sparkles
@sparkles@piefed.zip
Hey!
I’m new to piefed. I was a part of the Reddit migration originally. Since then, I really enjoyed the conversations.
I’m a behavior therapist by day. Otherwise a bit of an introvert/gamer. I’m always up for a conversation. Unless I’m asleep, which is earlier and earlier these days.
- Comment on If I go crazy will you still call me Superman? 2 hours ago:
I forget the exact number but a surprising amount of fellas are also confident about winning a fist fight with a bear, so, yeah. This makes sense.
- Comment on Meta smart glasses pose a threat to women, campaigners say 1 day ago:
Yeah it sucks. Did everything I could to stay off the internet when I was younger and understood this could happen eventually. I kept my kids off the internet entirely—no social media, no group photos with them uploaded, etc. But now some creep can just look in their direction and record them anyway. I know this is possible with phones as well, as I caught someone recording my youngest a few years back at great wolf lodge. It is just exhausting and it feels like there is no winning.
- Comment on DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM 2 days ago:
I haven’t really seen people hyping it.
- Comment on Music is music 3 days ago:
I love the core genres for this reason.
- Comment on Being 40 is fun 3 days ago:
I mean honestly that sounds like goals. Very wholesome.
- Comment on Being 40 is fun 3 days ago:
38, was out last night by 11 (I tried). I don’t even drink anymore. I had a boba.
- Comment on What are therapists allow to share about their clients? 5 days ago:
Not anything identifying, really. My best practice is to never talk about work with those outside of the need to know group. It goes in the work box, it stays there. Unless I had a particularly traumatic day. I couldn’t hide the limp or the black eye I had a few days ago. So that is an example of the most I will share.
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 5 days ago:
I am fairly open, for a couple of reasons. I’m older now, and I have a lot of lived experience and education. Secondly, I learned a long time ago that silence can enable. I have nothing to lose by sharing my story in particular. So in certain communities I am open about difficult topics.
- Comment on The Useless Web 1 week ago:
It’s lovely, thank you.
- Comment on Fare thee well 1 week ago:
Potato pancakes are heaven.
- Comment on no corn 1 week ago:
Such a fun show
- Comment on Some people in the sub right now be like 2 weeks ago:
Nothing wrong with communities that want to stay on topic. It’s not a personal attack.
- Comment on Get fucking got! 2 weeks ago:
An entire day? 😭
- Comment on Get fucking got! 2 weeks ago:
Way too much work. Can’t I just lie down and die once my kids are completely independent? I’m so close.
- Comment on Money buys hope 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Money set me free. Am I lonely? Yeah, sometimes. But between a soul crushing relationship and financial security, financial security wins every time.
- Comment on Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not) 3 weeks ago:
I’ve also read “move to another state” a lot. Which is also much easier said than done, even though there are some very legitimate reasons. Moving from a low cola to a high one is tough.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 3 weeks ago:
I think the one I have is 50 inch and I think it could be a bit smaller, yeah. A monitor might work better . I just use it for my switch and some tv shows/ambiance.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 3 weeks ago:
My next tv (don’t have one) is just gonna be attached to a laptop by hdmi. That’s it.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes I feel like I talk to much. So I do limit myself.
- Comment on How would you decide? 3 weeks ago:
When I buy my acreage, I will have 2 weird donkeys and a cow. And plant some corn.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 3 weeks ago:
Me too. I deleted a 10 year old account. I used to love that little corner of the net, even when it was small.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 3 weeks ago:
Imgur did this same thing before not too long ago. People posted the gif for several days. I think some accounts were lost.
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 3 weeks ago:
No, not really.
I mean.. I think there are variables that predict our life outcomes, at least the odds of them.
Things like where we are born, who are parents are, our environment all have roles in the experiences we will have throughout our entire lives.
Behavior is somewhat predictable once you study it as a science. So I guess it could seem rather scripted when you figure it like that.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update December 2025 4 weeks ago:
Your posts are always a joy to read. Thanks a ton for this space. Pigeons have two stomachs, you know.
- Comment on What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say? 4 weeks ago:
Okay, that’s fair. How about when people ask you for food recipes after comment reply that’s in context? Are bots that good?
- Comment on What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say? 4 weeks ago:
It’s like being called an NPC isn’t it
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 4 weeks ago:
Uh well I’ve got a clam. But I think if I had bait and tackle?? I’d have many things to try. Including working on my flexibility.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 4 weeks ago:
I mean…yes. This is one of the things I imagine I would try if I ever had the equipment.
- Comment on The Turing test has been inverted. 5 weeks ago:
I think my first post here someone asked me to tell them about baking lasagnas, maybe because of the way I type. Is it also sort of an insult to imply someone is a bot?
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 5 weeks ago:
I don’t care if it is seamless…I want to play games and enjoy art made by human brains. Because to me it’s the closest we can get to being in someone else’s experience of a thing. And yeah we still go through our own filter but this game..or song or painting is someone else’s brain creating and I’m just walking through their vision of the world.