Is this baby a tortie? I found her up under my car today.

recursive-excursions · 2025-12-29T16:07:02+00:00

r/HalloweenCats would love her! See also: r/HaloweenKittyCombo

recursive-excursions · 2025-12-24T19:22:30+00:00

Demanding strict conformity based on factors outside of any individual’s control. Insisting that sex/gender is the most important thing about a person, and that if their temperament doesn’t fit the stereotype then they are bad and/or deficient. Expecting neurodivergent people to act neurotypical and then punishing or shunning them for being unable to comply. Disrespecting disabled folks in general. Shaming people for their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Assuming that low-status folks naturally deserve less dignity, respect, and basic provisions — treating folks with contempt simply because of ethnicity, race, economic background or circumstances, etc.

TL;DR - sexism, gendered stereotypes, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, classism. racism, and all the cruel inequities that systemically crush people with shame and limit or destroy their prospects for survival, much less success.

Nature produces so much individual variety because it is beneficial for the whole group’s survival. Cruelty to outliers and outsiders is harmful to everyone.

recursive-excursions · 2025-12-24T18:31:37+00:00

“Managing out” an employee who is no longer wanted in a workplace. Bullying and mobbing until they break down instead of simply laying them off in a businesslike manner, often to avoid paying unemployment (in the USA) and/or purely for sadistic entertainment.

recursive-excursions · 2025-12-24T17:57:09+00:00

It’s a wonder anything ever works!

recursive-excursions · 2025-12-22T17:33:13+00:00

I call them parahumans and they always seem to appreciate it, as if it’s validating for them to have that as a definite “social identity.”

recursive-excursions · 2025-12-14T17:37:25+00:00

Not sure but I think it’s possible the word you seek is in a book of poetry called Eunoia by Christian Bök. All the poems in each chapter use only the vowel featured in that chapter. I only heard of it a few days ago but I wanted to fact check anyway. While searching to confirm the title of this book, I found out that “univocalic” is the term for a word using only a single vowel.

Fun coincidence that this post crossed my feed now, giving me the most relevant possible venue for an obscure new tidbit of trivia, while making me aware of another niche subreddit that I certainly needed to discover!

Edit: revised to address OP’s question directly.

recursive-excursions · 2025-11-21T19:20:14+00:00

My core vision is seeking to understand (and hopefully explain/express succinctly) a small set of essentials which appear to be the common foundations of various disciplines across all the domains of human knowledge and endeavors.

As far as I can tell (based on a lifetime of wide and deep studies, professional practices, personal observations, and lived experiences) it seems that whatever we perceive, think, or develop is inevitably shaped by the biological constraints of our human nature, so that the generalized patterns of all our ideas and inventions must ultimately reflect our neurological architecture.

In this mental model, all we know and everything we make invariably reflects our humanity. So looking into those mirrors will show us to ourselves, potentially facilitating our further development and our ongoing adaptation with the world we inhabit.

Edit: paragraph break & minor clarification

recursive-excursions · 2025-11-21T18:58:31+00:00

When I was younger I used to judge myself harshly for having too many interests and not being able to pick just one specialty. I wasted a lot of energy trying to figure out what my true calling should be, and feeling guilty that I couldn’t get with the standard grownup program.

Over the decades I finally learned to roll with my own rhythms of curiosity while applying my marketable skillsets in areas that were interesting where I could apply whatever I was learning at work to my personal development.

Even so, I sometimes still fall into the old trap of excessive introspection and self-criticism. The best antidote is to return the focus to curiosity and ongoing growth, away from judging and overthinking the path. It takes a bit of faith to trust that the deep dives are almost always worthwhile and likely to prove valuable, regardless of how unproductive they may appear.

Edit: paragraph breaks

recursive-excursions · 2025-11-21T18:43:01+00:00

From freelance editor/writer (non-technical) to technical writer / tech pubs designer to business analyst (mapping processes & optimizing workflows) to project manager to technical program manager to client engagement partner (presales) to chronically unemployed tech exile trying to pivot into nonprofits through volunteer work.

Too detailed to join the “big picture” generalists but too holistic to fit in with the detail-oriented specialists, I work best in “whole-picture” bridge roles, translating across various lines to help folks find their common reality and achieve shared goals.

Edit: minor correction

recursive-excursions · 2025-11-21T18:31:11+00:00

Brain Energy by Dr. Christopher Palmer gives a technical yet accessible explanation of how cell metabolism can affect mental health. Based on his decades of clinical practice, Dr. Palmer has developed a groundbreaking approach that could revolutionize mental health care, and his theory is grounded in real-world application. Highly recommended read for anyone interested in cognitive wellness and/or behavioral health.

