Kameron Hurley
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i love this.
One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:31 PM
i love this.
Got a second estimate for house painting that also came in at $12,250 or so.
Found the bill for same house, same job, in 2010 and it was $6,250.
I realize we're old, but even so. Whew.
Found the bill for same house, same job, in 2010 and it was $6,250.
I realize we're old, but even so. Whew.
January 12, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Got a second estimate for house painting that also came in at $12,250 or so.
Found the bill for same house, same job, in 2010 and it was $6,250.
I realize we're old, but even so. Whew.
Found the bill for same house, same job, in 2010 and it was $6,250.
I realize we're old, but even so. Whew.
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IG feeding me hockey clips: you seem to have misunderstood something
January 12, 2026 at 5:27 AM
IG feeding me hockey clips: you seem to have misunderstood something
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sometimes I buy things because if I don’t, I’ll never see them again - and I’ll regret it all my life
(anyone who sends me helpful pink alligator rug links will be blocked, just enjoy my poor impulse control re: after-Christmas sales and let it go)
(anyone who sends me helpful pink alligator rug links will be blocked, just enjoy my poor impulse control re: after-Christmas sales and let it go)
January 12, 2026 at 12:39 AM
sometimes I buy things because if I don’t, I’ll never see them again - and I’ll regret it all my life
(anyone who sends me helpful pink alligator rug links will be blocked, just enjoy my poor impulse control re: after-Christmas sales and let it go)
(anyone who sends me helpful pink alligator rug links will be blocked, just enjoy my poor impulse control re: after-Christmas sales and let it go)
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Whole thread is brilliant and vital and necessary, but this - this is EVERYTHING.
Because it's absolutely true: if there's no point in doing anything at all, why would you do it? It's humans who make meaning. The events are just events. We make them mean something. What that is is entirely up to us. Story is uniquely human. Story is our one superpower.
January 11, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Whole thread is brilliant and vital and necessary, but this - this is EVERYTHING.
OMG I just also made this one!!
January 11, 2026 at 11:01 PM
OMG I just also made this one!!
Turns out when you have ability to curate your conversations on social media, social media is a lot more pleasant. For every rando mods allow to piss on sheets, there's thousands of perfectly lovely people who leave because they prefer clean sheets. It becomes an echo chamber of world's worst people
January 11, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Turns out when you have ability to curate your conversations on social media, social media is a lot more pleasant. For every rando mods allow to piss on sheets, there's thousands of perfectly lovely people who leave because they prefer clean sheets. It becomes an echo chamber of world's worst people
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This entire thread is fantastic, but this particular part is something that I’ve tried to start working on in my own work environment.
Have the agency to change the things in your life that suck. They may be small, but even one less thing is an improvement.
Have the agency to change the things in your life that suck. They may be small, but even one less thing is an improvement.
So story became "Every day, I'm going to look at one small thing about this job or processes here that drive me crazy, and address that. I'll stop telling a snarky depressing story of how fucked we are during team meetings. We all know we're fucked. Talking about how fucked we are changes nothing."
January 11, 2026 at 9:29 PM
This entire thread is fantastic, but this particular part is something that I’ve tried to start working on in my own work environment.
Have the agency to change the things in your life that suck. They may be small, but even one less thing is an improvement.
Have the agency to change the things in your life that suck. They may be small, but even one less thing is an improvement.
Forget where I heard this but in some other languages you don't say "I'm depressed." Or "I'm anxious." You say "the depression is upon me." "The anxiety is on me." That reframe was weirdly liberating. It goes from an identity "I AM this" to merely another external force. I use it all the time now.
A core feature of Narrative Therapy is that we build our identities from the stories we tell and are told around/about us. If the story is "Spike's a clumsy bastard" then when I drop a glass taking it out of the dishwasher it's MY Fault, not that the glass is slippery.
Watching doc about resilience that reaffirms many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books). Brains are hallucination engines. If the story is the world is shit, everything is fucked, brain reframes every interaction this way. It impacts behavior; shuts us down
January 11, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Forget where I heard this but in some other languages you don't say "I'm depressed." Or "I'm anxious." You say "the depression is upon me." "The anxiety is on me." That reframe was weirdly liberating. It goes from an identity "I AM this" to merely another external force. I use it all the time now.
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Please read this whole, wonderful thread
Watching doc about resilience that reaffirms many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books). Brains are hallucination engines. If the story is the world is shit, everything is fucked, brain reframes every interaction this way. It impacts behavior; shuts us down
January 11, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Please read this whole, wonderful thread
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"Story is uniquely human. Story is our one superpower." ❤️Putting this on all my future syllabi! (Also, the whole thread is and absolute must-read.)
Because it's absolutely true: if there's no point in doing anything at all, why would you do it? It's humans who make meaning. The events are just events. We make them mean something. What that is is entirely up to us. Story is uniquely human. Story is our one superpower.
January 11, 2026 at 7:18 PM
"Story is uniquely human. Story is our one superpower." ❤️Putting this on all my future syllabi! (Also, the whole thread is and absolute must-read.)
Ok, really need to do some wording.
Let's go listen to loud music and hallucinate while shaking our fingers and staring into a box!
Let's go listen to loud music and hallucinate while shaking our fingers and staring into a box!
a woman in a yellow sweater is using a laptop
ALT: a woman in a yellow sweater is using a laptop
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January 11, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Ok, really need to do some wording.
