I like their older stuff. „Clocks“, „Trouble“, „yellow“ or „The scientist“ are fucking awesome.

After that I listened to them less and less.

Are they bots? This reads like a parody, like someone re-enacting a Reddit post after only having heard stories about the website.

The jokes aren’t even funny…

Yeah, the times certainly changed. I can understand the urge to protect kids from dangers, but sometimes we are also holding them back by being to overprotective.

Same here. As soon as I could read I always had my nose in a book. Only competitor to those was the computer my parents got.

Never did write much, besides some journaling in my early teens, but I remember I could basically create a whole (small) school essay in my Head, before putting it in one go down on paper. Yeah… I totally lost this ability. The words are jumbling in my head and sometimes I forget what I wanted to write a few seconds ago. That got better after I picked up journaling again, tho.

The Nikon F100 sounds awesome. Those last SLRs before digital took over were beasts!

It was sure nice talking to you, looking forward to more conversations!

Thank you for your story! I envy you a bit for your childhood friend, that sounds like an awesome acquaintance!

I’m just an amateur photographer who was never too interested in photography back then. I did shoot some film, but only on some cheap point and shoot cameras from the 90s. However, my father had some old SLR camera he used during vacations. That might have planted the seed why I suddenly got interested in photography 20 years later.

Sometimes a bit of nostalgia doesn’t hurt, thanks again for sharing this story from your past. If you want to get back into photography, I’ve heard all the cool kids shoot now with Nikon F3s ;)

The book is also photography related, I apologise. It’s a book about the canon A1, basically a glorified manual, written by a German author in the 70s. The book is very useful, but he author gushes about the camera more than a paid YouTube influencer today.

The lens should be the Canon FD 50mm 1.8, a very good lens, but I have my eye on the 50mm 1.4 and 55mm 1.2 S.C.C.

Through coincidence I got my hands on an old SLR, and while cumbersome and expensive, („Portra 400 is too damn expensive!!!“) filmphotography rekindled my my joy in photography.

Thanks for the link, seems handy!

Perspective. The railing is on the upper side of the picture. The balcony walls are glass. ;)

I have my yearly planner for, well planning. Appointments, vacation and stuff like that.

The other one is my journal. I try to put my thoughts of different topics into essay style entries.

I also have a small pocket notebook for notes. I try to bring it always with me, but honestly fail to do so pretty often.

Ah, the story of how Putins Russia invaded Ukraine.

What exactly is a realistic option for most people?

Nobody said it’s easy. It might be easier now than at a later point.

Macro level

So you’re saying better be quick and be among the first?

I‘m mentally fine, but I’m worried - every single day. They only thing you can do is not to let it eat you whole.

Sport and touching grass is good start, but it’s not enough. Are you an American? Start planning how to get out of there. It will be getting worse, much worse. You can also think of stuff were you can do something to contribute helping others.

Curate your online presence. Get news from a mix of reputable news sources. Try to use your phone less. Do some journaling to sort your thoughts.

Personally I go more and more analogue recently. I write with a fountain pen in an old fashioned Leuchtturm journal. I bought an old canon camera und take pictures on film. I even bought a typewriter on a flea market for 5 bucks, but I haven’t used it yet.

The only reason I’m on Lemmy is I want to support a reddit alternative and I want to stay in touch with recent developments. And of course because of memes.

Ah, Fallen London! I played Sunless Sea a bit, and loved it. Those games are more like interactive books, very well written stories in an compelling and strange universe.

Really? That’s new to me.

I read a long time ago some esoteric bullshit book and the author literally described people on the spectrum as fae changelings.

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett:

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right," said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

“Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—”

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

“So we can believe the big ones?”

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

“They’re not the same at all!”

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

“Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—”

MY POINT EXACTLY

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This is fun to read, but never happened.

LMMs have no problem indexing writing, no matter how it is written. Even if this was the case, Techbros don’t care about your blog. ChatGPT has indexed every book that has been published, your blog hardly matters to them. And it is not harder to index than the library of congress.

LMM suck, but posts like this are useless circlejerks about the supremacy over machines, when in fact the machines are already better in this area.

Duly noted.

Thanks!

Where is this pic from?

If you liked The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern you also might like Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel by Susan Cooper.

I never read Solar Punk, I’ll give it a try.

Non-Fiction can be good as well. I recently read The Berlin Diary by William Shirer. It’s Shirers diary he wrote while stationed as a journalist during Nazi Germany and published when he came back to the US. It reads astonishingly modern and is absolutely infuriating while you read about his struggle to inform an oblivious american public about the crimes of the nazis.

On Writing Well by William Zinsser is also very entertaining and informative.