what if your stuckness is the only place your anger has been allowed to go
July 18, 2026 at 2:17 PM
what if your stuckness is the only place your anger has been allowed to go
This definitely, but also, sometimes you're stuck because you've done something wrong somewhere, and your writer brain knows it even if you don't. You need to find the reason for the stuckness.
Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.
May 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This definitely, but also, sometimes you're stuck because you've done something wrong somewhere, and your writer brain knows it even if you don't. You need to find the reason for the stuckness.
This is wonderful archival work. The stuckness now belongs to the ages.
i blogged about the radio getting stuck last night (and you can download a copy of the tape i made!!) nickyflowers.com/blog/2025/po...
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This is wonderful archival work. The stuckness now belongs to the ages.
1/ Today we @oppforhealthlab.bsky.social are releasing our report: "Stuckness in America."
#Stuckness is a #feeling + material #reality that reinforce one another in a self-perpetuating #trap.
1 our of every 5 Americans are #stuck.
opportunityforhealth.org/project/stuc...
#Stuckness is a #feeling + material #reality that reinforce one another in a self-perpetuating #trap.
1 our of every 5 Americans are #stuck.
opportunityforhealth.org/project/stuc...
Stuckness in America – Opportunity for Health
opportunityforhealth.org
May 11, 2026 at 4:26 PM
1/ Today we @oppforhealthlab.bsky.social are releasing our report: "Stuckness in America."
#Stuckness is a #feeling + material #reality that reinforce one another in a self-perpetuating #trap.
1 our of every 5 Americans are #stuck.
opportunityforhealth.org/project/stuc...
#Stuckness is a #feeling + material #reality that reinforce one another in a self-perpetuating #trap.
1 our of every 5 Americans are #stuck.
opportunityforhealth.org/project/stuc...
There’s no grey area between the seven lethargies of sofa-stuckness and the ooh-shiny-rabbitholes.
July 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
There’s no grey area between the seven lethargies of sofa-stuckness and the ooh-shiny-rabbitholes.
Excited to share my latest publication, "Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse." It's published in a special issue in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, expertly edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Chapot, on "Computation and Form, Reconsidered."
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By Ryan Heuser. This paper examines the formal and aesthetic patterns of AI-generated poems through a series of computational experiments.
culturalanalytics.org
October 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Excited to share my latest publication, "Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse." It's published in a special issue in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, expertly edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Chapot, on "Computation and Form, Reconsidered."
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
feeling adrift? have a hunch that two things connect but don’t know how? need a writing prompt to get out of your own stuckness? “what else happened that day?”
February 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
feeling adrift? have a hunch that two things connect but don’t know how? need a writing prompt to get out of your own stuckness? “what else happened that day?”
i made a thing bcz i am sick of not being able to figure out what i wanna do and motivational interviewing works SO well for me but it is hard to access ppl who do it as well as i want it done and so i had a bunch of agents look at a bunch of annotated MI transcripts and make a skill for us
GitHub - heartpunk/motivational-interviewing-skill: A motivational interviewing skill for AI agents. Helps work through ambivalence, stuckness, and decisions.
A motivational interviewing skill for AI agents. Helps work through ambivalence, stuckness, and decisions. - heartpunk/motivational-interviewing-skill
github.com
June 8, 2026 at 6:31 AM
i made a thing bcz i am sick of not being able to figure out what i wanna do and motivational interviewing works SO well for me but it is hard to access ppl who do it as well as i want it done and so i had a bunch of agents look at a bunch of annotated MI transcripts and make a skill for us
What is autistic inertia really?
Autistic Inertia, Action, and the Myth of Control
What autistic "stuckness" teaches us about demand, capacity, shame, and agency
open.substack.com
June 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM
What is autistic inertia really?
I have not drunk alcohol for just over 14 years. But stopping does not fix the emotions that drove abusing alcohol in the first place. I have never been part of a programme but I understand the cycle of shame, stuckness, desperation for absolution, & the unliveability of life.
October 7, 2026 at 8:59 AM
I have not drunk alcohol for just over 14 years. But stopping does not fix the emotions that drove abusing alcohol in the first place. I have never been part of a programme but I understand the cycle of shame, stuckness, desperation for absolution, & the unliveability of life.
I know a lot of guys who've gone through divorce and managed to NOT make themselves divorced or not for too long. It's a stuckness where your grudge against women "undergirds" your malice.
And as in all things, there by the grace of something go I.
And as in all things, there by the grace of something go I.
March 12, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I know a lot of guys who've gone through divorce and managed to NOT make themselves divorced or not for too long. It's a stuckness where your grudge against women "undergirds" your malice.
And as in all things, there by the grace of something go I.
And as in all things, there by the grace of something go I.
The hardest part of inertia isn’t the undone task.
It’s the shame story that wraps itself around the stuckness.
That old voice whispering: you’re lazy, you’re failing, you should be able to.
Sometimes the work isn’t finishing the thing.
It’s staying with ourselves when we can’t.
It’s the shame story that wraps itself around the stuckness.
That old voice whispering: you’re lazy, you’re failing, you should be able to.
Sometimes the work isn’t finishing the thing.
It’s staying with ourselves when we can’t.
August 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The hardest part of inertia isn’t the undone task.
It’s the shame story that wraps itself around the stuckness.
That old voice whispering: you’re lazy, you’re failing, you should be able to.
Sometimes the work isn’t finishing the thing.
It’s staying with ourselves when we can’t.
It’s the shame story that wraps itself around the stuckness.
That old voice whispering: you’re lazy, you’re failing, you should be able to.
Sometimes the work isn’t finishing the thing.
It’s staying with ourselves when we can’t.
I appreciate this discussion about how to fight, about wanting fiscally responsible government, yet not at the expense of serving people, Democrats stuckness… highly recommend @gtconway.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
Trump’s Administration Is an Incompetent Mess
Podcast Episode · George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell) · 02/01/2025 · 51m
podcasts.apple.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I appreciate this discussion about how to fight, about wanting fiscally responsible government, yet not at the expense of serving people, Democrats stuckness… highly recommend @gtconway.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
There are many forms of stuckness.
April 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
There are many forms of stuckness.
What about....balloons?
March 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
What about....balloons?
The mightiest remedy for creative block and existential stuckness www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/31/s...
The Remedy for Creative Block and Existential Stuckness
“Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender… Only unconditional surrender leads to real emptiness, and from that place of emptiness I can be…
www.themarginalian.org
June 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The mightiest remedy for creative block and existential stuckness www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/31/s...
Trump is stuck between the reality of his loss and his boundless narcissm.
Not disagreeing - this is consistent with what you say and the source of the stuckness.
Not disagreeing - this is consistent with what you say and the source of the stuckness.
August 28, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Trump is stuck between the reality of his loss and his boundless narcissm.
Not disagreeing - this is consistent with what you say and the source of the stuckness.
Not disagreeing - this is consistent with what you say and the source of the stuckness.
Same “stuckness” here, Donna😊
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September 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Same “stuckness” here, Donna😊
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unironically I think one reason for the perception of mainstream cultural "stuckness" is that anything with actual historical potential gets immediately disavowed for its subculture war connotations like this
Danganronpa's biggest problem was being liked by Tumblr queers so we all have to pretend it was worse than Satan because some children a decade ago were slightly too annoying about it (see also: Homestuck).
The people who dislike DR to such an extreme extent have never actually engaged with it lol.
The people who dislike DR to such an extreme extent have never actually engaged with it lol.
Hundred Line is so unignorably amazing it has people finally admitting Danganronpa was always good. It did the unthinkable.
May 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
unironically I think one reason for the perception of mainstream cultural "stuckness" is that anything with actual historical potential gets immediately disavowed for its subculture war connotations like this
How about a transformation where the new outfit/accessories are apart of the TF. Like cosplaying Rouge the Bat and your feet turning into heels or having a maid dress sprout from your body? Lots of fun and weird shot potential and the extra layer of "stuckness" is really fun to me
August 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
How about a transformation where the new outfit/accessories are apart of the TF. Like cosplaying Rouge the Bat and your feet turning into heels or having a maid dress sprout from your body? Lots of fun and weird shot potential and the extra layer of "stuckness" is really fun to me
Autistic Burnout often begins with years of ignoring “I can’t.”
I can’t keep doing this.
I can’t keep masking this.
I can’t keep surviving on panic.
I can’t keep doing this.
I can’t keep masking this.
I can’t keep surviving on panic.
Autistic Inertia, Action, and the Myth of Control
What autistic "stuckness" teaches us about demand, capacity, shame, and agency
open.substack.com
July 27, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Autistic Burnout often begins with years of ignoring “I can’t.”
I can’t keep doing this.
I can’t keep masking this.
I can’t keep surviving on panic.
I can’t keep doing this.
I can’t keep masking this.
I can’t keep surviving on panic.
Cool talk by @heuser.bsky.social on formal stuckness (regular rhyme and meter) of LLM poetry that doesn’t seem to reflect training data nor a specific historical period. “average of our aesthetic desire”
December 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Cool talk by @heuser.bsky.social on formal stuckness (regular rhyme and meter) of LLM poetry that doesn’t seem to reflect training data nor a specific historical period. “average of our aesthetic desire”
Was the remote too big for him to use, hence "stuckness"?...
January 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Was the remote too big for him to use, hence "stuckness"?...
Our team @oppforhealthlab.bsky.social is working on a related point. There might be a deeper sentiment here than just perceiving being material worse off. We are calling it "stuckness."
Report on Stuckness in America to come soon.
Report on Stuckness in America to come soon.
I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing
April 13, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Our team @oppforhealthlab.bsky.social is working on a related point. There might be a deeper sentiment here than just perceiving being material worse off. We are calling it "stuckness."
Report on Stuckness in America to come soon.
Report on Stuckness in America to come soon.
6:14pm EST: OOB Moon in Gemini semisextile Uranus in Taurus. Breakthrough! We understand the source of our stuckness, and we're able to put the problem in perspective. 23°Ge17' D 23°Ta17' D
February 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
6:14pm EST: OOB Moon in Gemini semisextile Uranus in Taurus. Breakthrough! We understand the source of our stuckness, and we're able to put the problem in perspective. 23°Ge17' D 23°Ta17' D