new weekly reflection! started adding links and at the end i muse a bit about a song i listened to a lot growing upâs translation.
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Managed to grab a minute to finish a road trip post - was an amazing place to visit Orakei Korako Cave & Geothermal Park
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food for thought blurb abt my experiences w/social media sites and posting art on them. more of a loose blog post just based off my time on them
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My first Indie Web Carnival post!
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for as much grief as we give you about all your flaws, we do actually like you and it bums us the fuck out to see you letting your country fall to tyranny like this
Thank you for vent; Feeling feelings is how we get out of this. Being curious enough toward are feelings to word them is difficult.
I help facilitate a mental health collective in town and the number one thing I neighbors come in with is all this shame theyâve been using as a motivator.
They donât kniw how to be motivated without shame doing the motivating. And shame canât motivate in these conditions.
Iâll look for a How It Works: Shame primer. Childhood curiosity is systematically exposed to fear to become incuriosity, for good marks.
Shame drives Americans (fear is a symptom). Americans arnât scared - theyâre ashamed.
Continuing the shame lets incuriosity remain.
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Iâve been trying to reduce my âdigital clutterâ (i.e. third-party apps, various web-based accounts) by using more default system apps. As part of that process, Iâve been finding lately that Apple Shortcuts is rather good at replacing a lot of the little productivity-related apps I used to use. This post shows you how I used Shortcuts to create a lightweight, repeatable activity reminder, which encourages me to get up and move after thirty minutes of inactivity.
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iâll probably write a blog post as a longer response but i think the same answer is why right now citizens of china, saudi arabia, uae, russia, [insert authoritarian regime here] also arenât revolting en masse: its pretty difficult to mobilize if economic issues arenât at play (which tends to be the history of every revolution/massive change). in general most people will not like the direction of the country but its hard to mobilize over grander issues if your life isnât terribly changed. the risk of protesting and striking for many is potential loss of jobs and loss of life, with many people not at the point where that is a risk worth taking
why arenât western europeans striking and boycotting en masse to resist fascism in their governments and impose economic pressure on the usa? presently risks outweigh immediate rewards.
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I fell down a rabbit hole and ended up writing a script for snipping GIFs from videos based on a string of text (located via the subtitles)⌠Itâs pretty fun. Anyway, I wrote a blog post going over how it works and providing some example usage:
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One post in which I complain about people
and another in which I complain about complaining about people
I think I just hate everything lol
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I dig your site design. I am such a <your post was flagged for inappropriate language> for off-white backgrounds, I used to even set that as the default paper color in word.
Your university course sounds super cool and I love how your links mix together content aligned to your academic interests and âlighterâ music, videos etc. I tried to do a similar thing with my blog back in college but I think it just came across as scattered and pretentious, but in your case the enthusiasm for everything shines through!
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This is supes interesting and I love the idea of offering yourself up as a test subject. Itâs fascinating how the reconstructions look like you, but slightly âairbrushedâ/retouched in a way thatâs hard to put a finger on. Makes me wonder how these AI tools are going to accelerate the convergence of beauty standards and unrealistic ideals that was already happening due to instagram influencers etc.
Oh my gosh, now that you said it, I realized it they look a lotike the Samsung âBeauty Modeâ on their phone cameras a few years ago
They didnât tell you outright the other bonus of those cards: the extra $200 when they successfully evangelize a friend and get that referral bonus. Ugh
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Weekly post number 4⌠New record! 2026 might be the year I stick with it!
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Inspired by other weekly or monthly recap blog posts, I decided to start writing such posts myself, and just published my first weekly recap post:
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My health sucks and has (noticeably) done so for a year now, so I attempted to write about it just to get it out.
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My third weeknote! In which I live in a pillow fort and keep my gecko warm enough
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Iâm really sorry but I am so glad youâre sharing it. Chronic illness hell is so hard to even explain to people who havenât lived with it, no matter how empathetic people can be.
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Youâre doing it! Youâre a living, breathing website! :waves:
Questions collage:
On your breath, are there beveled edges
read along: drift-flight : A Secant Query : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
spent fuel: Between Drift and Flight | A Secant Query
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