Rob

[Cigarette Nostalgia @CigsMake]

America has fallen into the grey slop soviet union era of aesthetics

[Old Hollow Tree @OldHollowTree]

Lord, what a life. Thank you.

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

When Walmart never went back to 24 hours nation wide after Covid I knew that was the end of America.

[Just Loki @LokiJulianus]

Dogs must be terrifying to wild animals: basically a wolf that is life-bonded with hairless talking chimpanzees.

[gio @_GioHub]

a gay bully: "gimme your brunch money"

[expiredkirspies @beyoncesspamacc]

Old people used to call bar codes the mark of the beast and now they can't stop engaging with AI shit

[Lauren @buridansridge]

Much of life is learning to feel for the invisible waves to ride. There will be moments when, no matter how hard you push, you'll encounter an invisible wall of resistance. Wisdom is recognising what it is and not expending energy becoming overly frustrated by this naturally occurring rhythm, that is not to say you shouldn't persevere with measured intention, but it is also wise to know when to conserve your energy and to what extent.

When you sense the flow of things again, there will be an effortless momentum. You'll feel things start to loosen and then move rapidly all at once. It will feel kinetic, like you're swimming with the current, that is not to say there won't be blips along the way, but they will intuitively feel texturally insignificant in the context of the overall forward motion of things.

This is when you exert yourself with full force, just moving and grooving to the invisible music.

[StarPlatinum @StarPlatinum_]

Hot take:

X has spent months making a mistake by prioritizing videos and pushing an algorithm closer to TikTok and Instagram.

The majority of users who genuinely prioritize this platform are people who enjoy writing.

This platform was built as a place to share opinions, develop ideas, and debate through text.

I think X should have continued investing in verticals like long-form articles instead of shifting its focus toward video.

(Especially AI slop)

X already has a user base that is naturally drawn to writing, and I don’t see a future where it becomes profitable to change that identity in an attempt to compete with platforms like TikTok or YouTube on video.

From the perspective of someone who has been active here every single day since 2021

the algorithm keeps getting worse and my experience as a user has steadily declined.

Am I the only one?

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

It's just so crazy to think that about 10 years ago the internet felt gigantic: blogs, forums, hundreds of random sites, communities. Today it feels like we're stuck living on the same three sites, four apps, and AI. The internet got bigger, but somehow it feels smaller.

[Rob @RobReset]

@our_decay Cigarettes yet to be even smoked

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

Watching Seinfield and I can’t help but notice how much better life was back then, in the 90s-00s.

No worry about wokeness, humor is humor, no one is offended by anything. There is no diversity either, legit the peak of America.

I yearn for a world I barely remember.

[AvantPrince_ @AvantPrince_]

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return"

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

I wanted a thousand things in my life, and most of them i didn't get. and i looked at myself the way this post is asking me to, and thought i wasn't smart enough. but years passed, and i started seeing what each of those things would have done to me if i had gotten them, and every single one would have destroyed me - some fast and some slow. everything i didn't get turned out to be the smartest thing that happened to me, but it was not my smartness. it was something else deciding on my behalf, because i was not smart enough to decide for myself. sometimes not getting what you want is the only proof that something out there loves you more than you were ever capable of loving yourself

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

Home before dark because Covid’s outside.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

@markpoloncarz Teddy Roosevelt regularly staged boxing matches in the White House. He lost sight in one eye from a detached retina because he himself was fighting at the White House in one of these matches.

And the Founding Fathers regularly dueled with pistols, one of them died doing so.

[heaumeau e. rotacism @hurtandcomfort]

"em dash is an AI indicator" "semicolons are an AI indicator" "describing things in threes is an AI indicator" "the word genuinely is an AI indicator" "the oxford comma is an AI indicator" "flowery prose is an AI indicator" should we all die? should we just kill ourselves

[arne ness @arne__ness]

you used to be able to rent a hotel room under a fake name now i need an app to do my damn laundry

[Delicious Tacos @Delicious_Tacos]

Journaling helps with the feeling that time’s flying by

[Ty Lekki @tylekki]

Canyon Overlook in El Chalten, Argentina. An iconic spot that is easily accessed right outside the town. Here the windy Rio de Las Vueltas is shown which means river of the turns.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled garden of garbage and commerce.