I prefer optimistic nihilism, such as John keats' epitaph "Here lies one whose name was writ in water". ashes to ashes dust to dust, the wheel in the sky keeps on turning, same as it ever was etc.
Fiona cares little for my game of correspondence chess 
My plan for this weekend is to be on the road until Sunday with back-to-back social engagements. It's going to be exhausting, but worthwhile.
Unmet expectations, even for tiny things, are distressing for me too. Sometimes I think I should change, (e.g. I'd rather not lose my shit because someone moved my charger), other times I feel unchangeable and try to accommodate my different brain (e.g. lists! A million lists everywhere for everything!)
Thank you for your post, Hazel looks a lot like Fiona
The highlight of my day is the iced coffee my wife made for me for my drive to work.
I have a software development job where the lack of direction is anxiety inducing. Today I was able to work for about 10 minutes before I hit a dead-end (unreproducible bug, no logs) now I'm waiting to hear back on scheduling a call with the customer and browsing Lemmy until I get to go home.
I feel insane pretending to look busy so that digital currency can be moved from one column to another, and in turn the global economy decides that I am allowed to have food, housing, and healthcare (USA).
Gah, she's so little oh my god! Maybe I'm projecting a bit from my own situation, e.g. Here's Fiona demonstrating couch scratching technique next to the couch she scratched (unrelated scratching post in the corner).
Ah, well if it isn't the reason we can't have nice things reminder of the impermanence of possessions & the profound joy of companionship
We followed this guide https://www.handymanwire.com/articles/gardenbenchplans.html. This is my first real project since moving out on my own, and my first time ever doing a (carpentry) joint. I'm overjoyed with the results!
I'm very ignorant with regards to lacquer, varnish, stain, sealant etc., any guidance in that area would be very helpful.
Pumpernickel? I 'ardly know 'er!
The moral of the original book is that the tricks and tools are not a replacement for self control. It's humbling that a literal children's book can (re)teach us profound things. And to me, it's comforting to know that a child's fresh mind is infinitely better at things so many of us struggle with (e.g., a phoneless child isn't addicted to screens, a newborn can become a vegan as easily as an omnivore)
An article discussing Maduro's kidnapping described it as
The Perfect Operation – Coordination, Timing and Precision at an Unprecedented Scale ... a military operation of coordination and accuracy never seen before
Seems like a preview of the slop they'll be serving once Trump is fully vegetative.
I think this capacity for "productive discomfort" has an older name that feels almost out of date. It's patience
Fuck. Most of the problems in my life seem to be addressed by the most simple and difficult things I've heard a thousand times, yet fail to adequately incorporate into my life ("patience is a virtue", "drink water & eat vegetables", "stay active" etc.)
Gateway & warp gate changes are huge. I'm excited to try new cheeses
It had served me well for the last 2 years. I accidentally hit a rock on the backswing and it broke into 3 pieces. It was probably weakened by exposure to the elements, aggressive sharpening, and being low quality to begin with. The new one is much much better
...because the shape of the water bottle isn't uniform either. Part of my new year's resolution is to drink 4 liters of water per day, so I spend a lot of time looking at those lines. Edit: 4 liters is a lot, but appropriate for my size and activity level. Without conscious consideration I don't drink enough water. It looks blue because the bottle is blue.
Picked this bad boy up from a local oddities expo. Aurora quartz is natural quartz that has been bonded with metal vapor in a vacuum chamber to give it an iridescent shine
Top: Penny in 2023. She passed in 2024 at around 10 years old. Bottom: Fiona in 2025. We adopted her this summer, she's about 2 and a half. I grew up with cats, and after having Penny for ~9 years I have trouble picturing life without a cat or two. Funnily enough, my wife wasn't a cat person until I made it clear that Penny and I were a package deal.
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White kitty in the tree
They got a skeleton mod team creating a right-wing bias, trains AI off the comments. We take 'em out, absorb the whole fuckin' thing. Let me tell you a couple or three things: forget about the boston bomber, forget about RIF, forget about /r/thedonald. /u/spez has no respect for this thing. He's never shitposted, not really. Here's a guy who stepped over digg to grab the big seat. I'm embarrassed. I load up the subreddit to see the kirk memes last week, and I took his bloated fuckin' app in commiseration. They post anything and everything over there. And the way that they do it, it's all fucked up. There's no downvote counter, weird monetization in the flairs. It either has meaning or it has no meaning.
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