I wanted to remember 3 specific encounters with people we had met in taipei, so I wrote them down:

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three encounters in taipei

one With only a few days remaining, we made our way to the physical shop after ordering it a few times on uber eats. It is a greek yoghurt bowl, bu...

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sharing some interesting excerpts from the book Humanely Possible by Sarah Blakewell, specifically about Petrarch – someone who liked collecting books, except the printing press didn't exist so he had to copy every single word manually:

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Petrarch, and enlarging knowledge

I'm currently reading Humanely Possible by Sarah Blakewell – I liked her previous two books so it wasn't too difficult to pick this one...

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you know the thing called social pressure? it is possible to be desensitised to it, and/or truly realise it is a waste of life to be pressured by a society that functions predominantly on insecurity.

for my friend peenut, who passed away this time last year:

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it has been a year

it has been a year, @peenutkewlee. only after you're gone i realised there's so little and yet so much i have to remember you with. i hav...

wrote a note to explain why i changed the titles of my rss feed to show the type of post, so people can avoid certain types of posts like my photos if they wish to:

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adding [type of post] to rss titles

This site's notes section is my playground, because I have that type of personality who needs to have an entire section for note-like informal...

not sure if anyone cares about this except for myself. #blogging

wrote a note on how our content goes into a black hole when we publish them on social networks (yes including mastodon), and it makes me want to publish on my own website first:

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social networks are like a blackhole for our content

I've been manually entering twitter and facebook statuses into obsidian for a long while now, because it is meaningful to review them and refl...

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