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    2025/08/09

    can someone lead me to water? i promise i’ll drink 🥺

  • it hot

    2025/06/24

    and i have a body that is either really sensitive to dehydration or needs a lot more water and often doesn’t notice until i’m near heat exhaustion 🙃. back to lying in bed for meeee[1]

    also i will Punch[2] anyone who makes a glib comment about how They can handle the heat


    footnotes

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  • on peeling eggs

    2025/06/17

    there’s a surprising complexity to boiling eggs[1][2] but if you don’t really care about egg dimples and just don’t want bits of egg sticking to the shell as you peel, i found the important bit is to

    💦Just Add Water💦

    specifically, get water under the membrane. that’s the filmy stuff between the boiled egg and the shell, and if there’s no water all three bits lov[…]

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  • untitled

    2025/06/03

    [wawa akesi linja utala wan ike lawa ilo] nanpa wan!

    • mi kama sona e toki pona
  • covid precautions and mental health

    2025/05/19

    i stopped covid precautions for my mental health xoxo

    — too many people

    for me, taking covid seriously again has been, on balance, positive for my mental health

    i don’t mean the preventative reasons (although they’re important too!). i mean that the act of t[…]

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  • chiffchaff!!

    2025/05/13

    okay so i’d been avoiding the merlin app that other people had recommended because i thought it was american only. apparently that’s not true and here’s the areas it covers.

    it’s pretty neat! the other day i heard a new bird in the park and used the sound id feature and found out it was probably a chiffchaff!

    the app’s not perfect, for example it doesn’t ha[…]

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    • birds! birds! birds!
  • “presence and absence give birth to each other”

    2025/05/09

    one thing i liked about reading the dao de jing is the opposites. i mean i knew that coming in, all the yin-yang stuff, but there’s something i liked about the particular way it’s executed

    for example,

    Because beauty is acknowledged by all as beautiful, ugliness springs into being.
    Because goodness is recognized by all as good,[…]

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  • getting through my rss backlog

    2025/05/05

    i love all the feeds i follow. i keep adding more, as i click through and wander about and find new ones

    sometimes i wander off and don’t check my feeds for a while. part of me feels bad about that, although i’ve been working to expand the part of me that accepts that that’s just the kind of person i am, and also figure out what that looks like in practice

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  • untitled

    2025/04/14

    El. Rond Hubbard

    • this goes through my head every time his name is used
    • context: i've been listening to the fellowship of the ring
    • whoops i forgot to mention that in the nowpdate
  • here's the socks

    2025/02/04
    two pairs of knitted socks. one pair is yellow and green, and the other uses self-striping yarn with blues and whites and reds

    the left pair

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