#human-experience — Public Fediverse posts

✮ Warning Lights I Ignore ✮

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L'aumento notevole della prescrizione di antidepressivi ed altri psicofarmaci è un segno di come abbiamo medicalizzato l'esperienza e la vita umana.

#psychiatry #emotions #humanexperience

https://iai.tv/video/the-pathology-of-everyday-life

A beautifully simple Korean phrase said to loved ones having a hard day is bringing people to tears

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/this-simple-korean-phrase-said-to-loved-ones-having-a-hard-day-is-bringing-people-to-tears-ex1/

✮ Blinker ✮

We spend so much time blinking and looking away,
we blink so much that we don’t realize our fuse is alight.
A turn of the dial,
into another scene,
never rooted in the moment,
as transient as everything mortal.
We blink, to erase the unpleasant,
we blink, to jump forward,
coil our bodies around rest,
wrap paychecks inside our hands,
so, we can blink a little more.
We skip and jump out of the day,
when tomorrow is worse than today,
we blink it away,
as if we have unlimited blinks,
and soon enough we’ll hit a wall
and wish we could have kept our eyes open
more frequently.

Here today; gone tomorrow, never take anything for granted.

When complaining about long walks, someone is dreaming of having such luxury. Walks that people take for granted mean everything to someone else who is bound by a condition that prevents them from doing so. They could be bedridden; they could be hiding in fear in a war zone; they could be impeded by physical conditions that limit them.

You complain about tidying up. It’s because you have a home. You stress out over traffic. It’s because you have a car. You can’t deal with the noise. You have a family. Someone out there wants what you have but can only dream of it.

When frowning in dissatisfaction over a prepared meal, think about that person who took time and poured every ounce of their heart, hoping to bring you happiness. Think.

Be grateful that you are in school; not everyone is afforded such an opportunity. Not as a promise to secure a job, but to learn. Bitterness often comes from discounting what people already have. Contentment, as they say, is the key to happiness. Dream, but be forgiving. If it’s yours, it will come to fruition. If not, steady your heart and live with what you have.

Never neglect people or things that add, give, and bring value to your life. Blessed are those who can’t count how many people they love with their fingers. If you do, you’re already rich. Hurray! You will have someone to turn to.

At the end of the day, when all that you take for granted is gone, what will be left of you?

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Live it Up!

This Moment – Lost

a thought of beauty strikes me
and I must express it so

but as I reach to grasp it
it flutters away,

a moth,
a feather,
a small white bird
startled by the motion
of my wanting.

my hand closes
around nothing,

void,

and I stand there
foolish with longing,
as if the air itself
had promised me a gift
then taken it back.

and I weep
for the passing moment.

it will never come again.

not in that light,
not with that breath,
not with the same small door
opened briefly
between the soul
and the world.

May 8, 1987 (age 19) (Expanded and updated June 2026)

Y’all. I have a curated list of things that bring me joy plus bytes on design, code, accessibility, privacy, useful tools, and antifascism:

https://markwrites.io/nano-bytes-05

You can subscribe via RSS or email. Either to articles or the periodic bytes or both.

Some people like it. Others want to punch me in the face. But not because I’m a nazi. Maybe you’ll fit into the former group. Then we can like each other.

#RSS #Newsletter #Design #Code #Accessibility #Privacy #Tools #BeingHuman #HumanExperience #MarkWrites

There are ongoing attempts to limit human experience.
They seem to be setting "being human" up to be more intellectual.

First example is "Life occurs in language." from #est / Landmark Education.
From what I saw this was held by Landmark Ed people to mean "Life only occurs in language."

(Consider if earthworms are alive & possess language.)

Latest is attributed to #FredRogers:
"Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable."
#HumanExperience

✮ Dreaming of Vanilla After Dark ✮

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✮ The Person I Could Become ✮

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The wound, the gift, and the voice.

https://itstheaudacityoftruthforme.wordpress.com/2026/04/26/the-wound-the-gift-and-the-voice/

Why understanding autism means looking beyond spoken language – two autistic researchers of communication explain
#Autism #Neurodiversity #Inclusion #Communication #Education #MentalHealth #Disability #Research #Society #Awareness #HumanExperience #Health
https://the-14.com/why-understanding-autism-means-looking-beyond-spoken-language-two-autistic-researchers-of-communication-explain/

Humans? What Are They Good For?

