Digital Keepsakes

"we live in an uncaring universe." sorry the special planet full of beauty and animals and food literally growing out of the ground isnt good enough for you. i guess

@pointnclick / tumblr / Feb 23, 2026

A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn't go down.

This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.

But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.

But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!

And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.

But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don't get easier, they just get weirder.

@foone / tumblr / Jul 20, 2023

Being a grandpa must be tough, some baby mispronounces a word and suddenly your name is "Peepo" for the last 30 years of your life

@ItsDanSheehan / twitter / 🤷🏼‍♂️

once your find a pair of pants that fit you perfectly. It's fucking over for all your other pants

@reeceollld / twitter / Oct, 24, 2025

Spending my Valentine's outside a nice restaurant shouting 'WELL YOU MOVED ON VERY QUICKLY' to random couples walking in

@joshweller / twitter / 🤷🏼‍♂️

"Work isn't supposed to be fun", "medicine is supposed to taste bad", "life is supposed to be hard" like why? Said who? We operate under this false notion that everything is supposed to suck, which it doesn't have to. That's the whole point of advancement, to make shit suck less.

@MuslimMissWorld / twitter / 🤷🏼‍♂️

TK Maxx cashier: "Did you find everything you were looking for?"

Me unloading full cart

First of all, I wasn't looking for any of this

@madswill_ / twitter / 🤷🏼‍♂️

My mom has a little notebook where she writes down every movie she watches and a few of her thoughts about it. I told her about Letterboxed & she said "does everyone need an audience for their hobbies now?"

@Reaelthy / twitter / Feb 2, 2026

She died doing what she loved. Walking into the road while saying "Pedestrians have the right of way"

@cardamomkiss / twitter / 🤷🏼‍♂️

Have you ever pretended not to look at the biscuits or sweets being handed around the room and acted surprised when you got offered one.

@Lily62116418 / twitter / Sept 26, 2018

"The modern smartphone, laden with the corporate ecosystem pulsing underneath its screen, robs us of this feeling, conspires to keep us from “true” fullness. The swiping, the news cycles, the screaming, the idiocy — if anything destroys a muse, it’s this. If anything keeps you locked into a fetid loop of looking, looking, and looking once more at the train wreck, it’s this. I find it impossible to feel fullness, even in the slightest, after having spent just a bit of a day in the thralls of the algorithms."

~ Full Days and the Long Walk | Ridgeline Transmission #217

"Or, I don’t know about you, I’m gonna have to leave the planet. ‘Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that’s the basic main staple of your diet, you’re gonna die. In a meaningful way, you’re going to die."

Excerpt of David Foster Wallace interview from 1996

how do you just get up and deal with the fact that there’s a last time for everything. there was a last time you sat on your dads shoulders and there was a last time your mom tucked you into bed. there’s going to be a last time you kiss your sister on the head and there’s going to be a last time you hug your best friend. there’s going to be a last time you feel exactly as you feel right now and there’s going to be a last time that person says i love you. i need to lay down

@francisforever2014 / tumblr / Oct 31, 2022

if you put a bunch of vaseline on your chest and then you eat some chips shirtless you can experience something gross and disgusting

@tincansamurai / tumblr / Feb 10, 2026

love "et cetera" like... theres soooo much more. beyond your wildest imaginations. Not gonna tell u what tho. Move on.

@omtai / tumblr / Mar 9, 2024