Sometimes, when someone expresses pain, It's good to simply acknowledge what they said, show our attention and empathy, then quietly remain in active listening.
This is a simple helpful act.
Caring about others, listening to what they are going through, ties us together as a community, builds our strength, is a weapon we can use in our struggle.
The Tower & The Star
One must accept death in order to truly live.
The concept of a relationship as having expectations, as having any rules, as bonds, must dissolve in order for your partner to have real agency.
Each partner must accept that the relationship is over before it can begin.
Each person is a solar system surrounding the brilliant star 
of their divine spark, they can not be contained.
If you shine bright enough, you won't have to worry about your loved ones leaving.
In this essay I will...
Why are all McDonald’s millennial grey now tho? What happened to red and yellow?
busybee: fluffy rambles: A clean energy future https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/14477-A-clean-energy-future #Environmentalism #CleanEnergy #Technology #Musing #Blog
I am facing an ethical conundrum, which as an ethicist, is uncomfortable. I’m generally pretty good at discerning what is “right”, but also, at core, I am a chaotic paladin with a traumatic backstory, and less than forgiving of certain things than others might be.
All of the people I would generally turn to in cases of ethical discomfort are either involved or know the people involved, and for various reasons, secrecy has become paramount for many of them.
All of which to say, morals are hard, and sometimes following them may mean losing friends. I don’t like this timeline, and would very much like to be placed in the happy space socialist timeline please.
The song Lightning Crashes by LIVE was before its time.
A 90’s treasure, that one. 
You ever think about how in the story of the Paperclip Maximizer, the moral tech people take away is to be terrified of uncontrolled AI?
It never occurs that the lesson might be something more generalized. Perhaps that bending all of ones resources towards a singular task is ultimately self-destructive and pointless?
Anyway, how's it going US Tech Industry? Still putting all your eggs in the "acquire infinite GPUs to acquire infinite intelligence" basket? Oh, I'm sorry, was the eggs thing insensitive of me right now?
Sigmund Freud once said women have penis envy. That is not actually true, but he wasn't a good enough researcher to figure that out.
However, men DEFINITELY have womb envy
What is the pH value of DNA?
After all, the A stands for acid, it's logical it would have such a value.
Is it frustrating to anyone else that one of the very few instances where Americans use the metric system... Is with guns?? Like... WTF? #thoughts #musing #reflection #metric #america #stupid #themetricsystemissuoerior
I've been watching a long retrospective on Ultima Underworld: Stygian Abyss on Youtube.
I quite liked the game, I bought it new when it was published and played it quite much. I never finished it, though - it was a long game and got quite hard in the end.
The video made me think about how the game has quite a lot of freedom, but also responsibility. The maker of the video talks about how you can make the game unwinnable easily.
1/n
I thought I never see the day. I saw someone defending an American health insurance company and free them of all wrong doing while calling the recent assassin a, "whiney rich boy who was upset he didn't get his way."
Fuck man, some people have really lost the plot I feel like.
Thinking about the period I was involved in a fledgling Timebank. Kinda failed as the council stopped funding the voluntary group. Almost an attempt to manufacture community in the wake of viscious austerity cuts. #Musing #RandomThoughts #TimeBanking
https://timebanking.org/
https://timebankingscotland.org.uk/
I was thinking about how much tabletop RPG gaming I have on tap at any given moment and wanted to jot down why it is that I don't think I've wasted my life. And why I have every setting idea ever made at my fingertips.
https://grimtokens.garden/Thoughts/Every+Setting%2C+Every+System%2C+Its+On+Tap+Here
The Joy of Railroading... Or Call of the Choo Choo
#BoxcarNation #Musing #Inspiration #Railroad #TravelbyRail #Brooklyn #Trolley
http://rollingboxcars.com/2024/11/18/the-joy-of-railroading-or-call-of-the-choo-choo/
I have thought about it for awhile. One thing that I have noticed about Japanese media is that no matter how ridiculous some of their ideas are (Sport girls driving tanks, characters that turn into warships, etc) the reason that it works is that they don't skimp on character development.
They make you fall in love with the characters so you are happy to forgive the abject ridiculousness of it all. Something I think we can all learn (especially me who struggles sometimes with characters. lol ) #musing #writingcommunity
I tried AI for the first time, and was able to make specialized porn ALARMINGLY fast.
