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Devastating to have more evidence that done IS better than perfect

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from what i can tell this guy got in a serious accident while tryna clean his teeth

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Hey. Hey you. The person aimlessly scrolling, stuck in an immobilized standoff with your brain

It's not your fault. You won't be stuck forever. I know you're trying. I know you hate it. It's ok.

And tell the Mean Voice in your head that it's not helping. It knows as well as you do that you would get up and Just Start the task if you could. You're not doing this on purpose.

Take a deep breath. Relax your jaw. I see you trying so hard to break out of it, but you can't force it. You'll get Unstuck eventually. All you can do in the interim is be kind to yourself.

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in one of those phases of crippling existential self-doubt where the nervous horse that controls my productivity is just lying down in the mud and won't get up. the horse is asking questions like do I deserve carrot for big jump if big jump meaningless and is it wrong to be a horse. I'm trying to goad it with compliments and treats but so far the horse won't bite, it's too busy ruminating about the cosmic value of horses

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Me acting like I'm being visited by a celebrity when my 14 year old dog comes over to say hi to me (because she is a celebrity. To me)

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things you need to read 100000 times per day when you're working

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I know

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It always makes me wonder when I bump into a really serious Homestuck fan who's under the age of 25, because that means either you were reading it when you were eight years old, or you got into it when it was well past its peak and you're still Like This, and both options raise fascinating questions.

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Beautiful love story

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you know you are really being very solipsistic and self-centred right now. the universe is vast and you are not the protgaonist of every story. have you considered that from some prespectives, the radiator is being handcuffed to you?

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I have chronic anemia but I don’t notice when it gets bad, I’m just like “I feel vulnerable and cold and tired and I bruise easily. Because of my poet’s temperament.”

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she’s a poor little meow meow. she was born in a wet cardboard box all alone. she’s suffered more than jesus. she’s misunderstood. she’s a silly guy. she experienced the horrors. she did all those crimes. she has done nothing wrong. she deserves to kill. she’s the most interesting girl in the world. i didn’t say a name, but she popped into your head, didn’t she?

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I'm gonna try to log off more the next two weeks to focus on finals, but I just saw there were some new images updated from JunoCam (camera on the Juno probe orbiting Jupiter) a couple weeks ago.

My current icon is based on one of the "newer" images of Jupiter from when I made this blog in 2017. I'm thinking of updating it to one of the ones they took on the October 23rd flyby!

Alternatively, I could also wait until September, 2025, when the Juno mission ends.

Here's an example of some of the recent images:

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Whoa... as games go, the new interactive Google Doodle, Rise of the Half Moon, is absolutely charming.

It's a card game where you play against the moon! There are basically three ways to score points: two of these methods involve pairing cards while the third method has you playing lunar cycles. You can also collect some cool wildcards by clearing stages. Once you've got the wildcards, you can also use them in subsequent playthroughs.

I really love the art! But man – look at how vengeful the moon looks when you lose (5th picture)!

I have a few tiny complaints:

You always draw first. I think it would be more fun if you and the moon alternated

There's a slight glitch with the Hunter Moon wildcard; it displays the wrong text

I think the board layouts could be a bit more varied? I think I've seen... 5?

So far, I've managed to get up to Level 12. The last image shows the moon absolutely obliterating me, lol.

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Apparently Google has a new moon phase game which is very fun but a bit of a time suck. Have not felt this much rage for a moon since Majora's Mask /j

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can’t have seasonal affective disorder if i say that winter isn’t real it was just invented by Big Vivaldi to sell all four of his seasons

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most important part of the writing process actually is when you loop a single song on max volume and stare at the word document and imagine the characters doing things for 14 hours. this is known as getting in the zone