alriegler
@alriegler.bsky.social
Dopamine deficient, neurally unpruned, multi minded, too many words, too many books, too many podcasts, too much data analytics, question everything because I don't know anything.
Yes.
I need to quit my job so I have time to learn theatrical lighting, stonemasonry, printmaking, welding, bushcraft, tattooing, forestry, gymnastics, filmmaking, pedal steel guitar, lost-wax casting, jazz drumming, weaving, graffiti, carpentry, snowboarding, blacksmithing, and navigation
June 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Yes.
What are we doing?!?!?! 🤣
May 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
What are we doing?!?!?! 🤣
I've been having this thought, too. My empathy for people old enough to know better is exhausted - I'm much more interested in reaching younger people and enabling their critical thinking and resilience. The mess that's coming is going to fall on their shoulders.
i need to start a social media empire catering to young men except instead of encouraging them to become insane loners who hate women it teaches them things like how to take care of their skin, make a nice vodka penne, do their laundry properly, etc
May 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I've been having this thought, too. My empathy for people old enough to know better is exhausted - I'm much more interested in reaching younger people and enabling their critical thinking and resilience. The mess that's coming is going to fall on their shoulders.
Wondering ... Elon Musk has grownish children, similar age to the DOGEbros ... why aren't they doing DOGE? Why aren't they helping him run his companies? He clearly thinks people that age are capable given how he's using them to RESTRUCTURE THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT. Maybe I just missed it?
April 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Wondering ... Elon Musk has grownish children, similar age to the DOGEbros ... why aren't they doing DOGE? Why aren't they helping him run his companies? He clearly thinks people that age are capable given how he's using them to RESTRUCTURE THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT. Maybe I just missed it?
Fermi's Paradox ... I can maybe see why ... juuussstttt thinking on it.
April 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Fermi's Paradox ... I can maybe see why ... juuussstttt thinking on it.
Weekend ritual:
1) Knitting (pic)
2) Listening (Blueprint for Armaggedon I)
3) Thinking (Is the current US administration intentionally creating realignment of allies similar to what happened prior to WWI? As in, do we have our own Kaiser Wilhelm(s)? If true, what does the new alignment look like?)
1) Knitting (pic)
2) Listening (Blueprint for Armaggedon I)
3) Thinking (Is the current US administration intentionally creating realignment of allies similar to what happened prior to WWI? As in, do we have our own Kaiser Wilhelm(s)? If true, what does the new alignment look like?)
March 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Weekend ritual:
1) Knitting (pic)
2) Listening (Blueprint for Armaggedon I)
3) Thinking (Is the current US administration intentionally creating realignment of allies similar to what happened prior to WWI? As in, do we have our own Kaiser Wilhelm(s)? If true, what does the new alignment look like?)
1) Knitting (pic)
2) Listening (Blueprint for Armaggedon I)
3) Thinking (Is the current US administration intentionally creating realignment of allies similar to what happened prior to WWI? As in, do we have our own Kaiser Wilhelm(s)? If true, what does the new alignment look like?)
Just my little peon opinion: MAGA isn't the only party destroying this country. If it's a constitutional crisis FUCKING ACT LIKE IT. You were elected TO LEAD, and if you aren't willing to stand on business get out of the way for those that will.
I'm going to resist the urge to dunk and say, look, this is how some of the most loyal Democrats I've ever encountered are reacting. Schumer is quite literally breaking the party with his betrayal and there will be hell to pay.
i'll eat shit, i genuinely did not think schumer would force members of the caucus to go out on limbs for days and then fuck them, even if i think he makes good arguments for it. incredibly poor leadership, and i don't think he can lead the caucus, especially if we ever get the majority back.
March 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Just my little peon opinion: MAGA isn't the only party destroying this country. If it's a constitutional crisis FUCKING ACT LIKE IT. You were elected TO LEAD, and if you aren't willing to stand on business get out of the way for those that will.
Me: WTAF is wrong with bluesky? Why all the NFL in my TL? Why does everything have get enshittified?!??! 😕
Me: Sees X is down on the first day of NFL free agency, which is a big sportsball thing(?), so they are all posting here instead 🤣🤣🤣
OK, then timeline! Carry on!
