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Cake day: September 24th, 2023

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  • I posted a comment on YouTube exactly once in my life (providing the lyrics to what the person sang), and plan to never do it again. I usually scroll through others’ while watching.

    I cannot possibly be the only person who does this, especially since some peoples’ comments garner a bunch of thumbs ups and actually coherent replies in addition to the usual trash you see on YouTube (spam or totally out-of-pocket insults).



  • One vault keeps my list of games to play, things to read, etc. for later. I have it set up a particular way for quick and easy entry with the Meta Bind plugin, and DataView for easy listing of everything (each piece of media to consume is a separate note with tags according to things like genre, subject matter, etc. and DataView sorts on those). This gets a whole vault to itself because of how every piece of media is a separate note: not much information in one one; when I usually have one note with a lot of stuff in it. This would absolutely clog any other vault. It also gets a whole vault to itself because I have no need for DataView or Meta Bind at the moment in my other vaults. My other vaults are plugin-free.

    I also have a vault for storing notes on my personal creative projects, whether it be a long-abandoned attempt at planning a TTRPG campaign or a video game.

    One for academic notes. I also have a separate math vault that did not end up getting very far, intended to help me review a bunch of math I already learned (and maybe to one day share to help teach others), maybe I’ll pick it up again.

    Finally, I have a sort of catch-all vault for everything else in my life I might want in Obsidian. This is my most frequently used. It’s where my recipes live, where information about myself I should probably know about myself but often forget lives (like the exact day I moved into a different house), where I keep track of knitting patterns and my progress on them…

    This is not how you are “supposed” to do it, I always see advice to keep everything in one vault, but this is what works for me.

    Thanks for posting this question!















  • Eh, there were some nice things on Reddit. We don’t have to be a clone but we don’t have to resist everything that looks like them. I’m explicitly here because I wanted a forum-like social media that wasn’t Reddit; I wanted a Reddit replacement. I would like to leave certain artifacts of Reddit behind, but I do like actual Reddiquette (that admittedly did not get followed in practice, it does not here either) of upvoting good contributions to a conversation (including opposing opinions) and reserving downvotes for people who come in with hostility, spam/off-topic posts, etc. I liked communities there where I could talk about things I was interested in.






  • I inaccurately assumed the way I expressed myself would be interpreted as “when I was 12, I saw images that were reposted frequently on Instagram that contained text attesting to hating small talk,” and did not have it in my mind as a possibility that my comment would be taken as a statement on my current age. I made an inaccurate assumption. I am currently over 21.

    Although when I was 12, although I didn’t talk about my age or lie about it in text discussions I did still use websites that were only allowed to be used by those 13 and up, or those 18 and up. I typed very similarly to the way I do now. For all you know I am a filthy liar and actually just a 12-year old with a good grasp of English, attempting to seem more credible (and evade any possible TOS violations and account bans) by telling you I am over 21 years old ;)


  • I suppose I’m coming from being 12 and seeing very reposted images with text about “I hate small talk, can’t we talk about something meaningful” on tumblr and Instagram, and from when I did still follow ADHD and autism communities on the internet, and when I browsed Reddit in general, and saw rants about small talk… used to seeing the word “hate” in conjunction with it. Sorry.

    I also agree, different strokes for different folks :) It’s okay to not enjoy small talk, and it is also okay for me to enjoy it.



  • I love information dumps.

    I also seem to be the rare internet user who does not hate small talk. I’ve never really seen a problem with it and now thanks to the internet the one problem I see is “unpopular amongst internet users, may make them unhappy.” Wonder if this is an internet/real life split, or if everyone but me hates it but smiles and pretends in real life so I think more people are fine with it than actually are. I guess I interpret it as a person sharing their genuine thoughts. Sometimes I look outside and think “it’s a nice day!” so why wouldn’t other people vocalize their thoughts amongst the same lines? I guess I see it as a common shared experience and attempt to connect over something “easy” like that since a lot of people will agree that yes, it is a nice day. (If you don’t, some might take offense but I’d love to hear why you disagree—invites more discussion!) Then again, I’m also an extrovert, so I’m just like “Yes! Social interaction!!!”

    Stuff like this, not sharing in a lot of common complaints about neurotypical interaction, makes me feel too neurotypical for the neurodivergents, but I also do have ADHD and autism and my fair share of social struggles so I’m also too neurodivergent for the neurotypicals. For what it’s worth if I know you don’t like small talk I’ll try to remember and accommodate that.