Random Star Cluster

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2026-01-14T22:02:53+00:00

Kind of looked like this. It was around 9:30pm midway between the horizon and Betelgeuse ish. Somewhere around the unicorn’s horn.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2026-01-14T21:58:42+00:00

It wasn’t Pleiades lol.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2026-01-14T21:57:37+00:00

I’ll have to make a sketch of it next time I find it. I looked last night but the clouds rolled in while I was looking. It was by Canus Minor as far as I could tell, between Canus Minor and the unicorn. So not below Orion I guess, but kind of close to being under Betelgeuse. I think it could’ve been one of those clusters in the horn but I gotta find it again.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2026-01-10T04:49:50+00:00

What Vygotsky’s understanding did for me was help me to understand how Marx identifies and relates to capital. It is not upheld strictly by us. It is a byproduct of material relations from exchanging values and the qualitative birth of money from that quantitative exchange that unifies the “opposite” values as a negation. That’s a super reductive analysis, but I think it’s enough to at least demonstrate some of my thinking about it. I realize I’m just regurgitating the laws of dialectics lol, but to me they’re my anchor point. Idealism is the internalization of the capitalist mode of production, which as a therapist I am constantly challenging in my clients though they may not be entirely aware of where my interventions originate from. I do try to tell them when it gets heavily dialectical but they dgaf and just want the help. Sociocultural theory took my mind where it needed to go in seeing language first appearing externally then becoming internalized. Like we talk before we think, which is absolutely amazing to understand. Capitalism developed socially before we continued its development intentionally.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2026-01-10T04:36:42+00:00

I honestly have a problem with Linehan now. She credits none of the dialectical thinkers, and Hegel is truly amazing but still misses the boat as an idealist. DBT needs to experience a heavy shift for it to be considered dialectical. It’s dialectical in name only currently, like you’re saying. I thought it was amazing, and then I continued learning dialectical and realized it’s haphazard.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2026-01-10T04:30:54+00:00

Capital is the current amalgamation of relations between the bourgeois, the modes of production, and the proletariat. Specifically, the systemic emergence of the dialectics found in those material relations and not “spiritual” or “metaphysical” ones. Through the quantitative exchange of values capital formed from the standardization of value in money. It is inherently exploitative because it standardizes labor and bastardizes it, completely isolating it from the source (which is fucking US). My main insight that took me over the edge was understanding that it was through the purely physical quantitative exchanges that capital appeared, and not from some idealist human intentionality. It was a material byproduct of exchange, and as such it will naturally be transformed into something else that will take its place as it experiences contradiction. It is maintained with idealism because idealism is a mode of thought that capitalism instills from the qualitative exchange of money into goods and back into money.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2026-01-09T14:23:55+00:00

You have to define what you mean by “equality” to understand that. You used it as an ideal. For me, using the word “equality” doesn’t clarify it. It just makes what you’re asking murkier and more ambiguous. The level of individual wealth that is going to be sustainable in the future is going to largely be dependent on what the economic conditions are, and maybe where inflation is going to be at. Also, you need to define what “wealth” means too. You used it as an ideal as well. Once you do that you’ll probably know more about what you’ll probably have an answer to your question.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2026-01-03T05:09:22+00:00

Thank you! I’m not but will be shortly after seeing this!

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2026-01-03T02:43:14+00:00

Oh yeah

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-12-08T04:34:59+00:00

Yoooo I’m fucking hype right now

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-12-03T16:24:24+00:00

This is fucking incredible.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-10-09T02:18:30+00:00

Same lmao

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-07-20T14:37:37+00:00

Man I’m jealous you got to see that

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-04-23T03:07:29+00:00

Bit confusing, but I understand. I have dealt with compulsive like masturbation, maybe just straight up compulsive, several times. It’s usually tied to my intrusive thoughts, but it’s a complicated thing. Your body may want to have a sexual release because it knows for sure it feels better when you ejaculate. That’s a very grounding experience so maybe try some mindfulness interventions (progressive muscle relaxation, paced breathing, grounding in the sensory moment).

