Via Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Explanation: On August 12th, 2026, the Moon totally eclipsed the Sun and cast its shadow across Siberia, Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and Portugal. Today’s image features two total solar eclipses viewed from Zaragoza, Spain, one over the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar and the other reflecting in the Ebro River.
(Much better than mine because of course it is 😅)
This blurry photo absolutely does not make justice to the amazing phenomenon that was the solar eclipse of yesterday, but it’s my photo and I love it :D
Watched The Odyssey ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ½
Besides being visually stunning, I always find adaptations interesting because I like seeing how someone translates a story from one medium to another.
Some of my favorite parts:
Started reading Devotions by Mary Oliver
I think the Spanish edition prologue nails it when saying that these poems “transmit an intense spirituality without subscribing to any orthodox creed”.
Liked Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
this scratches an itch I didn’t knew I had, both as a dinosaur kid and a computer nerd 😆
Listened to 199: Unburned gasoline by Lateral with Tom Scott ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
not me screaming at the screen because I know what “i18n” and “a11y” mean 😆
Listened to Astronaut Reid Wiseman Thinks We're Going to Be OK by Humans ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
10/10 no notes 🤩
Liked Starry Night - Vincent van Dominogh (7,000 dominoes) - YouTube
amazing 🤩… and such patience 😅
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O____O
My friend linked this to me, so I don’t know the source, but if you do, PLEASE let me know. This is amazing!
Liked This Planet is...Up to Something - YouTube
man oh man was this beautiful 🤩, Hank Green has done it again.
Liked HEY ARNOLD and its WEIRD World - YouTube
a love letter to a 90’s kid cartoon, absolutely recommended if you were a kid in the 90’s that watched (and loved) “Hey Arnold!”. it will give you a new appreciation of the craftsmanship behind the show.
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The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung (July 26, 1875–June 6, 1961) in Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Song: “Everlasting Light” by The Black Keys
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Samba Pa' Ti by Santana is my current jam.
What’s a song you associate with your favorite holiday?
If we take Christmas as a favorite holiday, then this is a very strange association, I admit it 😄… It came about because one particular Christmas many years ago, my dad bought a CD of Santana’s greatest hits or something like that and we ended up listening to this awesome track instead of Christmas carols 😆. That turned me on to his music, and the rest is history
(via Crucial Tracks)
12 to 12 by sombr is my current jam.
I only know a couple of songs by these guys (this and Homewrecker), but I find myself listening to this on repeat… Maybe it’s a sign to listen to more from them :)
(via Crucial Tracks)
Liked The Hidden Narrative of Pokémon’s Type Chart - YouTube
I like this because it made me notice that behind every design choice there’s actually one (or more) human(s), and while the decision can make sense, it can also tell us the values behind that choice… And it might not apply only to games, but to software in general.
Wake Up by Arcade Fire is my current jam.
What’s your go-to song for getting ready in the morning?
Perfect for completely waking up if I’m out of bed but still sleepy 😆
(via Crucial Tracks)
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Johto Beginnings, Myths & Legends
Liked LOBO | Pintura & Humor on Instagram
“I’m a realist, but since I’m from Latin America my realism is magical”
Liked Hollywood Killed the Sitcom, and They Did it On Purpose
A really good analysis on why there are no more sitcoms, despite their popularity, and ending on a really nice and hopeful note.
Liked Scars - The Oatmeal
“May the coolest thing about you be your warmth.”
Finished reading The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
books, cats, what else could you ask for? 😄
But seriously, behind this easy read there’s a love letter to books and libraries that will please my fellow bookworms. And who doesn’t like following a young hero through his adventures? Especially when those adventures are all related to that love for books and reading.
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adulthood notes:
- The Rodeo Rule: you only have to do it for the first time once.
- The Rohan Rule: if you are at a social function full of new people and you want to be liked, find someone doing important work like setup or food prep and offer to help.
- The Tutorial Mode Rule: to navigate an unfamiliar situation where you fear you will mess up an interaction, preface the interaction by mentioning that you’ve never done this before, and let them know if you have a specific concern or question.
