Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Alan Francis @acf@masto.alancfrancis.com

1/3/2026, 9:51:37 PM

Public

https://www.relativesanity.com/articles/just-sitting/

Bit of this just hit me in the face and I think I’m going to have to sit with it for a bit.

"I want to make an observation" she said, after I'd rattled off a list of things I enjoy, things I'm good at, things that give me energy and all those usual things that get brought up during any sort of personal growth conversation.

"Every time you mention something you're good at, you qualify it by saying that you've been told you're good at it. Everything you say you enjoy is something that gives value to others. You take energy from how you make others feel.

"What do you do for you?"

"What do you do for you?"

I feel like she has asked me what the colour green sounds like. The words make sense, the question is clear and easily parsed, and I have no idea how to even begin to answer it. A huge, empty space opens inside me as I take the tissue she's handed me. I notice I'm crying.

What do I do for me? I... doomscroll? Watch shitty YouTube videos? Drink coffee? These are suddenly seen for what they are: things that I do to avoid doing anything for me.

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