I really had a blast making this video, and hope Aidan Oldenburg gets to see it someday too (when he’s not busy, lol).
You can see my original video about the yo-yo emoji here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkcpLTPOt7Y

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I hand test every Yoyo that ships from Recess to make sure you get a flawless Yoyo - I know what it’s like to be 15 years old, with 100 bucks to your name, and you pay A grade prices for a B grade product - I make sure every Yoyo you buy from Recess is held to the highest standard - and if for some reason a flawed product makes it into your hands, I do everything I can to make sure you get the best Yoyo possible in exchange - I owe Yoyo so much of the good that has come into my life, and one of my goals with Recess is to continue spreading that positivity and joy that Yoyo brings us all

… a dream of cradles … throwing @dressel_designs Apollo laced with @ziplinestrings over @happy_imaeda beats … direct from @laconiamusiccenter #yoyo #flow #throwers #trickcircle #beats

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I’m looking for something truly scary, something that will make me lose sleep. Unfortunately as a horror enthusiast, not much scares me anymore. But I have to believe there’s something out there that will shake me to my core. Please provide.

Last year I went through a divorce, lost my job, and moved to a new city where I didn’t know anyone. I was alone in a tiny apartment for 10+ hours a day, and the silence was brutal.

Podcasts honestly became a lifeline.

Chatty shows like My Brother, My Brother and Me and The Besties made me feel like I had friends in the room.
Calmer ones like Sleep With Me and Nothing Much Happens helped when my brain wouldn’t shut off at 3am.
How I Built This gave me hope about starting over.
And shows like Heavyweight and The Moth helped me process my own stuff without having to talk about it directly.

I’m in a much better place now. Podcasts weren’t a replacement for therapy (I did that too), but they really helped.

Anyone else feel like certain shows got them through a rough season?

Andrew Huberman, Ali Abdaal, the whole “productivity optimization” crowd gained momentum when I (27M) was finishing university around 2018-2022. I was anxious, directionless, and genuinely unsure what I wanted from life. In those moments of uncertainty these channels gave me structure and a sense of forward momentum. They felt like a lifeline during a period when everything felt chaotic

Now that I’ve built some actual stability, I can’t believe how much time I spent consuming content about doing things instead of just doing things. I wasn’t indifferent to these creators - many of them had genuinely interesting guests: researchers, athletes, therapists, people I respected. And I told myself I was learning. I was investing in myself. I was optimizing.

But recently I realized I was putting this content on because it was easier than sitting with my own thoughts. It felt productive without the discomfort of actually being productive. I could spend two hours …

Sometimes the podcasts I enjoy the most are those on subjects that I had no interest in and knew nothing about.

A recent example for me would be ‘Broomgate’ which, for the uninitiated, focuses on a scandal surrounding the sport curling.

Do you have any examples of a podcast that is so well produced or has a story so well told that you found yourself immersed in a subject you’d never before paid any mind to?

Previously post: https://www.reddit.com/r/podcasts/s/dXS5ayOcKZ

Two weeks about i made a post asking why Spotify is bad podcast app. I received some great answers and I decided to switch from Spotify to Pocket Casts about two weeks ago and I wished i switched sooner. It definitely makes the podcast experience better. I love that i can make folders to organize my podcasts. Thank you for those that were nice and educated me. I do wish that pocket cast had a shuffle podcast option. You can shuffle the up next cue but i would like to shuffle a whole podcast instead if that makes sense. I have yet to see this feature on other podcasts apps so it isn’t just missing from pocket casts.

I’m looking for something to listen to when I wake up in the mornings and I’m getting ready for the day. I work in the evenings so I have hours of cooking and cleaning. I need some thing somewhat informative, entertaining, possibly pop culture, with strong personalities…help and ty.

Hi.

So… the love of my life falls asleep to me reading him stories every night like he’s a Victorian child. When I can’t read live, I send voice recordings. Apparently, my voice is now his emotional support blanket. Not that I’m complaining!

The problem is I’m running out of material. Haha. I’ve nearly burned through poems, short stories, and at one point I sang-read him song lyrics (I don’t sing, plsomg).