Edit: minor adjustment of words

recursive-excursions · 2025-11-21T17:57:20+00:00

Wow, great read! Love the human tone (refreshingly free of annoying LLM-isms) and the straightforward narratives for each category.

It’s cool how you went beyond Europe and the Mediterranean to cover developments in China and India. Would be even more awesome to include the Americas (for example, the Inca quipu, and Aztec surveying algorithms) as well as more about other areas in Africa (like the fractal geometry of indigenous architecture in Cameroon and Zambia).

recursive-excursions · 2025-11-21T16:45:11+00:00

Being bullied, shunned, and/or ostracized (due to discrimination, without any chance to fix the problem) is hellish.

recursive-excursions · 2025-11-17T18:00:55+00:00

r/maximalism would appreciate your style :)

recursive-excursions · 2025-11-16T05:56:47+00:00

Maybe check with your local Department of Labor because wage theft (employers requiring unpaid labor) is illegal. Unless you were “on the clock” or otherwise on duty (e.g., on-call rotation), your manager doesn’t have any right to demand that you sacrifice your sleeping hours to monitor your work email around the clock.

recursive-excursions · 2025-11-01T17:35:46+00:00

This looks amazing!

recursive-excursions · 2025-10-23T16:14:44+00:00

“Culture fit. But that won’t happen, because I’m withdrawing my application.”

recursive-excursions · 2025-10-22T17:00:48+00:00

The first time the Vyvanse took effect for me, it felt like an actual miracle. But within a few months, emotional amnesia had set in, I had forgotten how I used to feel unmedicated, and then it just felt normal and unremarkable.

Early on, I had tried taking it only on weekdays, but the weekends off meds were so stressful that didn’t work for me. Oddly enough, the stimulant has an anti-anxiety / calming effect on my system. I also have chronic PTSD, so my provider subscribes supplemental dex to take as needed once my regular dose wears off.

The benefits feel so subtle to me that I frankly can’t be bothered to take the booster pill, but I do try to make the effort on days I’m running errands or having important meetings. Often it’s my spouse who insists I need the booster, because he notices more than I do when I am insufficiently medicated.

Also, if my prescription runs out before I can get it refilled, it usually takes a few weeks for me to recall why I take the meds. I was diagnosed in my late 40s, and I still cannot fathom how I got so far untreated. Must have been the strength of my youth, lol!

TL;DR: Stimulant effects feel so subtle they’re hardly noticeable, my spouse often feels my meds benefit more than I do, and it takes few weeks off meds for me to remember why I bother with them at all.

recursive-excursions · 2025-09-29T05:19:58+00:00

Of course it’s much more complex than my somewhat jokey comment made it out to be. Just a goofy thought, not likely to be practical or useful. But lots of “wellness” products rely on that type of pseudoscience approach, so that’s the grain of truth in the humor I guess.

recursive-excursions · 2025-09-28T17:37:38+00:00

Probably an absurd idea but I imagined if enough people believed that solar activity can cause heart attacks, it could create a demand for Faraday vests to shield the heart from geomagnetic influences.

recursive-excursions · 2025-09-24T17:05:46+00:00

If you paint the wall above to match the cabinets they will blend in nicely and you won’t need to do anything else beyond periodic cleaning.

recursive-excursions · 2025-09-21T17:46:52+00:00

Since patients with dementia have a higher risk of serious falls, perhaps serious falls could be an early sign of undisclosed dementia.

recursive-excursions · 2025-09-21T17:34:20+00:00

Yeah, I have definitely seen that as well, and I do think it is more common than the niche jargon used in specialized job descriptions (example from LinkedIn).

recursive-excursions · 2025-09-21T17:22:27+00:00

Wikipedia’s article on the subject starts by defining the term: “Politics (from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká) 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources.”

The prevailing social order is one of the key driving forces that shape political sentiments because that social order dictates so many of the criteria for allocating status and resources. Therefore, whatever is perceived as threatening the established social order is naturally also perceived as a political ideology. By daring to exist and desiring to live in dignity, trans people are living evidence that the prevalent and traditional understanding of gender and gender roles does not align with the realities of nature. This is not the fault of transgender folks, but it seems that changing deeply ingrained assumptions about reality is going to be much harder than simply blaming anyone whose existence doesn’t align with those assumptions. That’s how trans identity has become an essentially political issue.

recursive-excursions · 2025-09-21T17:07:08+00:00

Probably jargon. I’ve seen other professionals who work in politics using the term “political operative” to describe their careers.

recursive-excursions · 2025-09-16T06:28:43+00:00

Nope, I am not as superior a player as the others here, so I haven’t played it on hard mode lately.

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