- The Rocket Science Rule: most new things you want to try seem very complicated but are simple when taken step by step.
- The [X] Will Remember That Rule: if you need to make small talk with the same person on a regular basis, try to save one fact or current event in their life from a given conversation and bring it up next time you talk.
- The Cool Binder Rule: by wearing clothes and accessories that are to your taste instead of trying to blend in, people will be more likely to compliment you and show interest in you as a person.
The Rodeo Rule:
you only have to do it
for the first time once.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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The good life… seems to involve an increasing openness to experience… the polar opposite of defensiveness.
– Pioneering psychologist Carl Rogers on the 3 elements of the good life.
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desk self-portrait
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Happy Summer (and Father’s Day!)
Liked You Stopped Exercising. The Gains That Stuck Around Might Surprise You.
yes!! still hope for yours truly!! 😆
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My latest cartoon for New Scientist
Watched Project Hail Mary ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
science, lovable characters, world saving… what else could you ask for? 😄
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Liked POKÉMON MEDLEY - Relaxing and Nostalgic Piano Compilation
no one better than the great Elesky to bring a smile to my face with a selection of soundtracks from the Pokemon games on piano.
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Reposting this for Miss Tiffany Victory =)
Listened to feel like a possum by Louie Zong ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ½
nice tune! Found via Tumblr
Attending Homebrew Website Club Europe/London
as usual, gathering online with other personal website enthusiasts for a round of show & tell :)
Liked What if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench?
loved the ending 😆 the What If series never disappoints.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.
Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
Maya Angelou in Letter To My Daughter
Song: “Godchild” by Miles Davis (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991)
Liked Wes Anderson and cultural appropriation
there is nothing new under the sun, true originality is a myth and such… BUT it is interesting to see a culture showing itself through the lens of others.
now that is a way to go 🤘🏼
Liked Two Infinities... And Beyond (Infinity Part 2)
the best part of this video is Michael saying he puts his daughter to sleep by telling her to think about infinity and Cantor’s diagonal argument instead of counting sheep 😆.
Listened to El Último Concierto A (En Vivo) by Soda Stereo ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Thanks to the guys at Los Malditos Podcast, I remembered how much I love this band, and especially this (double) album 🤘🏼
Listened to 「麦秋」: Wheat Harvest by World Standard
here’s hoping spring comes for real this time
Discovered this through NTS Radio’s Soup to Nuts
Listened to 1901 (live for The Current) by Phoenix ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
this is always on rotation in my playlists, so it’s very nice to hear this more intimate, subdued version
Listened to Tiny Desk Concert by Foo Fighters ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
back to my grunge era (I never left :D)
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pop star
Attending Homebrew Website Club Europe/London
I’ll be meeting again with other website enthusiasts to talk all things personal websites :)
Liked Stoned ape is dumb
the stoned ape theory might indeed be dumb, but her choice for a song at the end is definitely not, so please watch till the end 😆
Listened to Stardew Valley (Original Game Soundtrack) by ConcernedApe ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
a fine demonstration that videogame music is the best when it comes to soundtracking your study / work sessions
(Via Austin Kleon)
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“If you can stay light, and stay loose, and stay relaxed, you can play at the very highest level—as a baseball player or a human being.”
Attending Homebrew Website Club Europe/London
I’ll be meeting online with other website enthusiasts and maybe will be showing off this nice website here ;)
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My latest cartoon for New Scientist
Watched I made a SPACE MOVIE 🚀 without leaving my apartment ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
this is amazing 🤩
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so many starters now
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📖 Read: The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
(Still) Reading: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
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romantic love isn’t everything. love comes in many forms. when he bought you coffee. when she complimented your outfit. platonic love is just as good. friend love is good love too.
Some notes on the latest Pokémon Presents (which I totally did not stumble upon by random chance on YouTube when looking for a video to watch while having lunch 😆):
Pokemon Red & Blue theme (Summertime Remix) by The Greatest Bits is my current jam.
listen to this instead of buying that ridiculous GameBoy music player thing from GameFreak 😆
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umbreon restored its hp!
