This Is Cool And Awesome And Amazing Science And All That, But I Have One Question:

The thing is, it DOES work... sometimes. But the older you are the less often it will work.

Like, when you're in your teens, absolutely you can fix a screwed up sleep schedule with this sort of hard reset. It'll work 95% of the time, and will still help at least a little bit in the remaining 5% of cases.

In your 20s it will solve the problem about 80% of the time, help 15%, and make things worse 5%.

In your thirties the ratio becomes 50/25/25%

In your forties there's still a chance the hard reset will work, but the odds don't favor it. Something like 29% chance of solving, 19% chance of helping, 50% chance of making things worse, and a 2% chance of triggering a major crisis.

I haven't gotten to my fifties yet, but I can see the pattern.

Currently doing an Insomniac's Gambit. For those of you who don't know, this is when you mess up your sleep schedule badly enough that you attempt to fix it by skipping an entire night of sleep then going to bed at a reasonable hour the next day. Crucially, it does not work

People who want to be awful are going to be awful.

What they read/watch/listen to/play might affect what flavor of awful they end up being, but not the basic state of awfulness.

"fiction affects reality" wrong "fiction doesn't affect reality" wrong

The decision to emulate or not emulate what we see in fiction is on the audience. It's YOUR responsibility to KNOW better like a reasonable ADULT.

Abusive people are going to be abusive regardless of what total strangers are writing on Tumblr. Because being an abusive person is an active series of decisions that you make. You don't get to blame murder on Satanism and metal music in goddamn 2025

I need to show this to my kid

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You know what would be cool? A story about a mideval Strong Rebellious Warrior Woman... who actually enjoys sewing and embroidery. Like, yes she dreams of riding horses through the fields and swinging a sword, but is also looking forward to returning home after a long day of fighting to finish that really cool lapel piece shes been working on all month.

Congratulations, you are now a nest

I get so frustrated with myself sometimes. I have THOUGHTS about a serious topic, but when I try to express them, they never make as much sense to other people as they did in my head.

I've decided that I'm going to actively avoid political content here on Tumblr. I'll use it as my "the world sucks and is stressful" escapism place.

Facebook, NPR, and face-to-face give me plenty of info about what's going on in the world. I don't need Tumblr memes too.

Current knitting: a simple garter stitch scarf, using fuzzy yarn from Dollar Tree. I'm working in random colors, with two strands together. The goal is warmth and softness rather than beauty.

Current reading: "Area X" by Jeff Vandermeer. This is the omnibus edition of the Southern Reach trilogy. I finished the first book, and honestly, I'm not sure I'd keep going if the second book wasn't in the same volume. It's not bad, but it's a very different writing style than I usually read.

This man is an actual wizard doing actual magic.

staples?! he made a basket with staples?!

I've made very little progress on either this scarf or this book.

The scarf I'm not bothered by. Any knitting project I'm not having fun with I'll either set aside and come back to or unravel and do something else with the yarn. No big deal.

The book though...

It's like, I want to know what happens, and the answers to the various mysteries, but I'm not actually enjoying the process of reading these novels. The writing style just doesn't fit my brain.

I'm considering just abandoning the book and reading the Wikipedia page instead. That'll answer my questions well enough.

Current knitting: a simple garter stitch scarf, using fuzzy yarn from Dollar Tree. I'm working in random colors, with two strands together. The goal is warmth and softness rather than beauty.

Current reading: "Area X" by Jeff Vandermeer. This is the omnibus edition of the Southern Reach trilogy. I finished the first book, and honestly, I'm not sure I'd keep going if the second book wasn't in the same volume. It's not bad, but it's a very different writing style than I usually read.