Me: Sees X is down on the first day of NFL free agency, which is a big sportsball thing(?), so they are all posting here instead 🤣🤣🤣
OK, then timeline! Carry on!
March 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Me: WTAF is wrong with bluesky? Why all the NFL in my TL? Why does everything have get enshittified?!??! 😕
Me: Sees X is down on the first day of NFL free agency, which is a big sportsball thing(?), so they are all posting here instead 🤣🤣🤣
OK, then timeline! Carry on!
Me: Sees X is down on the first day of NFL free agency, which is a big sportsball thing(?), so they are all posting here instead 🤣🤣🤣
OK, then timeline! Carry on!
Weekend ritual:
1) Knitting (pic)
2) Listening (DCHH Radical Thoughts)
3) Thinking (How much is the current state of affairs the result of fear? How rational is that fear? What "intellectual contagions" are we experiencing?)
1) Knitting (pic)
2) Listening (DCHH Radical Thoughts)
3) Thinking (How much is the current state of affairs the result of fear? How rational is that fear? What "intellectual contagions" are we experiencing?)
![The beginning of a hand knit sock on double pointed needles, the yarn is variegated in jewelry toned colors, this colorway also know as "Unicorn Vomit" [laughing unicorn emoji]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5zhnwihmuzl4shqj3m6wtb7m/bafkreigh2ttnt5paz4gehttntlqs7t2g6bq27jqpsjn2z66wreionc2gzu@jpeg)
March 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Weekend ritual:
1) Knitting (pic)
2) Listening (DCHH Radical Thoughts)
3) Thinking (How much is the current state of affairs the result of fear? How rational is that fear? What "intellectual contagions" are we experiencing?)
1) Knitting (pic)
2) Listening (DCHH Radical Thoughts)
3) Thinking (How much is the current state of affairs the result of fear? How rational is that fear? What "intellectual contagions" are we experiencing?)
Truth is I'm a dillentant and don't really know anything. Anyone else seeing connections? I'm not hearing it in my media channels, but recs welcome!
Wouldn't be ironic if they caused a depression then scarred GenAlpha comes to power creates an Ameican social democracy? 🤣
Wouldn't be ironic if they caused a depression then scarred GenAlpha comes to power creates an Ameican social democracy? 🤣
Ya know, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Desparate Times episode was riiiiiggggghhht there. Like, this has been done before ... nothing fucking new under the sun. And it's all so stupid that we are doing it again, barely out of living memory.
March 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Truth is I'm a dillentant and don't really know anything. Anyone else seeing connections? I'm not hearing it in my media channels, but recs welcome!
Wouldn't be ironic if they caused a depression then scarred GenAlpha comes to power creates an Ameican social democracy? 🤣
Wouldn't be ironic if they caused a depression then scarred GenAlpha comes to power creates an Ameican social democracy? 🤣
Ya know, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Desparate Times episode was riiiiiggggghhht there. Like, this has been done before ... nothing fucking new under the sun. And it's all so stupid that we are doing it again, barely out of living memory.
March 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Ya know, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Desparate Times episode was riiiiiggggghhht there. Like, this has been done before ... nothing fucking new under the sun. And it's all so stupid that we are doing it again, barely out of living memory.
Keeping myself sane - RAW writing has always stayed with me, and I find myself coming back to his thinking lately. In particular reality tunnels, hyper sigils and hilaritas ... especially HILARITAS because when you step back ... It. Is. All. Absurd.
open.spotify.com/episode/7r4f...
open.spotify.com/episode/7r4f...
Chapel Perilous with Gabriel Kennedy and Grant Morrison
Team Human · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Keeping myself sane - RAW writing has always stayed with me, and I find myself coming back to his thinking lately. In particular reality tunnels, hyper sigils and hilaritas ... especially HILARITAS because when you step back ... It. Is. All. Absurd.
open.spotify.com/episode/7r4f...
open.spotify.com/episode/7r4f...
Joyless fucks
The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.
'Chilling effect': Arts organizations react to end of DEI initiatives from fed agency
The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.
www.npr.org
February 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Joyless fucks
I've gone further down my GenX rabbit hole. Current mood 👇
February 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I've gone further down my GenX rabbit hole. Current mood 👇
This is one of my aboalute favorite Duran Duran songs ... I was a HUGE fan as a teenager in the 1980s. The New Romantics where my jam ...
