What’s bringing you joy?
Anarchism and Syndicalism—AnarchoSyndicalism bring me joy, alongside Debian and Linux.
Im happy in life because I don’t have to use Windows and proprietary software that limits my freedom to modify my system to my liking.
I’m aware that it makes people cringe, but it’s so true that I’ve never been more happy; more bottoms than a top could ever ask for… Enough to over come the negativety from all the judgemental or bitter queens.
Stoked for you, and Iove that description ❤️
Not more stoked than I; I’ve never had a busier social life and my asocially autistic ass is still surprised by it each time I get another invite.
Super happy for you and wishing you lots more happy years ahead! ❤️
I’m not a top, but I know that feeling, and it’s amazing. That was my entire year last year. It was so freeing and empowering. Don’t do things that harm the sustainability of that like meth or smoking. Keep your health up and keep drinking water and hygiene. Take care of yourself and you’ll just continue to get more and more powerful :)
I never thought of it as powerful before and I like it! Lol
:D
My kids. Not much else though.
Ha. My kids is the best AND worst part of my life 😆
Gotta love the kids, I made this post after getting my youngest to bed and having my heart feel so full of love
Thank you for this thread. I’m a little misty-eyed and feeling so wonderfully blessed. Pumpkin Tikka masala and coffee for breakfast (I know, right?!), mixed greens, tomatoes, blueberries, strawberries, mozzarella with good balsamic vinegar for lunch, for the time in months, I made a half-gallon of iced tea, sweetened with local raw honey, fur baby sleeping next to me as I enjoy the sound of the storm, outside. So many have no meal, no roof, no companion. It’s nice reading the simple pleasures here. No one mentioned their private jet, Bugatti, haute coture. It’s nice when we recognize the real riches life grants us.
My pleasure, it’s been a treat hearing about all of the different ways people are soaking up life right now, including all th wonderful things you listed here 🙂
That all of my recent health issues the last 3 months were temporary.
GOOD. You need your health, and I find it’s the uncertainty that can be so stressful
I am about to get married =)
Congratulations to you, I hope you have a lovely day and life together ❤️
My crow bro, Kenny. Most days I go for a walk after work and meet up with him to feed him some peanuts or dog food.
This is so fucking cool, nobody I know has a crow bro. How did y’all grow to be friends?
Crows are smart. Look at them and toss some unsalted peanuts in their general direction and they’ll understand what you’re doing. After a couple of visits they’ll recognize you and slowly get more relaxed around you. They each have their own personalities, where some will be easier to befriend than others, so just give them space and time.
If everything goes according to plan, I’m moving to Europe.
That’s so cool!!
It’s gonna be!
Which country do you plan to move to?
France
live in canada rn, definitely gonna do the same.
The fact i already have citizenship from birthright helps
From Canada?! Why? (If I may ask)
Partly a cultural thing, i already speak french fluently and i like the culture in france more than the culture of Québec (canada’s french speaking province, where i live).
But also practical, i want to live in a walkable city and the only real option in Québec is almost as expensive as living in paris’ 19 arrondissements. I could find a nice place that’s less expensive to live in in france, at least, i hope.
edit: where are you moving from, actually?
Ok I get it now.
From the middle-east. I’m going there to find a software developer job, hopefully.
I made a shit tonne of brownies and ive had 2 cups of sugar in one day alongside 5 cups of coffee. WHAT A DAY TO BE ALIVE
PS. Folks add pomegranate molasses to your pantry and your brownies. One of my favourite ingredients to give a dish complex depth in flavour, works with sweet and savory.
Sugar for all its supposed evils really does bring me daily joy
You should also try date molasses. You can find it at basically any Arab market.
Right this very second, my chicken preening herself next to me, occasionally pausing to make sure I see her preening herself so that I continue to sweetly praise her
Good chicken! What a pretty and fancy chicken…
That is adorable
I was able to revive my old PlayStation 2 thanks to Hacks and Homebrew and I’m replaying several games from my childhood apart from playing several others that I couldn’t at the time, and I’m having a wonderful time.
I’m interested in knowing the titles you’re playing, if you care to list them.
