Speculations, ideas and absurdities about the stupidity of "normality" 🌉 bridged from https://useful-uselessness.com/ on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/https://bsky.app/profile/index.useful-uselessness.com.ap.brid.gyhttps://bsky.app/profile/index.useful-uselessness.com.ap.brid.gy/post/3mrrmjayrtnb2It's real! Can't quite believe it. Is it happening? Yes, yes, it is! https://useful-uselessness.com/i-wrote-a-book/29 Jul 2026 09:31 +0000at://did:plc:rtncdizt6rxarpfenrv7en73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrrmjayrtnb2https://bsky.app/profile/index.useful-uselessness.com.ap.brid.gy/post/3mqgqfmnc6x32From the full gesture we moved to the button, from the button to the touch, from the touch to no gesture at all. An inventory of the movements technique retired — and one analog, artisanal stubbornness, every morning, before the day turns digital. https://useful-uselessness.com/technique-leaves-us-without-gestures/12 Jul 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:rtncdizt6rxarpfenrv7en73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqgqfmnc6x32https://bsky.app/profile/index.useful-uselessness.com.ap.brid.gy/post/3mpdde4jsfxx2Somewhere between the slow, animated pieces of a childhood game and the rating number that now scores my every move, I started wondering what, exactly, the chess board is measuring in me https://useful-uselessness.com/chess-as-a-barometer/28 Jun 2026 06:19 +0000at://did:plc:rtncdizt6rxarpfenrv7en73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpdde4jsfxx2https://bsky.app/profile/index.useful-uselessness.com.ap.brid.gy/post/3mnm3pgqwsiz2There is a man who walks my street most mornings. He only ever collides with what doesn't belong on the pavement. Today, someone walked into him. https://useful-uselessness.com/seeing/06 Jun 2026 07:06 +0000at://did:plc:rtncdizt6rxarpfenrv7en73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnm3pgqwsiz2https://bsky.app/profile/index.useful-uselessness.com.ap.brid.gy/post/3mn2jycvahhy2Agency. Impact. Take control. Grab the reins. The vocabulary insists we don't have enough power. What if the problem is the opposite — that we have too much, real or imagined, and the harder work is to stop, look, and accept how small most of our marks turn out to be? https://useful-uselessness.com/too-much-power/30 May 2026 07:33 +0000at://did:plc:rtncdizt6rxarpfenrv7en73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn2jycvahhy2https://bsky.app/profile/index.useful-uselessness.com.ap.brid.gy/post/3mmivduj43pu2Two people share a language and still fail to understand each other. The noise is not phonetic; it is semantic — and more than semantic. When the manager says "value" and the worker hears "value", the word is the same; the worlds are not. https://useful-uselessness.com/the-language-of-numbers-and-the-language-of-words/23 May 2026 07:09 +0000at://did:plc:rtncdizt6rxarpfenrv7en73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmivduj43pu2https://bsky.app/profile/index.useful-uselessness.com.ap.brid.gy/post/3mlxdb3lgsnb2Fifteen thinkers on what makes a good life in a more-than-human world. A soaked bathroom floor, the next morning, with another answer. https://useful-uselessness.com/interlude-the-good-life-briefly/16 May 2026 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:rtncdizt6rxarpfenrv7en73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlxdb3lgsnb2https://bsky.app/profile/index.useful-uselessness.com.ap.brid.gy/post/3mkcmgf4x3cx2The easy part of writing a book is writing it. A confession about humility, envy, and the time that no productivity strategy can reclaim. https://useful-uselessness.com/the-burden-of-writing/25 Apr 2026 08:23 +0000at://did:plc:rtncdizt6rxarpfenrv7en73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkcmgf4x3cx2https://bsky.app/profile/index.useful-uselessness.com.ap.brid.gy/post/3minunhozhcq2I fear I’m becoming an editor of my own ideas rather than their author. A reflection on what we cede when we let machines carry the weight of articulation — and whether the distance they offer brings us closer to anything worth reaching. https://useful-uselessness.com/writer-editor-writer/04 Apr 2026 08:59 +0000at://did:plc:rtncdizt6rxarpfenrv7en73/app.bsky.feed.post/3minunhozhcq2https://bsky.app/profile/index.useful-uselessness.com.ap.brid.gy/post/3mi5epxfpj5e2The comedy of public intellectuals and corporate facilitators. https://useful-uselessness.com/interlude-the-comedian-and-the-consultant/28 Mar 2026 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:rtncdizt6rxarpfenrv7en73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi5epxfpj5e2https://bsky.app/profile/index.useful-uselessness.com.ap.brid.gy/post/3mgjzos5jw2k2Every night we surrender consciousness and enter a state dangerously close to the one we fear most. Dreams might be what keeps our search for meaning alive when we're in no condition to pursue it. 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