They named the band after the villain in Barbarella. Highly recommend all their albums but in particular Rio and Seven and the Ragged Tiger are 🤌
They named the band after the villain in Barbarella. Highly recommend all their albums but in particular Rio and Seven and the Ragged Tiger are 🤌
February 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is one of my aboalute favorite Duran Duran songs ... I was a HUGE fan as a teenager in the 1980s. The New Romantics where my jam ...
They named the band after the villain in Barbarella. Highly recommend all their albums but in particular Rio and Seven and the Ragged Tiger are 🤌
They named the band after the villain in Barbarella. Highly recommend all their albums but in particular Rio and Seven and the Ragged Tiger are 🤌
On top of everything being terrible, I was finally cornered into completing my annual "goals assessment and personal review" for work. Of all the meaningless corporate bulls*@&#&×&#^__@<&@. I fucking HATE it ... so I did it while listening 👇
open.spotify.com/track/7pu8Ah...
open.spotify.com/track/7pu8Ah...
Bad Reputation
open.spotify.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
On top of everything being terrible, I was finally cornered into completing my annual "goals assessment and personal review" for work. Of all the meaningless corporate bulls*@&#&×&#^__@<&@. I fucking HATE it ... so I did it while listening 👇
open.spotify.com/track/7pu8Ah...
open.spotify.com/track/7pu8Ah...
I was trying to find a good metaphor. This is the one that works for me 👇
Can’t believe our country is being run by the villains from Buffy Season 6
a man wearing a headset looks at a computer screen
Alt: GIF of the trio of nerds from Buffy season 6
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I was trying to find a good metaphor. This is the one that works for me 👇
There can never be too many:
> Accessories to knit
> Candles to burn
> Quilts to sew
> Sneezes to blow
> Books to read
> Beads to string
> Brainfire notes to take
> Recipes to try
> Dogs to pet
I love all of it! ❤️
> Accessories to knit
> Candles to burn
> Quilts to sew
> Sneezes to blow
> Books to read
> Beads to string
> Brainfire notes to take
> Recipes to try
> Dogs to pet
I love all of it! ❤️
January 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
There can never be too many:
> Accessories to knit
> Candles to burn
> Quilts to sew
> Sneezes to blow
> Books to read
> Beads to string
> Brainfire notes to take
> Recipes to try
> Dogs to pet
I love all of it! ❤️
> Accessories to knit
> Candles to burn
> Quilts to sew
> Sneezes to blow
> Books to read
> Beads to string
> Brainfire notes to take
> Recipes to try
> Dogs to pet
I love all of it! ❤️
When I get a day like today off, one that not everyone gets off, it feels like a 'bonus' day ... like I have to spend it the *right* way and get *meaningful* things done ... this results in wasting some amount of time (sometimes the whole day) in an anxiety spiral 👇
January 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
When I get a day like today off, one that not everyone gets off, it feels like a 'bonus' day ... like I have to spend it the *right* way and get *meaningful* things done ... this results in wasting some amount of time (sometimes the whole day) in an anxiety spiral 👇
With all this* going on, I'm thinking about Butlerian jihads and going for some instant gratification knitting.
January 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
With all this* going on, I'm thinking about Butlerian jihads and going for some instant gratification knitting.
Reconnecting with the music of my youth ... All I Want by @alanismorissette.bsky.social is an ADHD anthem ... I am *feeling* it today.
January 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Reconnecting with the music of my youth ... All I Want by @alanismorissette.bsky.social is an ADHD anthem ... I am *feeling* it today.
I am feeling this whole post and all the comments. I don't work on the socials, but I do work in digital transformation and business analytics, so I'm kinda I the space and the last few years has been ... dispirating. Everything is too many buzzwords, moving to fast and creating nothing of quality.
I honestly think we are experiencing the end of the internet as those of us born in the 20th c understand it. Smaller, siloed communities like discord servers and newsletters will persist, but the idea of the global public square is dead, as is “the information superhighway.” VCs killed it.
it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories
January 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I am feeling this whole post and all the comments. I don't work on the socials, but I do work in digital transformation and business analytics, so I'm kinda I the space and the last few years has been ... dispirating. Everything is too many buzzwords, moving to fast and creating nothing of quality.
