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[Pokemander @Pokemander1]

@Pezzy__ I had the same issue and fixed it by completely removing my HDDs steam library locations. So only my ssd shows in steam and my download speed went back to normal. Idk why that is, my friends guess was it's caching whatever U are installing to the HDD then moving it to ssd unsure

[Pokemander @Pokemander1]

@insincerelyLyn I read it a similar way cause of the question about caring about youtube community. I think they probably just realised they came across abit too much and then dialed it back in the response maybe. lynShrug You responded to them alot better than I would have xd

[ludwig @LudwigAhgren]

TIP2TIP IS FINALLY HERE‼️Michael and I will be riding our bikes 3,000 miles across China from the south to the north
❌NO MAPS
❌NO ENGLISH
❌NO HIGHWAYS
Daily episodes will start March 20! Subscribe so you dont miss it🙇‍♂️
我是一个胖的美国白人

[blossum 🎐•🌸• @blossumVT]

📢 Artists! How to protect yourself with invoices &
What to do if you get a PayPal chargeback 🧵

Do you write "commission" in your invoice?
There's actually something much better...

[Tori Artworks. | Coloso Class @toriartworks]

teaser for my upcoming uni project

[Tori Artworks. | Coloso Class @toriartworks]

I’ve posted my uni teaser on my YouTube for better quality.

Thank you so much for the tremendous support! I'll keep updating the work.

https://t.co/auIhkDGiH7

[Sypeh @SypehOW]

Won the @Jay3OW $30k tournament 🥳
Was such a nice time playing with these guys i really enjoyed it 🫶 such cool teammates

[Pokemander @Pokemander1]

@lLue_l Wow amazing job! The rendering looks peak 🤩

[Xilly @x1lly]

This is something I keep enabled on my own Windows 11 PC for quality of life.

Settings → System → Advanced → Enable End Task

Lets you instantly kill frozen apps from the taskbar without opening Task Manager. Simple, but useful.

[positivity moon @arrtnem]

More like you’re 26 but you feel 23 inside, and it’s not because you’re immature. It’s because the last few years didn’t develop you - they scrambled you. Time passed, but it didn’t land in your body as growth the way it’s “supposed” to. It landed as noise. Stress. Survival. Weird limbo. Half living.

A lot of people lost a clean stretch of adulthood. Not just because of the pandemic, though that’s a big one. Also because the world has been running on rolling crisis mode for years. Money anxiety, job churn, rent rising, relationships collapsing under pressure, attention shredded by phones, constant comparison, constant doom. When you’re in that state, you’re not learning in a linear way. You’re coping. You’re getting through the week. You’re doing mental triage.

coping doesn’t always build you. Sometimes it freezes you.

You know that feeling when you look at your peers and it seems like they “caught up” to adulthood faster? They have routines, relationships, savings, a calm tone, a sense of direction. And you’re sitting there like… I can barely keep my laundry from becoming a geological formation. I still feel like a teenager in an adult costume. I still get that stomach drop when an email looks serious. I still avoid phone calls like they’re predators. I still don’t feel like I’m driving my life, I feel like I’m being dragged behind it.

That’s the “2-3 years behind” feeling.

usually not a skill gap. It’s a nervous system gap.

People think development is about milestones. Job. Apartment. Partner. Degree. But a lot of “growing up” is internal. It’s your ability to regulate, to plan, to recover, to trust yourself, to handle boring admin without collapsing, to believe that your future is real enough to invest in.

when you’re anxious or depressed or dissociated for long stretches, you don’t get to build those layers smoothly. You might still be functioning. You might still be doing the external stuff. But internally you feel younger because your system is still stuck in earlier modes: avoid, appease, freeze, fantasize, survive.

compare yourself to who exactly? The versions people post?

A lot of people look “ahead” because they’re performing stability. They have the job title and the nice photos and the “adult” aesthetic, and you don’t see the part where they’re also texting their mom in a panic, or crying in their car, or living paycheck to paycheck, or avoiding their own mess. Their life looks organized because they show the clean corner, not the pile behind the door.

