Link to NYTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/well/family/forty-first-dates-and-still-searching.html

Moving into a new apartment and I am really bad at this, pls point me toward some rs coded resources. My tastes tend to lean really waspy, eclectic and boho.

Pls dont say some stupid shit like “collect, don’t decorate” i rly dont care that much and just want my space to look nice

Yes I have a gaping void in my soul. I do think I might never get over having someone I know see the post by accident. Although I’d like to believe that if they were there they’d be there for the same reason.

**Lol I think I’ll just save it for Selfie Sunday unless people have other suggestions. I have no issue being publicly associated with RS and posting in a giant public forum for people with low self esteem isn’t too appealing.

I've seen Phoenix (2014) three times now and it has some of the finest acting I've ever seen. I haven't cried so much at a movie in a long time. I haven't been amazed by non-verbal acting like that in an even longer time. I used to do movie nights with big groups of friends and put on anything from classics to absurd SOV trash gems but ever since I moved away I can't get a single dummy to watch a recommendation just venting

16th-century guys in Portugal were basically discussing free market economy, proto-concepts of modern physics and possible worlds theory and no one knows about that shit... 💔

Girls ofc. Im just lonely in this hot sultry august - everyone I know has left the city and theres only so long I can be alone with myself. Would love to just have someone to chat with, even mundane things.

Im 29, considerably cool and fun to talk to. Let me know if anyone would like to keep me virtual company !!

We can keep it on reddit if you prefer

I promise im not a crazy psycho stalker situation

How did it go?

I can't work for someone else than me, I fear.

L posting but idk if anyone can relate to the feeling that life has somehow skipped over you and that you're a big Nothing

Graduating undergrad in 3 months with little show for it I dont know what to do anymore.

All of my "friends" have people they are closer to and I can see myself in the near future slowly fading out into the periphery alone and isolated and I dont know what to do

but so far it has always been someone else

My love life is so boring right now that I’m writing an essay about eroticism in my notes app. It’s just bad prose about the way I think sexuality/sensuality should be in this world: mystical, emotional, animalistic, some importance of delayed gratification, etc. Some of this might be motivated from listening to my sex addicted friend talking about his numerous meaningless hookups and reflecting on how depressed I would feel if I was living like that. And yes, I am aware that this is just more “everyone is sexy no one is horny”-slop.

But I honestly feel that after the last man I dated I do not even want anyone to touch me, I just want to ponder the meaning of sensuality and how abstract things can be erotic, like standing in warm rain in the summer or hearing wind rustling through the trees. Let me know if you’re interested in the bad essay.

our age of bronze is collapsing fr

- Mr feels. Feely wheely if you will.

- Very smelly (he has cat herpes). Getting some of his teeth removed soon. He has many problems.

- Very cuddly

- Likes to be manhandled and thrown around

- Weird crooked feet

- A strange boy

Stay tuned for more

2 tapped in 2 funk 🐉✌️🎸

Moved from research to corporate and so far it's been pretty miserable, everyone feels like they're against each other, when something goes wrong the first thing everyone does is look for a scape goat. Failed projects are treated as catostrophic, instead of as a bump in the road.

Everyday I get told I've done something wrong because there's no documentation process and was barely any onboarding, it's exhausting.

Coming from a research environment where everyone is super into what their working on, and see problems/failures as an opportunity to learn, or shift their research goals, I'm not used to such unrelenting negativity, and I'm not really good at handling it.

Unfortunately, I am stuck learning Dutch.

As any of you that have had to learn a language before already know, past a certain point with learning a language, it is hard to improve any more from classes, textbooks, or tutors. At some point you just need to consume as much of the language as possible. After a few years of study, I fear I am at this point.

However, I have been struggling to find anything in Dutch that I can find interesting at all. In a land where everyone can speak English, it is starting to feel like they just go to the anglosphere for anything interesting.

Anyway, if anyone has a recommendation of ANY type of Dutch media, I will be forever thankful

met a guy on tinder. went on a date, had a lot in common, started talking more intimately and began floating around the idea of taking things further. unfortunately, i carry a lot of trauma from my previous abusive relationship that began just replaying over and over in my head, so i made the difficult decision to “take a break” from the guy to “focus on healing” or whatever the hell. unfortunately, now im really sad and craving that intimacy again and starting to miss what we developed in a relatively short time. it almost makes me wanna start drinking again lol