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just passed a guy in the store wearing a shirt that said "I hate being sexy but I'm a chubby bearded man so I can't help it". hell yeah brother

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FURSONA #3 GO! meet Ice-Cream Sundae, self-proclaimed "professional hedonist" and Pawtland's biggest chocolate consumer

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There's a Thing you like to do. When you're bored, your first thought is the Thing. You find yourself going to do the Thing without even thinking. It's the first thing you do when hot wake up, and you inevitably stay up late doing it.

Maybe it's drinking or smoking, maybe it's online gambling. Maybe it's social media, TikTok, porn or something much darker.

You lose track of time when you do it. When you're NOT doing it, you wish you were. You resent your responsibilities for getting in the way of the Thing. You resent friends and family. The Thing makes you happy, and everything else is anti-joy.

It's addiction.

The good news is, there's a thousand ways to overcome addiction.

The best way is to work with a professional. Maybe find a support group. But there are countless other options.

For some people, cold turkey works. For others, keeping a sobriety journal is enough. Gratitude lists, prayer, community support, there are many different approaches. And you can do more than one at once.

My Thing is mobile phone video games. And I treat this with a sobriety app.

There's a community aspect, where others with similar addictions post their stories, and you can post yours.

When I first joined, the most common addiction in my community (i.e. phone addiction) was to social media. Instagram and TikTok.

That's no longer the case.

The most common addiction in my community is now to AI chat bots.

This isn't an aspect of LLMs I've seen discussed. But people are hooked on these chat bots the way others are addicted to cam girls.

In this app, my feed shows me people who've been sober for as long as I have. I relapsed this week, so I'm seeing people who are 3 or 4 days clean.

I love them. These brave people, acknowledging a problem and doing something about it.

And they're in despair. A new Thing exists, and it's a temptation that ruins their lives. And there are so many more of them than other phone addictions.

I don't think we've begun to see how drastically this technology is harming people.

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Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.

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Coincidentally, today is Valentine's Day in Brazil. ❤️🇧��

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watching a video and realizing I miss the term "flame war", it was JUST tongue-in-cheek goofy enough of a term to describe how silly it was to carry on long arguments online over shit that doesn't matter and was often started/spurned by a troll. Now ALL of it is just "discourse" or "engagement" which feels like they put a godawful slap of PR paint over the surface of flame wars like a cheap landlord looking to charge 1000 dollars more for the same crumbling walls

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what the fuck

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*trips over my own feet and faceplants in front of you, scattering papers everywhere* *They all read some variant of "What if after jade shadows Umbra decided to ease up on the Stalker since he's got a child to take care of now and is letting him live in the places he lived on on the moon" and "What if umbra was the one to teach the stalker how to be a father to a child"

*One of them reads "old man yaoi" and is covered in question marks*

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reblog for something t4t to happen to you this summer.

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You're not actually a better friend for not articulating and respecting your own needs, limits and boundaries. Your lack of communication and boundaries is not some impressive sacrifice. You're not doing anyone any favors by acting like you're okay with things you aren't okay with. You're just building burnout and resentment that will eventually damage the relationship in question. And when you eventually snap and walk away because you silently overburdened yourself to be a "good friend", it won't be the other persons fault

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Hooray! Yay! Dykes!

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A very nice Anarchist tried to explain to Libs the point of covering your faces at a protest in the 50501 subreddit, and every lib in the comments is just saying

"Well theyre going to find me anyway, so I dont mask".

If you continue to go to 50501 protests, understand this is the viewpoint these libs have. Defeatism. "Theyre going to find me anyway idc". Ignoring that they arent "going to find you anyway", this idea that because things are bad you just Aren't Going To Follow Protest Safety is dangerous to everyone. Stop giving the state your info willingly, stop being a defeatist, wear your fucking mask and stop filming people.

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Keyboard smash

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