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so hard to find these guys
Love how their method of locomotion on land is trundling while also oozing over the terrain
I love that I can say “watch out! They can sting you” about this thingy
I love that I can
say “watch out! They can sting you”
about this thingy
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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Lined and colored Joltik evolution!
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A recent cartoon for Guardian Books.
Listened to Ella Ya Me Olvido [ Homenaje a Leonardo Favio ] by Dread Mar I
a cover surfaced by Facebook Memories, of all places.
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drawing my son
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“1970” by Joe Brainard, excerpted from Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard
20111220 No Plan by Chris Piascik
This is an oldie, but I like it because “there never was a plan” sorta sums up my last 5 years or so 😄.
Part of a series of daily drawings by Chris Piascik that were later collected in a book titled 100 Days of Drawings (sold out long ago, now only available as an e-book)
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A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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“Poetry springs from something deeper; it’s beyond intelligence. It may not even be linked with wisdom.”
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“Naked truth is unbearable to most, and art is our most effective means of overcoming human resistance to truth. The writer has the same role as the surgeon and his handling of anaesthesia is as important as his skill with the knife. Human beings, in their resistance to truth, erect fortresses and some of these fortresses can only be demolished by the dynamic power of the symbol, which reaches the emotions directly.”
— Anaïs Nin, On Writing, vía Brain Pickings
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La Hoja, un video de Cristian Caroli, elaborado con dibujitos de Liniers, uno de los dibujantes favoritos de esta casa. Muy bueno (excelente banda sonora). Vía la cuenta en Twitter del propio Liniers.
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Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the strings’ wails and moans are echoes of the body’s music. It is the body’s vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.
Anaïs Nin in Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 5 1947-1955: Vol. 5
Song: “The Feeling of Jazz” by Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
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I love that they made an exception for him and not some rich person.
I love that they made
an exception for him and
not some rich person.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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One of the cartoons in my new book ‘Physics for Cats’. Available now in good bookshops an online now www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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could be the greatest rock song ever.
The Rolling Stones - Loving Cup
On the flight home yesterday, I was flipping through the channels on @jetblue and saw a vh1 documentary on the making of Exile On Main St. Gonna put on my vinyl version today.
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The worst part of selfless robotic servants is going to be how happy they are.
Check out the bonus panel on the site!
SMBC◆ PATREON◆ INSTAGRAM◆ BLUESKY ◆ STORE
_______________________________________________
After generations of family adventures, Sawyer Lee is determined to sink in the couch! The problem is that it will take a regrettable amount of energy for him to escape the mysteries, conspiracies, and gourd-based festivities the whole town throws his way.
Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home - Now on pre-order!
man why is this so funny 😆
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:
- if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost
- take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle
- fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism
- now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning
some others i found in the notes
When you find yourself in a loop, ask yourself which one of these applies?
(also i love all the fun translations Tumblr has made)
When you find yourself
in a loop, ask yourself which
one of these applies?
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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Saturdays are generally VU days for me, and this is one of those perfect songs
“The possibilities are endless, and for me to miss one, would seem to be groundless.”
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ALT
Listened to Dream Baby Dream (Long Version) by Suicide Band Official
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse-Five
Song: “Stolen Moments” by Jason Miles
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One of the cartoons in my new book ‘Physics for Cats’ which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/
Liked Donkey Kong Country 2 🐒🎶 Cumbia Sonidera Mix
down the videogame soundtrack remixes rabbit hole I go 😆
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Inside the magical wood a fox appears! 🦊
My second piece for my solo show at Gallery Nucleus. Both the original painting and sketch for this piece have sold — thank you!! 💕❤️💕 But many originals are still left as well as prints, and you can see the entire show online now here!
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“Warm Light” from King-Cat #68 by John Porcellino
(via @madinkbeard)
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Science is magic that works.
Kurt Vonnegut in Cat’s Cradle
Song: “Science Is Real” by They Might Be Giants
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“El éxito nunca es definitivo, el fracaso no es fatal. El coraje es el que cuenta.” - John Wooden
- El éxito nunca es definitivo. Tus metas de hoy no serán las mismas toda la vida.
