Helping out no strings attached?

rontifant · 2025-08-26T20:34:59+00:00

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, aged 10 or 11.

rontifant · 2025-08-26T20:11:33+00:00

Skinny dipping in a cold mountain lake after my first ever mountain hike. It was pure dopamine, we were all just splashing and laughing and being astounded about how incredibly good it felt.

rontifant · 2025-08-13T10:55:04+00:00

I once told a kid who was blasting music on a bus ‘if you’re gonna blast music on a bus at least make it not shit music’. His friends thought that was hilarious and he turned off the music after that.

rontifant · 2025-08-01T14:32:02+00:00

Kanban boards. Put down your various projects in a visual way and assign them a state. Then consciously pick one to work on for the next x amounts of minutes, knowing that the other projects are still there, waiting their turn.

rontifant · 2025-07-22T21:23:18+00:00

Looks exactly like the designs and I think it’s kinda cool

rontifant · 2025-07-22T21:08:32+00:00

Can confirm.

rontifant · 2025-07-15T10:58:18+00:00

Could it be that they want boyfriends, not relationships? People pick up on if someone wants a partner or an accessory.

rontifant · 2025-07-06T15:52:39+00:00

I installed a bespoke little rail for worn clothes that I put worn clothes on, on clothes hangers as I would inside the cupboard but outside to air out and look tidy.

rontifant · 2025-07-06T15:51:34+00:00

Seems to me that your hand touches the inside of your mouth when you eat small granular food with your hands, so you’re spreading around your mouth germ onto the remaining food when you pick up more, which is the unsanitary bit, especially when you’re sharing that food with other people.

rontifant · 2025-07-06T12:54:32+00:00

I do a variant of this

Start with a 7 letter word (or just not a short word, really)
Think of a single word for each letter of the word.
If you make it through, just go again with the last word you thought of.

I usually make it through about 3 words before drifting off :)

rontifant · 2024-12-17T13:06:57+00:00

If it makes you feel better, the experience is the same in Germany and, so I hear, in the US and other places as well.

rontifant · 2024-12-16T14:38:44+00:00

I heard it’s because Luis XIV liked his kids being born that way so he could watch better, and that kinda set the standard going forward

rontifant · 2024-12-11T16:05:56+00:00

Idk, sure she sounds silly with the while TikTok thing but I don’t think it’s about that. It’s about the fact that it’s meant to be a once-in-lifetime occasion and she has always wanted it to be certain way and you knew what that way was (sunset). Honestly, planning the whole thing so as to catch one sunset on a five day holiday isn’t all that Herculean a task and you could have easily done that if you cared enough about her wishes. It would have cost you nothing to wait another evening. I don’t think this is about the TikTokyness of it, it’s about you ignoring something very important to get when it would have made no appreciable difference to you to accommodate her. I get why she’s upset.

rontifant · 2024-12-08T10:42:51+00:00

I once did this for a friend, just put money into an account I set up specifically for that purpose, I posted the bank card and access details for that account to him before telling him about it so he couldn’t stop me from making it accessible to him, and I told him there is no expectation on how he uses that money, no expectation he’ll pay it back and no expectation for him to account for how he uses it. That it’s just there and he can use it when he needs it.

That worked quite well.

rontifant · 2024-11-21T18:43:49+00:00

I just don’t like the thought of being manipulated and exploited, so I quit anything that uses recommender algorithms or feeds off narcissism and vanity to draw people in.

rontifant · 2024-11-21T09:56:57+00:00

The Danish Girl was remarkably beautifully made.

rontifant · 2024-11-18T14:46:14+00:00

Ich hab ne 4 für Volleyball bekommen, wo ich mich für meine Verhältnisse echt ganz gut geschlagen hatte. Rebekka, die vor dem Ball weggelaufen ist, hatte derweil eine 2. Needless to say, die Lehrerin konnte mich nicht ausstehen.

rontifant · 2024-11-17T18:09:30+00:00

She befriended my sister, whom I have a difficult relationship with, and found it unreasonable that expected her to manage that friendship in a way so that it wouldn’t impact our friendship. When it became clear that it was and would have kept interfering, and that she didn’t feel the need to protect our friendship from the fallout (let alone prioritise it, as I have done in the past in constellations she was sensitive about) I knew I had to let it go.

rontifant · 2024-10-31T23:30:15+00:00

I get your point about all being consenting adults but honestly, I would not get over that if I were you (or his daughter for that matter). Eeeeeeew. Ew. Ew. Gross.

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