so, what have been some of your depression entertainments? (https://glitch.social/@gcupc/2288632)
I'll add to those things already suggested...
1. Going back to some website or forum that you abandoned with good reason years ago, "just to see what it's like now" (done that with SomethingAwful)
2. Playing a movie that's so overfamiliar to you that you don't even really watch it, you just have the sound going and occasionally you take a look at the screen while you're doing something else on your computer or whatever
3. Opening reference books like a dictionary or the Merck Index to random pages and reading whatever entries you find
4. "Hey, Mastodon, what's up?"
I'm also going to add
5. Going to scholar.google.com and typing in stuff like "quantitative precipitation niobium tannic acid" and seeing what papers come up, and then using sci-hub.cc to read them. But I don't think this is a commonplace activity.
@kara_dreamer that's my jam too but also I'm an academic so I just have access to them anyway
@gzt I'm jealous. sci-hub is a huge improvement (at least, as long as it lasts) but I still lack access to the ACS SciFinder database, which would allow me to find papers with much greater ease. Google Scholar is a very poor substitute