Kyle
@khomni.bsky.social
I want someone to persistently bully me into being creative, but like in a specific way that triggers my primal procrastinator instinct to not let people down by missing a deadline
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I want someone to persistently bully me into being creative, but like in a specific way that triggers my primal procrastinator instinct to not let people down by missing a deadline
Even if you don't live in NYC, you can root and celebrate Zohran's success more broadly since it means that people have opened up to left-leaning, progressive and pro social policies. If DNC leadership continues to fight against it only underscores a role as impotent controlled opposition.
November 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Even if you don't live in NYC, you can root and celebrate Zohran's success more broadly since it means that people have opened up to left-leaning, progressive and pro social policies. If DNC leadership continues to fight against it only underscores a role as impotent controlled opposition.
I'm personally celebrating municipal election results for a state I don't live in since I've never seen such a large public celebration of progressive sentiment
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I'm personally celebrating municipal election results for a state I don't live in since I've never seen such a large public celebration of progressive sentiment
While we're all being reductive, there are only 4 types of ways to engage online:
1) being smug and/or seeking approval
2) being pitiful and/or wanting attention
3) being hostile and/or deriving joy from suffering
4) crackpot
1) being smug and/or seeking approval
2) being pitiful and/or wanting attention
3) being hostile and/or deriving joy from suffering
4) crackpot
October 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
While we're all being reductive, there are only 4 types of ways to engage online:
1) being smug and/or seeking approval
2) being pitiful and/or wanting attention
3) being hostile and/or deriving joy from suffering
4) crackpot
1) being smug and/or seeking approval
2) being pitiful and/or wanting attention
3) being hostile and/or deriving joy from suffering
4) crackpot
If I make a joke about being depressed and someone takes it as a personal attack, I don't know whether I should just stop being frank about depression or if I just need to be funnier
October 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
If I make a joke about being depressed and someone takes it as a personal attack, I don't know whether I should just stop being frank about depression or if I just need to be funnier
Exciting new ways to justify not going to therapy:
1) The provider or your insurance have a profit motive to give you poor, ongoing care instead of helping
2) You have SO MUCH baggage to unload, and you're too much of an empath to burden a hard working therapist with your problems
1) The provider or your insurance have a profit motive to give you poor, ongoing care instead of helping
2) You have SO MUCH baggage to unload, and you're too much of an empath to burden a hard working therapist with your problems
October 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Exciting new ways to justify not going to therapy:
1) The provider or your insurance have a profit motive to give you poor, ongoing care instead of helping
2) You have SO MUCH baggage to unload, and you're too much of an empath to burden a hard working therapist with your problems
1) The provider or your insurance have a profit motive to give you poor, ongoing care instead of helping
2) You have SO MUCH baggage to unload, and you're too much of an empath to burden a hard working therapist with your problems
Maximal distrust is like quicksand where the likelihood of someone trying to rescue you from it gets harder the further you sink. If people that care about you ask if you need a rope you just say "Quicksand? I don't want to put you out of any ropes for a 'quicksand' problem, I'll figure it out"
October 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Maximal distrust is like quicksand where the likelihood of someone trying to rescue you from it gets harder the further you sink. If people that care about you ask if you need a rope you just say "Quicksand? I don't want to put you out of any ropes for a 'quicksand' problem, I'll figure it out"
So many of my personal crises and disaster spirals just bottom out when a highly public anti-social meltdown convinces me that I'm only entry-level, amateur, hobbyist deranged, and there are so many qualified people with so much experience, I should just give up on my dreams of breaking down
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
So many of my personal crises and disaster spirals just bottom out when a highly public anti-social meltdown convinces me that I'm only entry-level, amateur, hobbyist deranged, and there are so many qualified people with so much experience, I should just give up on my dreams of breaking down
I feel a nostalgia for an earlier form of the internet; nevermind the fact that the old internet wasn't filtered through several mega-corporations. I'm more upset that, despite the broad adopting of the internet, it didn't get any more normal. Instead, the maladjustment of the internet leaked out
October 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I feel a nostalgia for an earlier form of the internet; nevermind the fact that the old internet wasn't filtered through several mega-corporations. I'm more upset that, despite the broad adopting of the internet, it didn't get any more normal. Instead, the maladjustment of the internet leaked out
Planning farther ahead than your peers can set you apart as having distinguishing leadership qualities, but the farther ahead you plan, the better you gotta be at being a charming visionary to get people on-board.
October 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Planning farther ahead than your peers can set you apart as having distinguishing leadership qualities, but the farther ahead you plan, the better you gotta be at being a charming visionary to get people on-board.