Still, the feeling is real. And it usually shows up in specific places.

when you’re with older adults and you feel like a kid listening. When someone talks about mortgages or babies or promotions and your brain goes blank. When you realize you never got the slow practice of being an adult, you got thrown into it. When you notice you still want someone to tell you what to do. When you’re scared you missed the “becoming” part and now you’re just late.

that matters:

Feeling behind is often your mind trying to explain grief.

Grief for time you didn’t get the way you wanted. Time you spent surviving. Time you spent stuck. Time you spent numb. Time you spent in relationships that drained you. Time you spent trying to be okay instead of building.

grief gets translated into a simple story: I’m behind.

Because “I’m behind” feels actionable. You can fix behind. You can catch up. Grief feels heavier. It’s harder to hold.

if you feel 2-3 years behind, you’re not broken. You’re probably just honest. You’re noticing the gap between your age and your internal readiness. That gap is common now.

And it’s not permanent.

It shrinks when your nervous system stabilizes.
It shrinks when you stop living in reaction.
It shrinks when you build boring consistency.
It shrinks when you stop measuring adulthood by someone else’s timeline and start measuring it by your ability to show up for your own life.

[Nixeu @IomayaAF]

For artists: How to grow and maintain your business without this place.

First of all, stop judging me bc I’m a big acc and “you are big that’s why it works for you”
I was small like you too, and I went through many shit to be here today, so at least try it.
This is info I got during years of checking metrics, testing diff platforms…

1. Big engagement is not more money in your bag. It’s true you see big numbers and reach many people but the important number is the followers/client/supporter conversion.
Many people think that as here they have more views than in other apps it’s better, I thought that too. After a year trying to save this sinking ship, having almost no new patrons with posts here over 20k likes, I was desperate. But it’s pure logic, here many casual people can see your post, like it and pass, it’s not an art platform, so you need an INSANE amount of views to actually reach art lovers who want to support your in specific.
1k likes in other place can be more profitable than 25k here, big numbers are not always success.

2. Creators gaslight is real. Many people will tell you that this is the best place, you won’t grow as much as here, and they believe that fr, many of them are frustrated too, thinking there’s no other option. I was one of them and it is not true.
After coming back to my roots, ig, Reddit… I could see that this place is hell for creators.
-Fast engagement, your post will die in hours if you don’t reach certain levels of virality, which is HORRIBLE for tiny accs, bad for all of us in general.
-It doesn’t reward quality. You can be the best artist right there but you won’t be seen unless you literally sell your soul to “be funny” “follow stupid trends”
I was reaching 90K for drawing a nip bc it was funny and it was a trend, while my real work got flagged as adult content, when it was full dressed, but AI is unable to recognise it properly if u use too pale colors :)
-AI will hide, flag and shadowban your account overtime, unfairly.
This new algorithm can’t track images properly, if your drawing is too pink, white, the pose is confusing… if you even show a normal, non sexual cleavage… your art will get flagged as adult content
-If people report you to simple harass you, your post, without even checking if it’s true or not, will get buried. Just one or two of them can fuck your visibility 🫶🏻
-Sharing art here, like rt, the only way it’s more effective, fuck your portfolio, so when people enter in your profile will get all but your content. On ig its very easy, bc it has its own section, so we tend to repost and share way more 🤍
-Your work will depend on yourself, there is not random viral peaks and your post will be growing over time, days, even weeks.
I have a jinx art there that keeps growing after a week 🙂‍↕️
-Your art is actually being shown to your followers and non followers, and you get tons of insights for free lmao, you don’t have to pay to get your info. You can even see your target audience, country, age and gender:

[Pokemander @Pokemander1]

@shiki12348 WOAH, you did an amazing job!

[Pokemander @Pokemander1]

@_DeJovanna this looks incredible, good job!

[Pokemander @Pokemander1]

@danathv3 xd Pokemander

[Pokemander @Pokemander1]

@wyscooper "burga"

[LAZAR @Lazarbeam]

💍❤️

Exactly 6 years since the day we met :)

[Linus Tech Tips @LinusTech]

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[danath @danathv3]

ahahah

[Pokemander @Pokemander1]

Happy Birthday @Lazarbeam Hope you have a great day.

[Funkbuster G @FunkbusterG]

I'm willing to meet Elon halfway on this one and call it Xitter, pronounced "shitter."