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  1. @bagagwaa.bsky.social

    Haven’t had a day off in four weeks but I let myself leave work at noon today so I finally got my hair all cleaned up, got a massage at a very fancy place, had a simple but perfect dinner and glass of wine, and got a ridiculous but fun little dessert on my way home.

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  2. I'm 41 today. It sounds like a big year. It sort of is, but after 40, who cares? I'm just so incredibly happy to be here, so thankful to be alive, to be able to see the world, meet all the people in it, eat all the food, do all the things. I can't wait for more. The women in my family are long-lived, and I'm looking forward to it because I feel like I am going to be curiously and voraciously in love with the world forever. Since I was a child I have always looked forward to being '40 something'. In my mind, I had no doubt that I was going to be where I want to be, doing what I want. I am. ---

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    I'm in Kathmandu, Nepal: two years ago, one of my oldest friends told me that he was going to gift me a birthday gift to his home city the moment I was able to travel again. Once I got word that I could, we made plans. I've known him for more than 20 years. My wife noted yesterday that I've known many of my friends for 10 - 29 years. I feel immensely lucky to have old friends everywhere who I've kept in touch with. I may not be the sort of person who goes out very frequently with friends, given that many of my friends live in different cities or countries, but I feel like I've been able to just pick up on old friendships by talking from time to time, and visiting sometimes. I feel like I'm in a new season of life. One in which exploration, adventure, and abundance are back in my life. I am surrounded by friends and family I love and trust, and I have so much joy to share. It wasn't always this way, including when I was very ill and depressed for a very long time, so this is especially special.

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  3. Had the carbon monoxide alarm go off, much to my startlement, so I stepped outside and then looked up what the beep pattern meant to see if I needed to warn the neighbors, but it was just its "end of life" warning, so I put in a maintenance request to replace it and took out the battery.

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  4. I didn't expect my 5th grade students to be very interested in the collection of "mathematical patterns in nature" photos I have. They will design a pattern for the end papers of the book they are binding. The book is about how information is stored and includes an explanation of how it was bound, encryption, hexadecimal, and other projects from this fun class I get to teach. But they really loved looking at the photos and trying to identify what they were and how they related to math.

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  5. Over the years, I’ve walked my dogs on all the sidewalks of the University by my house. I’ve met most of the grounds and facility staff, police officers and bus drivers. Usually with a wave, smile and ‘beautiful dogs’. Amazing the people I meet who bring me joy and I don’t even know their name.

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  6. @narthur@hachyderm.io

    Ha! On my fourth try, I finally found the right aerator size for this bathroom faucet in our Airbnb! (I know, I should have had the owner do it. But it seemed easier to do it myself. And then I didn’t want to turn back. Sometimes you just don’t have the spoons to give up.)

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  7. bought a new heat bulb for my bearded dragon earlier this evening cause his burned out and also picked up some food for me and the husband on the way back and when walking back to the apartment I fumbled with my keys and the food and the bulb when soaring out of my hands and shattered on the asphalt

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  8. Morning wander around the estate done, first proper chilly one of the season, heating in the house came within 0.1C of turning on at 19C but house is warming up from the sun now so will probably not come on until tomorrow.

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  9. @egerod.bsky.social

    Break day today in Osaka, so we went to the Universal Theme Park as they had a Frieren Collab (my travel partner is a huge Frieren fan). Had a blast at the park, turned out they also had a One Piece Collab, as well as a huge Halloween event with zombies roaming the park after dark

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  10. Your valiant boy about to head into the European commission to meet a Big Tech Gatekeeper about the insane request by European commie users to run software they choose on devices they own.

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  11. my partner filled my Opalite spray bottle with all purpose cleaner and now uses it to clean because they “feel whimsical” and i love them so much

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  12. @pacman@swiss.social

    Groaning under the chores this morning I throw the clothes into the washing machine and hit the button and turn to the next chore. As I do so I suddenly think of my great-grandmother who lived on a simple little farm and had to wash the clothes by hand and with water carried from a nearby stream. Suddenly I stop groaning as I realise how easy I have it. I kick myself in my butt and straighten up and the sun starts shining and the day looks dead easy.

