I prefer existential motivation over toxic positivity 😄
“We’re all gonna die so what you gonna do” is better than (and more accurate than) “it’s going to be ok” platitude 😄
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London based oil painter; Exhibited in NYC, Atlanta; collected in North America, Europe 🎨 no, not a “tech person” anymore 😛
"Your perception of me is a reflection of you; my reaction to you is an awareness of me"
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Ah yes, I’m caught up on UK politics officially.
Called it.
The moment they can list “leftist” as terrorists, they are now able to start picking off people that will oppose them in elections.
Bye democracy.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/22/us-creates-blacklist-of-prominent-leftwing-politicians-and-groups/
That time when i tried to tell people very seriously to not do business with OpenAI and no one listened 🙄. It’s common sense that you never get a good deal with bad people.
Anyways, in the last decade or so i’ve learned to not get upset at ppl for not believing me, ‘cause the one to lose is not me 😬….but like I told u so.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4613030-apple-sues-openai-former-employees-for-theft-of-trade-secrets?share_source=shared_news
Gross…
“Following losses in recent sessions, SpaceX is trading at around 107 times its 2025 sales, an astronomical valuation. By comparison, Al heavyweight chipmaker Nvidia NVDA.O recently traded at 21 times sales.”
The Final Countdown is such a useful cross-generation song 🤪
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Almost forgot how much I love tennis 🥰
Tennis is a sport that teaches you so many life things. For example: to be unafraid of hypothetically scary things - ie run to the net even when your opponent can very well whack you in the face. By being unafraid you could turn that moment of fear into a winner if you just face it head on.
❤️🎾✨
#tennisAppreciationPost
You can run away from America but apparently you can’t run away from over the top rude Americans.
Just got yelled at by some overweight old white american by saying “excuse me” in line at the V&A yesterday. Maybe I’m getting too used to British politeness standards? Or just I dunno common courtesy.
This wisdom right here.
Discrimination is certainly hard to prove as people are not going to say it out loud, but the patterns are pretty clear to those who cares to look
Sad because I love the V&A
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/20/head-of-victoria-albert-museum-academic-programmes-resigned-citing-racist-and-culturally-insensitive-behaviours-letter-reveals
One of my favorite musical ever, can’t wait to see this in London 🥰 … after listening to the original LONDON cast for years
🤪 teeheee
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cdcZzuQzUhspZo2aJfKaH?si=efG0C2JKRnm2IG_vVr83JA&utm_source=copy-link
Weird that when men are condescending assholes with no leadership skills it’s their “management style”, but when women are even slightly stern when she’ve been a competent exec for years she’s considered bitchy and aggressive.
So done with white male centric patriarchal bs 🙄 incompetent men fail upward when they are assholes apparently… wait i already knew this!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kangaroo5383/116980377081579961
Didn’t know there was actually a name and research on this..but here it issss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
Now that Greek mythology and by extension Greek history is back on the map… can we talk about the Sacred Band of Thebes?
Someone needs to make it into a movie, because I can’t think of anything that will destroy conservatives more than a historically accurate movie about how an army of gay lovers obliterated the toxic masculine Spartans 😛🤪
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes
🔥🐤🔥 aaaaahhhhhhhhh
There’s something very healing about having emotionally matured married friends who “adopt” you 😂 …esp when your own parents are actually nuts and explicitly told you they never wanted you and you’re nothing 🫠
“Wowwww healthy relational patterns watttt” 😂
This week has been…a lot… but London chapter sure is delivering 🇬🇧
It is honestly funny that some very “bright” people have decided to use “woke” as an insult…. If we are referencing The Matrix here, “woke” sure is a better state than being a copper top 🤔🔋
Language is funny
If they revert birthright citizenship, it’s theoretically possible they can remove the citizenship of any black american with ancestry from an enslaved ancestor by claiming said ancestor was illegal. Or even more broadly they can do this to anyone who doesn’t possess immediate proof that their parents were legal immigrants?
What I appreciate about british culture and class:
Understated excellence and not overstated incompetence of what the US miscategorizes as “confidence” 🤪
Is it too late to say “ o damn, I’m actually moving. “
🥲🤯🏠🇬🇧
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The biggest insight from moving is:
Consumerism is the biggest lie.
Buying shit does not make you happy.
I’m miserable having to pack and decide on a million thing of to keep or to toss 😵😫 whelp.
Truth.
The “great” thing about being a hoarder:
You never really lose anything, but you also can never find the thing WHEN you want to…?
