i emptied out my email inbox!

inflows and outflows

one way to think about getting rid of emails is like a bathtub, where the inbox is the bath, the emails are the water, and you’ve got an inflow (the tap) and an outflow (the drain)^[1]

inflows are the emails that come in. you can reduce[…]

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i’m discovering that perhaps i might have lacked the Vitamin. and i think i underestimated the parts of the vitamin fantasy where (a) the deficiency is found because someone else looks after you and (b) people acknowledge your prior suffering

sorta hits different when you have to do those parts yourself. oh well. at least there’s still the part where (c) the issue is relatively^[1] easily fixable and available

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

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

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footnotes

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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 love sticking toge[…]

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

• mi kama sona e toki pona

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 taking precautions has felt like it’s rewired part of my being

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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 have go[…]

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• birds! birds! birds!

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, evil[…]

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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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