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  13. @starstar.bsky.social

    We leave Iceland today—4yo is completely miserable about it and does NOT want to leave. He made a deal with one of his friends that he could sleep under the other’s bed and then let me know that I could fly home by myself because he would prefer to stay in Iceland 😢

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  14. @frogglin@theblower.au

    Good Morning Tiny Dancers. Late start for work today so I decided to do something different and went for a coffee. Also a chunk of the "cinnamon scroll slab" which is under the counter for the staff to dip into. Poor BFF got into a "not all men" argument where I got a bit shouty. Anyway, chemist run, IGA run forgot biscuits nevermind. Tomorrow is another day, perhaps one where I will remember to buy biscuits.

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  15. @bairdlytrying.games

    Took the week off of work. So far I have had 2 walks, visited 1 small park with historic buildings to take pictures of, visited an indie book/vinyl shop, and had a lunch date with my spouse. I won't be recovered from workplace burnout by next week. But it'll be better.

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  16. @urbanfoxe@mastodon.ie

    Accidentally ended up at the principals' PD. Just enough time to grab pastries and coffee before I realized I was in the wrong room and moved to the teachers' one, where breakfast is not being served. FTW.

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  17. @caroleu.bsky.social

    Back in lockdown, I bought myself a broom for my birthday and put it aside until the day mostly as a joke. But when my birthday came (a week or two later) I couldn’t find it. To this day I have no idea what happened. I think about it sometimes just to feel stupid. Who loses a whole broom? Me. I did.

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  18. @robdaemon@hachyderm.io

    so I officially establish residency here in California for the purposes of college at the end of February I have to figure out what the hell I want to do for the rest of my life because I can't do this anymore I just can't my life is copy/paste from Jira into ChatGPT, yell at ChatGPT because it's a piece of shit, rinse repeat over and over and over there's no creativity, there's nothing left it's all fucking gone soulless

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  19. @beturpin.bsky.social

    I'm currently visiting Whidbey Island in Washington state. It was foggy for much of our time here but then it cleared off just in time for sunset... and luckily I caught it, no enhancements. Heading back to Seattle tomorrow then on home to Texas. I will be back for sure.

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  20. @repeattofade@tootr.co

    staying in a hotel in italy but ended up speaking enough spanish to be understood

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  21. @plentyblush.bsky.social

    Completely ate shit tonight after tripping over my own shoes while crossing the street and was saved by my Haurchefant plushie keychain, he cushioned my bag enough when I fell that it prevented me from smacking my head against a pole...Haurchefant...thank you...

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  22. @famousblueben@mas.to

    I knew I was exhausted after running some errands for my ailing neighbor last night that had me running over the neighborhood on top of my usual walking routine, but I didn't think I would sleep until 9:30 when I had to leave for school at 10 AM

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  23. @kaye.zone

    Nobody tells you what you’ll need ahead of time before you go do something official. If you try to ask, they’ll get weirded out that you’re grilling them and not tell you, but when you show up you’re always missing something. Anyway I went back and forth across town like six or seven times today.

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  24. I work on freelance projects from home and in theory I could wake up whenever I want but in practice the woman upstairs turns on her tv at 6:30,and the builders next door start at 8.

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  25. Sitting in a Japanese restaurant in my (adopted) hometown and this four year old kid and his mother came in. He brought his own pillow with him and honestly same.

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  26. Remembered I have free will. Went to my fav croissant bakery, my fav coffee shop and now enjoying the view by the waterfront. It’s the simple things in life. I love living in Seattle. I’d like to move while I’m still young but I’m not sure where I’d go…

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  27. @Gina@fosstodon.org

    [04:51 am]: my last 2 braincells and I at a random gas station in southern Germany, ordering kaffee in my best German. 🗣"Sind Sie Niederländer??" 🗣 [04:52 am]: singing happy birthday in Dutch into the gas station lady's phone because her neighbors sister's brother in law (?) is Dutch and it's their birthday.