At least Nero allegedly played the fiddle when Rome burned under his leadership. The bar is so much lower now
October 2, 2025 at 8:02 AM
At least Nero allegedly played the fiddle when Rome burned under his leadership. The bar is so much lower now
Me, most of the time: The ability to communicate globally and anonymously to anyone on the internet is so unprecedented and sudden on an evolutionary scale that we're still struggling to understand how it's fucking with our physiology and serving the worst of our impulses
October 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Me, most of the time: The ability to communicate globally and anonymously to anyone on the internet is so unprecedented and sudden on an evolutionary scale that we're still struggling to understand how it's fucking with our physiology and serving the worst of our impulses
My primary fear is that someone will accuse the vague melancholy way I talk as a cry for attention. The rigorous process of filtering depressive sentiment out of your communication means dozens of redrafts for every reply in order to reach FDA mandated minimums for ppm (pessimism per million)
October 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
My primary fear is that someone will accuse the vague melancholy way I talk as a cry for attention. The rigorous process of filtering depressive sentiment out of your communication means dozens of redrafts for every reply in order to reach FDA mandated minimums for ppm (pessimism per million)
Having wasted a substantial amount of time leading teams and corresponding with a product team on code that ultimately amounted to "how do we improve this form experience", running into a form on a multi-million dollar start up with forms that have a whole half-second lag before updating irks me
September 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Having wasted a substantial amount of time leading teams and corresponding with a product team on code that ultimately amounted to "how do we improve this form experience", running into a form on a multi-million dollar start up with forms that have a whole half-second lag before updating irks me
If mental illnesses were treated like the stock market, the market cap is the largest its ever been! The fact that all the stocks I bought in depression 20 years ago are underwater, and podcasters now occupy the highest offices of government make me think I'm not cut out to be an investor
September 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
If mental illnesses were treated like the stock market, the market cap is the largest its ever been! The fact that all the stocks I bought in depression 20 years ago are underwater, and podcasters now occupy the highest offices of government make me think I'm not cut out to be an investor
I wish I were a messier person. Like, maybe just messy enough to get into quirky and memorable shenanigans that are so much fun you don't care what people think, but not so messy that you wake up in a psyche ward learning about the laundry list of petty crimes in which you're implicated.
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I wish I were a messier person. Like, maybe just messy enough to get into quirky and memorable shenanigans that are so much fun you don't care what people think, but not so messy that you wake up in a psyche ward learning about the laundry list of petty crimes in which you're implicated.
Imagine footloose, but instead of dancing, it's developing bits and riffing with his friend Willard on things to find insightful ways to be funny about absurdities and contradictions about participating in society that people relate to. Reverend Shaw, who isn't funny himself, has a podcast, obv
September 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Imagine footloose, but instead of dancing, it's developing bits and riffing with his friend Willard on things to find insightful ways to be funny about absurdities and contradictions about participating in society that people relate to. Reverend Shaw, who isn't funny himself, has a podcast, obv
At least man-made horrors BEYOND comprehension are abstract and hypothetical. Man-made horrors WITHIN human comprehension occurring at ever-increasing frequency is far more disturbing
September 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
At least man-made horrors BEYOND comprehension are abstract and hypothetical. Man-made horrors WITHIN human comprehension occurring at ever-increasing frequency is far more disturbing
5 or 6 companies figured out making people angry and hostile to each other was more engaging and profitable. It's not that people turning to the internet for romantic or emotional connection is a bad thing, but it's worth considering how much online dating has been captured by one company
Social media users have found a way to make dating down even meaner, using terms like “Shrekking” or “intelligence-gap relationships” to describe what they see as mismatched romantic partners.
‘Shrekking’? Intelligence Gaps? When Did We Get So Cruel to Our Lovers?
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:52 AM
5 or 6 companies figured out making people angry and hostile to each other was more engaging and profitable. It's not that people turning to the internet for romantic or emotional connection is a bad thing, but it's worth considering how much online dating has been captured by one company
Despite the fact that I never had a religious upbringing, I wish all the rapture talk happened in march. Pretending you got raptured is a great april fool's joke, and also great cover for not responding to texts
September 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Despite the fact that I never had a religious upbringing, I wish all the rapture talk happened in march. Pretending you got raptured is a great april fool's joke, and also great cover for not responding to texts
Imagine burning away decades of your life in pursuit of becoming a complete person, only to find out that you could have become thousands or millions of people instead
September 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Imagine burning away decades of your life in pursuit of becoming a complete person, only to find out that you could have become thousands or millions of people instead
There's no shortcut for critical thinking. If you want to offload the burden of thinking critically, be assured that there is no shortage of opportunists looking to sell you something that will make you feel like you understand whatever you like
September 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
There's no shortcut for critical thinking. If you want to offload the burden of thinking critically, be assured that there is no shortage of opportunists looking to sell you something that will make you feel like you understand whatever you like
Some people have such an abstracted notion of "violence" that they think it can be morally reduced into "good violence" and "bad violence" forever. Violence has no morality, it is a fundamental consequence of conflict since forever ago. People with power add moral sprinkles to bleak, violent reality
September 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Some people have such an abstracted notion of "violence" that they think it can be morally reduced into "good violence" and "bad violence" forever. Violence has no morality, it is a fundamental consequence of conflict since forever ago. People with power add moral sprinkles to bleak, violent reality
Human life means nothing in this country. Even if it's your whole job is to take fresh corpses and tragedies and chop it into fresh chum to foment political violence, you best believe your peers will hardly pause to mourn you before chopping you up and shoveling you in, same as anyone else.
September 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Human life means nothing in this country. Even if it's your whole job is to take fresh corpses and tragedies and chop it into fresh chum to foment political violence, you best believe your peers will hardly pause to mourn you before chopping you up and shoveling you in, same as anyone else.
I went to my neighborhood bar to make labor day feel less bleak. A sullen guy sitting a couple stools down reveals that he turned 21 this weekend, and it felt easier to encourage him to be rambunctious than it was to talk about college prospects
September 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I went to my neighborhood bar to make labor day feel less bleak. A sullen guy sitting a couple stools down reveals that he turned 21 this weekend, and it felt easier to encourage him to be rambunctious than it was to talk about college prospects