📌 I'm being bullied by 65-year-old women...
Frog & Toad make my heart explode— they’re just too sweet 🥹 Frog baking Toad a cake, Toad bringing Frog breakfast in bed, Frog painting on the floor. Do yourself a favor and watch every single video of these wholesome knitted guys!!! ♥️🥹
Frog reading in bed is how I imagine all of you to be while reading this Brady posted his first Substack today!! As with everything he does, I loved it!!!
Because now I don’t need to post about my opinions of RuPaul’s Drag Race to feel a sense of community or validity to these claims—they’re valid even if they’re solitary.
— What’s in a Substack that isn’t in a journal? And why do you even care?
I love rediscovering playlists I made during Covid when my playlist-making game was h-o-t. Today, I found “at home working,” and it still hits—such a good focus time companion.
If you read my “dread” newsletter, you’ll be happy to know I finally changed my CPAP filter for the first time! It was way dirtier than I expected, so I’m definitely glad I did it. Also, I’m getting absolutely roasted by the old ladies in the “Women with Sleep Apnea” Facebook group. I shared the same photo with them, and they are relentlessly dunking on me. I got ratio’d so hard. Think maybe all that lack of sleep is making them a little mean 😂
While reading Indistractable today, I got inspired to save content I’m really excited about for the gym. For example, I can only watch my trashy YouTube videos while I’m there. Omar found this app for me—AppBlock—that lets me set up a strict rule: YouTube only works within 200m of the gym. And if I want to remove the block, I need Omar’s explicit consent, which he has to “approve” via email. I’m going to try it out tomorrow!
If you’ve made it this far, you’ve hit the motherload. Andrea sent me this fantastic Substack today that perfectly captures much of what I’ve been grappling with internally over the past year.
Life has gotten very chaotic incredibly quickly. It has become increasingly difficult to parse anything from the static. People started coping with this lack of meaning through a kind of ironic detachment (which is very much still around), but it has matured into a pervasive cultural apathy, a permeating numbness. This isn’t nihilism per se. (Even nihilists have a sincere belief system; they just sincerely believe that life is meaningless.) What we’re dealing with is worse than nihilism. People are checking out of life in their 20s and 30s without reaching any profound conclusions about the point of it all.
Yes, today’s title was a little bit clickbait. If YouTubers can do it, so can I! Did it work? Yes, but it eroded your trust? Well, it was worth a shot.
ilysm xx