If you can point me toward short stories, poems, or anything romantic/interesting (sad is okay, too) - I would be eternally grateful. Please help me keep my unofficial audiobook career alive. Thanks 💀🤍

EDIT: I should let you know that he does the same thing for me, and EVEN more. He would send me random recordings throughout the day. He gave me ones I should listen to for “When you need reassurances” or for “I need you to see how beautiful you are”. Who does that?! He’s recorded me more than I have ever …

I’m honestly so open to any genres! any books you think people have to read at least once, so I’m leaning towards mostly classics or literary fiction and unique storytelling.

some books I’ve loved across a few genres: east of eden, the great Gatsby, the giver, a court of thorns and roses series, piranesi, bunny, the secret history, my dark vanessa.

Not those Colleen Hoover or “A Little Life” type bestsellers, those are usually edited well. I’m talking a book written so abysmally that you can’t believe it made it into print. Poor storylines, plots going nowhere, characters so awful they don’t make any sense.

I’m a newbie writer trying to learn from good AND bad books, and usually those bestselling “bad” books aren’t bad from a technical standpoint, they’re just slop made for mass appeal.

Hello Everyone!

I (32M) have always struggled to sit still and reading never came naturally to me. For the past 5+ years, I would set myself an annual physical challenge and found that if I look at something as a ‘challenge’ it works as a great motivator. This year I’d like to do something different and when I was looking for a book to gift to my wife (who loves to read), I thought ‘why not reading?’, so I’ve decided to challenge myself to read 20 books this year.

For some reason ‘Lord of the flies’ caught my eye and that’s my book No. 1. I’ve also asked my wife to give me one recommendation who is now thinking about it!

I always admired people who read and would like to ask for you recommendations. I love the idea of having 20 different books recommended by 20 different people (one of them being me and another my wife). 18 more to go!

My question to you - what is the book you’d like to forget just so you could read …

I’m looking for short stories that stayed with you long after you finished them. The kind that made you sit quietly for a minute. Or question life. Or smile like an idiot. Any genre is fine — literary, sci-fi, horror, funny, weird, heartbreaking — I’m open to everything. If you also tell me where I can find it I’ll name my future goldfish after you.😌 Drop your favorites please. I’m building a reading list.

I just finished Wuthering Heights and HATED it. I can honestly say I hated it more than Tess of the D’Urbervilles and that’s saying something.

I don’t mind a tragedy if the characters are lovable or a story with a pleasant ending. To give an idea of my book preferences, here are some classics I’ve read and thoroughly enjoyed:

Pride and Prejudice (honestly one of the best books I’ve ever read)

Hunchback of Notre Dame

To Kill a Mockingbird

I do not like to have 200 magical swords with bonuses of between +1 to +100 in my inventory. Are there games where every magic item i find is actually special and i keep it for the entire game or at least for a significant time?

I’m quite hungry, how hungry?

Games :

Fallout games - the cannibal perk allows you to eat your enemies and gain negative karma

Age of wonders 4 - your race can have the eat the dead perk which allows you to consume fallen units

Stellaris - you can eat xenos, now 40% less sugar

Rimworld - you get to make a nice hat out of them too

Keeperl - you can eat children as the witch

Total war warhammer 3 - I think nurgle can eat enemies? I’m not sure now

Carrion - yummy

DayZ - enemies and friends alike!

Hi. For the first time in my 22 years of life, I have a computer that can run a decent game - there’s a problem, though. I’m disabled - my dexterity is shit, anything that requires fast reactions or god forbid two hands is a problem. Combat etc, as it turns out, not happening. I also struggle with not getting lost in open world games as I have an impressively bad sense of direction (that may or may not be related to the disability, I may just be stupid lol)
Do you have game recommendations for me?
Free preferred but not completely necesarry.
I enjoy life simulation and story-based games.

I absolutely love to laugh, and I was hoping you could share the funniest games of all time. Any era is on the table, and this is platform-agnostic. It could also be unintentionally funny as well. The bottom line: It has to pass the guffaw test.

