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YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

POV: Very smart mom helps you understand the world more

The insights cut so deep with vivid examples that this essay was a bit painful to watch - I did it with breaks over the course of a week 😌

Pay attention to your feelings and don't forget to rest!!! If you need support, please ask for help! 🫂

But if one were dead set on engaging in this form of individual action, one of my takeaways from the video would be that clothes swaps with friends are the least harmful and that using clothes for longer (new or second-hand) is the most impactful.

YouTube video by DW Planet A How big fashion took over the second hand market

Quality journalism about why more of second-hand shopping has become fast-fashion dominated and unsustainable: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAJD...

My own (quite recent) conclusion remains that conscious living is a feel-good distraction that is counter-productive to actual change.

@spookston.bsky.social yo, I noticed your main channel "about" section has messed up Discord and Pateron links. Also are you allowed to link to your second, non-WT channel there?

Thanks to a conveniently placed OsmAnd~ update, I need no math to inform you that my 2025 adventure was ~1300km and ~~200h of biking. Also about 8km uphill and slightly less downhill. Classic life 😄

I guess I forgot that between Lithuanian and Latvian languages I also spoke a single "word" of cat that seemed to be understood by my conversation partner 😁

I got back home Wednesday. In the coming days I will make a few more posts summarizing details about my trip

First, bragging about the languages I got to speak during this trip (chronologically; sorry for using country flags)

1 or more words understood: 🇪🇪🇷🇺🇪🇸🇸🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇯🇵🇰🇷🇩🇪🇨🇳🇸🇾🇮🇹🇩🇰🇱🇹🇱🇻
5 or more words: 🇪🇪🇷🇺🇪🇸🇸🇪🇫🇷🇯🇵🇩🇪🇮🇹

A colorful soviet-looking diesel train

I might have been locked in an industrial courtyard while sleeping but managed to harmlessly break out just in time to catch my ride from Liepāja to Rīga 😅

Soo many (homeless) cats in Liepāja 😯

And the cracked/broken asphalt was very nostalgic - reminded me of home 20-30 years ago

Here I was planning to get the Framework 12 and remove the keyboard

With the Steamdeck I would get worse carry shape but embedded gamepad 🤔🤔🤔

3/3 I'm still using the cheap running shoes that are 0% waterproof due to the many holes 😂. They're fine as long I don't step into any water.

I will order new ones when at home. And I will try to take even better care and repair more the new ones 😌

2/3 I kept wearing it since the rearview mirror was still useful. Today I dropped the helmet breaking the mirror. I now stripped it of all parts that can be reused and sent off the helmet. It was also about 10 years old 🫡

At least there is no more dilemmas whether to wear the helmet or hiking hat 😁

1/3 I planned to replace and send off in a respectful ritual my running shoes that I've used since 2015 during this trip. Unfortunately Stockholm did not have the niche I wanted in ~20 hiking and sports stores.

In Sweden I dropped my bike on my helmet a few times and eventually broke it. I kept...

Feral horses grazing in the distance

Fell asleep before posting again (after binging Wikipedia for a few hours 🫣)

Slept next to Pape nature reserve with feral horses, cattle and bison 😯. At noon learned there's a military testing ground nearby as well

So many bloodsucking flying insects that I spent ~4h awake in my bivvy 😅

This is to all my Estonian-speakers. Just before this I was at a place called "Bro" 😂

The photo is from yesterday. I rode about 100km but forgot to track it. This morning I did 60km to a ferry in Karlshamn. Tomorrow morning I'll arrive in Klaipeda, 🇱🇹 and head north. Maybe take a train to Riga🤔

Imagine a pavement you know where nobody wants to walk because of the scorching sun

The same pavement/bike_road with a proper amount of plants added:

Beautiful in the morning, hella scary at night 😄. Maybe that's why I saw 0 people very late in the evening 🤔

I'm on the road again! 🚴‍♀️

Freedom! With all its pros & cons 😁

Since it is very dark outside I will instead share a screenshot. This site/app has been pretty helpful in finding public campsites. This feels like cheating since camping like this is 20 times easier 😄

map.campwild.org

In more personal news:
Had a call w/ my therapist 🥰. Bike still at the shop for generator installation. Hope to leave CPH as soon as I get my bike back. Aiming to reach a birthday party on the 7th. But several hundred km left. As a backup, I expect Baltic trains to be better for bikes than Swedish 😄

A beautiful ancient artwork depicted in a screenshot of the Youtube video by exurb1a titled "everyone is a total mess (and you should be one too)"

I strongly recommend this video to you. Also to everybody you know that might be at least slightly worried about our world recently. Despite the vulgar language, the message is deep and beautiful 😌

Please pass it on if you also feel it might help others right now 🙏🥺

youtu.be/0y6wiBzPMSI

I handed my bike successfully in for the installation of the dynamo/generator. Exciting!

Oh, and I'm feeling a bit less overwhelmed today 😌

Might be the the lack of sleep or fine weather or talking to my brother. I feel a bit more directionful. I hope my ideas of creating more structures for meaning and hope in my life become a reality 🙏

Finally! I've always dreamt of a solution to the muffin-waste-problem. I thought edible wrappers might be the answer but reusable silicone ones will do 😍. Will find out how useful thee actually are 😄

Bought a few souvenirs and gifts today. I don't like mindless gifts so this is very rare.

Still high stress and from it sleeping issues, constant snacking & YT😞

Reconnected slightly with ADHD hyperfocus. Trying to enjoy this drive to do random stuff like updating login credentials on my old accounts, or customizing the menus in my browser...😅

Better to avoid than be stuck in emotions?🤔

I have a plan coalescing - so the cookies and YT won't be indefinite🫡

I'm getting the impression that such a dramatic adventure was not needed to rediscover a direction. A smaller break in the routine coupled with a good book might be better

But I have enjoyed having this soapbox to preach from 😁

And the metal snaps I bought in Italy in 2022 - coincidentally again to make a hiking hat 😂, since Decathlon was sold out. Used some construction site rocks, because we don't have a hammer and anvil. Got many puzzled looks - as I always do when I'm more creative or efficient or informed 🙄

Found enough motivation for a break from cookies and Youtube to make my hiking hat a reality

I bought a second hand women's hat (all new ones were too small), removed the fake gold bling and now added the cord I got from the bike enthusiasts and the cord lock from the German motorbikers 🥰

Forgot to post yesterday😅

After visiting ~14 pharmacies in Sweden I finally found a small pain-free antibacterial wound spray in Denmark. Poor variety is 1 of the smaller drawbacks of monopolization🙄

I'm watching YT, over-eating, worrying, struggling with sleep - just like home, only more friends

Today was a Youtube day mostly. Had to relearn how to ride my bike without the 25kg in the back 😄

Thinking of getting my fancy new dynamo (that I ordered to my friends' place) installed tomorrow. But no clue how to choose the shop. Most reliable ones probably have the longest queues 🤔

Actually knees and wrist were good for more. Apparently after highly repetitive physical effort for most of 8 hours - you should rest and stretch. Even a little bit helps massively 😲

Unpacking this much for the first time. So much stuff. If it weren't my first time and if I didn't plan to spend weeks in the city, I could have 30-40% less mass.

When I was doing 30km/h in Copenhagen with 25 extra kg - what will happen tomorrow when I have shed most of it? 😅