Flora

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

[Helen @anomalie_blue]

Socially smart people often won’t tell you to your face when they disagree with you because they can sense intuitively that you are too attached to the outcome of the interaction and that you couldn’t handle disagreement. So they will just agree with you… but then you might not hear from them again.

It’s easy to assume this is “fake” when really it’s just what intelligent people do to protect their energy. If you went around saying what you really thought all of the time you’d make way too many enemies, and get in way too many unproductive arguments (cortisol spikes = aging)

Of course the only way to make genuine connections is to say what you really think… but especially if you intend to be deeply involved in society, you must train your intuition to know who can take it.

[c @kikaykikayi]

Job market is like do u want to train AI or be unemployed

[☔ @Whotfismick]

the way life continues after people die is one of the most humbling things ever

[Elsie not Elise 💿 @ElsienotElisee]

I hate how aggressive algorithms have become. You like one post and your entire timeline is flooded with similar posts in seconds, it’s so easy to build yourself an echo chamber.

[Neet @neet_sol]

The economy is so bad that scam messages went from “you won the lottery” to “remote job available $18/hr”

[✰. @swagoszn_]

Food trucks were supposed to be the budget option. Now they cost the same as sit-down restaurants. Eating on a sidewalk shouldn’t cost restaurant prices.

[Silentum 🦁 @xKhalifan]

GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD

Allow yourself to be cringe. Talk to people. Have fun. Share your interests. Move your body. Socialize more. Learn to dance. Feel the music. Partymaxxing. Make memories. Laugh out loud. All sweaty. Tears of joy. Randomly remembering hilarious situations.

When you spend so much time in your head, not only does it become hard for you to interact with others, but it also prevents you from living fully.

Allow yourself to just exist. Just be.

Enjoy the present moment.

[FourthDrawerDown #MDANT 🏅 @itaintwhywhywhy]

Might be the worse one yet?

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

Getting tired of this shit. I saw an account quoting the Mayor of Paris and drawing conclusions about the French, which would be like treating Mamdani’s utterances as representative of most Americans, which I’m sure most Americans wouldn’t like. In the actual country of France there is a massive shortage of A/C units because people are buying all the A/C units they can which they wouldn’t do if they were poor or ideologically opposed

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

vous êtes génération qui décidé de donner tout le gaz du monde à la culture du vide

l'ironie c'est qu'on les appelle « influenceurs » alors que ce sont les plus influencés de tous, des marionnettes payées par de grandes marques, des politiques et des lobbys pour promouvoir des intérêts privés et qui appellent ça leur authenticité

sachez que votre attention est une monnaie et que chaque like est un vote & par conséquent par vos choix vous financez la culture du néant que vous critiquez

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

[wendell sandico @wendellsandico]

people who upload pictures of restaurant menus to google maps are our modern day saints

[Baptiste Detombe @BaptisteDetombe]

Notre génération subit le rallongement des processus de recrutement.

Autrefois, passer par plusieurs entretiens et tests était réservé aux postes sensibles ou à haute responsabilité. Il n'est aujourd'hui plus très rare d'avoir deux, trois ou quatre entretiens ainsi que des tests à passer rien que pour des jobs peu techniques comme servir des hamburgers ou passer le balai.

Trouver un emploi demande donc plus d'investissement, mais aussi plus de patience, puisqu'un bon mois peut s'écouler entre le premier entretien et la réponse finale. Et quand la réponse est négative à la dernière étape de l'entretien, elle est d'autant plus frustrante.

Avec la raréfaction de l'emploi chez les jeunes, il faut répéter indéfiniment ces processus longs et frustrants. Chercher un emploi devient un travail à temps plein.

[swamp hag ✨☕️🌸🍓🍰 @potatoslav]

one time they had france week in the town square of my city. i live in germany so basically a bunch of french dudes just came over and set up stands of olives and bread and cheese. i went to the cheese stand and tried a cheese and it was the best cheese i’ve ever tasted in my life. i texted my husband “the french are here. i just had life changing cheese.” “buy some cheese” he goes. the cheese man speaks french. i do not speak french. we get by in broken german and english. i accidentally ordered too much cheese. he cut off a huge chunk and wrapped it. it was too late. the cheese cost €40. i told my husband “i’m so sorry. i’m so sorry i didn’t mean to spend €40 on cheese.” he tries the cheese. “can you go back and get more cheese?” i think we spent close to €100 on cheese that week.

[No Context Cats @nocontextscats]

Overworked

[Sam ☽ @somegrlsam]

1. I haven’t upgraded my phone in 5 years
2. I have two $11 subscriptions
3. I don’t use ubereats
4. I don’t buy coffee
5. I don’t go on vacation
6. I have a used 2010 car that I bought
7. I don’t go clubbing
8. I don’t buy weed or have a booze habit
9. I cook at home 6/7 days of the week

Still can’t afford a house. Cool, cool.

[the Vancouver caucasian mogger @notsarmken]

it took me a year to hang up 3 posters