=== ANCHOR POEM === ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── I wish I could like... ride my bike somewhere for an hour or two, consult for a bit, then ride home (or to the next place) that'd be a fun way to apply myself, and it'd give me the chance to have some space for myself. as long as I had time to rest, I'm usually only good for half of a day. unless it's a project with a lot of tasks that need coordination, like building a house or working through a short-term urgent disaster. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 messages/527 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/2350 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── I spent about two hours today (and a good chunk of tomorrow's stamina) chasing a rabbit through a field. Can't help but wonder if that particular lead wasn't as important as leading from the front. Ah, well, we'll see. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/4744 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: cat-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ me to my cat: "don't eat so much that you puke, okay?" me to me: "yeah I can take on another task, I'm almost done with this one and then I'll just do that one and maybe this one'll get back to me at the same time as this one which conflicts with this other thing so maybe I'll just puke, okay?" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/1880 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── sometimes I decide against playing a Steam game because I don't want it to jump to the top of my "recently played" list Wish I could have like, a heatmap of when I played which game. I think that'd be useful for the archival process of my life. ... how pathetic, she measures her life in gameplay. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/3909 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── I don't really like singleplayer games sometimes a multiplayer game is too much effort to play with extra players, like Factorio where like anytime I'd play with other people they'd just kinda fuck off and do their own thing (whatever, I wanted to design a factory together, not play singleplayer together >.>) sometimes a multiplayer game has no players, RIP sometimes a multiplayer game has incredibly skilled players who shit on noobs and don't teach, RIP and sometimes a multiplayer game has no IRL friends that are into it, (personal RIP then) ... anyway, games are fun and we should play more of them. I wish I didn't have so much time to waste, but hey I guess that's where I'm comfortable, so... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/5460 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── if you sit down to write and nothing comes to mind, then either nothing needs to be said or maybe you should spend time reading instead. ... okey dokey, time to read I guess. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/3756 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: LLM-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-1071 I have plenty of things made, but none of it organized : ( Kinda makes me wish I could like... train an LLM on my social media posts and use it programmatically somehow to help me organize my stuff into different categories according to what kind of topic or style they were written in. Hmmm......... There's no way I could do it, I mean, there's no way I could organize and edit my stuff, but with the help of a computer I might. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/6449 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───── currently have 20-30 tabs open with poems written but not posted. I have no idea if I'm going to post all of these. I wrote all of them in ~2 hours, with maybe 3 or four being added as I was working on the production elements after the initial bingewrite. I also added a bit of context, or modified some of them that felt too cursed or otherwise unwieldy. Sometimes I got distracted and needed to come back and finish, and in those cases I only added a sentence or two because it's like "oh, where was I going with that? I remember what was next, but I don't know the further..." ... I think I might go for another. Wish me luck. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┘ --- #9 messages/740 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish whatever was happening ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┘ --- #10 notes/exhaustion --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════── Three hikes, two boat rides, two weeks. I'm exhausted Mon, Sep 8, 2025 Ms. Menardi You should not, generally, spend time in places covered in bird poop or poison oak. You should also avoid abandoned wooden structures or old fallen logs, because spiders. Also, don't spend too much time on islands made of sand. They wash away as you step on them, as erosion takes its toll. Plus permanence is impossible in your structures. Not ideal in any sense - build on rock. Sat, Sep 13, 2025 Ms. Menardi until you find people you can trust, you are your own scout. Sun, Sep 14, 2025 Ms. Menardi A humble princess would say: I don't need the best, i just need my favorite. Mon, Sep 15, 2025 Ms. Menardi I want a revolution because i want to be at home in my homeland. Look at me! Be as me! I yearn to tell my friends. But they're too busy being like themselves. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┘ --- #11 fediverse/3722 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── @user-1218 playing one of my 4 gameboys, reading some of my books or journals, using their own brought devices, playing with my cat (she's not sociable but if you don't mind her claws she can fight and that's kinda fun) watching something on the TV, talking with other people, making / eating food, um... sleeping... and "sleeping"... idk what else tho. Drawing? Getting stoned? I have lots of bad edibles. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/846 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-spirituality │ └───────────────────────────┘ in a place organized like capitalism, you go to university for four years (if you're lucky) and then work until you can't anymore. Then you're taken care of (if you're lucky) until you depart from this earth in peace. in my home, a home I've never lived, you'd stay at that university for as long as you'd like. you'd work whenever you liked, and if enough work wasn't being done then working would be made to feel more likable. then, when you're old as dirt (or whenever you'd like) you can depart from this earth as you please. when I die, bury me where I fall. