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- I want to ride my bicycleCleaning out the apartment and finding that the fucking moths keep getting to my wool despite seeding the closet/containers with anti-moth packets. I remain dedicated to natural fibers and find them on balance preferable to synthetic but the fucking moths seem to be of the same mind. I have a thin merino cardigan that is… Read more: I want to ride my bicycle
- 外の世界へ (To the outside world)It’s the longest day of the year, here. Anyway, I went to the mov~ies~ Given the number of times I watched the Utena movie in middle school I have the entire movie down frame-for-frame, beat-for-beat. And I never thought I would get to see it in theaters, let alone twenty-five-some-odd years later. I first saw… Read more: 外の世界へ (To the outside world)
- I, too, have this nature.Direction-of-the-pharmacy from my apartment has slim options for cafes within easy walking distance. There’s Starbucks and McDonald’s, and the latter has cheaper coffee and still has WiFi, and despite the signs everywhere declaring that staying longer than 30 minutes is loitering and that the manager must enforce this restriction, nobody’s ever bugged me. This has… Read more: I, too, have this nature.
- “I own everything I paint and feel happy about.”My dentist’s offering of stuff-you-watch-on-the-ceiling-TV includes the Bob Ross channel, and as I’m prone to establishing rituals I turn to it when I’m getting work done. Jaw issues that make dental work taxing aside, while I affect calm as an adult deep down I am still That Kid at the dentist who is a crying… Read more: “I own everything I paint and feel happy about.”
- Hyper-optimization hyper-normalizationI just wrote a bunch of shit down somewhat tangentially associated in my thought process (yes, that is my entire blog). I’m not editing this because it’s been sitting open in my browser for like a week. Well, I strongly feel it’s all related. Equipment Improvement Cycle and the Striving Meritocracy RPG mechanic rhetoric as… Read more: Hyper-optimization hyper-normalization
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- I want to ride my bicycle
- 外の世界へ (To the outside world)
- I, too, have this nature.
- “I own everything I paint and feel happy about.”
- Hyper-optimization hyper-normalization
- Agency
- Bro.
- I know that’s a wolf under that sheep’s clothing. But we’re having a lovely conversation.
- Memory coup
- An utopia defined by free real estate
- Could be published today
- Habits of tyranny
- Scholarly pursuits
- Auditory Madeleines: part whatever
- Time isn’t after us.
- Possesses power
- When the “AI assistant” would probably use the exact same phrasing I do I agonize over it overmuch.
- Nothing actually happens
- Retro tech
- Through a lens familiarly
- The shedding of old ways of thinking
- Le Guin was right about everything part 58 of
- “The sky above the port was the color of a television, tuned to a dead channel.”
- Nobody wants to be in the after-school program.
- Queen Bitch
- I pet the electric sheep and felt a surge of well-being when it nuzzled me.
- The unbearable stillness of not-knowing
- bildungsroman
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