This is a bigger change, but I switched to Bandcamp and listen to music I own. I like the process of finding music I like and saving it to my wishlist, and I mass-purchase whenever Bandcamp Friday comes around so the artist gets the whole paycheck.

It depends how much music you listen to though, and how much variety you need day to day. Realise it’s a bit more involved than algorithm based streaming but I also feel a lot more like I’ve built a library just for me.

This brings tears to my eyes, what a horrific and willful destruction of life. Seeing those poor creatures trying and inevitably failing to escape the net is just awful.

I need to do a lot of number entry for my work, and the southpaw TKC CandyBar saved my life. I liked it so much I immediately bought a second one just in case something happened.

Then I got a Prime_E. I think people over estimate how hard it is to adjust typing habits to accommodate layers and toggles!

Tested. Verified*. Obviously it depends on the quality of the output but we’re already past the point where the best models, with appropriate fine tuning, are noticeably AI on first glance.

*I work in market research, this is a sample of 3 creative tests.

Not an airport, no need to announce departures. You’re free to leave at any time.

A scream test implies you’re interested in keeping the things that work, which I’m not so confident is the strategy of the government any more…

Others have offered fantastic advice, I’m not going to add anything from personal experience. I will share this link: https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/

Reading this isn’t going to change your life, but I find it very helpful to reframe how you think about life. It deals more with the long term impact of having a full time job, outside of work in a way that worked for my brain. Hopefully you find it helpful but it’s not a single solution.

Babies have to learn to be self sufficient as early as 12 weeks so that they can enter the workforce and learn to be oppressed sooner.

I’m not doing this to try and call you out, but I am curious - what link are you making here if it isn’t “sexual preference embarrassing”?

Seeing the public reaction to some of the military adjacent cases over the past few years has been incredibly disheartening (e.g. McBride)

Proud to say I accomplished that! My dad trained a fair bit. I did like 1 10km walk the week before we started, and I finished the 800kms with no real dramas, except the first day which was a massive climb. After 5-6 days my body was totally accustomed to the task at hand.

(Super irrelevant to the post but it was an awesome experience and I would advocate anyone to undertake it, regardless of your thoughts on religion. I am not religious but did find it spiritual in a way. I did it about 6 years ago and still think about it every week.)

As in the route I took?

Thanks!

Yeah motocamping is a next level way to see a place. I’ve always been into camping, only riding for the last three years, but travelling off your bike and rolling into a campsite knowing that the only thing you have to do tomorrow is pack up and ride somewhere is so liberating.

I’m interested in the inevitable double whammy for those of us who grew up in both plastic and PFAS filled environments.

I can really see a future in my lifetime where plastic and PFAS exposure is identified as causing severe damage to humans and animals. I just feel utterly immersed in them whether I like it or not.

I love this album, and really think Kishi Bashi shines when he’s performing live. My favourite album of his is definitely the live performance, but his sets at Tiny Desk and Audiotree are my favourite.

Removing her from their lives was probably their intent with the bullying. Whether or not they considered death over deportation, they got what they wanted.

Maybe I’m too cynical as an outsider looking on to the US but I don’t think these kids will even remember her name in 5 years. Only that they succeeded in preventing whatever DEI /woke word vomit their parents and the media warned them about.

Yeah, same. Never been asked. I’ve known for a long time I’ve never wanted to have children.

But that’s purely for me. Not for me to pass judgement on anyone who does want kids, it’s such a personal choice.

The Aboriginal culture of Australia.

Where I live, you have boring reused English place names like Brighton and Canterbury, and then much more distinguishable and interesting place names from the indigenous peoples like Dandenong and Bullengarook. When you learn the interpreted history of the name, I really appreciate the name more. Dandenong is thought to have come from Tanjenong, which means “lofty mountains.”

Then there are some bastardisations - what is now known as Toorak is from the word Turrak, which means “reedy grass”

Indigenous culture here is so willfully ignored and diminished by so many people. I think it’s really cool that we do have some ongoing reference to the oldest continuous culture in the world, even if it only comes up in meme culture as a funny haha :)

Hell, as a human I’ll take that deal. When can I move in?