Let's go listen to loud music and hallucinate while shaking our fingers and staring into a box!
Let's go listen to loud music and hallucinate while shaking our fingers and staring into a box!
It was primarily inspired by Iran/Iraq war (my uncle was in Air Force and remembers flying guns into both countries and having people sign off on them like no big deal). But similar energy, yes.
Breaking: inspiration behind 2011's God's War finally revealed.
January 11, 2026 at 4:27 PM
It was primarily inspired by Iran/Iraq war (my uncle was in Air Force and remembers flying guns into both countries and having people sign off on them like no big deal). But similar energy, yes.
My grandma lived in WWII nazi-occupied France, where she met my American GI grandfather. Those people saw some SHIT. The truly unprecedented time was the post-war peace, and of course that was mainly a post-war story we were fed HERE. We have an unprecedented view of geopolitical stability
Comfort is right. We are living in precedented times: Yeats wrote the Second Coming about the horrors of the WW1, and things got better (for a bit, then worse, etc.) People lived through the fall of Rome & kept on making jokes & having babies & finding meaning in their lives & I can, too.
January 11, 2026 at 4:14 PM
My grandma lived in WWII nazi-occupied France, where she met my American GI grandfather. Those people saw some SHIT. The truly unprecedented time was the post-war peace, and of course that was mainly a post-war story we were fed HERE. We have an unprecedented view of geopolitical stability
I want to do the 1920s porcelain black and white tile (off the shelf at Lowe's) and white beadboard (which is way cheaper than tiling walls but gives similar vibe). The house is circa 1909 and we want to stay somewhat period appropriate.
January 11, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I want to do the 1920s porcelain black and white tile (off the shelf at Lowe's) and white beadboard (which is way cheaper than tiling walls but gives similar vibe). The house is circa 1909 and we want to stay somewhat period appropriate.
It's a sham!!!
Tried replacing previous owner's hideous orange shag carpeting w/peel & stick. A few years later, reapplied the tile using actual flooring adhesive.
January 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
It's a sham!!!
I'm glad! My academic background is in history. I've found - comfort may not be right word - reassurance in recognizing human systems are a series of progressive leaps and fierce backlashes. Or, as saying goes: "During times like these, it helps to remember there have always been times like these"
Just wanted to say that your threads on this topic have been SUPER helpful for me. The comparison a few days between now and the 1980s was really enlightening. Thank you for taking the time to write it all out and share it.
January 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
I'm glad! My academic background is in history. I've found - comfort may not be right word - reassurance in recognizing human systems are a series of progressive leaps and fierce backlashes. Or, as saying goes: "During times like these, it helps to remember there have always been times like these"
This is also me, 100%. I mostly watch British murder shows in part for this reason. Everyone on American TV has started to look the same.
I also enjoy watching shows in which people look like people, varied and imperfect. That's one reason I'm drawn to British, Canadian, and Australian shows. People look like real people. American TV left behind human variance years ago. They're more homogenised, fake, and uninteresting in comparison.
Watching old Murder She Wrote makes me miss comfortably eclectic old set dressings of middle class TV homes. Every house interior now - even in purportedly middle class homes - is a glossy minimalist painting. Fresh flowers! Immaculate sinks! Shiny counters! Matching tableware and napkin holders!
January 11, 2026 at 3:15 PM
This is also me, 100%. I mostly watch British murder shows in part for this reason. Everyone on American TV has started to look the same.
Getting two more exterior repair/ painting estimates next week, for due diligence, then we get this all scheduled (porches before paint, and of course paint has to wait for weather, so now it's juggling timelines). I will be relieved to get this admin out of my head so I can focus on something else.
January 11, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Getting two more exterior repair/ painting estimates next week, for due diligence, then we get this all scheduled (porches before paint, and of course paint has to wait for weather, so now it's juggling timelines). I will be relieved to get this admin out of my head so I can focus on something else.
There are many other factors that go into this, of course! I'm not woo-woo The Secret, Power of Positive Thinking, here (being rich sure makes things easier, as does being white and a dude and just good luck, etc). But there's certainly no surer way to fail than convincing yourself action is useless
I think it's a sneaker commercial airing now that includes the phrase "Whether you think you'll succeed or think you'll fail, you're right"
I want to say Laurence Fishburne says it in V.O.
I want to say Laurence Fishburne says it in V.O.
January 11, 2026 at 2:11 PM
There are many other factors that go into this, of course! I'm not woo-woo The Secret, Power of Positive Thinking, here (being rich sure makes things easier, as does being white and a dude and just good luck, etc). But there's certainly no surer way to fail than convincing yourself action is useless
January 11, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Watching doc about resilience that reaffirms many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books). Brains are hallucination engines. If the story is the world is shit, everything is fucked, brain reframes every interaction this way. It impacts behavior; shuts us down
January 11, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Watching doc about resilience that reaffirms many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books). Brains are hallucination engines. If the story is the world is shit, everything is fucked, brain reframes every interaction this way. It impacts behavior; shuts us down
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By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪
January 11, 2026 at 5:47 AM
By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪
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My wife went to watch a live screening of the gay hockey thing in a pub last night. Played on the screens they normally use for live sport. Living in London is the best.
January 11, 2026 at 12:07 PM
My wife went to watch a live screening of the gay hockey thing in a pub last night. Played on the screens they normally use for live sport. Living in London is the best.