"Creativity is not the creation; the song, the painting, or the website is just the “receipt.” AI is a great tool for printing receipts, but it doesn’t have the desire to create them in the first place"

https://www.ficklefutures.com/p/humans-what-are-they-good-for

#creativity #AI #artandtechnology #humanexperience #innovation

Humans? What Are They Good For?

"Creativity is not the creation; the song, the painting, or the website is just the “receipt.” AI is a great tool for printing receipts, but it doesn’t have the desire to create them in the first place"

https://www.ficklefutures.com/p/humans-what-are-they-good-for

#creativity #AI #artandtechnology #humanexperience #innovation

✮ We, The Beautiful Blemishes ✮

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CSS Proves Me Human

https://will-keleher.com/posts/this-css-makes-me-human/

#HackerNews #CSS #WebDevelopment #HumanExperience #Design #Coding #HackerNews

What to write in a bio about myself? I’m this, I’m that, BLA BLA BLA — this is how I used to write about myself. I have many hobbies that change all the time. I’m curious. I get obsessed with things. I’m this, I’m that.

But maybe I’m none of these things. Maybe I’m just me — Brett, a human who loves to experience and try on different things. Maybe I’m not any of these things. Maybe I’m just an idea.

#Identity
#SelfReflection
#HumanExperience
#StreamOfConsciousness
#WritingCommunity

You can’t contain a free spirit — some people don’t like that, but nobody can stop my smile.

#FreeSpirit
#SlowTravel
#LifeInTransit
#HumanExperience
#OnTheRoad

Every day abroad is full of ups and downs. Small apartments, lonely streets, and moments of doubt. But in the struggle, I see people for who they really are — their challenges, their courage. And in seeing, I find wealth.

https://whothefami.substack.com/p/rich-in-the-human-experience

#TravelWriting #ExpatLife #HumanExperience #PersonalGrowth #SoloTravel

Vientiane is teaching me how reserved Lao culture really is.
People tell you it’s a relief to be open with you — and then they disappear.
Saving face here can mean being sick alone, hurting alone, and ghosting quietly.
As an expat, I notice it.
But living here and disagreeing with it? That must be much harder.

https://whothefami.substack.com/p/vientiane-city-of-ghosts

#ExpatLife
#SlowTravel
#Laos
#CulturalObservation
#WritingLife
#HumanExperience
#SoloTravel

On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/crisis/crisis.pdf

#HackerNews #OnBeingAHumanBeing #TimeOfCollapse #Crisis2022 #HumanExperience #PDFInsights

The Rules For Being Human

#LifeLessons #RulesForLife #PersonalGrowth #SelfDiscovery #Wisdom #HumanExperience #Mindfulness #Quotes #ShareInspireQuotes

We’re so used to time being one-way that we rarely stop to ask what that constraint quietly shapes about memory, identity, consequence, and meaning.

Some limits don’t just restrict us. They organise how experience hangs together at all.

This is the first in a short series circling the limits we live inside, and what those limits quietly shape about meaning, belief, and how we make sense of being here.

https://pedroinnecco.com/2025/12/one-dimensional-time-the-arrow-that-owns-us/

#Time #Philosophy #Meaning #Consciousness #HumanExperience

I’m going to be honest: when you spend a long time in any country, the frustrations can build up, and you can find yourself hating everyone. That isn’t racism — it’s the same as when a local has a bad few days and ends up hating people in general.

It’s just a cloud, and it does pass. I never actually hated the people; I was sick, exhausted, and having a bad time.

#LifeAbroad #ExpatLife #HumanExperience #EmotionalHonesty #SelfReflection #TravelMindset

#DepthMatters #NoSmallTalk #Authenticity #RealTalk #Philosophy #IntellectualConversation #MeaningfulConnections #Vulnerability #HumanExperience #MentalHealth #DeepThoughts #Existential #HonestConversations #TwistedMind #SoulfulDialogues #booksky #books #writingcommunity #readingcommunity

I Want Depth, Not Small Talk

First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks

https://louisville.edu/medicine/news/first-ever-recording-of-a-dying-human-brain-shows-waves-similar-to-memory-flashbacks

#HackerNews #dyingbrain #memoryflashbacks #neuroscience #consciousness #humanexperience

Websites Are for Humans

https://marcus-obst.de/blog/websites-are-for-humans

#HackerNews #WebDesign #HumanExperience #UserFriendly #DigitalCulture