Happy to see London🇬🇧 and Hong Kong 🇭🇰 doing pretty well on this list 🙂
Shanghai as #2 is also not necessarily surprising, but surprised it’s being acknowledged 🙃
Wondering why there were so many random american doomsday religious ppl shouting around tube stations… briefly forgot it’s Easter 😖
They should make it illegal tbh disturbing the peace. Christian militarized terrorists are the worst, look at what they are doing to the middle east and the world 😒
When you suddenly go a size larger thanks to biology 🤪 what do you do with your old clothes?
#declutering #unpacking
When you suddenly go a size larger thanks to biology 🤪 what do you do with your old clothes? #declutering #unpacking
Apparently selling the US house will be harder than anticipated as according my agents a lot of ppl seems to have been moving overseas…..
👀🥲😵🫠
So uhhh…ping me if you want a 5 min commute to PV01 iykyk 🤗
Apparently I only have 2 modes:
A. Absolutely nothing is planned - winging it allllll (traveling: “o no i don’t have a hotel yet oops”)
B. Everything is meticulously planned with contingencies for contingencies for everything that can deviate from said plans probabilistically weighted
Doing 3x B concurrently also dips into the masking regulation reserves 😵 😵 😵 😵 😦🪫
A plan is not a plan without a tree of weight nodes. 🌲
Saw this Claude ad and noticed the first icon listed here 🤪
A little over 10 years ago, when we were pitching, I remember one angel investor said something to the effect of “google doc and google sheets is the default, why would anyone switch?”
And here it is, google docs and sheets didn’t even make the cut. The best lessons from startup founding experiences is this: no matter how much potential you have, most ppl can’t or won’t see it.
Don’t be “most ppl”.
🙃
Replying to
@mls14@social.vivaldi.net i still think they will ultimately cause the next crash and economic devastation “somehow” - esp the index inclusion which us ridiculous
* self sabotage intensifies *
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Crazy that the current proxy war is being fought on social media of all places a la flame wars.. wut in the dystopia is this.
Judging the table next to me asking for a Floretine steak to be medium 🥲🥩
…… 🥺🐮
But really tho, when does personal preferences start and butchering other ppl’s culture begin 🤪
It’s a shame I’m allergic to cats 🥲
Yes, a real cat is meant to go in there
#caturday
For 🇺🇸->🇬🇧 planning people
~ 0.76 is probably the best conversion rate we’re getting these days if you’re looking at some large conversions, or alternatively math your way with dollar cost average as you need
#randomNotFinancialAdvice
There should be a sociology term “Taylor Swift Effect”: where successful women are more often questioned about the legitimacy of their success while loser bros like Elon (whose dad had an emerald mine and flew private) are assumed to have worked for their success.
Idly wondering what progress China is capable of if there isn’t the artificial constrain on chip access 🤔
At this point “national security interest” for export control is just code for ensuring artificial technological dominance - and frankly it seems like that’s slipping anyways 🤪
What legitimate national security concerns are there for letting them have the chips?
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@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social ah gonna be the usual “beat estimates!” follow by down n% the next day 🤪
“The officers involved are no longer in the field,” Davies said Wednesday. “They’re in the office.”
Plurals?!?? So there are many if them?? Also horrifying - they are not gone, but now given a promotion?
Key phrases:
“in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran”
“as of early February 2026”
It’s almost as if Trump wanted this.
“We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran,”
The last thing I need for dream life 10/10 ~ tennis club rec / good group class access
NTRP: 4.5 on a good day, 3.0 when out of shape 😅
Bougie lvl: 0 if possible 😖
Socialization requirement: ideally 0
Replying to
@isaiah@mastodon.social aww thank you!
He’s a great life model in London. I like painting from life quite a bit more
https://www.instagram.com/modbodadrian?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
What are some good ways / excuse to force yourself to go outside everyday at least once? And not be “boring”?
Any ideas welcome 🥳
Replying to
@onorio@mastodon.acm.org i’d agree, the utility is not zero, it’s a faster search (tho less accurate so you’d still have to fact check), it’s not a life coach like some marketing BS says, it’s not replacing the entire customer service staff nor artists. But ppl will certain try because $
I don’t hate it, i think it’s an efficient information * discovery * tool, like if you had a drunk friend with bad memory who happens to know a lot but often get confused.
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@apodoxus@mastodon.online there’s a flame war on literal twitter rn where Iranian embassies are quote + taunting trump tweets… like literal flame wars you’d see with teenagers - definitely not what you are referring to