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/5246 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────── lol I spent half an hour holding a trowel and then I designed a new type of digging instrument and they want me to work a job /eyeroll /stickey-outey-tonguey-face/pics/all/total/* -ffvagrnbeexey --no-menus 14 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/3549 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ CW: video-games-mentioned │ └───────────────────────────┘ if the choice is between working on your game / mod and playing a game / mod, always work on your game / mod. your work will outlast you. your time spent in a state of pleasure will sustain you. sometimes there's not a choice. sometimes you need to play, and that's okay. to play is natural, it's one of the first things humans do. we also work. children build sand castles. adults build stone castles. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/1990 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┐ ║ When my family would go on roadtrips, I'd hide under a blanket in the front │ ║ seat with my laptop and power inverter just to hide from the glare. │ ║ │ ║ My mom would play audiobooks, usually fantasy stories, and my sisters would │ ║ watch their portable TVs. Like, dvd players that you could carry on top of │ ║ your lap. Not laptops, but little purpose-built devices primarily intended to │ ║ be used to watch DVDs, or rather movie files that were printed on a disk. │ ║ │ ║ And yes, it's disk, not disc, thanks for asking. │ ║ │ ║ anyway it was pretty nice I have fond memories of jugging a gas-station snack │ ║ while also swapping circular cartridges - most games required the game's CD to │ ║ be inserted in order to play the game. │ ║ │ ║ which is just... a nonsensical restriction if you think about it hard enough. │ ║ I mean, like, can you imagine if you needed to insert your windows disk │ ║ anytime you wanted your computer to turn on? Just... write the disk │ ║ information! To disc! Save it so that you never need the crude piece of │ ║ plastic again! Then pass it to your fr │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/3834 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ some people prepare for revolution like a boy gets ready for a party others do so like a girl packing for a weekend trip to vegas I do it like a kid who forgot the paper was due on monday in 7th period and so spends their entire lunch period writing it (missing 4th in the process because the conclusion paragraph was giving me difficulty) but I think no matter how you do it, we're all just waiting for something to happen. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/2135 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ I feel like we should switch animals every once in a while. Like, trade pets. │ ║ Then, we being friends, could see them every once in a while, and still be │ ║ cool and their friend. Then, when the time comes to interchange, they can │ ║ choose 55% of the time which team they want to spend time with. But they have │ ║ to spend at least a couple months with them before they can make a decision, │ ║ because animals don't use the same language as humans, meaning they need more │ ║ time to find their own home. │ ║ │ ║ do you ever think about how like, furries feel distanced from humanity? │ ║ │ ║ like, it's so different to how they want to be, but that's how they were │ ║ raised. Like, the misalignment of the soul between their two self-same parts. │ ║ The body, with it's experiences, and the dreaming mind, with it's eternal and │ ║ intransigent perspective. │ ║ │ ║ each part of the brain is travelling over slightly different parts of │ ║ spacetime, │ ║ │ ║ (hence, brain waves, like cosmic background radiation, or static on the │ ║ television, it's just... random elements of noise.) │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/1755 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── today is a magical day. I can feel it in my fate. Always remember, having fun is important too! Don't forget to be yourself, and keep it together man. If you see a door, you should open it - what's on the other side? Love for animals and kindness of the spirit are impossible to fake, they always know if you're lying. Not the animals, they can be dumb sometimes, but the other thing. And now for the downsides. If you find a cursed artifact, please don't throw it in the river. It might ask you to, but please don't. Much better to destroy it by melting it down (if it's metal, which is common as metal lasts long enough to become forgotten) or convince it that it's a recently deceased person being buried (helps if you know the creator). If none of that applies to you, don't worry. Eat something healthy, drink a decent amount of water, and maybe exercise a bit. Oh, and it can't hurt to ask. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/3755 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── @user-1071 hehe it was my favorite job I've ever had downside is... it was hard to get to work every day. I'm not built for long-term dedicated labor. Maybe I should freelance? idk where to even begin with that, though. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/4179 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── okay, so, you could spend the next couple hours scrolling social media or you could go for a walk in the rain ... is it raining where you're at? I forget. Ah well whatever. You could go for a walk, whether or not it's in the rain, which surely would be a better use of your time. What are you gonna find on social media that you'll remember in a week? Hell, what will you remember tomorrow? my mother used to tell me that "television rots your brain" and, yeah, social media counts for that too. Thanks mom. I miss you. ... I could just call you, but it's the middle of the night for you. And probably for me, I guess, WINK in any case there's little to do today that can't wait for tomorrow. So why not go on a walk? Even if nothing happens, especially if nothing happens, it'll be good for you. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ |