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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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Just felt like showing some appreciation. Thank's y'all

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[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 hours ago

All the feels.

[–] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

Doug Henning was very nearly Prime Minister, except no one voted for the Natural Law Party.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago
[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Nope

I'm not, take it back!

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 24 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Another one rides the bus!

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Steve walks warily down the street With his bus pass held down low Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet Transit ready to go

Are you ready? Hey, are you ready for this? Are you hanging on, or sat in a seat? Out of the doorway, passengers skip Back out into the street, yeah

Another one rides the bus!

[–] HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

And another one on, and another one on

Another one rides the bus!

Hey, it's gonna get you, too.

Another one rides the bus!

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I find it amazing transit services haven’t used this song in ads

[–] Zealotte@lemmy.zip 4 points 17 hours ago

This is almost too wholesome.

[–] BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

For some unknown reason reading this made me feel like writing BAZINGA!!! ~(つˆ0ˆ)つ。☆

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

OMG you are such EPIC BACON AWESOMESAUCE!

WAFFLES!!!!

LOL sorry I'm so random sometimes xDxDxD

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 73 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Bro... Get out of my shower.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

And into my car?

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 21 points 19 hours ago

I'm trying to save the hot water! Don't be stingy

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'm in your shower whenever you are.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Everybody gets one!

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 17 hours ago

Thank you as well MrShankles! I left reddit for lemmy. I think my next move will be a daily walk to the coffee shop and see if I can meet some like-minded folks in real-time. It's been too long and the human touch is sometimes needed to re-center yourself. My fear is that everyone out there are assholes or, worse yet, I'm the asshole.

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 4 points 19 hours ago

ilym bwtifl ( ˘ ³˘)<3

[–] oce@jlai.lu 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Azzu@leminal.space 16 points 23 hours ago

Katy, take your spork and get back into your own shower.

[–] Una@europe.pub 4 points 18 hours ago

meow meow :3

[–] mgrecca2026@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

over here is creative liberation. We can think of interesting stuff to post and share

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 19 hours ago

:) thanks friend, it's all big love

[–] vrek@programming.dev 8 points 23 hours ago

Showing or showering appreciation???

[–] degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] lumpyluggage@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

I wish people would be at least a little more normal. It's a bit weird when you join Lemmy and the front page is full of furries, femcels and other niches you never heard of.

But I get it. There aren't many other places left for unusual people. So I guess you better get used to it.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

what else would you prefer in your feed?

all interesting content is, by definition, weird

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 17 points 20 hours ago

Better than nazis.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 11 points 19 hours ago

Unlike Reddit, Lemmy makes no attempt to spoon feed and algorithmically tailor to what it believes will garner the largest audience.

You have to do a little curating here. Block users, communities, and even whole servers that you're not interested in and suddenly the whole experience changes.

I very very rarely block users or servers because I don't want to put myself into an echo chamber, but I have a long list of communities blocked because I have no interest in them whatsoever. There could be anime girls posted every 10 seconds with thousands of upvotes for all I know, but I've blocked them because I don't care. They can continue having fun in their community, I can be blissfully unaware of it. Win win.

Make the threadiverse your own and it's far more enjoyable than everything all at once.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago

Not sure why you have that much of it. My frontpage (not subscriptions) is mostly meme, open source news, and political stuff. I don't see furries often.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I feel there's more unusual people than nahh, but nobody talks about (due to risk of presenting as abnormal). But if you can set aside the fear of being ostracized... everyone is pretty strange in their own ways. Show me a "normal" person, and I'll show you someone who's still learning. Appreciate you as you are though, we're all out here learning <3

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago

I’ve never met a normal person in my life. Errbody be crazy in their own ways. I say this as a very average-looking dude.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'm a little weird, but my front page has none of that. Am I doing lemmy wrong?

[–] BeatL@pawb.social 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You can do an easy test. Use a sentence like "windows is the obviously the best operating system, they integrate AI so well"

If you have no answer, not a single downvote you are doing lemmy wrong xD

Jokes asides welcome to you and others in a collection of places where freedom and community truly mean something. UwU

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

let me try:

Apple make the best hardware, nothing can compare to my M2 and it's under-sized ssd. The fact that I can have such good hardware and still have a full Unix system is unbeatable.

Will that work?

I use Debian (mostly) btw

[–] BeatL@pawb.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Purrr-fect !

I am so triggered, Your lemmy is working fabulously !

Have a nice day ;)

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Nice try buddy, but you're wrong about that. Sorry to have to be the one to tell you, just how wrong you are about that... but you are wrong. I dunno about what exactly, but I do know I'm right and you're wrong /s

Glad to have ya around friend <3

[–] BeatL@pawb.social 1 points 9 hours ago

I believe you are right about others being wrong. Except (rightfully so) when you are right about other being right. Or wrong about other wrong. Am i right ?

[–] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 19 hours ago

Those are quite ok, the main boogeyman is the tankies.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago

I don't see much of either in my feed, though I already heard about them. Curious now, which other niche stuff you see lots around here?

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Get off my lawn kiddo, Ripley's coming over with analcoholic beer.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mech@feddit.org 6 points 22 hours ago

What can I say, I'm analcoholic.

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