100000% felt! even the corporate world is rife with diminishing returns. it feels like the only winning play is to walk away, but what are your options after that? we are all adrift and scrambling for scraps.

i’m grateful that you and i both have safety nets but as you said, something’s gotta give.

me reading about Utsushikome of Fusai:

you also get hysterical lines like this. she IS a 32 year old teenager!!!

speaking of, if you’re interested in reading spec fic about an increasingly disenfranchised younger generation suffocating beneath the hoarded wealth and resources of their multi-centenarian elders, allow me to point you to 👉🏼 www.royalroad.com/fiction/2880...

I can always count on you for a good riff king

and they’d be right, but only for the things that apply to me. everything else is entitled whinery

trust now that the youngest millennials have passed 30 we’re gonna start seeing a feverish uptick in posts explaining why, if you subtract covid and add two financial crises raised to the power of a cost of living crisis, plus various neurodivergences, 32 is the new 26

I collected a lot more of these on this post that I update every now and then. I was talking to my stream yesterday about my affinity for these kinds of stories :) it’s always going…

substack.com/@ayahokay/no...

watch me stream red dead when I’m back, which is like BOTW for guys in their forties

grew up forging my mom’s at least!

SF…

I love the Mojave!!!

my annual NP pass paid for itself so fast here. I was staying a 10 min drive away and stopped by for a hike or drive around nearly every day.

Red Rock Canyon :)

Valley of Fire…

and some digital. Hoover Dam was a homecoming. Muir Woods was my first time seeing Redwoods. I cried and cried seeing the petroglyphs. 3,000 years old!!

that’s the secret level IRL after you ascend all 3 within the time limit

some less impressive photos I took last year…

Well now I gotta know if critically acclaimed iPhone puzzle game Monument Valley looks anything like the actual thing!