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What Is the Sunk Cost Fallacy? | Definition & Examples The sunk cost fallacy is the tendency for people to continue an endeavor or course of action even when abandoning it would be more beneficial. Because we

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06.03.2026 12:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
On a breezy day in early spring, the wind tugs at a row of white sheets and bedding on a washing line set in a garden in front of a large white house

On a breezy day in early spring, the wind tugs at a row of white sheets and bedding on a washing line set in a garden in front of a large white house

Breezy Day (1975)
Artist: Gerald Witcomb

05.03.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 361 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

If the Republicans are saying we have been at with Iran for 47 years, when do they put Ollie North on trial for high treason? Do they exhume Reagan and do a cadaver synod?

04.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Painting of crow in flight over snowy field, crows landing and forest in background.

Painting of crow in flight over snowy field, crows landing and forest in background.

πŸ–ΌοΈ Laura Makabresku

01.03.2026 05:11 πŸ‘ 276 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why does admitting you’re ambitious feel so wrong for gen Xers like me? In the 90s, we internalised an ideal of cool that appeared nonchalant and effortless. Now, young people are unafraid to say they want something and are going to work hard to get it, writes Emma Beddington

Why does admitting you’re ambitious feel so wrong for gen Xers like me?

01.03.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Exactly.

01.03.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Woodland torrent SFX library - Oliver's Ko-fi Shop Recorded below the chalk hills of Wiltshire, UK. Late spring 2026. The afternoon's downpour eases. Water gushes from the hills, and down through the ...

Dear internet,

I have a set of loopable beds for sale. Recorded just after a downpour. Gurgling, babbling, white-noise.

36 24-bit/96Khz mono recordings, spanning over 45 minutes. UCS friendly.

ko-fi.com/s/57fbaeb311

28.02.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you can’t afford to pay someone but are creating a commercial product then at the very least if you are going to ask for labour they should get rev share.

Though tbh β€œif you can’t afford to pay someone”, it should stop there really.

24.02.2026 22:30 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
You Either Surf or Fight -  Apocalypse Now
You Either Surf or Fight - Apocalypse Now YouTube video by Johnny's War Stories

One of the greatest scenes ever put to celluloid, RIP Rob Duvall. youtu.be/uchT2LH3eTY?...

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14.02.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines.

'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'

11.02.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 1005 πŸ” 354 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 13

An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible

08.02.2026 05:41 πŸ‘ 2797 πŸ” 558 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 73
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A Reliant Robin Adventure to Cornwall At about fourteen years old, I began hanging around with a school friend, Derek Shroud. He was an odd character, which is probably why I liked him. He was obsessed with silent horror films made bef…

A Reliant Robin Adventure.

By Marc Garrett, from his book Feral Class.

Published by Minor Compositions, 1 Jan. 2026.

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #readingcommunity #books #writing

07.02.2026 11:25 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart

05.02.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 4069 πŸ” 988 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

As any Radio 4 play shows, audio drama wipes the floor with film for the title of best storytelling medium.

17.01.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 0

What’s happened in these cases (Spotify, YouTube etc) is that a corporation has decided to maximise its profits by not paying its suppliers and workers, while selling that idea to its customers as a bargain.

Same as Amazon or any high street fast fashion clothing brand. It’s a grift.

Fuck off.

15.01.2026 09:46 πŸ‘ 106 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than β€œcontent”. Even if you’re using the word β€œcontent” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing β€œcontent” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. β€œContent” is Technosatan’s henchword.

10.11.2025 09:15 πŸ‘ 946 πŸ” 287 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 34

When an author writes an unfinished story, but there is a promise it will continue, imagination is licensed to the audience. When the story ends, the license of the audience to imagine is revoked. This is the impossible problem of franchise fandom; you cannot reclaim territory ceded to imagination.

26.12.2025 20:38 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.

Be a love, and pay it today.

19.12.2025 09:46 πŸ‘ 2828 πŸ” 1069 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In 1811-12, the Luddites attempted to resist some of the first waves of machine-industrialisation. They were crushed.

20 years later "pauper apprentices" (= orphan children) were being SOLD to factory-owners as cheap labour.

Think on, dear hearts, think on.

19.12.2025 08:22 πŸ‘ 231 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3

it’s funny how when people who own big houses are alive they had nothing to do with its value, but when they die their kids shouldn’t have to pay any inheritance tax because they worked VERY hard all their lives for it

29.11.2025 10:12 πŸ‘ 449 πŸ” 84 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ben Jennings on Kemi Badenoch’s reaction to the lifting of the two-child benefit cap – cartoon Rachel Reeves’s decision to reverse the Tory policy will lift an estimated 450,000 children out of poverty

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28.11.2025 10:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra Β£200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"

27.11.2025 14:03 πŸ‘ 352 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

Fuck you and pay your taxes

27.11.2025 07:38 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

If you want to see the effects of imagining fantastic stories aren’t allegories of the human now, but literal magic windows into alternate future / past realities, look at all the dumb needless shit rich tech bros keep trying to invent cos it was in space fiction once.

27.11.2025 13:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

- That house. That looks reasonable.
- I'm afraid you'll need to be a millionaire to own that one.
- Okay, that one.
- No. That's only for the rich too.
- That one? Surely that one? There's no roof and the toilet's just a hole.
- No. Only for the rich.

27.11.2025 13:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In related news, I'm looking for proofreading and copy editing work. Wouldn't you love to have sentences like the above in your work? Surely a mark of quality.

27.11.2025 04:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0