I love that yo-yoing has come up a few times in this year’s Winter Olympics. Previously, Aidan Oldenburg mentioned how he yo-yos between Curling sets to get relaxed.

www.recessintl.com

Joe and I have been friends for 20 years this year. We’ve traveled the country together. Been through rough breakups, family losses, quitting teams, starting new ones.

Yo-yoing to me is so much more than than winning contests, or having the dopest collection, or knowing the hardest tricks.

It’s a community, it’s a family, it’s an art form, it’s the things we can’t physically hold or put a medal or price tag on that truly made us all fall in love with this toy.

That’s what Recess means to me and the intention that I hope shows in everything we do 💖💖💖

Lots of love

Tyler

Need to clean up my catches 🫠

happy Monday yall. hope you have a good week.

couple of laceration style tricks.

it’s been almost 5 months since the last time I took one to the face. Nothin like grade 5 titanium to wake you up for the day! ALWAYS DO A TEST THROW

I’m not complaining or anything. I am just genuinely confused as to how this happened. I was listening to a podcast episode about the rise of video podcasting and they dropped some stats which really shocked me. Spotify has 100 million monthly audio podcast listeners. Youtube has 1 billion monthly video podcast watchers. Wow! How did this transition happen so quickly?

I also searched online for more stats and found this from Spotify’s website in 2024:

“This inclination towards video content is intensifying—in the past year alone, we’ve seen an 88% surge in users consuming video podcasts. Even more impressive is the behavior of new podcast audiences: 40% of Spotify users (2 in 5) who streamed a new show in 2024 chose a video podcast.”

And one can imagine that in ²⁰²⁵⁄₂₆ the share percentage of video watchers is even larger now.

I am left wondering, how is this even happening? Do people really sit down to watch hours long podcasts? Apparently so. …

I started listening to When the Cops Say No We Say Yes this week and haven’t laughed out loud this much since My Dad Wrote a Porno. Like it’s dangerous to listen while working out at the gym, I’m laughing so hard.

It’s from the ppl who did Who Shat on the Floor at my Wedding, and basically they continue investigating non-crime crimes in completely ridiculous ways. In one episode they set out to find out who shat in a woman’s dishwasher. In another they hire an animal psychic to use a gecko as their witness.

It’s so over the top dumb-funny, I’m now completely locked in. Wanted to pass on the wealth since a year or so ago ppl gave me lots of recos in here for LOL podcasts, yet I’d already listened to most of them.

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Hi folks!

I am feeling especially dopamine deficient lately, and I’m hoping a life altering, earth shattering podcast will fix that for me. Any suggestions?

Here’s a few podcasts I’ve loved in the past:

- Rotten Mango

- Baking a Murder

- Midnight Burger

- Malevolent

- The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings

- Crime Report with Christina Randall

- Radio Rental

- So Supernatural

- Normal Gossip

- The Liminal Lands

- Wolf 359

- Station 151

Thanks to any and all who have suggestions!!!

Rule 7 has been updated with the following bullet:

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if you’re looking for a new fraud based podcast. i highly recommend the walkers.

it’s so interesting, as fundamentally the fraud could have just never happened. she could have just written a semi fictional story - i remember growing up my favourite book “the vampires assistant” said “true story”, there is always room in nonfiction for “non factual” as in a couple at a terrible time in their life embrace adventure. let me know your thoughts?

The book that made you want to live again

No self-help books please. Fiction or non-fiction only.

What book made you want to live again?

I am in a generally depressed state. Im finding it hard to find joy in things I used to love. And I want to read again, hopefully get to restart with something that sparks with loving to live.

It doesnt need to be a feel good, it can be sad with a triumphant ending.

Please mention if there are themes related to infidelity or grooming, these are pretty triggering to me but would be willing to explore based on your thoughts and reviews.

Hey guys,

I’m looking for the most saddest and wrecking book you’ve ever read. I need a book that I need atleast 5 years of therapy and have moments of blank stares at the wall.

I’m currently reading: As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh. Book I’ve finished today: If he had been with me by Laura Nowlin

Edit: Thanks for the suggestions guys! I didn’t know there would be a lot of reactions on it. All suggestions are still welcome lol. I’ve put these books on my tbr:

-Flowers For Algernon: Daniel Keyes

-The travelling cat chronicles: Hiro Arikawa

-The Things We Leave Unfinished: Rebecca Yaros

-They both die at the end: Adam Silvera

-The Nightingale: Kristin Hannah

-Say you swear: Meagan Brandy

-The Last Letter: Rebecca Yaros

-I’m glad my mom died: Jennette McCurdy

-A thousand boy kisses/A thousand broken pieces: Tillie Cole

-A little life: Hanya Yanagihara

-Wave: a memoir of life after the Tsunami: Sonali Deraniyagala

 I’m tired of hearing people recommend Project Hail Mary and The Lonesome Dove as if they were the absolute pinnacle of human creativity. What books do you think don’t get recommended enough?

Looking for fiction or nonfiction about women who live more isolated lives by choice (not as escapism, but as a way of being). Think herbalists, artists, or introverts with rich lives, who still maintain strong, meaningful connections with family, friends, or community, just on their own terms.

I’m especially interested in how these characters (or real people) think about, and cultivate deep bonds with fewer, more intentional social interactions. Less “finding yourself in the wilderness,” more “thriving in a life that’s quiet but deeply rooted.”

I’ll be extra happy if there’s a diverse range of ages and contexts!

Not looking for personal development books.

Any recommendations?

Suggest me a book that you’ve sat down and read in one sitting, intentional or not.

I’m a very avid reader and I read at decent pace. I’ve also been reading on my kindle lately which reduces the intimidation of big books.