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  28. @lucky@mastodon.nz

    this writing workshop i don't want to attend is starting in ten minutes and there's nobody here yet so i'm really getting my hopes up that it's been cancelled

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  29. I'm BACK, baby! Phone started working again. Lots of stuff has happened I haven't posted about. Caused me actual pain. But know I was desperate to. Living some kind of half life where the stuff happens but I'm unable to share it. A sort of real life unfulfilled 2fa. A thing that happens but can't be verified. Awful.

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  • When I was a very young man I lived with a couple of climate activist pals in a crumbling tenement flat that we refused to heat in an unspoken war of attrition driven by the combined forces of a lack of money and an almost competitive kind of youthful ideoligical righteousness. It absoluletly sucked

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  • @brianb@fosstodon.org

    We made it from Keystone, CO to Orderville, UT for the next few days. The drive through Utah was spectacular with way more variation in landscape than I anticipated.

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  • @trippnasty.bsky.social

    I came home to the cops outside my building because my across the hall neighbor had a little bit of a freakout today. It's going to be a long October.

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  • @BloodLitter@dice.camp

    Off to a conference where the people paying for my ticket expect me to attend a meal. The dress code is 'dress to impress'. Help I'm autistic I have no idea which of the thirty different things that could be they're expecting.

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  • @nerdazoid.bsky.social

    Finished my first video edit in a year (and a bit). Rusty as hell and I need to practice voice over again. But nice to start moving in the right direction again.

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  • @tom@labyrinth.social

    I have 31 items on my to-do list between now and when I board a plane on Thursday 10/15. That means I'll have to do three to four things per day. There might even be certain days where I have to do as many as five things. I don't know if anyone's ever attempted to do five entire things in a single day. It seems reckless

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  • Part of what makes my fieldwork so intense is that I am not only doing interviews virtually everyday - sometimes twice a day - I'm also reconnecting with locals I've been getting to know for years, building new connections, following up on referrals and setting up new interviews for my next trip..

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  • @jay@social.zerojay.com

    Picking yourself up off the floor while realizing that the pockets of your shorts line up perfectly with the doorknobs around the house. I need new shorts and a doorknob. OW.

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  • Getting over the PhD submission is a bit like getting over heartbreak. Each day I cry a little less at Des’ree and eat less chocolate. Going to John Lewis next week to get new make-up for A NEW LOOK.

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  • @abovearth@hostux.social

    A colleague had already called my desk phone at 2 minutes before 8. I had slept through my alarm and only got out of bed 5 minutes past 8. I did arrive on time at the office before 9.

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  • whenever im home alone and approaching a mirror, i crane my neck and smiled creepily at the mirror, without looking in it. that way if there is like a Creepy Mirror Me, i don’t notice and it is likely scared off by my tactics.

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  • @sanguish@iosdev.space

    Has to buy a second set of headlights (700) because the first passenger replacement ($1300) is months off. Found one available now for $1900. 😵‍💫 All I want to do is drive the damn thing and now I hate it. It’s always something. Hopefully I can fix this. Front end may come in tomorrow, but then needs paint. And I think two other parts broke that need replacing. Won’t even get to really look till the weekend. I was better off without a car.

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  • @hologramvin.bsky.social

    they're organizing a free trip to new york for the art and design majors to get to go to the MET (never been!) and itll be on a friday and counts as an EXCUSED absence, although im trying to get my gay guy professor to make it an unofficial class trip ... supposed to happen this month! fun :)

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  • @anasalter.bsky.social

    Many hours after our intended departure time, I am heading to Atlanta to hopefully board a connection to Richmond and somehow end up at UVA tonight! 😅 Ah, the joys of travel.

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  • @promethia.bsky.social

    ngl I'm happy I don't need to close my blinds anymore to avoid dying of heat, because my apartment is really luminous and and it makes me feel good to have the sun come in :)

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  • @estarianne.bsky.social

    We are decluttering- not a aggressively as we need to be to move in 5 months but a bit. Anyway today I threw away a stack of Pajama Sam and Jump Start Preschool CDs.

