/american-academy-of-pediatrics_a-statement-from-aap-president-dr-susan-activity-7406875059619008512-goN_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAANA28QBHwbJmjSwvWUjDyUnAO7OwvCOPsk -
@latenightseth.bsky.social takes #ACloserLook at #DonaldTrump hosting @[email protected] at the #WhiteHouse and falling HOPELESSLY in L❤️VE! 😍 youtu.be/wiIdWIgmevw?...
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#2218
Been feeling absolute dogshit the past days. Everything feels so hopeless.
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"How deserted lies the city,
once so full of people!
How like a widow is she,
who once was great among the nations!
She who was queen among the provinces
has now become a slave."Lamentations 1:1 #Bibe #mourning #hopelessness
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CHORUS: Come away, dear ones, come away.
To the camp, to the place of the ships, to the sea,
To the strange new life of slavery,
For all are the slaves of Destiny.
[ΧΟΡΟΣ: ἴτε πρὸς λιμένας σκηνάς τε, φίλαι,
τῶν δεσποσύνων πειρασόμεναι
μόχθων: στερρὰ γὰρ ἀνάγκη.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 1293ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Sheppard (1924)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/77851/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #hecuba #departure #despair #destiny #fate #hopelessness #slave #slavery
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A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You can never be too cautious in your prognosis, in the view of the great uncertainty of the course of any disease not long watched, and the many unexpected turns it may take.
I think I am not the first to utter the following caution : —
Beware how you take away hope from any human being. Nothing is clearer than that the merciful Creator intends to blind most people as they pass down into the dark valley. Without very good reasons, temporal or spiritual, we should not interfere with his kind arrangements. It is the height of cruelty and the extreme of impertinence to tell your patient he must die, except you are sure that he wishes to know it, or that there is some particular cause for his knowing it. I should be especially unwilling to tell a child that it could not recover; if the theologians think it necessary, let them take the responsibility. God leads it by the hand to the edge of the precipice in happy unconsciousness, and I would not open its eyes to what he wisely conceals.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Speech (1859-03-10), Valedictory Address, Harvard University School of MedicineSourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bedsidemanner #diagnosis #hope #hopelessness #ignorance #information #medicalcare #medicine #prognosis #terminal #doctor
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🎩🤡 Ah, the saga of an eternal Google groupie, hopelessly wed to every shiny new trinket the tech giant tosses your way! 📱🔄 While you preach your undying love for Google, one can't help but wonder: do you dream in algorithms, or just in search results? 💤💻
https://theandrewbailey.com/article/203/Insanity-Locked-Out.html #GoogleGroupie #TechObsession #DreamInAlgorithms #SearchResults #TechTrinkets #HackerNews #ngated -
#LisaLoeb's "Snow Day" is a perfect capture of urgent melancholy, hopeless hope. :ablobcatheadbang:
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Trying to #EscapeFromNewYorkCity the sequel to #EscapeFromNewYork. #It is a #desparate #hopeless #place.
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"We now leave #navigation to our #phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost." #JohnHarris
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise
"#GPS has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder #mountain #rescuers are being called out so often. [...] Between 2019 and 2024, the total number of #rescues had increased by 24%, and there was a marked jump among the 18 to 24 age group, among whom callouts almost doubled. [...] across #Britain, there is evidently a mounting problem about the gap between people’s urge to experience wild and open spaces, and their ability to cope when they actually get there. [...] research suggesting that “people with greater lifetime GPS experience have worse #spatialmemory during self-guided navigation”. [...] retested 3 years after the initial research, when they found that “greater GPS use since initial testing was associated with a steeper decline in hippocampal-dependent spatial memory”. The #hippocampus is the part of the brain that deals with navigation: among London taxi drivers, the need to memorise so many geographical details was found to cause it to increase in size. But here were findings that suggested the opposite: reliance on automated #directions reducing people’s capacity to navigate for themselves." #cartography
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"We now leave #navigation to our #phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost." #JohnHarris
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise
"#GPS has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder #mountain #rescuers are being called out so often. [...] Between 2019 and 2024, the total number of #rescues had increased by 24%, and there was a marked jump among the 18 to 24 age group, among whom callouts almost doubled. [...] across #Britain, there is evidently a mounting problem about the gap between people’s urge to experience wild and open spaces, and their ability to cope when they actually get there. [...] research suggesting that “people with greater lifetime GPS experience have worse #spatialmemory during self-guided navigation”. [...] retested 3 years after the initial research, when they found that “greater GPS use since initial testing was associated with a steeper decline in hippocampal-dependent spatial memory”. The #hippocampus is the part of the brain that deals with navigation: among London taxi drivers, the need to memorise so many geographical details was found to cause it to increase in size. But here were findings that suggested the opposite: reliance on automated #directions reducing people’s capacity to navigate for themselves." #cartography