- El fracaso no es fatal. Fallar es el momento exacto para aprender más.
- El coraje es el que cuenta. Necesitas tener agallas para pararte cada vez que caigas y seguir avanzando hasta el final.
Sabias palabras…
“Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” — John Wooden
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So be sure when you step,
Step with care and great tact.
And remember that Life’s
A Great Balancing Act.
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and ¾ percent guaranteed)
KID, YOU’LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!
Dr. Seuss in Oh, the Places You’ll Go, cited in Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor
Song: “Giant Steps” by John Coltrane
Uncommon combination, but with unmatched results: Dr. Seuss and John Coltrane
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El secreto para obtener el respeto de la gente, en la edición de hoy de Indexed. Sabio consejo…
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“The most effective delusion is the one which holds you captive to the illusion of your own freedom. For if your freedom depends on a certain belief, ideology, device or lifestyle — if you can’t truly be free without it — then are you not actually a prisoner to it?”
— Prison by James Shelley
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JOY DIVISION - Sound of Music [Peel Sessions, 1979]
Disfruten del post-punk :)…
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The knight can visit each square on a chess board exactly once. Sure.
Source: Chess.com
Listened to echoes of a little natural journey by camiidae ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
this is such a good album for studying / working / deep focus
(Listen/purchase: echoes of a little natural journey by camiidae)
📖 Reading: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
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Mama Mia! Today marks 40 whole years since the release of Super Mario Bros. on the Famicom. I would not be the creative I am today without these heroic plumbers and their uniquely strange little mushroom world.
Let’s-a go for 40 more years! 🍄🐢🍰
didn’t know this game is almost as old as myself 😲
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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.
Oh wow
Listened to Shooting pool in dad's basement (a playlist) by Austin Kleon
banger after banger of classic rock 🤘🏼
Liked The Creation - Making Time (1966)
(Vía Austin Kleon)
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I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot in Four Quartets
Song: “I Just Wait” by Paloma Faith
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Today’s Technologies Need an Off-the-Hook Option - NYTimes.com
Sure, you can turn off your smartphone when you want some alone time, but when it’s turned back on, like the grand finale of a fireworks show, the phone will boing, chime, trill, marimba and vibrate erratically with text messages, voice mail, app notifications, e-mails and a cannonade of messages from all the social networks you’re connected to.
Yep.
This is from more than 10 years ago. Things… have not gotten better, sadly :(.
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Kenneth Clark, Civilisation
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Charles Schulz draws Charlie Brown
Poor Charlie Brown
“when I feel low… this is when I come home, and really pour it on poor old Charlie Brown… This is when he really suffers the most: when I suffer the most.”
Poor Charlie Brown indeed TuT
Liked Caffeine is Very, Very Strange...
it is extremely fun to watch Hank Green ramble on about caffeine while high on caffeine 😆… AND it’s educational, what more could you ask 😄
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Beginner artists I love you. Artists who have wobbly lineart and clashing color palettes and no sense of anatomy and that white line around your fill-bucket coloring, your art is beautiful in a way I cannot express.
Art like yours fills my heart with joy. Keep going. Make your fanart, your complicated OC worlds, anything you want! You’ve started on an unfamiliar, wonderful journey, and it’s gonna be great.
It might be hard sometimes, and you might think your art sucks, but it doesn’t suck, and it’ll get better. One day you’ll look back on these drawings fondly, and be glad you made them. It might take years to get to where you want to be, but art is amazing and delightful and every day is worth it.
Art is beautiful, yours is no exception, and you will grow with time.
Art is beautiful,
yours is no exception, and
you will grow with time.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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Disposable Culture – Surat Says
We’re more interested in convenience and immediacy than responsibility and lasting value.
This is required reading.
Still relevant to this day.
