whistling. singing to myself. walking around. usually with my dog so sorta a reason but I decide where to go (somewhat). video games. consuming media (meh not sure love fits there. kinda a background or filler acitivity)
I make endless dadjokes irl. I don’t care if anyone laughs or reacts. They make me happy
I’ve been repairing a 25 year old Golf 4 1.4. Everyone has been telling me it’s not worth it, dad wanted to buy a “new” one at some point (read: newer SH car), my grandma thinks I spend way too much money on it.
My biggest spend was the 750 euro paint job (bodywork was completely messed up). Besides that it’s been only minor work. I still have a slightly rich running issue to fix.
Nobody thinks I should be doing this but damnit I am not buying a newer car. It will be just as if not less reliable but cost twice as much to repair stuff on it. No thanks.
Gaming, often retro but not limited to. I don’t need achievements or tell others about what I achieved, but converse about the experience. Admire the design and dive into worlds and have fun!
Agreed. This and making music
Same. Last night I spent hours on an SNES emulator, playing Donkey Kong Country 2 all the way up to Kreepy Krow in Gloomy Gulch. I wasn’t doing it to achieve anything, just for the fun of it. The music, the visual aesthetics, and the nostalgia connected to it made it such a satisfying play-through that I haven’t done in ages.
I don’t really do anything at all for validation. I’m old and simply don’t give a fuck about that.
Drawing, I did a drawing recently of my persona Mew. I saw a movie with a drawn character and I became inspired enough to sit and draw for once.
Hiking: There is a small state park about 4 miles from my house. I go there on my lunch break and take at least a 2 mile hike. If it’s a day where I’m not busy I’ll go as much as 4.5 miles.
I’ve loved hiking since I was a teenager. It’s my “me” time where I put in my earbuds and listen to an audiobook and just disengage from the rest of the world.
Woodworking - I’m not very good at it (yet) but I keep at it and I’m convinced someday I’ll make something really cool.
I make drawings, well, just with black ink/ fineliner on paper. I have a box full of them and even have some on my wall. Never tried to sell them or even post them. The only people who know it are my husband, my parents, my brother and best friend. Only abstract, maybe tattoo-ish.
Have done this since… highschool. Comes and goes in phases. When the mood strikes. Have always loved that my hand-eye coordination is so good, can make fluid lines and it almost looks like it’s printed. But well, I guess it’ll keep going unnoticed. ;)
Fellow artist who sometimes gets impostor syndrome from time to time: I would love to see your work if you ever want to share.
Mostly sleeping.
Donating to KDE and Signal. Though now that I’ve said it, it’ll sound like I do it for validation…!
I donate a small amount to Wikipedia every month
Alright here is your validation
Holding the door.
It’s just the bare minimum we should be doing for each other.
Y’all are getting validation?
Is that like a dish of some sort? Never heard of it.
I create open source apps (mainly for my own needs). All of them have zero forks and zero stars, but I don’t mind. I love architecting apps and who knows if someone might find any of them useful someday.
You’re awesome. <3
Well give us a link and let’s see if they are useful to any of us!
Keep doing what you are passionate about ❤️
Personally, I enjoy making neat, easy to follow step-by-step tutorials for my various interests and forwarding them to people who want to learn something I know about. Growing up, I didn’t have anyone to show me things and it was often overwhelming having to figure everything out on my own without a clear starting point, so I don’t want anyone else to feel the same way or to feel ashamed for not knowing something.
I love languages so I would also offer free translation for people’s projects upon request and would also translate song lyrics when translation software was much worse than it is now.
When I can, I donate anonymously to causes I support and donate blood too.
Donating blood has got to be one of the things one does that is just absolutely selfless.
If someone does it to brag or to rizz, they could just lie and say they do it. But actually doing it? 🤟
I tried out to become a donor but my iron levels were too low. 😭
I do it for the biscuits at the end
That being said I haven’t been able to for 6 years now, the organisation that handles it (EFS) does not let you give if you have spent some time in Mayotte (among other places), where I live. Concerns about malaria I think
Out of curiosity, what does EFS stand for?
Établissement Français du Sang
Society of French blood suckers. ;)
I almost passed out just listening to someone talk about the benefits of donating blood, blood tests and vaccines result in temporarily losing colour from my vision and needing to lay down for a while to recover. Did register for organ donation back when it was opt in though.
Why did you pass out? Phobia of blood or similar?
I don’t seem to have any problem with blood in any other situation. Probably more from needles under the skin.
Yeah I’m not a fan of sharp things entering the body at all. I’m okay with vaccinations. I look away and let them do their thing. But like, people getting stabbed and stuff, that gives me chills. And stuff going into the skin close to where there are bones, like the hand and foot. Like an IV e.g. Yuck.
I’m the exact opposite. I’m okay with knife wounds, they get my adrenaline pumping but it’s a problem to be solved, so whatever stress it brings can only be focused into taking the steps to solve it. But needles are way more subtle, the concept of this thin little thing slipping between skin to sneak stuff into the body or pull blood out, leaving barely a trace that anything changed. Logically I know they’re great, and I’m very pro-vaccination (ironically part of my job is importing vaccination records for a school district for nurses to track) but the subconscious part of my brain cannot handle it. Needles just give me the heebie jeebies. I’ve been squirming nonstop the entire time writing this.
It’s two days off, paid, up to a maximum of 10 per year in Croatia. You give blood five times a year, aim for a holiday and can nicely round up a two week vacation.
That’s pretty rad. We just possibly get a T-shirt (I never have lol), sometimes tickets to shows or something, and definitely added to a phone list of “WE URGENTLY NEED YOUR BLOOD” robo-calls from half a billion numbers.
…But I try to get over my needle-phobia long enough to do it occasionally.
I learned my blood type that way. That could save valuable time in a future emergency! Lol
Wow, that’s a luxury. We don’t get that here. Great incentive.
Happy cake day!
Down voting positivity 😆🫰
An excellent human.
