Iowa State University: Virtual fitting rooms can be a double-edged sword, according to Iowa State Study. “The virtual rooms allow shoppers to ‘try on’ clothes through interactive simulation technology and texture-mapped product images. It can cut down on returns and nudge hesitant shoppers to click the checkout button. But findings from a recently published study indicate virtual fitting […]
#selfimage
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 87 (1955)
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #selfrighteousness #selfvalue #certainty #confidence #courage #fear #selfconfidence #selfimage #selfworth #stakes #uncertainty #unworthiness #worthiness #worthlessness #fearlessness
University of Missouri: Looking in the digital mirror: Mizzou researchers introduce concept of ‘social self-comparison’. “People were randomly placed into one of three groups: One group used a slimming filter on their own selfies, another group watched someone else use a slimming filter, and a third group used a simple color filter that didn’t alter their bodies. Afterward, everyone […]
Some days, the hardest part of #polyamory isn’t jealousy. It’s standing in front of a mirror. The voice of the body dysmorphia fires up and launches attacks regardless of my having three loving boyfriends.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-queer-poly-love-and-booty-shorts-0662ac211887
I was trying everything. I tooth-grind cringe now at the memory of changing fancy outfits thrice a day like I was doing a stage show.
In some ways I was, purely for my own benefit. I had to know what all the things I’d denied myself felt like, as quickly as possible.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/finding-my-trans-self-image-by-losing-two-things-with-humour-and-hindsight-a569b0c23452?sk=02e51f3570bac555a9c29534c59c25b5
Futurism: Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads. “Though Facebook’s ad algorithms are notoriously opaque, in 2017 The Australian alleged that the company had crafted a pitch deck for advertisers bragging that it could exploit ‘moments of psychological vulnerability’ in its users by targeting terms like ‘worthless,’ ‘insecure,’ […]
How a Canadian cliff diver used empowering messages to help overcome mental health struggle
After a journey to love herself again, Canadian high diver Molly Carlson is encouraging and supporting others to open up and speak their truth about mental-health advocacy and self-image.
#sports #health #selfimage #Olympics #SummerSports #Aquatics
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/aquatics/molly-carlson-high-diving-mental-health-social-media-brave-gang-1.7524029?cmp=rss
If the mirror cloud speak…
#mirror #broken #brokenmirror #spiegel #gebrokenspiegel #amsterdam #urban #ifmirrorscouldspeak #selfimage #zelfbeeld #graffiti #graffitiwall #wall #graffitiworld #street #streetphotography #streetphotographer
#mirror #broken #brokenmirror #spiegel #gebrokenspiegel #amsterdam #urban #ifmirrorscouldspeak #selfimage #zelfbeeld #graffiti #graffitiwall #wall #graffitiworld #street #streetphotography #streetphotographer
How a Canadian cliff diver used empowering messages to help overcome mental health struggle
After a journey to love herself again, Canadian high diver Molly Carlson is encouraging and supporting others to open up and speak their truth about mental-health advocacy and self-image.
#sports #health #selfimage #Olympics #SummerSports #Aquatics
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/aquatics/molly-carlson-high-diving-mental-health-social-media-brave-gang-1.7524029?cmp=rss
Tubefilter: The #SkinnyTok trend is drawing scrutiny from E.U. regulators. “On TikTok, there are thousands of videos that offer advice for viewers who want to slim down. That archive raises some complex moral questions, and regulators in the European Union are looking for answers. The video archive in question is collected under the hashtag #SkinnyTok, which applies to videos that discuss […]
Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion, a truth, a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 37 (1955)
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #cause #ego #leader #nationalism #noteworthiness #pride #racism #religion #selfimage #uniqueness
Washington State University: Study suggests a new way to curb social media’s body image toll. “Led by Jessica Willoughby, associate professor of communication at Washington State University, the research found that sending young women twice-daily text messages prompting them to reflect on the fitness content they encountered on social media significantly reduced social comparison—one of […]
No one, whether poet or orator, ever yet thought anyone else better than himself. This is the case even with bad ones.
[Nemo umquam neque poëta neque orator fuit, qui quemquam meliorem quam se arbitraretur. Hoc etiam malis contingit.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 14, Letter 20, sec. 3 (14.20.3) (44 BC) [tr. Shuckburgh (1900), # 724]
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #self-image #cicero #author #best #creativity #ego #orator #poet #pride #selfappreciation #superiority #writer #writing
A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Reply to an invitation from Maud Howe to Julia Ward Howe’s birthday (1889-05-27)
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #selfimage #age #attitude #birthday #forty #maturity #oldage #seventy #youth
Denmark gets its self-image shattered by a #filmmaker and a lawyer, proving even the happiest country can have its dark, drama-filled days. 🎬👨⚖️ The real Scandi noir: where IKEA meatballs meet legal scandals! 🍽️⚖️
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/27/black-swan-denmark-documentary-mads-brugger-amira-smajic #Denmark #SelfImage #ScandiNoir #LegalDrama #HappyCountry #HackerNews #ngated
A filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark's self-image
#HackerNews #filmmaker #crookedlawyer #Denmark #selfimage #documentary #MadsBrugger
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
When I speak of “the sinner”, I do not mean the man who commits sin: sins are committed by everyone or no one, according to our definition of the word. I mean the man who is absorbed in the consciousness of sin. This man is perpetually incurring his own disapproval, which, if he is religious, he interprets as the disapproval of God. He has an image of himself as he thinks he ought to be, which is in continual conflict with his knowledge of himself as he is.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BertrandRussell #divinejudgment #ideal #selfabsorption #selfapproval #selfcriticism #selfimage #sin #sinner
A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1989-07-15)
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brilliance #selfimage #coexistence #dolts #ego #genius #idiots #smarts
BBC: ‘Chubby filter’ pulled from TikTok after user backlash. “A viral filter which made people appear overweight has been removed from TikTok, after the BBC reported it had sparked a wave of user criticism. Known as a ‘chubby filter’, the artificial intelligence (AI) tool took a photo of a person and edited their appearance to look as though they had put on weight.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/22/bbc-chubby-filter-pulled-from-tiktok-after-user-backlash/
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