MelodiousFunk
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The police do not care about porch pirates.
The pocket depression rectangle is great for distraction noises in a pinch.
If we invert the chirality of the tachyon pulse emitter, we can stabilize the fluctuations in the muonic field!
Same, that one is completely unrelatable to me. My boyfriend can do it, but we suspect it's actually dissociation, a trauma response.
Ding ding ding! For me, the thoughts become so pervasive/overwhelming that I either retreat completely, or get lost in the sauce. It's not uncommon for my spouse to check in on me while I'm on the toilet. "You've been in there for an hour." Zero recollection of time passing, and little to no memory of thoughts. Or I'll be in the shower, have a stray thought snag a neuron, and who knows how long later I'm still standing there holding the soap, unsure of what I've washed already, but shaken because I just mentally experienced a dozen different versions of a traumatic event that hasn't actually happened. The former is as close as I get to head empty, the latter is everything firing at once in the least productive way possible.
I've tried to so many times "clear my mind of thought" as people say to do for meditation, but all the attempts have ever done was leave me more stressed than I was before. My brain does not shut the fuck up. Ever. I've been suffering from insomnia as far back as I can recall, all because no matter how tired I am, sometimes my brain just will. not. be. quiet. Everything is a potential stimulus. Any minor sound, the feeling of my bedsheet, even having my partner turn over could remind me of some obscure memory or story or fact, and my brain doesn't stop, it just changes direction.
Loud and clear. For meditation, I've found that guided works better for me. And instead of "clearing my head" (ha), concentrating on abstract visualizations related to the guidance helps. For sleep, I have to break all of the "rules." Have something to concentrate on like a game, video, or book until I feel like I'm "ready." (Like dropping the phone or controller.) And then have music playing low to take my attention as I fall asleep. Without it, as you said, any little stimulus is enough to send things into overdrive and undo any sleepiness. Doubly so if the stimulus leads to anxiety.
Also, fuck doctors that won't listen. And double-fuck those that insist on trying to cram everything into boxes that they're familiar with, to the exclusion of maybe just MAYBE the person living through the experience has a better read on said experience than you do.
I was surprised at how close some of those tones got. Definitely not a replacement for the real deal, but it's still impressive tech.
Accepting your premise as true, it logically follows that god is in fact a shithead.
If perfect poop is ¥5000, how about ¥2500 for subpar poop? I can donate regularly.
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Forcing a square peg into a round hole is soul crushing.
In that same vein, being a round peg in a square hole, nominally "fitting," but being constantly hounded to fill in all of the corners all at once all of the time is exhausting.
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I just finished Advocate, book 3 of Daniel M. Ford's The Warden series. I've been really enjoying this world. The first two books ended on cliffhangers, and the year wait between entries was killing me. Book 3 ended with a nice wrap up of one arc and a setup for another, both building up the bones of a larger story that's been looming ominously.
The problem is, it looks like Tor has dropped the series. The Warden and Necrobane were available in hardcover, but Advocate only got a TPB release. I can't find anything concrete about book 4, and according to a friend of a friend (and taken with the appropriate grain of salt) sales weren't good enough on the first book (?!?) to warrant re-upping the series.
I'm bummed. I found out about Ford's first series, Paladin, through word of mouth. I thought it was okay - a little tropey in places, but once he found his pace it was entertaining enough. Then he did some detective stuff that I had no interest in, but when I heard that he was doing another fantasy series, and that it got picked up by Tor, my interest was piqued. The result so far has been a marked improvement from Paladin, and one of the few things to poke through my deep depression these past few years. And now it's all in limbo.
Maybe I'm overreacting. I'm not going to pretend the know the machinations of the publishing world, and maybe someone else is going to pick up the series. It's just frustrating to find something nice and get it yanked away.
Anyway, rant over. I enjoyed my time with this series regardless of its future. If anyone else has read it (or has heard any news about continuation), I'd love to hear your thoughts.
What day is it, anyway?
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/20408569
This one has been bugging me for awhile, so I don't know when it started. But images in-line in the text portion of posts show at their original resolution, and do not scale down.
Example: https://50501.chat/post/19511
Etc
Possibly related, images that are wider than they are tall don't scale down in comments.
