how's your week going, Beehaw

Can't complain,just about fine.Would ❤love it if it gets better.꧁𖨆꧂

I'm starting to set up the groundwork to do freelance work. Not sure how well I'll do, but it's a strong step towards a happier me.

This is my very first post on lemmy since leaving Reddit a couple of years ago. For the past few days, I've dealing with feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of the worlds grief by making a project of unplugging my life and mind from data mining overlords that have offered me convenience and immediacy in exchange for my privacy and mental health. I'm migrating from Gmail to Proton, from Chrome to Vivaldi, and I'm getting my head wrapped around how decentralized/distributed social media platforms work. All of this is meet and right so to do, but if I'm being honest with myself, I'm just soothing myself with something I can feel in some control over. I miss the old internet. Hopefully, in some small sense we can have it back.

Welcome! I suspect you'll find what you're looking for here. This is a great group of Beeple who will challenge you while respecting you.

But why not Firefox or a fork? Vivaldi is Chromium. I use Vivaldi, but only for my less-savoury links.
- There are definitely upsides to using Firefox. I do find that the currently available ad-blocking extensions work better on a certain popular video hosting site. I still use Firefox so I can listen to use that site to listen to music without a 17 minute infomercial playing in the middle of every song. But I don't think its fair to say that Vivaldi is Chromium. Vivaldi uses a fork of Chromium's Blink rendering engine. I'm not really super worried about that aspect of a browser. Every browser is built on one of like three engines and they're all decades old. Mozilla was developing Servo as a next gen but it was written in Rust, so it died when Rust got axed. I'm more concerned with data transfer security, telemetry and UI. Vivaldi wins in all those categories IMO.

I always hate when people are sad but... I told this guy straight off the bat that I'm in a monogamous relationship. Had some excellent conversations with him about socialism. He kept trying to kiss me. He's a nice guy. He's mostly sober but on a bender because he can't deal with the world. Damn, do I get that. But fucking boundaries, man. I finally just up and left mid-conversation.

Overall, things remain grim, but grim is an improvement over scared. Two generous Beeple teamed up to make sure I didn't lose all contact with the outside world.

I'm doing research into the best way to build an elevator pitch ... I don't go to networking events, but I do socialize with the burner community, and I realized that if I can't give a concise yet compelling reason to talk about freelancing, I may be missing out.

Poorly but thanks for asking.

I'm so sorry. I'm right there with ya. I hope things improve for you soon! 🫂

I bit the bullet and ordered some shirts to wear while I'm working the market stand, and I'm hopeful that they make everything more cohesive. Logo is the front, catchphrase is the back:

I helped a friend out of a bind this week, and tomorrow I'll be helping another friend start to transplant his garden from his old house to his new one. Hopefully this heat dome doesn't ruin our efforts.

Took me a moment to realize the text in the art. Really cool!

You inspired me to get some Naomi Klein books!! Excited to start reading them.

How's my week? It's alright. Gonna be a busy one with lots of activities, but it should be mostly fun.

My week is going great. I'm very excited for the new Car Bomb EP.

It's doing alright. The heat is a drain on my spirit but it's cooling down in the next few days.

I hope to continue working on my big project but the finishing part is a bit demotivating. It's harder to finish something than beginning as they say.

Week is going okay. Gearing up for some fun TTRPG game sessions. Been trying to get past the 2nd act of Inscryption too (it's my 2nd time attempting). Love the game, but 2nd act is just such a drag compared to the 1st act. But I wanna complete it because I loved the 1st act so much. 2nd act brings it down for me a lot, but I still really respect the committment and decision to make such a drastic switch—it's why I love indie games, really.

WARNING - RANT: You ever have a best friend who, in your adult life, you realize you two just aren't on the same page anymore? It's been a difficult realization over the past 5 years or so that my best and I are just on 2 different sides of the political spectrum, and I'm sort of mourning that. What makes it worse is that sometimes, it feels like he doesn't care about how I might feel about something and just goes ahead and sends me racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. content. It's very difficult to talk to him about it even though I know I should, but I just kind of ignore it or awkwardly play along.

I have a friend like that as well. I basically told him that we can't talk politics if we want to stay friends. Keep in mind if that wasn't going to be honored on either side I was willing to end the friendship.

Week has been wobbly. I started Krishnamurti's Freedom from the Known which has been making me look at things differently so I'm in a kind of flux. I have also finally been making peace with my OCD and the severe ritualistic behaviour that compelled me to watch certain movies and shows and not other ones so I have been getting used to this new freedom of doing what I want haha

Having a method gave me assurance of not thinking about what to do but it also made me anticipate the whole course of my actions, I couldn't enjoy what I was doing in the moment so I had to stop doing that