#negativity — Public Fediverse posts
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A new #study reveals that #onlinenegativity is not solely driven by attention-seeking algorithms. The study analysed over 2B #Reddit comments and found that the innate drive to differentiate oneself, or “semantic differentiation,” contributes to #negativity. As conversations progress, individuals seek to stand out by making unique comments, often leading to more negative discourse. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/08/does-vitriol-make-you-feel-special/?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews
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Negativity & Conform can get in the Bin! Positive Vibes all the way #Twitch #gaming #Positivity #negativity #conform
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Communication expert shares 3-step reset method for dealing with extremely negative people
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From Psychopolitics, by Byung-Chul Han:
« It is impossible to subordinate human personhood to the dictates of positivity entirely.
Without negativity, life degrades into ‘something dead’. Indeed, negativity is what keeps life alive. Pain is constitutive for experience (Erfahrung). Life that consists wholly of positive emotions and the sensation of ‘flow’ is not human at all.
The human soul owes its defining tauntness and depth precisely to negativity. »
#psychology #politics #negativity #positivity #quote #byungchulhan #psychopolitics
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Oh, look! Another self-righteous indie-blogger whining about coffee donations ☕️. Apparently, the biggest threat to civilization isn't climate change or world hunger—it's those dastardly "Buy Me a Coffee" buttons! 😂 Newsflash: nobody cares about your caffeine aversion, but thanks for the four minutes of #negativity. 💤
https://hakkerman.eu/blog/i-wont-buy-you-a-coffee/ #indieblogger #coffeehumor #satire #socialcommentary #HackerNews #ngated -
New blog post on Doomsayers.
https://jrsofty1.stinkbugonline.com/blog/posts/doomsayers_and_their_negativity/
This goes out to the one single person who voted for this topic in my poll last week.
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How to Stop Self Sabotage
You know exactly what you need to do. You have known for a while. And yet you keep not doing it.
You procrastinate on the thing that matters most. You start and then stop. You get close to something good and then somehow find a way to mess it up. You make progress and then quietly undo it. You tell yourself you will start properly on Monday, or next month, or when things settle down, and they never do.
This is self-sabotage. And it is not a personality flaw. It is not laziness. It is fear wearing a very convincing disguise.
Why We Sabotage Ourselves
Self-sabotage happens when part of you wants to move forward, and another part of you is terrified of what moving forward actually means.
Maybe success would mean more responsibility, more visibility, more risk of failure at a higher level. Maybe the new version of you would not fit into the relationships and environments you have built your life around. Maybe deep down, you do not actually believe you deserve what you say you want.
None of this is conscious. You do not sit down and decide to sabotage yourself. It is quieter than that. It shows up as distraction, as busyness, as suddenly finding ten other things that need doing right before you sit down to work on the thing that matters. It shows up as the argument you pick before a big opportunity, or the impulse to drink too much the night before something important.
The behaviour looks irrational from the outside. But it makes perfect sense once you understand what it is actually protecting you from: the risk of really trying and still failing.
The Patterns to Watch For
Procrastination as protection. If you never fully commit to something, you never fully fail at it. Keeping things at the planning stage forever means you always have the option of saying you could have done it if you had really tried. That protection is costing you the actual thing you want.
Self-destructive behaviour before high-stakes moments. Notice if you tend to drink more, sleep less, pick fights, or make impulsive decisions right before something important. This is not a coincidence. It is your nervous system trying to create a built-in excuse.
Rejecting good things before they can reject you. Pulling away from relationships that are going well. Quitting jobs before you can be fired. Leaving before you can be left. This is self-sabotage disguised as independence.
Perfectionism as an excuse not to start. If it has to be perfect before you begin, you will never begin. Perfectionism is not high standards. It is fear of being judged for something imperfect, so you produce nothing instead.
How to Actually Break the Pattern
The first step is awareness. You cannot change a pattern you cannot see. Start noticing when it happens. Not to judge yourself, but to get curious. What were you about to do before the sabotage kicked in? What specifically were you afraid of?
The second step is to change the question you ask yourself. Instead of “why do I keep doing this,” which is a shame spiral, ask “what am I protecting myself from right now?” That question opens up something useful. It treats the sabotage as information rather than evidence of your worthlessness.
The third step is to take the smallest possible action in the direction you want to go. Not the whole thing. Not a perfect version of it. The smallest thing. Momentum is built by doing, not by thinking about doing. Every small action you complete tells your nervous system that moving forward is survivable.
This is not a quick fix. These patterns are usually deeply rooted and do not disappear after one insight. But they do change with consistent, honest attention over time. And they change faster when you have someone helping you see what you cannot see yourself.
Ready to stop getting in your own way? I work with men who can see the pattern but need help actually breaking it. Book a free 30-minute call and let’s get into it.
