This link comes up requiring the app to access. I tried deleting certain things from the string to make it work but it failed.

Do you have a link to this from the web version? Or is this a new user-hostile thing?

I learned yesterday that there’s a limit to that, when I added an extra two full shots of espresso to my single latte, making it the most powerful drink I’ve had in a while. Wow was I wired. Caffeine usually makes me sleepy, this just made me unbearably anxious.

And I just felt vaguely super anxious for no reason, just physical anxiety, as usual (i don’t really have psychological symptoms like rumination or negative racing thoughts, except when I have physical symptoms, when the physical clears up, so does my mental), something my doctors don’t believe me is a valid issue… it’s usually the other way around, the physical caused by the mental.

Biology is weird. I still have my anxiety because I love stimulants, but I still feel better than before I was on an ssri. (Sertariline specifically)

“myth of rugged individualism”,

A better name for that that, one which I apply to myself, is “toxic independence”. It covers more issues, I think, because it includes people who don’t see themselves as rugged individualists, but just ordinary people surviving as best they can.

My favorite part is the installers.

I just installed a 2004 sierra game (Arcanum - very hard solo, def made for co-op) and the installer threw me back to the early noughties, and it was just lovely. That green progress bar and the wildly outdated game ads were hugely pleasing.

For me it’s gone fast because I’ve been in a depressive fog and just haven’t done anything to distinguish one day from the next, so every day feels the same, and it flies by according to my memory.

Every day is the same bad news with different subjects and objects. Every day the same bad things happen, in different places to different people. None of it stands out anymore, it’s just a constant blur of negativity in a blender turning into a fine paste of shit to coat everything in awful sameness.

I don’t remember the 5 one but I remember this one:

Layers, patterns, gradients, and screen printed art, mostly.

Lots of screen printed art. I’m a big fan of mashup designs where two or more IPs are mixed, like star wars and star trek mixed and represented as chibbi cartoons, basically just someone’s fan art on a t-shirt or sweatshirt, such that you aren’t really advertising any of them as its not immediately clear what’s even on it. Also just art I like. Tons of places to get stuff like that. I also have a lot of shirts with jokes and phrases and the like.

Layers are good if you live somewhere that isnt too ridiculously hot, plain or gradient base t (or one of the more basic screen printed shirts) under a contrasting over-shirt is good. Really opens up the options because basically anything button or zip works, patterns or solid colors, and the extra fabric layer hides a lot of imperfections.

I do a lot of thrifting, especially when I travel, because the variety tends to span different styles and eras and people buy stuff online that ends up there, but it takes a while to really build up the wardrobe that way.

This is why I’ve never really understood branded clothing. I won’t wear it, because it’s just an advertisement. Genuinely don’t understand how society fell so hard for that one. I get luxury brand show off for shallow reasons, but shit- and mid-tier brands?