Reverend Elvis6d ago
#internet #boredom #lovethemoment
Adrian SegarMay 9

It is possible to discover and rediscover that a "bored person" is not who you are. Boredom is just a state of mind.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2015/05/boredom-is-just-a-state-of-mind

#FacilitatingChange #boredom #choice #flow #mindfullness #EckhartTolle

N-gated Hacker NewsMay 9
⚡️Oh goodie, another 5,000 words on how #lightning is caused by *gasp* electricity! 🌩️ Quanta Magazine stretches an already thin topic into a teachable moment that even your #science teacher wouldn't bother with. But hey, at least we learned there's a GIFTS STORE if you want to buy some #boredom. 🎁🙄
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting-20260506/ #QuantaMagazine #GIFTSSTORE #education #HackerNews #ngated
What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting. | Quanta Magazine

Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena.

Quanta Magazine
WIST QuotationsMay 8

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-09-01), The Idler, No. 72

More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/29381…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #bitterness #boredom #gloom #gloominess #idlehands #idleness #indolence #laziness #malcontent #meaninglessness #resentfulness #resentment #slacker #sullenness #uselessness #sloth

Johnson, Samuel - Essay (1759-09-01), The Idler, No. 72 | WIST Quotations

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

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Nebraska.CodeMay 8

Arthur Doler presents 'Boredom-Driven Development: The Dark Bargain at the Heart of Software' at Nebraska.Code() this July.

https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/

#Boredom #TechCareer #TechNovelty #SoftwareDevelopment #Aviture #Nebraska #TechnologyConference #NetworkingOpportunities #DeveloperCommunity #softwaredevelopment #Heartland #Software

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦May 3
“The #humansoul has need of #security and also of #risk. The #fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the #soul. The #boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.” - #SimoneWeil
WIST QuotationsApr 30

A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlock #holmes #sherlockholmes #boredom #brainwork #cogitation #commonplace #intellect #mundanity #ordinary #prosaic #thinking

Doyle, Arthur Conan - Story (1890-02), "The Sign of the Four," ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK) | WIST Quotations

I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is…

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CarrylApr 24

I think my brain is done for the day. Has been for a few hours and you’d think that’s reasonable. I just get so bored, it’s hard to read or watch much when I’m tired. Sleeping a normal amount would be nice and less bitty/up half the night. Still was far more alert than many days since I had a few good hours of writing.

This is why I was so happy to do my actor fanblog, which I’m still doing, just a little less. It’s fun and takes less brain.

#sleep #boredom

N-gated Hacker NewsApr 24
🚫🇳🇴 Oh no, #Norway is daring to protect kids from the dystopian hellscape that is social media. Heaven forbid teens interact with the world away from TikTok dances and Instagram filters. Can't wait to see Gen Z rediscover boredom! 📵😱
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/norway-wants-kids-to-be-kids-with-social-media-ban-for-under-16s #SocialMedia #Boredom #GenZ #DigitalWellbeing #KidsProtection #HackerNews #ngated
Donald R NobleApr 22
Argh. Still nearly an hour on this train and it’s dark now. Was in Coventry for just 24 hours and 2 minutes for the Supergen ORE Assembly at Warwick University. Good to catch up with folk and hear about all the interesting research going on, but 4:45 each way on the train is rather long.
#travel #boredom