#thegrind — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #thegrind, aggregated by home.social.
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🔥 Working long days in August feels like grinding rep when your raid party's on cooldown.
🧠 I’ve been leading the Advanced After Effects course at SoftUni Creative — high-focus, high-intensity.
🎯 Students are already specced for motion. My job? Help them level up their DPS — Design Per Second.
🎮 Animation is the grind. The pain is the pleasure. And that makes it worth it.
#todormotion #SoftUni #thegrind #DreamDesignDeliver #grind #animation #mograph #aftereffects
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This kind of thing drives me nuts. That guy in the picture is a farmer. The apple tree behind him takes planting, watering, pruning, harvesting, preserving year after year. He had to prepare and bake that pie he's eating. The garden takes cultivating, buying seeds, planting, weeding, watering, harvesting, preserving. Then the chickens need a chicken house built, summer and winter they need fencing, protection, water, food, and managing. If any of this all gets sold, the farmer has to either go to a market or build a market stall, pick in early mornings, wash, display, sell, manage the money and accounting.
All of that is just from this little silly painting. Everyone has to "grind". It's just different depending on how you choose to live your life. Memes like this contribute to the problem of younger people heading to the country to "live freely" and get so bogged down by the amount of work it takes that they fail then write massive amounts of blogs about how homesteading is "not sustainable" and no one can do it. Anyone can do it. You just have to be prepared to work your ass off.
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Thriving is not what awaits you at the end of the grind.
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The problem that I'm finding with modern capitalism -- At least one of the problems -- Is that people have become their own brand and that interactions with other humans can often feel like a sales pitch.
Is it a social media account or an advertising platform? Is it a human I'm talking to or a product.
I can only see this getting weirder as AI enters the fray.
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via Vinnie Mancuso on Twitter:
> *watches NOPE, the movie about a giant monster whose core looks like a camera that hangs over Hollywood and quite literally chews people up then spits them out*
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> Is this movie even about anythingRecommended thread to read: 🧵 :twitter: https://twitter.com/VinnieMancuso1/status/1599852958925017088
#filmmaking #hollywood #TheGrind #TheGrinder #ToxicWorkplace #NOPEmovie / #fz_links #fz_funny
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via Vinnie Mancuso on Twitter:
> *watches NOPE, the movie about a giant monster whose core looks like a camera that hangs over Hollywood and quite literally chews people up then spits them out*
>
> Is this movie even about anythingRecommended thread to read: 🧵 :twitter: https://twitter.com/VinnieMancuso1/status/1599852958925017088
#filmmaking #hollywood #TheGrind #TheGrinder #ToxicWorkplace #NOPEmovie / #fz_links #fz_funny
