orange blossom

serial hobbyist | romanticist | generalist | naturalist

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

I’m all about re examining social norms and taboos but as soon as the people who are obsessed with sexual kinks are trying to include minors in their activities it’s not giving progressive it’s giving predator and we don’t all have to be cool about it

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

Your lack of soft skills is what’s going to get you “stuck in the permanent underclass” if some of ya’ll don’t start going outside

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

After a dozen years of Revenge of the Nerds we’re starting to have a major shift back to the importance of having a good personality and EQ to be able to get a good job and make a decent living for the average person

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

So many conservative complaints about modern life go back to this unshakable belief that they would have been part of the upper classes if this were the 1930s.

In the 1930s, a Pullman day trip cost about £2 – 3, which was equivalent to a week's worth of wages for the average blue-collar worker. Or about four days' wages for the average white-collar earner. That means it was about 1.5 – 2% of their annual income, making it a real luxury experience. Most Britons never traveled abroad or dined in style, let alone experienced a Pullman trip.

Worth remembering that, at this time, a larger section of society was blue collar, so the chances of you earning that white collar wage was slimmer than it is today.

Today, a Pullman trip costs £340 - 500, depending on the amenities you want. That's about two to four days of pay for a modern full-time worker (earning ~£700/week). Or roughly 1 – 1.3% of their annual income.

So it's the opposite of what you suggest: such travel has become more affordable for the average person, not less. In fact, real luxury travel experiences today have moved beyond being served tea in a dining train car, but you also simply have to be willing to pay for those experiences.

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

Someone needs to make a “driving on the highway” simulator to help me sleep when I have insomnia

[Hyde 💨 @BreatheLesss]

America becoming a kind of symbolic diorama, with idealized myths and images being constantly recycled in one's psyche, is fueled by nostalgia for a past that never happened. America has a fascination with its own disappearance because behind every image, something real has disappeared, to paraphrase Baudrillard.

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

@CoraCHarrington Tbf I think this a mostly online thing and we underestimate how many actual teenage boys are posting

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

Fox News hosts fear mongering about liberal cities while living in NYC is never not gonna be funny to me

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

Interesting to note that American evangelicalism is one of the last institutions where you can get status just by showing up and being male, and your perceived status is directly correlated with health outcomes. So in that sense it might be a biohack I guess

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

It's been so crazy to see Christianity enter the online wellness/tech/manosphere as essentially a biohacking trend

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

One time I was walking into Costco and this guy point to me and says "OMG you have the exact same jawline as my friend" and pointed to this guy next to him who did in fact have the same jawline as me. Am I chopped (don't answer)

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

@sporadica Cosigning pocari sweat. I miss it

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

@TylerAlterman This must be how the OG hippie cultists felt when everyone was obsessed with psychedelics and plant medicine and meditation retreats a few years ago

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

It's been so crazy to see Christianity enter the online wellness/tech/manosphere as essentially a biohacking trend

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

Wait until they try to integrate into modern Christian churches only to be ousted for taking demonic Chinese peptides or transhumanism ideas or whatever

Deeply unserious people

(except those who are actually studying it critically like @TylerAlterman which I appreciate)

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

@nickcammarata My husband and I advise each other on life strategy every day so collectively we gain 40 household IQ points

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

Sorry guys I’m not sure I’m gonna be able to make heaven this weekend

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

@maiamindel I think about this a lot. The best arts scene I’ve experienced was in a very affordable mid sized Midwest city. People have time for creativity and can afford actual houses there

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

Hopefully the fact that statement necklaces are back in style is a precursor to some type of peplumish top coming back because I look so good in that silhouette

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

Everyone saying she looks “so good for her age” but most of my friends are in this age bracket and also look this good. I think this is just what 40 looks like if you take care of yourself. Don’t let them scare you ladies

[MARINA @MarinaDiamandis]

40 ! 🩷🎈

[orange blossom @diffendwarfer]

My main “I’m feeling good again” tell is when I start planning my soup business