Thanks so much for your recommendations, it means a lot!

as the title says looking for something with a very long progression path, something i can really sink my teeth in and grind away, not a mmorpg or online pvp game, preferably a FPS but not really necessary, preferably not pure sandbox experiences since if there’s no goal i don’t have a reason to play < dayz for instance i played for a while but after i got established there’s no reason for me to play >, i like exploration, crafting and questing a lot, i like both open world and map based stuff as long as i get to stretch my legs

stuff that i tried and really got into as examples, and suggestions for anyone else looking for something similar

tarkov PVE: both SPT and retail after they added PVE, 2 wipes ago i did all the quests in the game and got max mastery on all guns, took most of the wipe and had a blast, i have a lot of hours sunk into this and until recently it was my main goto

SCUM: survival is hard, crafting takes a lot of materials and exploration, i …

I’m looking for an RTS game where you have a physical player character that participates in battles while also leading their army. I would prefer if the game is set in the medieval era, but that isn’t a strict rule. It also doesn’t have to be strictly an rts game, just a game with RTS elements. Thanks in advance!

Edit: Thanks for all the recommendations! I’ll definitely be looking at all these games.

I missed this feature from Android, when your screen is always off and notification are showen by AOD.

Tried to do the same by automation but could not make. Anyone have before ?

Hello, everyone.

I would like to share a project I’ve been working on over the past few months: ShortcutStudio.

ShortcutStudio allows you to generate and edit Shortcuts using AI. There are currently over 100 actions in the catalog.

Go check it out at https://shortcutstudio.app

More Info:

There are 3 tiers of pricing, (free, plus, pro) with different limits and features.

As some of you know, to sign a shortcut you need a physical Mac, so I’m just using a spare one I had at my house (I think it’s secure, lol). Anyways, because of that, the signing service may be down at some times, but I try to keep it up as much as possible.

There is also a marketplace, which allows you to download other user’s shortcuts.

This has been a passion project for me over the past 6 or so months, so I hope you guys like it!

Tell me if there are any bugs or changes that should be made!

Again, check it out here!

If you want to help by expanding the action catalog do this: …

Currently in the most recent beta (ios26.4b1), you can now toggle urgent on a “add a new reminder action “ I’ve been waiting for this 😊

it seems buggy at the moment because when you add it, it doesn’t show up, but if you have a previous shortcut that has the action the toggle is there, Anyone else seeing this

Hey there!

I’ve been working on a project called One Dot -- a life visualization tool that turns time into a daily-updating lock screen wallpaper.

Each dot represents a unit of time (a day, week, month, revenue goal). The wallpaper updates automatically every day and shows what’s passed and what’s still ahead. It’s inspired by the Your Life in Weeks idea: making time visible so it feels more intentional instead of abstract.

What started as a simple “life in weeks” grid turned into a full editor where you can visualize different time scopes:

• Life view (weeks lived vs. remaining)
• Year / quarter / month / week views
• Custom ranges (countdowns, 100-day challenges, projects)
• Revenue goals (each dot = a milestone, an MRR)
• Google Calendar heatmap (busier days glow brighter, waiting on Google verification to add Agenda view also)

You can customize almost everything:

• themes and colors
• dot shapes and sizes
• show dates as numbers instead of shapes, or could do both
• show week numbers …

While learning French I’ve noticed that many people (me included) have problem with understanding numbers, if you don’t know 78 in French is said literally as „sixty-ten-eight” or 99 is „four-twenty-ten-nine” yes it’s ridiculous but that’s how it is..

I’ve created mini-game shortcut that will say random number in range that you want to practice and user will have 3 tries to get it right, first one is really fast, with each mistake being slower. On third fail user will be presented with the number.

There is also points system, points are saved to device and can be accessed in form of top 5 most mistaken numbers.

This shortcut can be adapted to ALL languages iPhone have voices for, choice is made when setting up shortcut.

This shortcut also works on an Apple Watch

Technical things:

Before installing shortcut go to settings → accessibility → spoken content → add languages → download preferred voice in your target language.

Install this shortcut:

(English) …