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wonder is the antithesis to despair

[(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ @OriginalErica]

I feel so alone

[Jesse Tinsley @JesseTinsley]

Imagine telling someone in 1999…

The year is 2026.

The President is Donald Trump in his second non consecutive term.

The richest man in the world is PayPal cofounder Elon Musk… but not because of fintech or Paypal. Because of rockets, electric cars, AI, satellites, brain chips and something called “Boring Company”.

Apple is worth trillions but its main business isn’t computers… its selling glass rectangles everyone stares at for 9 hours a day.

People don’t watch TV. They watch teenagers explain geopolitics, finance, and relationship advice in ~60 second videos.

The biggest taxi company owns no taxis.
The biggest hotel company owns no hotels.
The most powerful media companies are social networks where everyone argues with strangers for free.

Kids are making millions filming themselves playing video games.

AI Robots write emails, code, legal memos, songs, essays, and breakup texts.

The internet is mostly bots arguing with humans who are trying to prove they aren’t bots.

You can summon a car, groceries, a doctor, a date, a private jet, or a dog walker from your phone.

People pay real money for invisible currencies, digital monkeys, AI girlfriends and pictures that disappear after 24 hours.

The richest companies in the world don’t sell oil, steel, or cars. They sell attention, compute, data, and addiction.

And somehow, after all of that everyone is still using Excel.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump's 2027 budget proposal fully eliminates Job Corps.

Job Corps provides free education and vocational training to young Americans.

[(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ @OriginalErica]

@MCChampionship_ @BdoubleO100 @EthoLP @Smallishbeans @soupforeloise This team will be so much fun!!

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

- Target can't seem to take accountability.
- Walmart wants to do dynamic pricing.
- Doordash is slipping in extra fees.
- Uber randomly hikes prices and have some drivers doing workarounds for "ghost rides".
- Gas is back up to over $3.50-$6.
- More people than ever work multiple jobs to cover bills & expenses.
- Minimum wage hasn't budged.
- False job postings are filling the market.
- Currently apart of a war we didn't ask for.
- Healthcare costs are unaffordable.
- Mental health and wellness at an all-time crisis point.
- Government funding is being cut left & right for necessary services and programs.

if you feel overwhelmed as hell right now, you should.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

"If you go back 400 years, it would never have occurred to anyone to be introspective"?

More than 2,000 years ago, Socrates spent his life questioning his own beliefs, exposing his ignorance, and urging others to do the same, believing true wisdom begins only when one honestly confronts the inner self. For Socrates, the examined soul was the only path to virtue, and the unexamined life was simply not worth living.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

You know what really bugs me these days? We can't own anything. Everything is a subscription service, like literally everything. You can't buy Microsoft Office, you have to purchase a subscription for a year. You literally have to pay for everything FOREVER. Isn't anyone else bothered by this?

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

is it just me or has everything seemingly gone to shit in the last 5 years

seems like people are increasingly nuts, plugged into their phones, depressed, angry, scared, food quality is worse, energy in cities in increasingly pscycho, homes and rent through the roof....

like everyone has been put under some weird spell and only a few awakened ones can see through it....

wtf is going on

[(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ @OriginalErica]

@PBandJenelley_1 Meanwhile jenelle never held down a job other than an influencer and reality trash 🥲

[BowTiedPhys @BowTiedPhys]

I don’t want the email of 50 words summarized by AI. I don’t want to know my biological age. I don’t want the wearable telling me when I should be happy. I don’t want the Bluetooth toothbrush gamifying brushing my teeth. I don’t want my trash can to be “smart”. I don’t want my Air Fryer connected to WiFi. I don’t want an app for my coffee maker. I don’t want my refrigerator sending me push notifications.

Enough.

[(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ @OriginalErica]

@PBandJenelley_1 Child abuse case, divorce party, allegations... why even involve yourself with that man again

[atharva. @arthextic]

i highly recommend everyone to have a hobby. watching films, listening to music, clicking pictures, recording videos, sports, documentaries, drawing, sketching, doodling, painting, writing, journaling, singing, swimming, knitting, reading, gardening, cooking, baking, brewing, walking, cycling, running, trekking, birdwatching, stargazing, collecting postcards, coins, stamps, records, cameras, art, prints, pens, stones or seashells, working out, playing football, cricket, chess, cards or video games, solo trips, repairing things, staring at the sky or chasing sunsets, whatever it is. no matter how big or small, how fancy or silly, if it gives you a sense of escape, something to return to when the coin flips and life feels like shit, doomscrolling wont help you. its important for you to have a hobby, a real hobby.

[Cera Gibson @CeraGibson]

I was really beautiful when I was 24. I’m really beautiful now. I just don’t look as young. Sometimes I miss the face of younger me, but you’re never gonna catch me chasing a version of myself that doesn’t exist anymore. WHO I am now is someone I’m so dearly proud of that I wouldn’t dream of trading her for a younger face.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

All these endless streams of verbal diarrhea exist only because he is allowed to get away with them.

Again and again. Not a single objection from anyone in the room, no support for a colleague, no insistence that the president stop spewing insults and malicious demagoguery and actually answer the question that was asked.

Everyone has instructions to silently endure this filth and not say a word, otherwise they’ll be thrown out of the “White House press pool” and smeared with even more venom.

In the end, there is no value in this endless accommodation. The worth of these empty Q&A sessions in the Oval Office is zero, while the foul-mouthed bully only grows more emboldened in his sense of impunity.

[chompy gigante 🎃💜 #caitvi @omgchomp]

so like is anything going to happen from the worst information i’ve ever read in my life coming out or does literally nothing matter at all

[سماح | 🧚🏾‍♀️samah @samah_fadil]

which is why the ppl on here going "oh guess who isn't it the files? BIDEN 😏" are especially vile because how do you not see that this shit is not a fkn party issue?! they are murdering children and sending each other torture porn like they're tiktok videos & you're trying to dunk on "the right." the elites are in on this together you monumental simpleton!!!

[(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ @OriginalErica]

Happy Birthday Grandpa. You would have gated 2026. I miss you.

[Jared Shult @jared_shult]

I hope the next viral trend is empathy and critical thinking skills

[blue @bluewmist]

You need to be slowmaxxing. You need to be reading long, fat books. You need to be making 48-hour chocolate chip cookies. You need to spend hours watching wildlife, you need to spend 15+ min making your coffee. You need to breathe in and breathe out. You need to be slowwwwwwwwww.