There’s a family in the neighborhood who wound white Christmas lights around a tree trunk and then along a branch that passes near a window, to plug it in upstairs. It looks very much like video game “yellow paint” to show a climbable path. And their timer is on the fritz, making it blink erratically, which is a whole Hitman quest line setup ready to go.

Me explaining my role to a coworker: “I’m afraid I don’t touch real physical objects very often.”

Income inequality thousands of years ago in ancient China: 庶人之富者，或累百万；而贫者，或不厌糟糠。 《史记》 The wealthiest among the commoners had savings by the million, and the poorest could not turn up their noses at foul chaff. #classicalchinese #translation

I had a very Rowling-unapproved dream that Harry Potter broke a curse through technicality by changing pronouns from “he” to “they”

Annual New Year's Resolution advice from your local internet auntie who successfully turned around a lot of problems: That list of fourteen resolutions you have? To stop forgetting to brush your teeth, to lose weight, to stay atop your homework? Which ONE SINGLE CHANGE would have the most immediate, day-to-day effect on your mental well-being? What would give you more spoons to tackle the rest? ONE RESOLUTION AT A TIME. If you try to change fourteen things about your life at once, you'll get overwhelmed and give up within a matter of days and convince yourself you're not strong enough to change. But you are; the trick is to change ONE THING AT A TIME and focus on it until it's become easy. If you have something sleep-related on the list... you should probably start there. Sabotaging yourself by staying up late is an extremely common problem among the type of person likely to be reading this post. Learning to Stop Doing That will make sorting out the rest of your life magically so much easier.

my husband: maybe I should get back into Starcraft. I played Zerg back in the day me: oh I know him: really? how? me: you pick the most annoying character to fight in every game him: I don't know what you're talking about, I stan an unproblematic Queen of the Swarm

We took Odin on the tram to the Christmas market. He doesn’t photograph well at night (this was the best photo), but rest assured he got so, so many cuddles from random tourists tipsy on glühwein #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #amsterdam

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