1000% this. You so frequently see relationships fail because they never established a solid foundation of communication.
I also believe that you should be each other’s safe person. If you have good open communication where no judgment is passed, you’ll not only learn more about your partner, but provide a safe space you both talk about literally anything.
I knew those birds reminded me of something.
(Content warning? Like, this is a really weird animation… Body horror?)
We had a wind/rain storm. Did our block and got home soaked. Not as bumping as last year. So I don’t think it’s dead, just a bad weather year.
I know I have friends, but they’re all technically my wife’s friends and their husbands. We probably socialize once or twice a month, depending on schedules. I love them all, but I have no friends that I socialize with 1:1. It’s always a group event. So in a way it feels like I have no friends.
The one friend that is truly and originally my friend, since middle school, I’ll see maybe once a month if I’m lucky and it’s usually a framily event with our wives and kids. And the time and distance apart feels wider than ever as we’ve gotten older.
Socializing at 40 is… different, and oddly lonely.
It’s not policy, it’s clearly sophons.
There are so many more options.
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Okay, I agree. I reflected on my original statement today and changed my opinion after talking about it with my peers in the real-world.
In all honesty, let them have it. Let them out themselves, let them put it on record. Let them burn themselves for the future.
Just another propaganda machine
Any time I engage with my community.
It’s easy to stay home, doom scroll and think there is nothing we can do. I know I’m lucky to live where I live, where the doom is just distant thunder. But joining community events makes me realize we’re not going to go down without a fight.
I’m already feeling nostalgic for democracy
Gary walking in on SpongeBob watching TV “just looking for the sports channel”. The pink sea anemone, the music, his reaction like he was caught is all quite suggestive.
In the mid 90s I don’t think I would have ever watched Lorenzo’s Oil on my own. It’s a drama about parents trying to find a cure for their kid’s disease. A disease so rare there is no one researching it. Oh and it’s directed by George Miller, director of the Mad Max movies.
Also the 60s adaptation of Flowers for Algernon “Charly” was wild to see as a kid. It’s very much a 60s film. Still the only adaptation I’ve seen. Only ever saw it the once. But I recall the teacher standing next to the TV with a sheet of paper to cover the screen for a couple scenes … I’m now incredibly curious what was in those scenes.
Just today I was tinkering with Continue.dev extension for VSCode. Locally running the models and not having sensitive proprietary source code sent over the wire to a 3rd party service was a big requirement for me to even consider bringing AI into my IDE.
Shit, is Skrillex dropping a new album?
I didn’t play it, but my wife and kid did, but the music really stood out to me when it was playing in the background. The tracks, Memories and Lullaby complement each other really well.
The soundtrack by Japanese Breakfast was one of the best parts of the game. A very solid mostly wordless ambient pop album. But the standout track is Glide. The song itself is fantastic but the moment it plays the game is so damn perfect. The whole soundtrack did an incredible job setting the tone for a slightly flawed but chill atmospheric adventure game.
If we’re talking something that sounds like a bootleg casset tape left out in the hot car … Neon Indian has you covered. Most of the Psychic Chasms album is wobbly.
Built my own CMS while trying to put together my art and design portfolio website. Applied for a graphic design job. In the first interview it came up in conversation that I designed and built the website from scratch. 2nd interview they were very interested to hear how I built the site. Got hired. Showed up on my first day and was introduced to the development team. I was very confused because I thought I was going to be doing design work. Became the lead web developer of their marketing department. Zero experience. Been a web developer for 15+ years now. I keep accidentally doing well at this and can’t get out now. I just wanted to draw.