#growth #mentalHealth #motivation #negativity #personalGrowth #procrastination #selfDoubt #ZsoltZsemba -
The Conversation: Digital media is using negativity to steal our attention — here’s how to reclaim it. “If you feel overwhelmed by the constant influx of bad news and find it difficult to focus on day-to-day tasks, that response is understandable. But research in psychology and cognitive science suggests there are ways to fight back against this and reclaim your attention.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/09/the-conversation-digital-media-is-using-negativity-to-steal-our-attention-heres-how-to-reclaim-it/ -
Things absolutely can get better but action is necessary for that to happen. To solve a problem, one must first acknowledge and understand it. Negativity without positivity is a dead end, but positivity without acknowledging the negative realities of the world is equally so. And the person pointing out a problem doesn't need to be the one fixing it--sometimes different people have different roles they are best suited for in the political project. However, the people working to solve a problem must work in tandem with the people identifying and analyzing it. And so, the positive solution can only arise from understanding and facing the negative, from understanding and confronting the obstacles to that solution.
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https://medium.com/storyangles/change-negative-thinking-into-positive-momentum-200e2ab15600
Change Negative Thinking Into Positive Momentum.
10 Daily Habits to Reset Your Mind.Practice these habits daily so your mind learns a new pattern. Notice possibilities instead of problems.
#positivethinking #negativity #medium #mentalhealth #habits #emotionalhealth
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Communication expert shares 3-step reset method for dealing with extremely negative people
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I think there's a tendency to do one of two politically harmful things: one of which is to mistake self-punishment for politically restorative action, another is to mistake an active choice to remain politically ignorant for avoiding the former.
I think it is important to avoid both of these tendencies. We must guard against the tendency to criticize ourselves merely for the sake of criticism, as if our guilt alone somehow cleanses us of culpability. We must guard against the attempt to expose ourselves to the negative merely for the sake of it, but also against the tendency to avoid the negative and the unpleasant because we assume political futility; because we assume there is no value in knowledge that may be difficult or upsetting for us to confront. Because there is value in that knowledge--confronting that knowledge is the first necessary step to the actions that can heal our world. -
🚨 Breaking news: #negativity not only #thrives on #Hacker #News but gets rewarded! In an utterly shocking twist of #human #nature, it turns out that people enjoy a good grumble more than a polite pat on the back. 📉 Nice guys finish last, and complainers get all the #karma. Who knew? 😂
https://philippdubach.com/standalone/hn-sentiment/ #rewards #HackerNews #ngated -
PsyPost: Negativity drives engagement on political TikTok. “A new study published in Computers in Human Behavior suggests that political videos on TikTok that criticize opposing political parties and use emotionally charged or uncivil language tend to generate higher levels of engagement.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/18/psypost-negativity-drives-engagement-on-political-tiktok/
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“Good morning, Eeyore,” said Pooh.
“Good morning, Pooh Bear,” said Eeyore gloomily. “If it is a good morning,” he said. “Which I doubt,” said he.A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 6 “Eeyore Has a Birthday” (1926)More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2850/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #pooh #poohbear #winniethepooh #eeyore #attitude #depression #gloom #goodmorning #greeting #negativity #pessimism #pleasantry
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“Bläh, and bläh again…”
I have not been feeling all too well the last couple of months. A lot happened. Trauma, pain, grief, loss, guilt, doubt, remorse... So many tears have been shed, so many nightmares have been had, and I am afraid, the end of the sadness and pain is not in sight just yet... I understand that a part of my suffering I'm self-inflicting... I can't seem to let go of certain feelings, I keep going back to some of the worst memories, and I know it won't change a single thing, I just can't release these feelings, these bad memories, from my mind. 😢 And when I try to, when I almost succeed at times even, something happens that triggers these emotions and memories again. Like I'm not "allowed" to let the bad things be and go leave them behind, giving me a chance to focus on the positive... […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/blah-and-blah-again/
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How to erase bad perception?
My solution...
We can’t unlearn/remove negative things we heard, read, or seen, but we can re-learn and add new positive information and then erase/change the past negative beliefs. -
The Silent Damage of “You Will Never Win”
https://wp.me/p84YjG-5P8
#PowerOfWords #MentalHealth #Negativity #Healing #negativity #EmotionalWellness #zsoltzsembahttps://zsoltzsemba.com/the-silent-damage-of-you-will-never-win/
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PSA - If you’re an older adult, #DoomScrolling can actually lead to cognitive decline, according to a new study. “Repetitive negative thinking is associated with cognitive function decline in older adults” - So be happy! (I know, easier said than done 😵💫) #cognition #negativity #psychology #BehavioralSciences #study #research #depression #aging
https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-025-06815-2
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What if the truth about AI is more boring than we'd like? https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/what-if-the-truth-about-ai-is-more #AI #negativity #alarmism
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🎭 Marc's 'career advice' blog is like a stand-up #comedy set that forgot to be funny. His groundbreaking tip? Avoid #negativity and echo chambers - because nobody's ever thought of that before! 😂 If only he could serverlessly weld some #originality into his advice! 👨💻🤦♂️
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/06/20/career.html #careeradvice #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Swift falsifies his picture of the world by refusing to see anything in human life except dirt, folly and wickedness, but the part which he abstracts from the whole does exist, and it is something which we all know about while shrinking from mentioning it. Part of our minds — in any normal person it is the dominant part — believes that man is a noble animal and life is worth living: but there is also a sort of inner self which at least intermittently stands aghast at the horror of existence.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-09), “Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels,” Polemic, No. 5Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/76060/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cynicism #horror #humancondition #humannature #humanity #life #living #negativity #perspective
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Keep negative comments to yourself. Avoid any disputes.
#FortuneCookie #Fortune #Negativity #AvoidDisputes #SilentSunday
