Poems in true chronological order by post date
-> file: fediverse/1079 ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── @user-792 you have to go back a couple thousand years before it started feeling a bit better. sometime between "survival of the fittest" and "private ownership" was a pretty neat utopia. however, I wouldn't trade our world for that one. Not for all the human vitality, all the natural effulgence, all the dignity and wonder, none of it is worth it. We live in a blessed era, and while it feels bad, like you said it just feels bad. We are being inoculated against despair, for when it comes in force to our homes (as it has in so many other places of the world) we must be prepared. The point of preparation isn't to set up a stable base upon which you can stand and address things, though that's always a perk. The point is to practice making friends, practice designing systems, practice your skills and practice your hope. If you can master those, if you can do them the way an actor might do improv, then you'll be able to adapt more easily to whatever may come. We're in a very good spot I think. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1080 ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── here's an idea - when typing a command in a BASH terminal if you push up it inserts the previous command (as expected) but if you hold SHIFT and push up it inserts the first argument in your previous command. Then, you can push up again (while still holding shift) to go one command further back, and again to get the third previous command. Then, here's the cool part, if you are holding shift and you push left/right, then it moves from the first argument of the previous command to the second, third, fourth argument. example:ls -ltr ~/pictures/my-art/ feh [shift+up inserts -ltr] feh -ltr [hmmm that's not right] feh -ltr [shift+right switches to 2nd argument] feh ~/pictures/my-art/ [ah that's better] would be even cooler if it highlighted it in your previous terminal output so you could visually connect your current input with the previous input ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1081 ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: spirituality-star-wars │ └────────────────────────────┘ the Force in Star Wars isn't a magical force, it's a spiritual one. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1082 ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: mental-health-cursing-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ damn, I'm a pretty cool person. I wish I could hang out with me. Like, for all my flaws (what even are they ? ? ?) I'm still pretty awesome. I'm proud of me! Thank you parents, for raising me as such! Thank you past me, for making the decisions that you did! Also, fuck you past self, for making those OTHER decisions. You know the ones I'm talking about. No, that's not an excuse, it's all your fault and you're awful and everything about you sucks. Wait, hang on, wasn't I feeling happy to be here? Wasn't I just excited to live in the moment? Wasn't I just thinking about how: "all you have are good things, nothing here is bad" ? ? ? well, I still love you, even if you're a little "all over the place". [rereads post] hell yeah you ARE a cool person, yes you are, such a good cool person, yes yes yes, what a good girl you are oh my goodness :D :D :D ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1083 ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── it doesn't really matter how you do it, but the more time you spend thinking collectively the better you'll be able to adapt when necessary. I grew up on a homestead in a small town without many friends. I was homeschooled, and while I might see another person I knew once or twice a month, that was about it. Besides my family, of course. We were a collective, and ever since leaving I have yearned for that feeling of closeness. There's something about modern society that pushes us apart, and I resent it. Humans were meant for tribes, not multilevel marketing. That being said, culture is pretty neat. Society is pretty neat, when it's not being oppressive. I like the idea that I can buy carrots at the store instead of growing my own. I like the idea that I can post on Craigslist asking if anyone has a shovel they want to get rid of and someone can say "what the fuck are you trying to bury someone why would you do that" and I'm all like "wait no this post has gone off track can we refocus for a bit" and th ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1084 ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ I want to clarify two things in this song I wrote a while ago - when I say │ ║ "life isn't meant, to be enjoyed, so... what's the point in trying at all? - │ ║ Well, what's the point in giving up?" I was trying to say "hedonism isn't the │ ║ point of life" but I realize now upon listening to it for the first time since │ ║ writing it [liar lmao] that what it could be interpreted as is "everything │ ║ sucks and it will always suck, so face the future with tenacity" or whatever. │ ║ And that's like, not wrong, but also it's not the whole point, which is that we │ ║ shouldn't strive for contentment unless we're healing. │ ║ │ ║ also I say "never trust a guru" but I'd like to expand that to "never trust │ ║ your heroes" because they'll always disappoint you. But what is a hero if not │ ║ hope given form? Trust in the hope, not the person holding it at that moment. │ ║ You never know, maybe they'll get blown up by an artillery shell or maybe │ ║ they'll betray you or maybe they'll get bored or distracted or whatever. Never │ ║ trust your heroes, trust the inspiration. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1085 ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── @user-794 definitely go for the third, then you only have to work for 10 days! And 10 is a nice round number that fits on both hands. Side note, you can use your hands to draw. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ |