I even made an icon for it (with a voting pencil instead). Is there anyone who would be interested in making this thing a reality? As stated in the body of the post, I'm not politically involved enough to be a mod for the community.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
- 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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Holy shit, is that a variation on an existing icon or did you just spitball a neat visual metaphor from scratch on the spot?
Would absolutely love to see political nonsense off this sub. If there's a new sub for it, whatever, I definitely wouldn't subscribe.
Politics and Ai should be siloed off to their own dumpsters for every conceivable topic. Remove that toxic shit from comics, memes, shower thoughts, etc
Keep reality itself out of everything, too!
People are allowed to create boundaries for themselves. Just because they set a very fucking healthy boundary of no political posts on social media, doesn't mean they can't engage politically in other ways. Probably they'll have more energy to actually take concrete action when they're not just seething in front of a screen.
If you want to have political content, go make a sub and post there. Nobody is stopping you, and nobody is obliged to engage with content they don't want to.
I wasn't being sarcastic.
Fuck reality.
Apologies. I misread you.
I'm fond of reality though. But for me that word probably has a bit different meaning ^^;
Some kind of trough thoughts community for ai (pigs eating slop from a trough is the image I have in mind).
And maybe a toilet thoughts for politics?
Thoughts?
Yes. Start one. The biggest benefit of having different subs back over at u/fuckspez dumpsterland was the independence to create whatever you or anyone wanted. We are here because we believed even more different and have the right to choose whatever we want. Since politics and ai are not welcome here, doesn't mean there isn't a crowd for it. Go for it.
Significantly more eloquently put sentiment I tried to share. Nice, agree hard.
We should just drop rule 3 here. Why are we gatekeeping what topics you can have a showerthought about?
It seems the mods have decided otherwise, whereas a dedicated community can set its own rules. Like I said in the body, I'm not interested in constantly being bombarded with political posts; ideally only when I explicitly choose to visit such communities.
Because political "shower thoughts" aren't shower thoughts at all, they're soapboxing.
Nobody is gatekeeping what topics you can have a showerthought on. But people are allowed to choose to not read them. Or create spaces where certain topcis are not welcome. You are free to create a space for whatever content you want to see.