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Niiiick of The Living Dead

@friction.bsky.social

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He/Him DM for email if you feel like an internet pen pal & want to stay in touch after you boot this app. Plays tabletop games, sells cameras, donates blood, smells like chlorine. Loves metal. Using bsky mostly for personal interests.

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Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 13h

Pirate uncle is on pain management, anti anxiety drugs, and 02 now. Gasping, wraithlike on the hospital bed in his living room. We didn’t stay long, went to dinner with grandma & my aunt and were all glad to have that buffer experience. Aunt went this a few years ago with her own husband.

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 17h

Doing small acts of kindness as gifts, whether difficult chores or no skin off your nose errands with the doing itself as the reward can be helpful. Paradoxically, it’s forgetting about yourself while doing it that helps let the sad noise fall into the background.

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 17h

partner’s safety to focus on the exercise and leave everything else aside.

There’s also the time honored practice of trying to help someone else - whether volunteering or doing the dishes for grandma.

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 17h

My extremely wise sister (crisis line operator & volunteer trainer for a SAVA center) told me to literally say “I’m putting [this] down for a while, it will wait for me.” And go do something other than rumination for a little while. For her, it’s Muay Thai - it demands her attention for her & spar

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 18h

See also Russ Harris’ Dropping Anchor skill and book The Happiness Trap.

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 18h

If mindfulness and radical self compassion are totally new to you, look up Tara Brach’s RAIN exercise and give it go. She and Jack Kornfield have a 40 day mindfulness practice that my therapist recommended to me and I’ve used those skills to avoid being shitty to the people closest to me.

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 20h

I love your vacations. I am susceptible to the “do too much” trap.

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 20h

dropped my spoon into my soup and lost it, now i cant find the wizard dropping his orb on his face in bed like a phone meme because that’s how i feel

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 22h

“Learning to sit with joy or praise can be just as hard as learning to sit with pain”

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Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 22h

Local poetry collective releasing a book this weekend, wherein I have at least one little poem. It’s a thrill and I’m horrified and I’m grateful for the community and I’m nervous and I miss these folks and my work is learning how to do my work

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 1d

Lighter note, I’m in a wedding on Saturday and I’m very excited for my friends. They are very cute and I wish them all happiness.

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 1d

Family with terminal illness. Let’s get a camera between me & those feelings while we visit this evening.

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Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 1d

wings for dinner, after having fluoride tape stuck in my teeth all day now I remove it and chicken with floss

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t even gag in then dental cleaning chair.

Can’t wait to rinse this fluoride treatment with coffee.

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t even gag in then dental cleaning chair.

Can’t wait to rinse this fluoride treatment with coffee.

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 2d

awful, i love it

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Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 2d

@corgiteatime.bsky.social you have to see this too, this dissolute Roman senator lookin blorbo twin

piper bly @piperbomb.bsky.social · 2d

ah yes, Bald-er Gate

astarion from baldur's gate 3 but he's balding on the top of his head

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Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 2d

Oh it’s information, just cluttered and when /search/ doesn’t work, impossible to navigate.

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Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 3d

the email inbox as catchall for information is kinda ass

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Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 3d

Autocorrect wanted Baldur’s to be Balder’s and that’s just goofy.

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Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 3d

Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon got me this morning- re: surprise appearance of Tina Fey’s anecdote about Jimmy Fallon getting told to stfu by Amy Pohler.

Really enjoyed this interview & gotta get Olivia Gatwood’s book now

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Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 3d

nuking soup but i want fries

Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 3d

Added your page to my browser favorites. I like my online pals & miss em even.

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Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes you need Knife Prty before leaving the car.

I could float here forever

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Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 4d

Tapping like but wailing for you. That’s awful!

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Niiiick of The Living Dead @friction.bsky.social · 5d

Somewhere on the way down from Alpine Visitor’s Center. Zf 26 2.8

black and white photo of a tree reaching across the frame amidst craggy rocks sky and mountain in the distance

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