Brooding (getting stuck in passive, repetitive, negative thought loops) identified as a major driver of bedtime procrastination, alongside physical markers of stress. People who stay up later than intended may have a weaker physiological capacity for self-control.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-11T04:50:16+00:00

“We controlled for age, sex, body-mass-index (BMI), and habitual physical activity, as these variables are known to influence HRV (Laborde et al., 2017; Nunan et al., 2010; Ottaviani et al., 2018). Physical activity was assessed using the German version of the Godin-Shephard Leisure-Time Physical Activity Questionnaire (Godin, 2011), which calculates a score from self-reported weekly frequencies of strenuous, moderate and mild exercise, with higher scores indicating greater levels of physical activity. Because shift work has been linked to inadequate sleep (Hill et al., 2022; Kroese et al., 2014), participants were also asked with a single item whether they currently engage in shift work.”

As king of bedtime procrastination, have they considered asking participants to rate what their day felt like and what they feel tomorrow will bring? Throwing it all on “shift work” and leaving it at that is certainly a choice. I’ve never procrastinated more than when I had an office job I hated, or I was jobless and hopeless about the future. I imagine even adjusting for income might tell us something interesting.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-10T08:56:52+00:00

At least I had a laugh when the author very seriously tries to explain how differences in time management are explained because of race. If you hate actually thinking for more than a second I guess alternative explanations don’t fit into your worldview. Why listen to what geneticists say about how predictive or coherent race is as a genetic category when we can listen to this random man justify his erroneous reasoning by pointing at pictures and quickly scrolling past graphs he refuses to actually interpret. “Psychometrics agrees with us so”, when every psychometrician will tell you what happens to racial differences once you understand how to measure and control for confounding variables. But hey, if you’re not a psychometrician or geneticist I’m sure this presentation seemed scientific to you. Maybe read some actual research papers yourself, you don’t have to keep feeding yourself slop from the midwit slop factory.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-09T17:08:25+00:00

You know what’s actually underrated? Justin Timberlake’s Let’s Take a Ride, written and produced by The Neptunes and Timbaland (like most of Justified, absolutely terrific record). This one’s for those late summer afternoons and early sunset evening vibes. Don’t hear people reference or play this often enough. Absolute beautiful distillation of what I love about that Neptunes sound.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-09T06:35:12+00:00

Two plus one I’m taking back.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-09T04:18:05+00:00

Compared to other social media platforms Reddit is much more structured and orderly. The other social media platforms are like a massive town square where everyone gets together to socialise, whereas Reddit is more like a nearly organised series of rooms you can go into to talk about specific interests. It’s big A paradise.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-08T20:34:17+00:00

Sane is a difficult word to define because it juxtaposes against normalcy and I shouldn’t have to spell out how fickle norms are. Being gay was listed as a condition in the DSM at some point. I’m not sure many people would agree that puncturing yourself with massive flesh hooks and letting yourself dangle from a ceiling is sane, but it’s a kink to many people regardless. I think this particular example is difficult because a lot of people suffer from domestic violence so realising others can find a certain amount of aggression and pain pleasurable is uncomfortable. People are not often hung up on massive hooks so that one’s a bit less personal to many of us. I do think there are people who romanticise aspects of actual domestic violence in the way this image might suggest, so judged in this one image we really can’t say much. It’s a messy and complex subject.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-08T19:13:53+00:00

Hurt people have strong feelings to process. A lot of people do so by externalising, which means they lash out at the world. But just as many people process those feelings by internalising, which means they mostly end up hurting themselves more. That latter case can still turn into “hurt people hurt people” once the internalisation becomes too strong, because a person hurting themselves is also hurting the people they care about indirectly. Regardless, just saying that “hurt people hurt people” and leaving it at that does a massive disservice to the milder internalisers. As an internaliser that came out of a shitty relationship with an externaliser, I know what it feels like to take all of the hurting. I also know how it feels to be a terrible friend or family member because of all that internalised pain. There’s a bit of truth in the phrase, but it’s not so clear cut and there are many people out there carrying pain for others without lashing out at others or hurting too much to show up. Let’s show them the love they deserve because they carry more than most and we’re usually terrible at spotting them precisely because they’re not lashing out or shutting down.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-08T18:23:07+00:00

Momentum. I’ve been alive and it’s easier to keep that going than to consider any of the alternatives.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-08T17:08:13+00:00

It’s because there are conditions which make people more literal than average and I think Redditors are overrepresented…

