one thing i keep forgetting is that yes, even if you only get half as much as you paid for if you sell something on the second-hand market, you also only have to pay half. so you can trade things for other things, and it's really no worse deal than trading brand new things for each other.

i have body hair than i used to

it grows on you 🥴

nostr:npub16n5s5gg59l28nt9ma4fzz59svkx27sweyqm209thsrh7dzdr5qks46azcj China has ancient history but the current China isn't too closely connected to that

nostr:npub1t6qgftxwktglnaana3kx2uls59qe7taujuvje0yd9uf9kutryd2s5ghtd2 i can see how people might thing of it like some sort of escape room challenge but i seriously wasn't in that mood when i was writing it

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in playful jester mind space today

starting the blog "Absurd Problems Only Thor Has"

going to therapy

a.k.a. the self-centrifuge

nostr:npub1ze7ez0l75kvc6yyhw06ahvehagdfwcj2cuur05cep724w7u8guasngfut2 yeah, essentially, since they do the job of fitting it all together and "selling" it as one "thing"

it stopped flooding me. but why did it start doing that and what stopped it? i was a working IT professional who wrote code for a living until 3 years ago. i'm supposed to know this, but my working theory is that the computer gods had some kind of battle.

"to continue having this argument, please pay $10"

welcome to the fruiture, said the fruiturist

the plain cats i owned in the past rarely never overate and throw up. the only purebred i have owned does it several times a year. i think one orange cat i owned was prone to it. he was a lot like Blizzard in that he was raised indoors and was very affectionate. seems like a side effect of domestication.

nostr:npub1eg5ej5cevluxafenwq5n4nke83fkxur3jy869as770nfx2l60paqzrhh76 i've been in a kind of dead spot for the past couple of years where i try to take up one of my usual hobbies and quickly lose interest in them

global UFO signings

maybe the aliens only speak English 👽

viva la evolution 🥴

i'd probably be blocked by a lot fewer instances if i was doing constant Scandi style diplomacy around the Fediverse and essentially kissing everyone's asses all the time. not exactly my idea of having a good time though. i'm not a politician, after all.

you know, attracting users to a instance that aims to be unbiased is a bit of an uphill battle on a network where many if not most of the major instances are run by people who are part of the same echo chamber and thus have both a belief system and a reputation to defend.

long-time users who leave this bubble will leave many of their friends behind because of the blocking policies and shared block lists, and risk getting their reputations tarnished through guilt by association.

new users never see these instances. they've been on-boarded and fulled through to one of the "approved" instances, and by the time they realise there are other options, it's too late.

the most successful attempt at running such an instance is probably noagendasocial.com, because Adam Curry has a big following and it recruited its users from outside this bubble, so it can stand on its own legs. it also helps that most users are fans of the show and thus have something to talk about and bond over.

the block list reason: transphobia

what actually happened, typically: a debate on the nature of transsexualism and whether it's natural or possibly a mental disorder

my position?

before you can even begin to discuss that, you must understand how psychologists define mental disorders to begin with.

this is not a trivial thing, and it has shifted over time. and one aspect of "mental disorder" is actually socially dependent. what might make someone seem insane in one culture might be perfectly fine in another, and thus, treatment may be needed in one but not the other.

mental disorders are as much social issues as they are conditions, and a therapist's job help a person function in the society and culture that they find themselves in.

now, as it happens, the consensus among many therapists these days is that it isn't a disorder, since it isn't something that harms the person nor the people around them, even if it may be upsetting to some.

but what is "harm" and what is "upsetting"...

...do you see how complex this issue really is? but no one even gets that far in thinking and discussing it, because everybody's far too emotional for that.