(Link doesn’t work but that’s why we have the Wayback Machine: link)
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the thing is, if your younger self was a bigot or an abuser, u can’t make people forgive you. but you still gotta forgive yourself, like that’s non-negotiable, dude. that happens before u can even ask the question of earning forgiveness from anyone lese
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Cuando me llegan “cosas”, cojo una ficha, escribo la sinopsis más breve, la tiro dentro de una bandeja de plástico y continúo con lo que estaba haciendo. Todo va en una ficha, (…) Al final del día, tomo una ficha de la bandeja a la vez, decido cual es el mensaje, tomo las acciones correspondientes y luego la descarto. La interrupción es menor y el procesamiento es simple (una ficha y, subsecuentemente, un pensamiento a la vez), ordenado y efectivo.
Excelente idea. Creo que se podrían reemplazar las fichas por líneas en un archivo de texto plano sin mayor perjuicio…
(Site is down, but that’s why we have The Wayback Machine.)
I like the gist of this because it kinda is what I was doing for the two seasonal newsletters I ran: toss any interesting things I came across into a (digital) bin, and then when the time came to actually write a new issue of the newsletter, I started sorting and picking. And it worked (b’-’)b
(Here’s the original quoted part:
When “stuff” comes in, I grab a card, write down the briefest synopsis, toss it into a plastic inbox and resume what I was doing. Everything goes onto an index card, (…). At the end of the day, I take one card at a time out of the box, decide what its message is, act accordingly and then throw it away. The interruption is minor and the processing is simple (one card and, subsequently, one thought at a time), orderly and effective.
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Una idea sencillamente genial de Boris Smus para una tarjeta de visita minimalista, que contiene toda la información de contacto necesaria, salvo el número de teléfono. Que genio… Vía Microsiervos
I now realize I have the resources to pull this off (as in, a domain name and a small server that hosts my personal website)… But, then again, I no longer use business cards 😅.
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Vía la hora del recuerdo llega esta breve animación que cuenta la verdadera historia detrás de la pantalla del legendario Tetris…
Genial :D
Behind the scenes of a Tetris game :D
Listened to The Brilliance of Boredom with creative polymath Elle Cordova by Simon Sinek ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
it is such a treat to witness this conversation between two of my favorite creators
Listened to Chapter 23: Know Your Enemy by Midnight Burger ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
sharing this here because I love this podcast, and I *especially* love that they used the final lines of Jorge Luis Borges’ A New Refutation of Time:
Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Just so we are all on the same page, Being kind IS in FACT punk rock
Just so we are all
on the same page, Being kind
IS in FACT punk rock
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Reposted a tweet by Addy Osmani (@addyosmani):
In other words: treat your AI coding assistant as it was a junior dev / intern, and do all the stuff they taught you in Software Engineering 101 and that no one does anymore 😆
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“why don’t you use chatGPT to find out that instead of googling it yourself?”
because I glance at the AI overview of shit I’m searching before scrolling down and it’s always wrong.
ALWAYS.
to sometimes hilarious degrees.
I don’t think chatGPT can be better than my fine tuned googling skills that earned me the title of God Emperor of Search Engines by my friends because I can find fucking anything including the most obscure shit you can think of if you give me enough time.
also, googling things is fun. it’s enjoyable.
it’s riddle solving but with a maze of reddit posts.
I genuinely derive joy from doing that.
“why don’t you use chatGPT
to find out that instead of
googling it yourself?”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20:
Quote of the day
I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!
Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.
If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.
Let your likes guide you.
(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)
Liking, Wanting and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction - PMC
[Image Description]
Black text on a white background. It reads:
“Focus on your likes, not your wants.
- You may not want to exercise, but you like how it makes you feel.
- You may not want to write, but you like the feeling of accomplishment.
- You may not want to wake up early, but you like the calm beauty of morning.
Wanting is the desire you feel before doing something. Liking is the satisfaction you feel after doing something. Let your likes guide you.