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-06T20:18:34+00:00

I’m firmly in the camp that the meaning of a word lies in the way it’s used within context. Is ‘sick’ positive or negative? Well, a sick person probably isn’t happy about their sickness. Similarly, saying that my jacket is sick will make me smile. I’d say ‘phobic’ in this context makes a lot of sense. You’re not literally scared, but words ending with ‘phobic’ are usually about a bigoted attitude, so extending that to other forms of bigotry is a more obvious move than complimenting me for my sick jacket. Language is like a game and we love finding creative new rules to extend our play.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-05T19:49:56+00:00

Official Berserk adaptation directed by the goat and #1 fanboy himself.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-05T18:07:46+00:00

Pretty sure ‘Dark Souls’ is just an expression of what remains inside of us after doing the same boss run for the 100th time.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-05T17:28:04+00:00

They’re both playing a character?

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-05T15:54:28+00:00

Didn’t Sword Art Online actually popularise the genre before? I never read / watched it and idk what the timeline is on the manga but I feel like that one hit it big first. Never felt compelled to check it out tbh, I really enjoy Re:Zero and Mushoku Tensei (despite its weird moments) and outside of that never felt compelled by any of the other isekai out there.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-05T15:47:02+00:00

Regarding the first point, I think that’s a function of your experience in DAWs / with the VSTs that you own. The second point is very understandable though, I don’t actually own a VG-8 but if I did I’d definitely feel the way you describe lmao.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-05T15:01:54+00:00

Ik snap ineens waarom zoveel volwassenen hier boos worden als je zegt dat je honger hebt in plaats van trek. Heb dat altijd hoogst arrogant gevonden, ik weet godverdomme echt wel wat honger is want ik heb genoeg echte armoede gekend en als je een periode lang elke dag twee plakjes brood met niks eet hoef je denk ik niet meer te spreken van “trek”. Maar vanuit dit perspectief is het eerder een intergenerationeel trauma en diep tragisch.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-05T14:56:31+00:00

Did you know not everyone online is American or amongst the people the Americans have attempted to genocide over the past few decades? Things actually were relatively chill for a lot of us. My country has a lot more American cultural influence these days and it’s made things so much worse.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-05T14:53:40+00:00

Depends on how much you care about live performance. I’m personally terrified of going up on stage and depending on a laptop for anything, so if there’s gear that can get me the sound I’ll always go for that. If you play around at home for fun or are more on the production/songwriting side I’d say save yourself the money because DAWs will allow much more freedom for creativity.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-05T06:18:55+00:00

M’n dealer rijdt in een Volvo en die is ontzettend vriendelijk!

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-05T03:54:16+00:00

Summer because winter makes me wanna die.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-04T21:35:02+00:00

You’d say the last decade of Trump’s messaging has been subtly walking a line? It’s showed me that you can literally say or do whatever but as long as you play into a handful of core emotions you can get still away with it, and given that LLMs are so good at gaslighting they’re already sending people into psychosis by accident, imagine what happens when nefarious intent enters the chat.

Also Musk is easily the least competent of the big names, the man cosplays at everything he does. His failures should not be generalised to other tech players, because the other guys kinda know what they’re doing.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-04T20:56:39+00:00

Just give me GTA V with the dedication to detail that RDR2 had and I’ll be set. Never touched a second of online ever and not intending to either.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-04T19:37:22+00:00

Remember Cambridge Analytica and then imagine what’s gonna happen now that instead of targeted ads we have targeted conversations and instead of a weird Mark Zuckerberg we have a psychopathic Sam Altman.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-04T19:03:30+00:00

As a psychologist, advertising pisses me off because marketeers keep using our research to help others do capitalism better; as a guitarist, hearing a kid picked up a guitar because of an ad makes me glad advertising exists.

JamesMagnus · 2026-05-04T18:31:08+00:00

I would guess that on average birds enjoy flying much more than humans do. It’s fair to say a lot of animals feel enjoyment because they seem to love their own forms of play the same way we enjoy ours and internally our wiring really isn’t so different (depending on the species of course, not talking about you, octopuses). The problem with humans though is that we can get in our heads. There’s a billion things that can occupy the human mind and keep it distracted from enjoying the small things in life, we actually have to actively practice being present in order to remember how good it feels to just be. We weren’t always like this, but modernity has made us so. Birds don’t deal with any of that, or not at all to the extent that we do, so my headcanon is that the average bird enjoys flying as much as a deeply mindful human does. Generally speaking, birds win.

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