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  • @joelnb@tootr.co

    Dreamt I got a new job and one of my colleagues was a hot bearded long-haired dude and we were constantly making out and groping in the office and everyone else at work was like 'This is great, good for you guys'. Dare to dream.

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  • There were a couple good points during the day - time at the front of the classroom usually helps - and so I was hoping this would just be a one-day sad, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

  • @yuwumimii.bsky.social

    pre-emptively cancelling tomorrow's stream since it seems that people have booked the week off (they were off today too + i didnt get much done @~@) thanku for still hanging out w me this week though, it was a v fun stream! i hope i can stream more next week!

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  • @waytoolatetv.com

    Okay, so, today is the last day of what is historically the worst week of my life every year. I've lost my dad, my best friend, nearly lost my Mom, had the worst dwelling move of my life and lost 50-75% of my belongings, been marooned without a working car (3x), and been hospitalized (3x). It sucks.

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  • @oddp1ant.bsky.social

    I must confess I haven't been writing as much as I'd like BUT I have been doing all this (stress indicator)

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  • @mawsteeth.bsky.social

    i forget i’m 23 and life is just starting to bloom for me. i’ll be okay things feel awful right now but i’ll be okay. i will flourish. i’ll create the life i promised myself and my ancestors i’d live. in 10 more years, i’ll be so proud of all i overcome. i’ll be so proud of my bravery and strength

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  • You niggas that hang out with friends every other weekend are truly blessed. I’m alone and by myself most of the year outside of holidays. You have no idea how lonely life can truly be without someone there in your corner. And that largely affects my decision making with romantic partners.

  • @enwbbs.bsky.social

    Not that I don’t care for the doodles that come easily… I just care less. Like I’m satisfied with something so messy and rudimentary cause it’s not for someone or some project in particular. So there’s no expectation real or in my head…

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  • @ladyludorum.bsky.social

    It's very humbling to know that I am the reason I am miserable now. I live in survival mode constantly, so love and desire are all muted, because those things don't help me survive over the incertain stability that having control does.

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  • @chadgrayson.com

    Took Otto to the store today and several people assumed I was his dad, which made me feel good that me standing there with a baby didn't automatically give off grandpa vibes instead i was ADAWM (assigned Dad at Walmart).

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  • @ajagar12.bsky.social

    I do wanna apologize for my lack of posts. I had some ideas I wanted to play with and then I started my new job, fatigue set in and what little creative energy I have to spare is being used to help my roommate with his Halloween video. I'll try to be back ASAP.

  • @donamomo.bsky.social

    i had my door open by accident while coding and i said "im winning" in a funny voice and i walked up to my wife after realising it was open and she said i "say that a lot" "in varying voices"

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  • @comeuppance.bsky.social

    napped for two hours. had a dream I was showering and pulled a woman in to make out with me. I wake up and have the bad heart pounding. I am certain this is because of my low estrogen intake.

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  • @deskitty.bsky.social

    Uuugh I have been putting off deciding what to do for my birthday and it's fast-approaching. I always avoid thinking about it, Ammy used to plan it for me (with my input) and I just... uuugh. I don't know. I don't know why planning something for myself is so hard.

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  • Long day. Woke up at 4am. Couldn't sleep. Worked for an hour or so, then went back to bed. Got up, worked for an hour, and went to a medical appointment back to work. Only 3 online meetings today. Chilling now, watching TV and doing my side gigs. What did you do?

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  • @panapeeps.bsky.social

    i'm v firmly of the train of thought that like. "shit fucking sucks on all fronts atm but that doesn't mean it'll always be like this" right. but i try to balance that attitude out w not sticking my head in the sand which is why (i think anyway 😭) i'm always wording my thoughts so weirdly

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  • @teddyroman.bsky.social

    Oh thank God I was able to secure a real bed, just in time to keep me from falling into a moment of despair and getting a corner bookshelf bedframe, thus sparing me perhaps years of aesthetic ambivalence AT BEST.

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