Oh the list of all the games is veeeeery looooong, like 70 games, but my current favorite that I couldn’t play in the day are:
- Psychonauts
- Zone of The Enders
- Yakuza
- The Simpsons Hit & Run
- Downhill Domination (this game is Rad as hell!!)
While some that I’m replaying because they are really REALLY good are:
- Devil May Cry 3
- Soul Calibur 3
- Lego Batman
- Sonic Megacollection plus
Soul Calibur 3!!! Yeah!!!
Have you played Raw Danger? It’s one of the best PS2 games. It’s so… PS2 era. I love it so much.
Its in my play-list! I may play it next after I finish Psychonauts.
Yusssss! I’m going through Psychonauts right now as well, LOVE the game! I don’t have a place for my CRT TV right now, so I’m on a computer for that one.
I REALLY wanna bust out my CRT and PS2 and Afterhurner and play some DDR Extreme sooooo badly
Ahh. I wish I had a crt and a place to put it. I want the one I had as a kid and a second really big nice one.
Ooo I’d love a bigger one. I think mine is 21” or so. I miss the 27” I had growing up! But this one is a flat CRT, had component and S-Video cables, and has a DVD player built in so I can watch my DVD of Not4Sale: TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies. So I’m not complaining.
Hell ya, got deep into the wii / wii u homebrew stuff for a while. I completely missed the PS2 and really that whole generation of gaming growing up. What are you playing?
I’m currently playing Psychonauts and Downhill Domination (This game is so cool omg).
Going check those out
I discovered pcsx2 (ps2 emulator) a week ago and have been playing granturismo 4, so happy!
Pcsx2 is the best it can be nowadays. I remember using it years ago and how difficult it was to configure it, but now it runs like silk even on outdated hardware like my PC, I don’t know what black magic the team behind it did. After the original hardware, pcsx2 it’s the best option to play the Ps2 gems.
To me it seems like it’s THE best option to play ps2 games. Can run them at a bigger resolution and saving states can be used as a little cheat
You can do the same in the original console with Homebrew apps.
I don’t think GSM changes the render resolution of the game, but only the output resolution.
At least that was my experience when I tried it last over a decade ago.
Sobriety. 2 years 3 months since I’ve drank.
Still relearning some aspects of being an adult. Figuring out who I am. Picking up old hobbies again and trying new ones. So many things bring me joy nowadays where it used to only be alcohol that triggered the ol happy brain chemicals.
I’m in a much better place than I was a couple years ago when I was abusing alcohol as a coping mechanism.
Dude, you and me quit at almost the same time!
Nice! Congrats my dude. Would’ve been closer to the same day but someone gave me a bottle of whiskey for Christmas that year and I hadn’t told anyone I was trying to quit yet
Oh hell yeah congrats! I dated an ex alcoholic (very close to dying) and his thing now is running, eating ultra efficient nutrients like honey and liver, and not using soap ever for anything. He’s one of the happiest guys I’ve seen in a long long time. Though, he does preach a bit, I can understand his zeal hahaha
Thanks :) I don’t really talk about my sobriety with a ton of people in person, still some shame associated with who I used to be, appreciate being able to share online.
And yea exercise in various forms is one of my big things now, definitely relatable, I try not to be preachy about it. Lifting, swimming, and rollerblading recently. I need to do more yoga though… I’m in wayyyy better shape than I was two years ago, feeling almost as good as my college athlete days.
If it means anything, I’m of slim-average build and working in my 20s (painter in construction) destroyed my knees and I’ve been walking a few times every week for the past month to rehabilitate them because I’m tired of not being able to do stuff. We can do it! It’s worth it!
Heck yea! Walking around the block is where I started again a couple years ago. It’s definitely worth sticking with it. Life got in the way a few times and I had to be gentle with myself and repeatedly remind myself that progress isn’t linear, and that doing something is better than nothing.
What do you think about the idea that people need to actually realize their mortality before being able to really live?
Not sure. I’ve never really reflected on that idea. It certainly seems to be true for me personally.