[End ID]
You may not want to
write, but you like the feeling
of accomplishment.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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im getting really fucking sick of all this “it gets better!” bullshit. im going to have depression for the rest of my life. it’s not going to “””get better””” fuck you
i have really great news guys, despite it all
to everyone reblogging this and saying that you’re the exception, or this will never apply to you, you are not alone. back when I made that first text post I felt the same way. but something I realized in between the first half and second half of this post is that it starts with you. it starts with wanting to be done with the misery. it is so much easier to give in to whatever mental health issues you’re dealing with, especially in a world that is built against us. however it is so worth it to not give in. it is so worth it to do things that make you feel good even though it can feel impossible to start. it’s so worth it to fail at something because at least it means you tried.
getting yourself out of the hole is hard, and can feel damn near impossible at your lowest. but it isn’t impossible. i am living proof of this. nobody is responsible for your emotions but you, and if you want to be happy, you have to create your happiness. do whatever you can to surround yourself with joy. not hedonism, but actual joy. accomplishments, good relationships, engagement in healthy hobbies and habits. it can be hard, there’s no denying it, i still struggle myself sometimes. the reward is so worth it. feeling like you’re the best version of yourself is so worth it.
to quote the queen kali uchis: i know it’s hard, but did you even really try?
Ask yourself: do you really want to not live at all, or do you not want to live the life you currently feel trapped in? Do you simply see no other realistic option? It is not a choice between eternal suffering and death.
That is not to say that things aren’t bad where you are now- odds are, your distress is valid, and things are horrible to get you to this point. But the odds also are that you DO want to live! And keep holding on, because things will never get the chance to change if you don’t live to see it!
Things are really scary and dangerous right now, but what the powers that be WANT us to do is give up. Find a reason to keep living- even if it is simply out of spite. Find something to look forward to, no matter how small: a game or movie coming out, petting more cats/dogs/other animals, anything that helps you keep going.
You’re going through hell right now- but why would you stop in hell? Keep going.
You’re going through hell
right now- but why would you stop
in hell? Keep going.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it
There is someone out there straight up not doing it and claiming they are.
There is someone out
there straight up not doing it
and claiming they are.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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Too many to choose from - I’m just gonna take em all ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
The end of June marked my first three months in my current job, the first half of which were mostly spent learning and getting accustomed to my team’s way of working; this second half we have already started taking on more tasks, starting with simple ones and slowly but steadily taking on more complex ones. Still relying on the more senior members of the team, hopefully less so as time passes.
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defend joy as a destiny
defend it from fire and firefighters
from suicides and homicides
from vacations and ruts
from the obligation to be joyful
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under the sea 🐟 𓆝 ⋆.
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Remixing the NSF press release about the first images captured by the Vera Rubin Observatory into a cosmic poem. More about the process here.
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the worst part of “you’ll understand when you’re older” is that you really do understand when you’re older
The second worst part is, once you get older, you find yourself saying “you’ll understand when you’re older” with Full Comprehension of how fucking annoying you’re being right now, but also knowing that it’s all you can say.
I literally had a conversation in this vein with my dad today, talking about how when I was younger I thought people saying “I always think of you as [young age], it’s so strange to see you all grown up!” were saying it the same way you say “doing good” when someone says “hi, how are you?” and then.
And then. I had to start prepping for my younger niece’s bat mitzvah.
And it’s so strange to imagine her standing on a bimah in a tallit for the first time with her hair done and painted toenails in a pair of new high-heeled shoes, because wasn’t it just last week she waved at me and said “byebye” and I lost my damn mind because it was her first word and she said it to me? How is she thirteen? It’s a clerical error, right? ….right…? What do you mean her sister is graduating next year? She was just in kindergarten!
And then it hit me. I sound just like my mother’s friends.
And then. I had to
start prepping for my younger
niece’s bat mitzvah.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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Mysterious pipes descend upon the lake… harboring friendly visitors…?
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Read more comics about being human in my new book, THINKING ABOUT THINKING.
Listened to Chapter 5: The Ad Man Cometh by Midnight Burger ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
“Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid… Sometimes mighty forces look pretty fucking weird”
I started working at the very start of April, which marks my return to the workforce after the two years (and change) of academic sabbatical to complete my master’s degree, and I find myself surprisingly content to be back to a 9-to-5 routine, even though I still struggle with waking up early 😅. Maybe it’s the stability of routine, or the change of pace from the academic / student life, or the fact that I have a salary again after a long while.
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New comic for the NY Times Book Review!
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