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I look nice today

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in 2020 i first had covid and idk what it did (the neurologists are vague too) but a big symptom was caffeine intolerance. it was as sudden as the loss of taste/smell: a whole reef of neurons razed or fucked up in a moment. really weird. anyway, i'm not talking about feeling too jangly or something

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this alternation (here in the midlands) between rain and bright sun is pretty alright. quick cycle wash and dry

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thanks to the basic-tier, 'carpet bigger than the room' coping package, i have got LOTS done over the last few days but also have been very sad and stupid and have not actually been outside since thursday morning. no wonder i feel like a muddy little mushroom

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thinking of buying a book by a writer who has the exact same name as one of my favourite writers. what if it also becones a favourite? HOW WILL PEOPLE KNOW WHICH ONE I MEAN (to add to this, I was at school with someone who also had the same name. That makes three of them)

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I’ve one clear memory of John Prescott making a difference when I was working in DWP in the 2000s No 10 was heavily briefing a scheme to dock housing benefit for anti-social behaviour He refused to sign up to it & killed it on basis “you can’t have a punishment that’s only for the poor”

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realised today (and it made me very happy) just how much my threshold of what constitutes “effort” for cooking a meal has changed in the last two years. i now happily knock together some complex things. it is a thing to be properly grateful for, being able to cook yourself food you enjoy, isn’t it

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a cheerful wordle today

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there’s plenty of people who hate gays and hate the longterm unwell, and it’s so easy for me to ignore them, to refuse to feel bad. yet i can spend five minutes online in the algorithmic company of actual gay men and feel like i am the ugliest, most pointless, pathetic, worthless maggot in creation

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I love art

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weekend decision: before i'm 40, i want to see a bluejay, in the wild. this is code for "have found a way to travel round, or even to live in, north america" but i like the focus on a small pretty thing

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this! last year before i got ill i read the first 2 books of les miserables and it is just SUCH A PLEASURE, i completely fell in love. cannot wait to get back to it

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back in 2017 one of the student houseshares at the end of my road had a wifi network called "simon is a bell end" which i always thought was excellent

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oversensitive spam filters are really starting to grind my gears

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not to brag but earlier today i had good reason to use a hammer, and it was fantastic. i made a dangerous thing safe. four sharp taps for business and then at least as many again for pleasure

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well, there were a few things i saw on TV when i was a boy which twisted my arm

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the last digit of the year counts the 2s in the date. the second digit of the year counts nothing

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in the mood for a documentary about things which are cute, and after that, for a documentary about things which are awesome and beyond my understanding. meerkats / galaxies. polar bears / superconductors. pastry chefs / the riemann hypothesis

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being mean to the month, as it is mean to me

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wish i could walk to the pier

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couldn’t sleep because COUGHING this illness turns into a new thing every five days, i am so bored

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bull elk bugle and a bluejay

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unpleasant domino tingles off this apple encryption thing

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last night's savage insomnia SUDDENLY hit me, i feel like eugene tooms

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a brief review of the most recent instalment of Old Owl and Matt (on my substack)

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The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll is giving me a very powerful nostalgia for a time i definitely wasn’t present for — but i did grow up in a house full of its artefacts. I can almost smell these machines

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obviously a bad time to be doing it but thinking of rejoining facebook, just out of sheer isolation -- certain of my friends are so funny or compelling, across the span of paragraphs, and they simply don't enjoy posting in any other form; i miss their virtual company in the one place they offer it

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simon jeffes would have been 76 yesterday

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