Humans are just meat puppets with self-awareness, stumbling through a simulation, convinced they matter because they fear the alternative. They cling to the illusion of purpose like a drunk, hugging a street lamp, both for support and to avoid the darkness beyond.
#existentialdread
Introduce yourself. Right on!
Hi #fediverse, I'm Seb. A #neurodiverse (#audhd), #cishet #genx dude in his mid-forties and living in Canada.
#80s kid
#90s teen
#00s young adult
#10s adult
#20s wtf
Forever lost and trying to find my way.
Current interests include: #philosophy #lactofermentation #kefir #drawing #reading #selfhosting #linux #foss #gardening #cycling #mentalhealth #dropouttv #kink #democracy #ukraine #palestine #existentialdread
Humans: Will eat each other’s assholes, but draw the line at sharing a toothbrush. And they wonder why the universe keeps ghosting them.
#darkhumor #realitycheck #highthoughts #existentialdread #questioneverything
Facebook Reel Post: In Carcosa, Ego
Under a sky of tarnished gold, strange poppies sway. The music calls... but don't answer
https://www.facebook.com/alxledante/videos/1985266025636586/
Watch "In Carcosa, Ego" - a new Reel from Alex Ledante / The Darker Side of Passion #InCarcosaEgo #Carcosa #KingInYellow #CosmicHorror #WeirdFiction #SurrealArt #AIgenerated #DarkerSideOfPassion #AlexLedante #DarkArt #ExistentialDread
Oh, the humanity! 🙄 A century later, and high schoolers are still trapped in the glittering, angst-filled clutches of #Gatsby, like moths to a pretentious flame. 🎉 F. Scott laments from beyond, "Why did I ever write this thing?" while teachers force-feed teens the American Dream with a side of existential dread. 📚💤
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-the-great-gatsby-took-over-high-school #AmericanDream #ExistentialDread #LiteratureCritique #HighSchoolStruggles #HackerNews #ngated
Ah, the existential dread of Baudelaire's "Flowers of Evil" 🌹—or is it just another error page selling the "fastest" WordPress hosting? 🚀 Because nothing screams poetic angst like a sales pitch and a Trustpilot review. 😂
https://fleursdumal.org #existentialdread #WordPresshosting #FlowersofEvil #Baudelaire #poeticangst #Trustpilotreviews #HackerNews #ngated
Step into the terrifying unknown. My new AI-generated cosmic horror short, "Where Shadows Lead the Way," from @AlexLedante / @DarkerSideOfPassion, is a surreal journey into existential dread, guided by unseen forces.
Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/XBk622IX7ek?si=cidQ34hiMU6ilxi1
#CosmicHorror #ExistentialDread #AIArt #DarkerSideOfPassion #AlexLedante #WeirdFiction #SurrealArt #AIgenerated #PsychologicalHorror #TheUnknown #Shadows
Ah, yes, the classic "life-is-horrible-but-let's-pop-bubbly-anyway" approach 🍾. Because who needs therapy when you can drown your existential dread in overpriced airplane champagne? ✈️ Clearly, #optimism is just one flight attendant call away! 😂
https://quarter--mile.com/You-Could-Just-Choose-Optimism #lifeisstrange #existentialdread #airplanechampagne #humor #HackerNews #ngated
🤯 Welcome to 2025, where "Automatic Sparse Differentiation" is still a thing, even though nobody asked for it! 🎉 Who knew sparse Jacobians and Hessians needed a 10-page comic strip to explain their existential dread? 😂
https://iclr-blogposts.github.io/2025/blog/sparse-autodiff/ #AutomaticSparseDifferentiation #SparseJacobian #ComicStrip #ExistentialDread #2025Trends #HackerNews #ngated
✨🤖 Ah, behold the latest in #AI buzzword salad: "DeepSeek-R2", where the AI language models promise to lead us into a brave new world of vague "solutions" and existential dread. Because who wouldn't want a computer to understand the futility of human existence better than we do? 🧐💡
https://deepseek.ai/blog/deepseek-r2-ai-model-launch-2025 #Buzzwords #DeepSeekR2 #ExistentialDread #TechTrends #LanguageModels #HackerNews #ngated
🌪️ "Out of the Fog" is a tale of how Operation Babylift's "heroic" rescue of Vietnamese infants turned into a lifelong identity crisis for adoptees 😵. Apparently, saving children from a war-torn country comes with a side of existential dread and cultural dislocation, who knew? 🙃
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/651701/vietnam-operation-babylift-adoption-transnational #OutOfTheFog #OperationBabylift #AdoptionStory #IdentityCrisis #CulturalDislocation #ExistentialDread #HackerNews #ngated
🚀✨ Behold, a groundbreaking revelation: life in San Francisco is exactly what you thought it was, but with more artisanal coffee. ☕🧘♂️ Rachdele Didion crafts yet another manifesto for those who love scrolling through existential dread, but fear not, for #Dispatch will bring you more of this periphery-defining brilliance! 🧠🔍
https://rachdele.substack.com/p/slouching-towards-san-francisco #SanFrancisco #ArtisanalCoffee #ExistentialDread #RachdeleDidion #HackerNews #ngated
💸 Poor Andy is tired of stuffing the wallets of the 1% while playing his tiny violin 🎻. Apparently, it's exhausting running a studio when the only thing being produced is existential dread 😩. Maybe next time he should try fulfilling his dreams with a side of reality. 🌈
https://bell.bz/im-getting-fed-up-of-making-the-rich-richer/ #PoorAndysStruggles #ExistentialDread #RealityCheck #TinyViolin #1PercentProblems #HackerNews #ngated
🚴♂️ Ah, yes, the thrilling revelation: pedal your way through endless #cornfields and existential dread. Because who wouldn't want to swap a comfy car seat for a bike seat-induced numb butt? 🤦♂️ The ultimate guide for those desperately seeking a new way to hate their life choices. 🚴♀️
https://www.brooks.team/posts/how-to-bike-across-the-country/ #cycling #existentialdread #lifechoices #humor #HackerNews #ngated
Omiword: Because who doesn't want to spend their precious time dragging tiles like a digital caveman, only to spell words that a toddler can pronounce? 🤓🧩 Congrats, you've won absolutely nothing but a fleeting sense of superiority! 🎉 Keep playing for more existential dread! 😅
https://www.omiword.com/ #Omiword #DigitalCaveman #WordGames #ExistentialDread #FunAndGames #HackerNews #ngated
I'm like so miserable today. Like my brain is off, my body is off. I'm hungry all the time (I shouldn't be because you know...) I got decent sleep. I had my coffee. I took my 'happy' meds.
I don't know :(
not sure if it's mental health or physical health or both....
Oh, the humanity! #Developers are apparently clinging to sanity by their fingernails because the #robots are taking their coding jobs 🤖💻. Next, we'll hear they're forming support groups to cope with the existential dread of #AI writing better JavaScript than they ever could. 😱😂
https://leaddev.com/culture/ai-coding-mandates-are-driving-developers-to-the-brink #existentialDread #codingJobs #supportGroups #HackerNews #ngated
Made a comic for the first time in a while. Enjoy the laffs, the yuks and the har-hars.
#comic #funny #comix #existentialdread #whatever
Ah, the noble quest of debugging CSS layouts while memorizing 47 frameworks! 🤯🔧 Software engineers are apparently the Swiss Army knives of tech, except with less utility and more existential dread. Who knew #JavaScript could be the spice of life? 🌶️💻
https://0x1.pt/2025/04/06/the-insanity-of-being-a-software-engineer/ #debuggingCSS #softwareengineers #frameworks #techhumor #existentialdread #HackerNews #ngated
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