My spouse is feeling under the weather and asked to sleep the day away. Of course, I immediately want to read since I have the day to do so.

Any suggestions? Thank you!

Edit: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR OUTPOURING OF FANTASTIC BOOKS!!! I did not expect to get so many replies and my tbr list now has its own section just for one sitting reads. I tried to thank everyone but I don’t get to your comment, know that I appreciate it! 🖤🖤

I love weed and smoking pot and reading. Its especially dope to do both at the same time, but not all books are good to read while baked (tried reading A Clockwork Orange stoned and was confused and pissed for two chapters before putting it back on the shelf). Basically the way I look at it is this: when youre high you either want simple and easy to follow prose or prose that is beautiful and meant for you to get lost in. So thats what I’m looking for basically. Just dope books to get baked and read.

Title says it. I’m looking for a game that could perhaps help me go through what i’m going right now. With things getting worse every month, sometimes i wonder if it’s worth to keep going.
edit: Wow, i wasn’t expecting this post to get so much reach. Thank you guys, i’ll try replying to as many of you as i can. And thank you for the suggestions! I’m noting them down.

This may sound weird, I suggest you to understand a feeling, when you are inside a car, or at home, next to a window, and it’s pouring down outside, but you are safe from the wetness and thunder just by a thin layer of glass and concrete? I’m looking for games with this feeling, where you are inside somewhere, like a bunker or a car, and outside is chaos, but you are safe, you can see the outside by using some instruments, or even a game where you go outside, but you have to return, before something bad happens.

The 4 games that perfectly match that description for me are Sekiro, Silksong, Armored Core 6, and Resident Evil 4. And very close to their levels are DOOM Eternal, ULTRAKILL, and Devil May Cry 5.
I’m not looking for any specific genre, but I really wanna find more games that can give me that same feeling of insanely cool intensity lol. The 3 main aspects that I think all of these games have are fast paced gameplay, mechanical complexity, and the game overall being difficult (or at least having difficulties to choose from)

You’ve seen them again and again. Knight, warrior, wizard, priest, etc. They’re all the standard RPG classes.

Some games have some unique classes different from other games though. I have some favorites based on how different they are mechanically, and also fun to play:

• Arithmeticks (FF Tactics) mages who can learn any kind of magic (healing, offensive, buff, etc). But they don’t pick targets directly. They apply a math modifier (Level, Height, EXP, etc.), and the spell hits every unit whose numbers match that rule. E.g.: cast Fire on all units whose EXP is prime number.
• Blue Mages (multiple FF series) have no magic/abilities on their own. They learns enemy abilities by being hit from these abilities.
• Swarm-that-Walks (Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous) practically a living swarm. Devour units and create full clones of themselves, and their power scales from everything they consume.
• Trickster (Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous) meta class. They have a skill that …

Like you plant explosives or weaken structures while trying not to be caught. But not games where you are just an assassin.

Whenever I play 18+ games that are usually hentai based, I find games that are men’s POV of banging the woman. Are there any games where it’s the woman’s POV of getting banged?

Hi everyone,

I’ve updated my shortcut to version 3.3. Here’s what’s changed:

- Unified Updater (Shortcuty & RoutineHub)

- Shortcut background color changed to black 🪄

Link to Shortcuty: https://browse.shortcuty.app/shortcut/71ff56d5-6938-4190-a13f-ebc0504dad95

Link to RoutineHub: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/17110/

Purpose of the shortcut:

I often get the iOS update notification one or two days after its release, so I’ve created a shortcut that does it instantly.

The shortcut is very quick and simple, it breaks down version numbers into three components (major, minor, patch) and compares them individually. By filling in missing components with zeros (e.g. transforming “18.0” into “18.0.0”), it guarantees accurate comparisons for all version format variants.

Launch the shortcut once to configure permissions. It’s best to run this shortcut automatically, everyday.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f21aae5dad364dd0a0008c6a7d940621

Not sure how to avoid the fact that the user can click “cancel” to bypass the prompt.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/9af71e8221384112a6695339576d69f8

Made a simple shortcut to toggle between 4G and auto 5G. Select your own SIM option where mine says **”Principal”**.

You can add this to a Focus mode, Home Screen or Control Center. Very handy when you’re out in remote areas or inside buildings with little coverage. The phone may sometimes insist on looking for 5G when there isn’t.

Phone outlines screenshot is made using Picsew app btw.

Mode 1: Current App (what you have now)

∙	Detects current app → ChatGPT suggests relevant shortcuts → run selected one

Mode 2: Clipboard

∙	Reads clipboard content → ChatGPT suggests shortcuts based on what’s copied (URL, text, image, phone number)

∙	Example: copied a URL → suggests “Save Article”, “Open in Reader”, “Share”

∙	Example: copied a phone number → suggests “Set Alarm”, “Create Contact”

Mode 3: Screenshot / What’s on Screen

∙	Takes a screenshot → sends to ChatGPT Vision → AI reads the screen and suggests relevant shortcuts

∙	Most powerful mode — works even when app detection isn’t enough

Mode 4: User Picks App Manually

∙	Shows a list of your apps → user picks one → ChatGPT filters shortcuts for that app

∙	Useful when Action Button is pressed from home screen with no active app

Mode 5: Smart Auto Mode

∙	Combines all signals — clipboard + current app + screen — and lets ChatGPT decide the best 3 shortcuts automatically with no menu

The Action Button flow would …

You can also directly install this shortcut’s iCloud link at: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/55247462b8be4a3aa45d83031b94de27

I have a friend who always texts me “wyd” when I’m at work. The answer is always, “work”. I want a shortcut that detects if a certain person sends “wyd”, checks if I’m at work or not, and if I am, send back “work”.

(Hope I used the correct flair, first time here)

Thanks!