ReedyBear's Blog
ReedyBear's Blog
ReedyBear
Hi I blog a lot. I write about books, politics, video games, mental health, and whatever else is on my mind. I'm passionate about feed readers. I like video games.
Latest Posts
I know so many things are bad in society right now. Aside from global warming, we are collectively better off than any human generation in modern history. I have no intention of dismissing the bigotry today. Racist gerrymandering is...
I've been sober (from weed) since May 20th. It's now June 3, 14 days later. And I want to write about it while its all still fresh. I want to reference this next time I think to myself "smoking isn't so bad for me." I'm not sure I'm...
Language has the power to shape how we think about all kinds of things. You see this criticism come up with mainstream news outlets (including purportedly liberal & leftist outlets) and how they frame their headlines - often in a way...
Most of us are strongly opposed to animal cruelty. Some are more in a grey area where it's okay to hit your animal as punishment to get them to behave how you want them to behave. I find this cruel, but I understand we're not all on the...
Orgasms are great, genuinely one of the best feelings that I think we get to have. Generally, this is achieved through masturbation or sex, and sometimes some of us might get them in our sleep. I believe I've woken up post-orgasm once or...
You're familiar with atoms, and likely envision them as little balls. All of the stuffs of the world is made up of these atoms, bonded together. You probably know atoms are composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons - even smaller...
A couple years ago, my bestie and I wrote a short book for NanoWrimo (We took 2 months and didn't reach the desired word count but we DID finish the story!). On one of my writing days, I proposed a new political system into the story's...
As a teen, I considered myself a "Grammar Nazi". I would frequently correct people's grammar, asserting that I knew the one "right" way to speak. In my early 20s, I learned about how (some) dictionaries are made. They look and see how...
I was reluctant to write this post because AI is already talked about a lot on Bear & I've seen a complaint about us being sort of an echo chamber and needing other topics to talk about - that's a fair complaint, but fuck it I blog, at...
I recently watched Cow by Andrea Arnold - a documentary film about life on a dairy farm for a cow named Luma. The first and most depressing part is just watching what it's like for the cows. They seem like really sweet creatures. The...
On a near daily basis, I yearn to do meaningful things, important things, and I am often left unsatisfied. I'm an incredibly passionate person. I love programming. I spent about a year as a local journalist for a site I made, and...
A man in my community was recently convicted on animal cruelty charges after strangling a cat to death. This was an awful thing for someone to do, and I hate what happened to the kitty. I commented on a local news story, about the...
Expedition 33 is a game that used ai to generate some placeholder assets early in development. The assets were later removed after new assets were made by human digital artists. Expedition 33 was going to win an Indy Game Award, but was...
Cop shows portray justice as catching the "bad guy" and locking them up. The investigations and car chases and shootouts are incredibly entertaining. The incarceration is often satisfying. But it is insufficient, and in real life things...
I first started trying to be vegan 6 or 7 years ago because animal agriculture is extremely resource intense when compared to plant agriculture, and I want to minimize my contribution to climate change. Animal welfare was always a...