I think them has a lot of stories that resonate with the more optimistic side of me, even if you're not queer. maybe give this one a try?  https://www.them.us/story/weird-little-guy-essay-hobbies-trump-administration-singing-collecting-cringe
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i am a queer person with weird hobbies thank you so much!!!! i love this !!!
Apr 6, 2025
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@SOURBOTTLEBABYGIRL ditto 🤝we rule the world
Apr 6, 2025
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side note, but that is one of the wildest http links I dare say I think I’ve ever read.
Apr 6, 2025
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this was such an interesting read, thank you! the idea of self-sustaining joy is so young, so freeing
Apr 6, 2025
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@HARMANZWORLDDDDD I so agree!!! not to mention it's great for your community. not only are you helping yourself be available to others through self care (putting your life jacket on before saving a drowning person so to speak) you're showing others they can do the same! no cons just love 
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but this is great writing on a theme most can relate to https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/the-friendship-challenge
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i love reading these, they publish them around weekly. They are super short reader-submitted stories and some are fun and cute but some could literally make you cry. real people telling their real stories that's my shit!!!
Jan 22, 2024
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bc i am a cliche of a bisexual woman. read it if you want to!
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you can do whatever you want, but if you really want to hear my opinion on it... at best, ai-art is demoralizing to actual human beings and creates novelty slop that vaugely looks like an art piece, while not harboring any skill in using it. and theres nothing wrong with not wanting to make art fir the skill of it, though. but at worst, it's an environmental and economic disaster, a predatory business model to consumers and customers of AI, and a great way for businessmen to try and take creativity away from us to turn us into cogs in the machine. it's built off of the stolen work of artists who already struggled to make a living, now forced out by a tool that's turned on them with their own work. it can help make propaganda that is virtually unidentifiable, turn victims into deepfakes, and generally evil we have yet to see. and that's just the image side of things, but the cons of all types of ai models overlap. I've had to watch people throw away their lifelong dreams because of this garbage. it's no coincidence elonely muskrat and every ceo you can think of are obsessed with it - it's a perverse business tool. I wouldn't mind coexisting with it if it wasn't out to get me. but it is. I also feel like it's the reason nobody makes fun photobashes or random photoshops anymore. it will never fully phase out human art but I think it's starting to take over the photography world, especially commercially. I'm sick of  looking up real places and animals and sorting through fake slop im being told is real.
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I forget the most obvious secret for how this works. hehehehe
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I've tried some nicer pens and fell out out of - I'd like to try them again sometime. but out of everything I am picking up those little bic pens 99% of the time. part of it is for sure that they are everywhere when I'm at work, but they're even creeping into my work at home. It's mostly the sensitivity - it's devine. a lot of (especially cheaper) pens go from 0 to 100% ink and even leak randomly. but bic has mastered handling really intricate pressure. it's hard to find that in even artist tools... I want to look for a go-to pen ever since my last microns fizzled out though.
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