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Welcome to Lemmy!
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I post and share photography. Some of my works that I think are mediocre get a lot of attention, and some of my most-loved works are nearly ignored.
But I post for me.
I enjoy seeing your photography and outfits in my feed. You’re a great contributor here :)
Thank you! I put my whole self out there.
Gorgeous shot. My favorite times of day are just before sunrise and sunset, sometimes you get the most spectacular light and color. Where did you take that from?
This came off the Tilikum Bridge over the Willamette River in Portland last night!
Drink beer. To excess, at least once a week.
friend of mine is coming off a bender, after two nights in the hospital. Don’t do this. google “wet brain.”
“Google wet brain” feels a bit like responding to “I enjoy a bacon sandwich” with “Google triple bypass surgery.”
If you said “I enjoy five bacon sandwiches a day,” I’d tell you that, too.
Fair point. But there’s a gulf between daily alcohol dependency—pounding hard liquor all the time—to three hours of beers on a Saturday evening, no?
Depends how many beers you’re drinking in those three hours. Three to five, that might be okay if you’re not drinking the rest of the week and keep your vitamin levels up. In my drinking days I could easily put away eight or more in that time though, and that is excessive to a damaging degree if done weekly. Maybe you used the term “to excess” more as a stylistic flair to an internet comment, but it draws to my mind the latter scenario more than the former. I do think it’s very interesting that you gave a time frame instead of a drink count, which is the more typical measure of how much one drinks.
I’m thinking Saturday or Friday night, early evening, finishing at bedtime. I often meet friends on one of those days, and we do get drunk. I should probably add that I’m Scottish. It’s pretty normal where I’m from. I’m not saying it’s good for you (it definitely isn’t).
Just don’t let it get out of hand. My friend has been out of the hospital, dry and on librium for three days and still can’t pass a field sobriety test.
Staying alive, apparently.
Almost everything I do is either out of a desire to so, or because I have to do it. As a kid, I was already too stubborn to worry much about validation, getting old (now nearing my 60s) did not help much in that regard.
Say, writing (and reading) is something I do because I love doing it and, to grossly summarize, I could not care less about people (dis)agreeing with what I write. I mean, I do care but only in the sense that I will listen to their remarks and objections when they they have some, while I don’t care about their feelings and emotions or whether they like what I write, or not. Compared to, say, filling my tax form, which is another form of writing for which I do care a lot about how it will be read and received… but is also not something I write out of passion :p
Jacking off.
Your mom never complimented you for a good jerking?
No… but yours did.
(To be fair you kinda yourself walked into that one.)
Dad?!
Son?!?
Keep doing what you are passionate about ❤️
Personally, I enjoy making neat, easy to follow step-by-step tutorials for my various interests and forwarding them to people who want to learn something I know about. Growing up, I didn’t have anyone to show me things and it was often overwhelming having to figure everything out on my own without a clear starting point, so I don’t want anyone else to feel the same way or to feel ashamed for not knowing something.
I love languages so I would also offer free translation for people’s projects upon request and would also translate song lyrics when translation software was much worse than it is now.
When I can, I donate anonymously to causes I support and donate blood too.
Donating blood has got to be one of the things one does that is just absolutely selfless.
If someone does it to brag or to rizz, they could just lie and say they do it. But actually doing it? 🤟
I tried out to become a donor but my iron levels were too low. 😭
I do it for the biscuits at the end
That being said I haven’t been able to for 6 years now, the organisation that handles it (EFS) does not let you give if you have spent some time in Mayotte (among other places), where I live. Concerns about malaria I think
Out of curiosity, what does EFS stand for?
Établissement Français du Sang
Society of French blood suckers. ;)
It’s two days off, paid, up to a maximum of 10 per year in Croatia. You give blood five times a year, aim for a holiday and can nicely round up a two week vacation.
That’s pretty rad. We just possibly get a T-shirt (I never have lol), sometimes tickets to shows or something, and definitely added to a phone list of “WE URGENTLY NEED YOUR BLOOD” robo-calls from half a billion numbers.
…But I try to get over my needle-phobia long enough to do it occasionally.
I learned my blood type that way. That could save valuable time in a future emergency! Lol
Happy cake day!
Down voting positivity 😆🫰
Wow, that’s a luxury. We don’t get that here. Great incentive.
I almost passed out just listening to someone talk about the benefits of donating blood, blood tests and vaccines result in temporarily losing colour from my vision and needing to lay down for a while to recover. Did register for organ donation back when it was opt in though.
Why did you pass out? Phobia of blood or similar?
I don’t seem to have any problem with blood in any other situation. Probably more from needles under the skin.
Yeah I’m not a fan of sharp things entering the body at all. I’m okay with vaccinations. I look away and let them do their thing. But like, people getting stabbed and stuff, that gives me chills. And stuff going into the skin close to where there are bones, like the hand and foot. Like an IV e.g. Yuck.
I’m the exact opposite. I’m okay with knife wounds, they get my adrenaline pumping but it’s a problem to be solved, so whatever stress it brings can only be focused into taking the steps to solve it. But needles are way more subtle, the concept of this thin little thing slipping between skin to sneak stuff into the body or pull blood out, leaving barely a trace that anything changed. Logically I know they’re great, and I’m very pro-vaccination (ironically part of my job is importing vaccination records for a school district for nurses to track) but the subconscious part of my brain cannot handle it. Needles just give me the heebie jeebies. I’ve been squirming nonstop the entire time writing this.
An excellent human.
I am asking because I stream really boring streams all the time. People are welcome to tune in and check out, and there is no expectation of interaction at all. If someone gets some joy out of watching someone fly in a flight simulator listening to chill music for hours at a time, that’s great.
It reminds me of this youtuber, who has thousands of videos with almost no views.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheImprovysseyEverything I post about that is video game-related. I do post sometimes but I don’t think I really did it for validation (not that many people look at it anyways)
Writing sci-fi and making music
Gaming, often retro but not limited to. I don’t need achievements or tell others about what I achieved, but converse about the experience. Admire the design and dive into worlds and have fun!
Same. Last night I spent hours on an SNES emulator, playing Donkey Kong Country 2 all the way up to Kreepy Krow in Gloomy Gulch. I wasn’t doing it to achieve anything, just for the fun of it. The music, the visual aesthetics, and the nostalgia connected to it made it such a satisfying play-through that I haven’t done in ages.
Agreed. This and making music
I do quite a bit of unauthorized trail maintenance. I guess helping other people is a big motivation for it but it’s not like I get any credit for it as nobody is there to see me do it. It’s just something I do because I then feel good about having done it.
Picking up trash when i am walking.
I don’t do it everytime. But sometimes when i see trash on the ground and there is a trash can in the near I will pick it up.
Yeeee absolutely! I always wash my hands when I go back inside my house anyway, so if I’m heading back and on-foot, I’ll pick up random stuff if I see any.
If anything sharp is where feet or tires will be, I’ll always go out of my way to pick it up though, even if it’s not convenient. No good!
Read.