Thx #SophieBerrebi -
"We now leave #navigation to our #phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost." #JohnHarris
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise
"#GPS has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder #mountain #rescuers are being called out so often. [...] Between 2019 and 2024, the total number of #rescues had increased by 24%, and there was a marked jump among the 18 to 24 age group, among whom callouts almost doubled. [...] across #Britain, there is evidently a mounting problem about the gap between people’s urge to experience wild and open spaces, and their ability to cope when they actually get there. [...] research suggesting that “people with greater lifetime GPS experience have worse #spatialmemory during self-guided navigation”. [...] retested 3 years after the initial research, when they found that “greater GPS use since initial testing was associated with a steeper decline in hippocampal-dependent spatial memory”. The #hippocampus is the part of the brain that deals with navigation: among London taxi drivers, the need to memorise so many geographical details was found to cause it to increase in size. But here were findings that suggested the opposite: reliance on automated #directions reducing people’s capacity to navigate for themselves." #cartography
Thx #SophieBerrebi -
"We now leave #navigation to our #phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost." #JohnHarris
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise
"#GPS has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder #mountain #rescuers are being called out so often. [...] Between 2019 and 2024, the total number of #rescues had increased by 24%, and there was a marked jump among the 18 to 24 age group, among whom callouts almost doubled. [...] across #Britain, there is evidently a mounting problem about the gap between people’s urge to experience wild and open spaces, and their ability to cope when they actually get there. [...] research suggesting that “people with greater lifetime GPS experience have worse #spatialmemory during self-guided navigation”. [...] retested 3 years after the initial research, when they found that “greater GPS use since initial testing was associated with a steeper decline in hippocampal-dependent spatial memory”. The #hippocampus is the part of the brain that deals with navigation: among London taxi drivers, the need to memorise so many geographical details was found to cause it to increase in size. But here were findings that suggested the opposite: reliance on automated #directions reducing people’s capacity to navigate for themselves." #cartography
Thx #SophieBerrebi -
"We now leave #navigation to our #phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost." #JohnHarris
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise
"#GPS has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder #mountain #rescuers are being called out so often. [...] Between 2019 and 2024, the total number of #rescues had increased by 24%, and there was a marked jump among the 18 to 24 age group, among whom callouts almost doubled. [...] across #Britain, there is evidently a mounting problem about the gap between people’s urge to experience wild and open spaces, and their ability to cope when they actually get there. [...] research suggesting that “people with greater lifetime GPS experience have worse #spatialmemory during self-guided navigation”. [...] retested 3 years after the initial research, when they found that “greater GPS use since initial testing was associated with a steeper decline in hippocampal-dependent spatial memory”. The #hippocampus is the part of the brain that deals with navigation: among London taxi drivers, the need to memorise so many geographical details was found to cause it to increase in size. But here were findings that suggested the opposite: reliance on automated #directions reducing people’s capacity to navigate for themselves." #cartography
Thx #SophieBerrebi -
Filled out a survey about communication tools at our uni. I know it's hopeless, but I pitched Matrix. It's not as polished as it needs to be, but like the Fediverse, I'm convinced it's federated architecture will prove itself superior in terms of independence, trust and innovation compared to the centralized solutions like Teams, Whatsapp, Zoom, etc.
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Filled out a survey about communication tools at our uni. I know it's hopeless, but I pitched Matrix. It's not as polished as it needs to be, but like the Fediverse, I'm convinced it's federated architecture will prove itself superior in terms of independence, trust and innovation compared to the centralized solutions like Teams, Whatsapp, Zoom, etc.
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Filled out a survey about communication tools at our uni. I know it's hopeless, but I pitched Matrix. It's not as polished as it needs to be, but like the Fediverse, I'm convinced it's federated architecture will prove itself superior in terms of independence, trust and innovation compared to the centralized solutions like Teams, Whatsapp, Zoom, etc.
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lately i feel like i'm drowning.
#water #underwater #helpless #hopeless #illustration #clipstudio #clipstudiopaint #kleinekunstklasse #fediverse #fediverseart #artistsonmastodon #mastodonart #illustration #depression #sad
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“There’s no use even trying, because it’s hopeless…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQ7r3-r8vI
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“There’s no use even trying, because it’s hopeless…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQ7r3-r8vI
#FutureBibleHeroes #StephinMerritt