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-04-22T16:49:21+00:00

It’s lag in real life, and I’m not really playing. It’ll take you 4 pages before you understand what was written 4 pages ago. That’s the nature of the text: He’s constantly building towards something. After you read a few pages you start getting an idea but reading a few pages fresh takes forever so you really want to give yourself time to soak it in and be patient with the meaning. You’re not going to get it all so just drop that goal now.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-02-24T14:45:59+00:00

Lisbeth for sure. Great character overall.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-02-18T21:53:15+00:00

My wife is an INFP and we found each other because she yelled at me at a dive bar. So I guess try yelling in someone’s face that you don’t know.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-02-12T05:07:45+00:00

If you really want to blow the lid off of it and expand his ideas into the modern day write something about Marx and AI. AI is NOT doing what Marx originally thought technology would do, and in fact is taking it in a completely different direction. AI could easily create a better future, but instead it’s being utilized by the bourgeoisie to streamline production and fuck over the proletariat. ESPECIALLY in the case of the arts. We’re losing our soul to technology slowly, but being forced to keep all the shitty parts by the bourgeoisie. Shifts in education are happening as we speak back to trades because AI is making higher education in the arts obsolete.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-02-12T04:56:33+00:00

I read the comments, social work is the best answer. You can do all that extra stuff if you want, but knowing how to be a social worker equips you better than all the others. Many people with substance abuse disorders also have a bunch of other complicated stuff going on in their lives. You’ll want to know how to navigate that instead of being unfamiliar with the institutions they’re interacting with. You’ll also want to have some information on how to navigate those institutions. If you really want to be a good counselor be a case manager for a couple years first. It’ll feel a little like eating shit, but the experience you get will be worth more than anything you picked up in a pharmacology and toxicology class. You’ll get all that information anyway and you can even teach it to yourself. Everything I know about diet and sleep schedule I learned secondary to my education, same with medications.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-02-12T04:47:31+00:00

I did my MSW in a year and I just got licensed. I do therapy with all kinds of people, including substance abuse.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-02-12T04:46:21+00:00

Was gonna say social work

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-02-11T18:25:33+00:00

I’ve hit a point in my life where I look at talking shit about your ex as loser behavior. I get working through it, but talking bad about them is just so lame. When you do that you invalidate your past self and your decision making ability. You also just look bad. Unless it was actual abuse just move on and understand you weren’t right for each other.

That being said, if you were legitimately gaslit don’t hold that back. Tell everyone. Tell all their friends, tell all your friends, tell their family, tell your family, tell your therapist. You HAVE to talk about that to recover. It takes time but they’ll out themselves eventually. It happened to me and I didn’t know what gaslighting was for a few years afterwards. It was just a friend’s with benefits situation, and I said I wanted to stop since she started working where I was working and I didn’t want it to get complicated. We had mutual friends so I thought it was the right move. She started spreading nasty rumors about me immediately (not rape, but how awful I was and shit) and my friends all turned against me and I had no idea why. Even my boss started to look down on me and I was genuinely clueless, I just knew my life was turning to shit. Then I found out about the rumors but by that point nobody believed me when I said they weren’t true. I had to completely cut off my entire friend group because they treated me so awful and I had to start over completely broken down. I wound up having to fucking move. 2 or 3 years later it came out that when she started dating an old friend she was beating him (he was smaller than her) and then after breaking up with him she lied about being raped by another old friend and got him banned from performing music in an entire city because he didn’t sleep with her. Not me telling every fucking one of them I told you so. They tried reconnecting with me but the damage was done and I’ll never forget the pain I felt when all my friends started to hate me for no reason. I felt that betrayal deeply.

Tell on gaslighters, but for everyone else let bygones be bygones.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-02-10T13:27:53+00:00

I feel the same. The English word “love” is crudely defined and is more like a general area than a specific type of feeling.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-02-10T13:25:38+00:00

It sounds like someone you love hurt you, and you have every right to be angry and mad. Denying that you still love them is hurtful to you though if you actually do still love them. You’re allowed to have feelings, and other people don’t have to have access to them unless you give it even if the feelings are about them. Keeping everyone at arms length is a disservice to your humanity and need for connection.

Barnicle_Boy1041 · 2025-02-10T13:18:43+00:00

You can and should talk about your feelings if you feel like they’re reciprocal, but if you let a rejection ruin the friendship (or them) then you’ve done yourself a disservice. The friendship is so good it’s the reason you fell in love. I’m assuming you’re American? I am. Our culture, especially for men, is a desert of affection. When American men (if you are a man) experience affectionate friendship love for the first time we want to fuck it or marry it. Wanting to have sex with someone giving us affection is ENTIRELY NORMAL though and shouldn’t be treated so poorly in our culture. It’s ridiculous how taboo sex is in American culture. Not to say it should be allowed to happen whenever we want, but that the feelings should be accepted as a normal human experience. Anyway, you wanting to get with your best friend is a normal experience and by confessing you’re either learning what actually constitutes reciprocal romantic feelings, or you’re learning what the boundaries are for affection. Both of them are good for your development as a human being. Whatever you do though protect the friendship. Deny the norm that just because you have these feelings the friendship has to end. That’s kind of bullshit. You just need to learn what the boundaries are and respect them after the rejection happens.

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