My alcoholic years had some pretty ugly parts and could have killed me several times. Severe depression, self harm, suicidal thoughts, wrecked my car (thankful it was just me and a steep curb, no one else involved, that could have been so much worse), a hospital trip, walking 2 miles home by myself at 3am almost every weekend while hammered in the middle of a US city known for its crime and lowkey wanting someone to try to mug me, etc. Let alone the physical damage that 50-100+ standard drinks per week at my worst was doing to my body, luckily none of that seems to be permanent, I was scared to get my blood work done for the first year alcohol free, but it came back fine.
I don’t like looking back on that period of my life, but I’ve come to terms with the fact that it happened and I can’t change that and mostly been able to forgive myself.
So while it was ugly and could have killed me, shit at parts of it I wanted it to kill me, at the same time… I wouldn’t be who I am today without all that (and a lot of therapy and self reflection and journaling and all that fun stuff). I really genuinely like who I am today. I haven’t been able to say that for the majority of my life. And I find a lot more appreciation in the little things that I used to be too numb to see. I’m doing things I enjoy solely because I enjoy them, not because my family or parts of society say it’s what I’m supposed to be doing.
I don’t think I want that statement to be true for humanity as a whole, at least not in the way that I faced my mortality, I hope there are other ways people can get to a point where they feel truly alive. But yea I think it’s true for me.
Hell ya, I’m a teetotaler myself. Nothing like sobriety over the long term, keep up the good work!
Love my kids, love my wife. Feel useful at work. Getting rdy for the final stretch of my undergrad. Life is a grind atm and I don’t have a lot of free time, but I wouldn’t swap it for anything else.
I’m in the same boat, I feel like I’ve never been busier or more stressed at times, but it all feels so worth it for all the good things going on simultaneously
I’m very happy to be a land owner. Just a few months ago I bought some land and now live in an RV on the land. Tomorrow we drive about 7 hours round trip and get the last of our stuff from storage. So happy to not pay that rent anymore.
We have fresh air, beautiful views, and tons of space to work on projects, free electric from solar, and soon free water from rain. I can’t wait to start our garden soon, then it will be free groceries.
Living the absolute dream, that sounds like an amazing new venture and I wish you well in all of your future projects
Damn. Amazing. Are you in the States? What’s your latitude/geography like? Do you have a water source, as well as electricity?
We are in Arizona, high elevation so it’s not as hot as the big cities. (Over 5,000 ft)
We want to order water delivery first, then collect rain water after we build a roof over the RV.
We have solar and it’s been enough for us so far, but I know when it rains during monsoon season that I may need a generator.
I’m assuming you mean petrol/diesel, but depending on how much wind you get and power you need, you might be about to use wind or some kind of gravity fed.
We do have a lot of wind most of the year, my neighbor gave me 2 wind power generators, but I need to get them and install them.
I was saying that when it’s really rainy the clouds will block the solar, so I might need a gas power generator to keep my batteries going. We have only been here a few months so not really sure what to expect.
Right now we are very light on power, the most power hungry is our portable iceco fridge that uses about 40w of power on and off. We have mostly rechargeable lights and phones, and my laptop that is USB-C to charge.
Chest freezers are supposedly extremely energy efficient because cold air is denser than warm air and goes down, and as long as you don’t open the lid, it just stays cold.
That is how our iceco fridge is, it opens at the top like a cooler.
Oh yeah I looked up the brand, that looks really solid!
The bees. All our hives made it through winter and a fairly mild spring so far has given them a boost. Queens are laying like crazy, workers are working hard.
I’ve started wearing very thin gloves while inspecting the hives after realising that they make it less likely I’ll be stung, because I can be gentler. A bonus is that I can feel the warmth of the bees, and that really does bring me joy.
omg you’ll be among the saviors of the world, given the way bees are going according to the news.
This is so cool, especially the bee warmth, I never thought of them putting off much heat, but I imagine with enough of them they would!
This instant? PBS Kids.
Love pbs, whatcha got going?
I have no idea. Something called “Milo”?
It’s just nice to be able to put something on that’s innocent and childlike. There isn’t much like that around.
It’s gentle.
That’s a fantastic idea, I’m stealing this
